Silver is a database cacher, indexer and searcher backed by the NoSQL database Redis and released by the tech team behind the political blog…

Earlier today, everyone was talking about Facebook and how it is "planning to launch a third-party commenting system in a matter of…

This week, instead of a single API we're spotlighting ReadWriteWeb contributor Pete Warden's new e-book Data Source Handbook, which was just…

A new report from GlobalWebIndex has some thought-provoking data about "social entertainment," a term for when entertainment is…

Video sharing website YouTube has been highlighting video from the protests in Egypt for days, but tonight the official YouTube blog put…

Early last week, protests broke out in Egypt and immediately, the government responded by blocking social networks like Twitter, and later…

By now you've probably seen several reports about how Steve Jobs, 55, has taken a medical leave of absence to focus on his health. According…

Sometimes, it's the community that makes a site what it is. It's that unique thread of personality, inside jokes and general rules of…

Douglas Rushkoff spoke at Pivot, a conference on branding, last year and recently linked to a video of his talk. It's worth watching if…

Once the success of the protests in Tunisia reminded the world that governments can be changed by a wide spectrum of people and not a…

With Noor, the last ISP in Egypt now apparently shut down, how can Egyptians get their tweets out? There are a couple of ways: audio…

Last week we told you about three projects to create a government-less Internet by taking advantage of wireless mesh networking. Wireless…

The Qwerly API lets developers easily link together users' various social network accounts. For example, given Tim O'Reilly's Twitter…

We told you earlier today about IBM's strategy of targeting developers with its new enterprise 2.0/social business platform. Part of IBM's…

Since 2007, mobile banking has more than doubled in use. According to analyst firm Forrester, this trend will continue, with usage again…

Last Thursday, after having blocked Twitter, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak reacted to the increasing protests against his reign by…

Last year, Google began allowing users to upload docs of any file format up to 250 MB in size to Google Docs, turning the service from…

Layar, the mobile augmented reality platform and maker of an app by the same name, has announced that its Layar Player tool is out of beta…

Nokia revealed during its Q4 earnings call last week that its mobile application market, the Ovi Store, now offers 30,000 apps available for…

Facebook launched Facebook Deals in Europe today, the location-based checkin service that offers specials and discounts to users who login…

GitHub has become the go-to site for many developers and businesses to host their open-source repositories. The site now boasts over 1.6…

Android is now the number one smartphone platform worldwide, according to new data from analysts at Canalys. In Q4 2010, shipments of…

We saw in the Twitter stream yesterday a slide for IBM's new social business tool kit that is being unveiied today at Lotusphere. The…

Whether it's trying to piece together what happened in the latest episode of Fringe, sharing your surprise over the latest Dexter plot…