Facebook unveils Skype video calling and group chat
Facebook announced that the company will launch group chat, video calling with Skype and a redesigned chat side bar to make communication on Facebook easy and powerful, ReadWriteWeb…
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Amazon shuts down eBook loans via Lendle
Since Amazon gave Kindle users the ability to loan their eBooks in December, we've seen a number of startups launch in the eBook lending space, creating networks to…
LinkedIn launches social news site for professionals
LinkedIn the company is unveiling another piece of its strategy to make LinkedIn a destination site for more than just job-seekers, with the launch of LinkedIn Today, reports…
Facebook now powers comments all around the web
Facebook released its much-feared commenting solution, reports ReadWriteWeb.
Facebook raises $1.5 billion
If you thought Groupon's $950 million was big, hold on to your hats. Facebook has announced that it has raised $1.5 billion in funding at a $50 billion…
Obama’s internet plan sounds an awful lot like a national internet ID
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt announce to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research on Friday that President Obama intended to turn over development of a national…
Factual aims, credibly, to become Wikipedia 2.0
Imagine an online community that combines user contributions, editing and fact checking like Wikipedia, with automated data extraction like Google and complex artificial intelligence to create a rich…
How Twitter use has changed, from 2009 to 2010
It's been a good year for Twitter, and not merely because the company announced yesterday it has secured another huge round of funding, reports ReadWriteWeb.
How online reading habits have changed over 2010
One of the more subtle trends of 2010 has been the way that our reading habits have changed, due to a convergence of other web trends: mobile apps,…
Google’s new eBook store: One store, any device
Watch out Amazon and move over Apple, because Google is about to launch its eBook store and it's likely to change everything, reports ReadWriteWeb.