Today is the big day! It's time for the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit. Hundreds of people working on or with real-time web technologies have come to Mountain View, California and ReadWriteWeb staff has arrived from around the world as well.
We'll be live-streaming selected sessions from the event, starting at 8:30 AM PST, thanks to Justin.tv. You can see and join the Twitter-chatter by using the hashtags #rtwsummit or #rtws. We've set up a page displaying both the live video and the flowing hashtag stream at http://readwriteweb.com/summit. Conversation there has begun already. Full story...
Just a month after announcing its plans to devour hit app Instagram to the tune of $1 billion, Facebook has released its very own photo sharing app.
There’s a lot of money in poor people.
The ownCloud project is adding features fast and furiously.
Axis, Yahoo's "new kind of browser" that launched yesterday, is an attempt to do something noble and important.
Today's theme is real artists ship. Everyone wants their tech to be fun.
Today the X Prize Foundation announced a $2.
It is time for another look at enterprise IT from our friends Chief and Chuck.
If your boss asked you to identify all of the various SaaS-based providers that are being used across your corporate network, how long would it take you to put together a report? This isn't academic: As more of your end-users sign up for these cloud-based services, it becomes increasingly harder to maintain the appropriate enterprise security policies as the number and kinds of files stored there increases.
Social scientists are increasingly looking at online friendships and trying to figure out if they carry the same emotional baggage that real-world friendships do.
PayPal co-founder and Facebook pre-IPO stockholder Peter Thiel
Facebook's tainted public offering, which has attracted the attention of federal securities investigators, has grown a bit darker with the filing of a class-action lawsuit.