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The weather is heating up (at least in the northern hemisphere) and so is our roundup of upcoming social Web events, a regular feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it

With all this talk of the Web as a platform, it's worth taking a closer look at what web apps are using Firefox as their platform. Firefox is regarded as

This week I spoke to Hakia founder and CEO Dr. Riza C. Berkan and COO Melek Pulatkonak. Hakia is one of the more promising Alt Search Engines around, with a

Human history is one of progressive improvement in communication. From the 20th century mail was a fundamental form of communication. The invention of electronic mail (email) changed two things. It

By Alex Iskold We've been writing recently about the rise of semantic web and how in 2007 we'll see many interesting semantic technologies. The fundamental problem that all these technologies

BooRah is a semantic and natural language processing aggregator of restaurant reviews. The service pulls in reviews from numerous review sites and a substantial list of restaurant review blogs, then

A month ago we wrote about Reuters launching an API called Open Calais, a technology that "does a semantic markup on unstructured HTML documents - recognizing people, places, companies, and

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. The Web computing platform today encompasses a wide range of functions, a lot of which are accessible via APIs (Application Programming

Firefox is a browser that can be extended and enhanced in many ways - chief among those being Add-ons, which give you more functionality or perhaps just a new theme.

One of the highlights of October's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of 'Semantic Apps' as a force. Note that we're not necessarily talking about the Semantic