Weekly Poll: What Companies Will Be at the Top of the Cloud in the Next 5 Years

We take a look at the future of cloud computing services this week. We want to know: What companies do you think will be at the top of the cloud world in five years?

This past week, we had 93 people respond to the question: 'Is There A Place For Open-Source in the Data Center?" The respondents were pretty much in full support of the open approach.

LadyGaga as a Service: Bringing Apple and Google to Commerce 2.0

Lady Gaga, along with her record company, is evolving the album in the form of software as a service.

Digital Activism in China: A Discussion Between Ai Weiwei, Jack Dorsey and Richard MacManus

Earlier tonight, the Paley Center hosted a discussion about social media and digital activism with celebrated artist, architectural designer, activist and blogger Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and ReadWriteWeb's editor and founder Richard MacManus.

6 Ways to Better Living: Inside an Internet of Things Home

What if we took the leading sensor-based products currently being developed or already on the market, put them all under one roof, and added a typical American family? Would they just be the techiest family on the block, or would it have a significant impact on their lives?

Here are six ways this Internet of Things family can see their lives change.

Historic Conversation With Ai Weiwei Streamed Live

ReadWriteWeb is pleased to be hosting a live-stream for tonight's Ai Weiwei event in New York City.

Web Illiteracy: How Much Is Your Fault?

When hundreds of clueless commenters decided mid-February that ReadWriteWeb was the place to log in to Facebook, alerts went off in my personal network like alarms at a fire station.

The Meaning & Future of Blippy, the Credit Card Data Social Network

Would you broadcast information about your credit card transactions publicly on the internet? That might sound frighteningly irresponsible, but serial entreprenuer Phil Kaplan says his new social network Blippy does that and represents the way of the future.

Is The Path Between VCs and Entrepreneurs A One-Way Street?

Over the weekend, Frist Round Capital Entrepreneur in Residence Charlie O'Donnell wrote an interesting blog post that is making its way around the venture capital and startup communities and drawing a variety of responses.

Twitter Announces @Anywhere Platform

During his SXSW keynote interview today, Twitter's Even Williams announced the service's new @platform.

What's Left For Startups At SXSW?

It's Monday and that means that the Interactive portion of SXSW is drawing closer and closer to its close tomorrow after a weekend of great talks, panels, parties and overall hoopla.