Think the semantic web is all hype with no bite? Paul Allen backed semantic startup Evri will announce tomorrow that it has been acquired, we've...

Cambridge UK startup Rapportive has released a Firefox and Chrome extension that will replace the ads in your Gmail with photos, biographic data and social...

Google is developing a system that will enable web publishers of any size to automatically submit new content to Google for indexing within seconds of...

Facebook is about to become a quieter, less annoying place for users.

Great news from web hosting company Network Solutions this morning. A company representative tells us that Microsoft will withdraw the copyright complaint against long-time watchdog...

Dramatic headlines cried out overnight that RickRolling was dead. The original Rick Astley video with more than 30 million views has been pulled from YouTube...

Apps on the iPhone, there are so very many of them - how's a person to find the best ones?

Google Maps is a great program, but it's always been disappointing to see where in the world it doesn't offer much coverage.

Twenty-year PR veteran Sean Garrett just announced that he's leaving the communications startup he helped found five years ago and taking a new position as...

Three weeks ago Facebook Platform Manager Dave Morin announced he was leaving the company to start a stealthy new startup with Napster founder Sean Fanning.

For all our supposed internet leadership, we North Americans are more likely to use Internet Explorer than people in any other continent in the world.

Facebook announced this morning that its wildly popular Instant Messaging service now supports the open IM standard XMPP/Jabber.

Google rolled out a social stream service today called Buzz. It looks on the surface like Facebook, FriendFeed and other stream reading and writing services.

Youth social networking researcher dana boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them.

The era of location-as-platform for software development is just beginning. No longer of interest only to uber-geeks, everyday people are now reporting their physical locations...