Top Web News 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.

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.

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.

Webware.com is the site where computer users can learn about new and useful Web applications.

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