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An alternative search engine launched last night. It's called Cuil and, if you're a reader of tech blogs and/or the New York Times, you've no doubt been hammered with the

Facebook has contacted all the application developers that have applied for a new grant program announced at the TechCrunch40 conference, called the fbFund, and told them they all submissions have

Digg made a post to the company's blog this morning announcing that they are officially joining the DataPortability.org Working Group. Digg follows Facebook, Google, Microsoft and many other companies in

IBM's new 'SoulPad' is a virtual computer on a small portable storage device, like a USB key or an MP3 Player. According to IBM, SoulPad "enables a paradigm of mobile

UK Says Yes, EU is Considering, is US Next? A recent study in the UK showed that most Britons have a strong desire for the regulation of social network sites

ReadWriteWeb is the exclusive Media Partner for an interactive debate on the future of the Web being held this coming Wednesday 11 June. The debate features Tim Berners-Lee and will

What are the number one problems facing today's social networks? According to the young developer Vladislav Chernyshov they are: privacy issues, distraction and time-wasting, quantity over quality, ads, and lack

You're walking down the street. You pass a Starbucks. Mmm, that Triple Venti Nonfat Latte sure does look delicious, but you've only got three bucks on you. Maybe next time.

Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that due to recent travel and the start of the Web 2.0 Expo, this week's Wrapup is

In our post 35 Ways to Stream Your Life, Josh Catone listed 35 apps that aggregate all the little bits of your online life. Commenter matthewvb sees some irony in