Zoe Lofgren wants Netizens to help craft laws that protect the future of the Net itself.

A new "self-serve" site from Smartling, a New York City tech startup, helps businesses convert their digital content into any languages they want. CEO Jack Welde believes soon, having a site just in English will be like having no web presence at all...

Improving research by treating animals like a box of cereal.

The White House's "Advise the Advisors" crowdsourcing effort seeks input from valuable readers like you.

As the commission adopted new Net Neutrality rules, it also challenged developers to come up with apps to help users figure out just how open the Internet is.

How do you decide the cutest cat in the world?

Google is set to lose $470 million on YouTube in 2009, according to estimates by Credit Suisse. Even for Google, whose market cap hovers around $115 billion at its current share price, that's a hell of a write-off for one product.

Some pundits have predicted the dissolution of the video site--something would be anathema to the Web 2.0 mantra: get users now, make money later. How can Google justify keeping YouTube around? How can it take a property that loses half a billion dollars a year and make it sustainable?