Top Misc. Web Blogs

TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to new companies, we will profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space. TechCrunch is edited by Michael Arrington, who also writes a companion blog, CrunchNotes.

Mashable is the world's largest blog focused exclusively on social networks.

What does that mean? It means sites like MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, hi5, Piczo, Bebo and YouTube.

If you're launching a new social network, or a tool that plugs into MySpace and the rest, Mashable wants to know!

Read/WriteWeb is a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis. ... Read/WriteWeb began publishing on April 20, 2003.... It is edited by Richard MacManus [from Wellington, New Zealand] and is written by a team of Web enthusiasts.

Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture.

Founded in August 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information for web-designers and web-developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in web-development - clearly, precisely and regularly. We don’t try to convince you with the quantity, but with the quality of the information we present. That’s what makes us different.

GigaOM.com is an online news and weblog published by GigaOmniMedia, Inc., a San Franciso-based company. We deliver technology news, analysis and opinions on topics ranging from broadband to online games and Web 2.0 to a monthly global audience of 500,000 consumers and professionals interested in the world of hi-tech. Our readers include industry leaders, venture capitalists, investment professionals and entrepreneurs around the world. Our unique combination of in-depth reporting, editorial articles, community opinion polls, and internet market metrics highlight the most interesting startups, products, and people in technology.

(Robert Scoble's take on blogging and the Web.)

Search Engine Land is a news and information site covering search engine marketing, searching issues and the search engine industry.

At O'Reilly, a big part of our business is paying attention to what's new and interesting in the world of technology. We have a pretty good record at having anticipated some of the big technology developments in recent history. For instance, we launched the first commercial Web site, GNN, in 1993; we organized the meeting at which the term "open source" was first adopted; we were early investors in Blogger, which helped launch the blogging revolution; and more recently, our Web 2.0 conference launched a world-wide meme. We call this predictive sense the "O'Reilly Radar." And while we're certainly not always right, we are, at least, good at making interesting guesses.

Blog about downloadable software and other computer subjects.

Says Matt Cutts: I’m one of several Googlers who answer questions online and sometimes for the press. I usually handle questions about webmasters or SEO, so in those areas I’m more likely to make sense and less likely to say something stupid.

Google Operating System is a blog about a company that started as a search engine and will become an online operating system, that stores and processes our documents, memories and desires. ....

You'll find news, tips, secrets, analysis, written in a way I'd like to read them. But nobody writes them elsewhere.

(A multi-author blog from ACS, an SEO firm.)