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The Adobe AIR platform is one of the hottest desktop platforms available. While we've given you numerous recommendations on great AIR apps, finding them all in one spot (outside of

Spain/US-based MyStrands announced today that it's raised $25 Million "to lead the social recommendation industry". MyStrands is a music discovery and social networking site that covers the PC, mobile and

Recently, we told you about Glue, a new browser plugin from AdaptiveBlue that put the social web in context by letting friends share music, movies, books, and other sorts of

A month ago, Canada's privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddard announced that Facebook did not satisfy Canadian privacy law on several counts. After an investigation prompted by the Canadian Internet Policy and

According to a new report from Cambridge University (PDF), students aren't interested in being able to read eBooks and eJournals on their mobile phones. Instead, users are far more interested

TechCrunch has the scoop about Yahoo's new e-commerce web app, Yahoo! Shoposphere. Mike's taken it for a test run already and here's his description: "Yahoo is making a major push

The media blitz from News Corp. executives on MySpace is increasing, with two excellent articles on The Hollywood Reporter and Washington Post. In The Hollywood Reporter, Fox Interactive Media president

Google just announced that it will now let you decide which ads you want to see as you surf the web by allowing you to create a profile of your

This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. Our first post was about Structured Data, our second about The Real-Time Web.

As we reported yesterday, CNN is this weekend re-launching its website as an enhanced multimedia site - packed with web 2.0 features such as recommendations and user generated content. The