At the end of last year we presented our list of the top 10 Semantic Web Apps of 2008. ReadWriteWeb reader Zoltán Andrejkovics wrote in to us afterwards, suggesting that we do a post looking at what read more » DiscussBury
Microsoft has struck a five-year deal to pre-install its Live Search as the default search engine on Verizon mobile phones.Users will be able to download a Live Search software package to their mobil read more » DiscussBury
Searching by terms is great. But some things are just easier to find when you can actually look at them - especially if you tend to be more visually oriented. Book dust jackets, album covers, and pro read more » DiscussBury
The bad news for startups keeps on coming in. This time it's RubyOnRails application hosting provider Engine Yard that has laid off 15% of its staff, as publicly reported on the company's blog earlie read more » DiscussBury
Vacation rentals are big business. HomeAway, which owns a dozen or so vacation home listing sites, just raised $250 million in a venture round that values the company at more than $1 billion. But lis read more » DiscussBury
In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic read more » DiscussBury
Artiklz is debuting its conversation search engine to the public today, and it's definitely worth taking a look. What the service does is aggregate comments from the more popular blogging and comment read more » DiscussBury
"Heuer demoed a social bookmarking service named Diki, which implements some of his ideas, though in the long run, the developers are planning to take this prototype and develop a full-blown social read more » DiscussBury