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Via an article in the New Scientist today, we were pointed to a Microsoft research project called MySong. MySong isn't web technology, but it is very, very cool technology, and

One week after suffering a major blow to its infamous "1-Click" shopping patent, Amazon.com has been awarded what's sure to be seen as its latest bit of highly obnoxious

In other acquisition news today, Techcrunch reported that Condé Nast, owner of Wired and other magazines/websites, has acquired Boston-based Reddit. I pinged Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian about this and he

Ada Lovelace, a 19th century British writer who is considered the world's first computer programmer, will be honored by bloggers all over the world tomorrow. In the spirit of providing

In case your RSS Reader got the better of you over the working week, here's a snapshot of last week's Read/WriteWeb posts. The big web tech stories were Times Reader,

The US Government's Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra, called today for a radical new approach to government information technology, focusing on utilization of consumer-type Web 2.0 tools that can "tap

New York based video platform Blip.tv announced today that the company will now host and serve all episodes of the long-running variety show video blog Rocketboom. Rocketboom is famous for

Since last Spring when I first heard about it, I've been patiently waiting to get my hands on Livestation, a streaming television service from UK-based Skinkers, which is based on

Microsoft is planning on launching its own streaming music service by the end of July, Emma Barnett reported today in the UK Telegraph. A Microsoft exec told Barnett that the

Orange Spain, a mobile operator, has two new music services - 'New Talents' and 'Enjoy your Music'. Both are powered by Music Intelligence Solutions, a provider of AI (artificial