May 23, 2008

ReadWriteWeb Every week it seems like the debate over access to, portability of and privacy over user data on the social web has reached new heights. It's only going to get louder though, just as discussions about other forms of economics will never be resolved.That's a part of what's going on, economics. This is an information econom (Read More)

May 22, 2008

TechCrunch After unsuccessfully trying to sell his startup Sxip Identity to Google or Microsoft, CEO Dick Hardt is now facing a lawsuit over the insolvency of his startup. Hardt is perhaps best known for his amusing slide show explaining his company’s Identity 2.0 system. It typically started with the slide at right asking,  (Read More)

May 22, 2008

TechCrunch When Google Sites launched in February, it was part of the Google Apps group that targets enterprises large and small. Now, consumers can create a wiki Website using Google Sites, without the need to have their own domain. Google Sites gives you a basic template to create a Website that can be edited by the public at larg (Read More)

May 22, 2008

Submitted by Johanbryggare: One of the toughest things for someone writing about tech trends for a general audience is keeping up with what's new, but also having some perspective about how the average person uses technology.Twitter is just one product that's evolved from the explosion of sites classified as Web 2.0, which allow people to easily creat (Read More)

May 22, 2008

ReadWriteWeb Last week I was watching TV and saw something that really caught my eye. It was a commercial for Special K, the breakfast cereal from Kellogg, and rather than end with a plug for the product's web site -- SpecialK.com -- it advised people to search Yahoo! for "Special K" instead. I started to wonder two things: 1. is Yaho (Read More)

May 23, 2008

ReadWriteWeb Today we’re pleased to announce a new biweekly feature on ReadWriteTalk, our podcast show. It's a live discussion with the ReadWriteWeb Network authors that we’re calling RWW Live. On this first episode, host Sean Ammirati is joined by myself (Richard MacManus) and Alex Iskold from ReadWriteWeb, along with Steve (Read More)

May 22, 2008

ReadWriteWeb What sort of funding opportunities exist in the budding Semantic Web space? What are VCs looking for and how much are they will to invest? That was the topic of a panel at the SemTech 2008 Conference that just concluded in San Jose.The panel featured Stephen Hall from Vulcan Capital, Eghosa Omoigui fromIntel Capital and A (Read More)

May 23, 2008

louisgray.com When you really want to concentrate, do you need a quiet room with no distractions, or does playing loud music help you focus? Can you hold a conversation while typing? Can you read blogs and write e-mail while watching TV? I do. And I must. For with all the information available these days, and my personal unwillingness to (Read More)

May 21, 2008

ReadWriteWeb I just found a more useful way to search than Google. (Sort of.) It only works for a defined use case, but, in a search market that is 85% going on 90% Google-dominated, this can still be significant. The site that provides a better search experience than Google? Business social network LinkedIn. Long time readers of this (Read More)

May 21, 2008

TechCrunch Meet SmallWorlds, a free browser-based 3D virtual world that integrates YouTube, Flickr, and a number of other Web 2.0 services. The site is aimed at the teen and adult markets, and is designed to be more casual than Second Life. SmallWorlds will be entering a public beta on June 2, but the first 1000 users to register he (Read More)

May 21, 2008

Lifehacker The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. After 17 months of alphas and betas, Mozilla's finally made a feature-complete release candidate available, so it's time (Read More)

May 12, 2008

ReadWriteWeb Later tonight Google will launch a new service called Friend Connect, aiming to "bring the social" to any page around the web. Unfortunately the service takes a bunch of open technical standards yearning to see the light of day through mass adoption and puts them in a dark little box where they will struggle to breathe. G (Read More)

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