ReadWriteWeb:
The semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language proce (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It’s been a long decade, but AOL will once again be an independently traded company on December 7, when Time Warner will spin off shares. Every Time Warner shareholder (disclosure: including me, from when I was employed ther (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Sometimes, it feels like terms we thought had some meaning really don't apply as much anymore.Take the term "social media," as an example.It's like every SEO marketer decided that "social media," was the ticket to a sweet con (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Data extracted from 500 million Twitter messages was released today by a tiny Texas startup company that forward-looking geeks have been watching for a year. Austin-based Infochimps announced this afternoon that it is now se (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is nothing new. Yet, it seems that more and more advertisers are realizing that the significance of SEO to their business has risen as they have essentially hit a ceiling wit (Read More)
TechCrunch:
After lengthy negotiations, Electronic Arts closed it’s anticipated acquisition of social gaming startup Playfish for $275 million in cash. An additional $25 million in stock will be set aside for retaining the top talent at (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Venture capital (VC) funds like to invest in disruptive change, but what they really love is the stable, change-resistant nature of their own business. That is about to change. "Bits of destruction" spare no one. (The term bi (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Ben Behrouzi came from the shadowy Lead Generation business, but some people in that field said he played too dirty. Now he's got a real-time search engine that just came out of beta today, called Leapfish, and he says the co (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Everyone is looking to Hulu as the future of Internet TV. The joint venture between several major networks, Hulu delivers free, ad-supported programming via online streams - an untested model for long-term profitability, at l (Read More)
New York Times:
The value of real-time search is clear, but many other valuable Web services have struggled to find effective business models.
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ReadWriteWeb:
CNN.com, one of the top 25 websites in the US, just announced a radical redesign of its service at a press event in New York City. The new site will go live next Monday. The new CNN.com homepage will be split up into three p (Read More)
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This post is sponsored by IBM's A Smarter Planet blog.Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Media ran a panel called Humans As Sensors. With him were four organizations doing innovative applications using sen (Read More)
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Is today's news of major search engines' integration of Twitter posts in search results the herald of a mass extinction or a mass acquisition?According to tonight's conversations with key players in the space, the day's event (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Nimsoftis launching a benchmarking service today for enterprise customers that will help them define and measure the actual costs of cloud computing and monitor the performance of IT infrastructure.The benchmarking service mo (Read More)
TechCrunch:
IBM is reporting a 14 percent growth in year over year net income, posting a third-quarter profit of $3.2 billion, or $2.40 a share, on revenue of $23.6 billion. IBM has been shifting its focus towards software and services (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Interbrand recently released its 2009 list of the best 100 global brands. Social media monitoring and analytics firm Sysomos took a closer look at this data today. While Interbrand bases its list on criteria such as financial (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google and Microsoft are both in talks with Twitter to buy access to the company's full firehose of messages and shared links, according to a report this morning from Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. Could these be blockbuster de (Read More)
readwriteweb:
A Deloitte study that came out this morning shows a much deeper interest in the social web but still a lot of potential left to tap.This is the second year Deloitte LLC has evaluated the perceived potential of online communit (Read More)
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The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit is fast approaching! We hope you'll register to join us at this exciting day-long event filled with participatory conversations among the leading innovators in real-time technology, media a (Read More)
readwriteweb:
If there's a hard-to-reach person you want to meet, one of the best ways to do so is through their friends. That's true in the offline world and the increasingly social nature of the internet may make discovery of the social (Read More)