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January 28 2012
Weekly Wrap-up: Social Media Reference Guide and More
Flowtown releases a great social media cheat sheet for those new to social media. Dan Frommer wonders if downloads or discs are more applicable for the next gen XBox. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web - plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.
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[Infographic] The SMB Social Media Cheat Sheet
Make sure the social media noobs in your company check out The SMB Social Media Cheat Sheet from Flowtown. The infograhic includes instructions on how to use various social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, Tumblr and Digg. LinkedIn is notably missing, but other that it's a great infographic and one that's sure to be helpful in your office.
Why Does the Next Xbox Need Discs At All?
Kotaku reported that the next generation of Xbox might not play used games. Dan Frommer wondered about the future of discs for the gaming industry as a whole.
The future is probably downloadable or streaming games, but until we get better bandwidth, it's not practical for everyone yet.
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[Infographic] PHP vs. Python vs. Ruby
Udemy has put together an infographic that compares Ruby, PHP and Python. This looks (briefly) at the history, popularity, ease of use, demand for programmers, benchmarks and more for each language. If you're job-hunting, Udemy says that you probably want to know PHP above Ruby or Python. More
Nearly 1 Million People Jailbroke Their iPhone or iPad Over the Weekend
People sure do love jailbreaking their iOS devices. In fact, after Friday's launch of the Absinthe A5 tool, jailbreaking iOS 5 on A5-powered devices was almost as popular as the iPhone 4S itself when it first launched. More
Apple's Growth Rate Is Simply Incredible... And It's Accelerating
There are plenty of impressive stats in Apple's December quarter earnings report, such as 37 million iPhones shipped, $46 billion of overall sales, and $13 billion of profit. More
A Brief History of the BlackBerry
Back in the early 1990s, we didn't have BlackBerries or any kind of wireless data devices. Phones weren't very "smart," and dial up still ruled the land. Then a trio of companies came together to invent the Viking Express which was a combination of an Ericsson Mobidem wireless data modem that was the size of a small brick, an HP 100 pocket-sized computer that looked more like a big calculator, and software from a company called Radiomail that ran on the DOS operating system of the HP. The world of wireless hasn't been the same since. More
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[UPDATED] Twitter May Censor Certain Tweets In Certain Countries
Twitter will censor tweets in certain countries while still publishing them throughout the rest of the world, the company said Thursday on its blog.
"As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there," the company said. "Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content." More
Community Manager Appreciation Day 2012
Today is the 3rd Annual Community Manager Appreciation day. Originally founded back in 2010 by Jeremiah Owyang, the 4th Monday of January has since become a day to both thank Community Managers and to enjoy some great community-themed content. More
Priceline's Shatner "Negotiator" Makes His Last Deal Today
Perhaps not since "The Sweet Hereafter" has there ever been a more pivotal bus crash shown on TV or in the movies. Today Priceline begins a new ad campaign that shows the death of its William Shatner "Negotiator" character. For those of you that haven't seen "The Sweet Hereafter," a movie based on a Russell Banks story, it is worth renting just for Ian Holm's wonderful performance. But back to Priceline and Shatner. More
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January 14 2012
Weekly Wrap-up: Problems with Google+ and More
Google personalizes search and lets you decide it you want to use it or not. Dan Rowinski releases his app roundup for December. Several hundred Foxconn employees threaten suicide. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
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They Did It: Google Personalizes Search & It Is Not Evil
Google launched Personalized Search, just a week after Jon Mitchell lamented that Google+ was going to mess up the internet. First impressions were better than expected.
New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for December 2011
Dan released his list of December apps, including Google Currents, Skyscanner and Final Fantasy III, among others.
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Foxconn Workers Threaten Mass Suicide [Updated]
More than 300 workers at Foxconn threatened to commit suicide. This isn't the first time the manufacturer of the Kindle, the iPad and the XBox 360 has come under fire for difficult working conditions. In this case, the standoff ended without any deaths.
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Study: Your Facebook Personality Is The Real You
If you think you're different on Facebook than you are in real life, you've got some explaining to do.
A 2011 study from the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Psychology called "Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information" published in the academic journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking found that Facebook users are no different online than they are offline. More
Mozilla's Plan for Keeping Firefox Relevant in a Post-Browser Web
The change in emphasis for HTML5 away from just content and more toward functionality, coupled with a much deeper impact from Apple on the broader model of computing than even Apple's most adamant fans could have anticipated, has led to a changed scenario for the Web. By this time next year, barring any delays, the Web delivery model for the world's three most prevalent platforms - Windows, iOS, and Android - will be based on apps. More
Infographic: The Growth of Enterprise Mobility
No industry vertical has been more disrupted by the evolution of the smartphone than the enterprise. Since Apple released the iPhone in 2007 and the subsequent rise of Android, IT departments have struggled to reconcile device and application management, security and software deployment. What to do when every employee wants to bring their own device to work? More
Hybrid HTML5 Apps Are Less Costly to Develop Than Native
It seems like a fairly straightforward question: As a developer, business and enterprise, do I develop Web apps, native apps or some combination thereof? Answers to that question are anything but simple. Who is your target audience? What is the purpose of the app? There are a series of diverse questions that must be answered before jumping right into development. More
A Beginner's Guide to Twitter
Many of ReadWriteWeb's readers are old hands at Twitter, but the service gets thousands of new users every day. That includes a lot of folks who suddenly need to use Twitter as part of their job. If you're just being introduced to the joys of Twitter (or introducing it to another user), here's a short and friendly primer on what you need to know about using the site. More
Suddenly, Google Is Winning the Online Identity Race
Google shipped some major changes to search today. The announcement was called "Search, plus Your World." It was the inevitable launch of the integration between Google's core product, Web search, and its new identity service, Google+. There are now two modes of search on Google, personal and global. Personal search shows users stuff from their Google+ circles, and global search is good old Google search, albeit with public Google+ posts included. More
What You Need to Know About ICANN's New Generic Top Level Domains
Today could be the point in history at which we look back and say, "that was the day the Internet fundamentally changed." Today is the day the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opens up its new registry for generic Top Level Domains and it will have a profound affect on how people find and consume information on the Web. Will it be a gold rush? Is this the end of the ".com" era as we have come to know it? More
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January 07 2012
Weekly Wrap-up: Problems with Google+ and More
Jon explains what he hates about Google+. NASA creates an FAQ for the debunked 2012 apocalypse. No SOPA is a Chrome extension that helps you spot SOPA supporters in your travels around the web. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
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Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet
Jon Mitchell hates Google+, and he's not shy about sharing why. In the most popular ReadWriteWeb story of the week, Jon details the issues he has with Google+, from the minor annoyances to more serious ones, like prioritizing Google+ posts about an article over the article itself, Jon is concerned about how Google+ is already affecting Google Search. Check out why Jon thinks Google+ is going to mess up the internet.
NASA Debunks 2012 Apocalypse With New FAQ
Don't start preparing for Armageddon just yet. NASA has created an FAQ to ease fears that world will end this year. Those of you sitting on a few cases of tactical sammiches should probably check out this FAQ pronto. For the rest of us, the FAQ is an entertaining and educational trip through some of the more interesting doomsday predictions for 2012.
Chrome Extension Warns You When You Browse A SOPA-Supporter's Website
SOPA isn't being covered by news outlets that are supportive of the measure, so how are you to know when your favorite website's parent company is a SOPA supporter? This Chrome extension warns you when you browse a SOPA-supporter's website. What you do with that knowledge is up to you.
Bonus: Find out where your legislators stand on SOPA/PIPA with this handy geo-enabled mobile HTML application.
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32 More of the Best (And Worst) Tech Tattoos
At this point there's probably nothing in geekdom, no matter how arcane, that hasn't ended up on someone's skin. "In" someone's skin, to be precise. From ASCII art, to xkcd comics, to video games, to binary, to parts of your childhood you just can't leave behind, there are entire sites like Geeky Tattoos now devoted to nerd ink. More
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Running On Less Than 1% of Total Devices
Android Ice Cream Sandwich has made its first appearance in Google's fragmentation numbers for the platform. Android 4.0.x is now running on less than 1% of all devices that have accessed the Android Market in the last two weeks, coming in at 0.6% overall. More
Turn Your Android Into a Hotspot Without Your Carrier Knowing
There is little in the world that provokes the fury of smartphone consumers more than when one of the major carriers institutes a data cap, eliminates tethering or makes customers pay an exorbitant rate to use their smartphones as hotspots. Users want to be able to use their mobile bandwidth unhindered by any restrictions. More
First Signs of an Intel Windows 8 Ultrabook: Here We Go Again
For at least seven years running, Intel has been working to specify a form factor for lightweight, mobile computing devices. No, not tablets. As early as 2005, the first whispers of a joint Intel/Microsoft specification were bandied about, where Intel specifies the internals, and they supply the plastic. More
Analyst: Apple Will Lose Its Cool Factor In 2012
The last week of December and first couple of weeks of January is when analysts and pundits climb out of the woodwork to make bold predictions for the new year. Some are data driven, some are just based on hunches from following the trends. Investors Business Daily is no exception and has one bold prognostication for 2012: Apple will "lose its cool." More
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The Verified Twitter Account for Rupert Murdoch's Wife Was Fake [Updated]
Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter last week. So did his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch. "Joining my husband @rupertmurdoch in our new digital adventure on Twitter," reads her bio. Cute, right? Rupert was verified, Wendi was verified, and so began another cute chapter of celebrities figuring out how to use Twitter. More
A Guy's Guide To Pinterest
One of the first things I noticed when I signed up for Pinterest earlier this week is that several of my female friends and acquaintances were already on the site. It was as if they had been holding out on what many are promising will be 2012's hot ticket in the social networking space. More
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December 16 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: Epic Tech Fails and More
Jon Mitchell reminds us of all the most epic tech fails of 2011. Richard MacManus counts down the biggest surprises of 2011. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
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Top 7 Epic Tech Fails of 2011
From Netflix to RIM, Jon recounts the years biggest "Oops!" moments. If you're having a bad day, these colossal mistakes should cheer you up. Check out the Top 7 Epic Tech Fails of 2011.
5 Biggest Surprises of 2011
Richard counted down the biggest surprises of 2011, including Google+ (which ReadWriteWeb found in March). For the rest of the surprises, check out the 5 Biggest Surprises of 2011.
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Untethered Jailbreak For iOS 5 Coming Any Day Now
Owners of iPads, iPhones and iPods running the latest version of iOS have not yet had the option to jailbreak their devices in a way that's at all worth the trouble. For those who are dying to break free of Apple's restrictions, an untethered jailbreak appears to be on the way. More
Why Firefox Isn't Doomed [HOT TOPIC]
This has been a rough year for Mozilla and its Firefox team. Once the darling of the Web and the champion of the oppressed against Microsoft and Internet Explorer, Firefox is facing stiff competition from its primary benefactor and backlash from users. Chrome also seems to be the preferred browser of Web developers. Naturally, this means speculation about the future of Firefox. More
Top 5 Internet Devices of 2011
Remember when accessing the Internet meant sitting down at a desk with a clunky computer and CRT monitor on it and then waiting for the dial-up modem to finish making that awful noise? Those days are thankfully long gone and today we are speedily using the Web from a variety of devices, big and small. More
Facebook Testing Private Messages For Pages
Facebook just confirmed with us that it's testing a feature that would allow people and Pages to communicate privately. This update was first spotted by communications agency WeAreSocial.sg. The private messaging feature would give customers the opportunity to speak privately with page owners. This is actually another Twitter-like move by Facebook. More
Blogger Gets "The First of Many Google+ Features"
Blogger has announced "the first of many Google+ features" today, launching an automatic +snippet sharing box after you publish a blog post. It only saves a few clicks, but this makes it as easy as humanly possible to share Blogger posts to your Google+ circles. More
YouTube for Schools: All the TED Talks, None of the Cat Videos
YouTube has launched a new initiative called YouTube for Schools, which will enable educators to open up classrooms to the wide world of educational content on YouTube without all the junk. Open Internet access in schools is tricky, with all the distractions and time-wasters out there, so Google is taking this step to make educators' lives easier. More
Bottlenose Intelligent Social Dashboard Launches Private Beta [HOT TOPIC]
In the words of Nova Spivack, we are approaching The Sharepocalypse. The real-time Web sounded like a great idea, but it has become impossible to manage. The success of social media has proven, ironically, to be its biggest challenge. The services we already use are getting busier, and whole new networks are popping up all the time. Email used to be the only problem. Today, the info streams are legion. More
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December 10 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: 2011 Trends and More
Dan Rowinski looks at the trends for HTML5 in 2011, Joe Brockmeier counts down the top developer tools of 2011 and I pulled together a list of resources designed to help you learn to program. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
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Top 6 Trends In HTML5 In 2011
Dan Rowinski found that Mobile First was the most significant HTML5 trend of 2011. Want to learn the rest? Check out Top 6 Trends in HTML5 in 2011
Top Web Developer Tools of 2011
Web developers have a variety of tools they love, and Joe Brockmeier counts down the Top Tools of 2011 for Web Development.
From the comments:
Knooq -- "Thumbs up for jQuery, CSS3PIE and Chrome Developer Tools. I still think Eclipse is one of the best development tools out there, and the Aptana plugin has improved on many aspects of this IDE."
Teach Yourself to Program
I put together a list of resources you can use to Teach Yourself to Program, including learning languages and using a drag and drop interface. From books to classes, meetups to online tutorials, there's no excuse not to bone up on your coding skills. Best of all, several developers dropped suggestions in the comments that you can also use to get up and running in no time.
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New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for November 2011
We love new apps. It is one of the joys of our life to sift through the flood of apps that are published or updated every month and deliver the best or most interesting to our readers. November had some great apps for Android, the iPhone and the iPad. In our ongoing series of Apps Of The Month, we take a look at what November produced below. We are continuing for the third month with our list of app updates so you can keep track of what you need to update for functionality and security purposes. More
Infographic: What Tools Developers Actually Use [HOT TOPIC]
The folks at BestVendor.com interviewed 500 developers and compiled this profile of the tools that they actually use. A few stalwarts predominate, such as Git, Eclipse, AWS, Dropbox, MySQL, and Google Analytics. But there were a few surprises too, including 23% using Notepad++ as their text editor and 8% using Heroku to host their apps. Many of the categories are wide open. All of those surveyed are from companies of less than 100 people from around the world. More
Infographic: 7 Companies Who Made Major Pivots in Strategy
From the folks who brought you the Pivot Conference and Hasai Marketing comes an infographic that tells the story of 7 companies that, you guessed it, made significant pivots in strategy to successful ends. Included are gaming companies, social networking sites and group buying pioneers. More
Conduit Helps Build Mobile Apps For the Programming Challenged
The threshold for creating mobile apps is as low as it is ever going to be. New services are being designed every day to give the average person the capability to create a mobile app, even if they do not know how to code. The problem is that many of these services create a cookie-cutter app that many fear will drive Web design back to the dark ages of the mid-to-late 1990s when static, uninspired websites ruled the land. More
Evernote, Hello? This is an App Only Sheldon Cooper Would Love [HOT TOPIC]
Evernote Hello is a fine example of a really good idea that, when executed, doesn't work at all well. In concept, Hello is brilliant. Who doesn't have a problem with remembering names, especially when you're at a party or work function and being introduced to a half-dozen people simultaneously? More
Google Currents is to Social Media as Justin Bieber is to the Beatles [HOT TOPIC]
Google Currents is a new tablet app launched today that makes reading of syndicated web content easier, faster and more enjoyable than almost any other interface you can imagine. It's like Flipboard but for RSS feeds. People are going to love it. That's the nice way to describe it. More
Are You Paying Apple Too Much For E-Books? The Justice Department Thinks So [HOT TOPIC]
Have you noticed that the cost of some new e-books seems to be a few dollars higher than it was before? The U.S. Justice Department certainly has and they're investigating why that is and if it's legal. Specifically, the DOJ is looking into whether Apple and major publishers colluded to set e-book prices in a manner that would violate antitrust laws, the agency confirmed yesterday. More
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November 30 2011
Daily Wrap: The Return of Reasonable Debate and More
ReadWriteWeb commenters continue to teach us lessons. Today's lesson is one of reasoned debate in the age of ad hominem attacks. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.
Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. This is a new feature at ReadWriteWeb so we covet your feedback. If you have suggestions, please leave them in the comments below or reach out to me directly at robyn at readwriteweb.com.
3 Lessons Learned from the SOPA Debate Last Week
Last week we published a legal analysis of SOPA. Two commenters, e-novel publisher, Rowena Cherry, and TechDirt founder, Michael Masnick, engaged in a lively debate that inspired Scott Fulton to write up the lessons we should learn from such an intelligent, if not always perfectly polite, conversation. Since so many internet communities have thrown away vigorous but reasoned debate and turned to personal attacks instead, I hope we can learn from Rowena's and Michael's example.
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Cisco, Google Ventures and VMware Back Puppet Labs with $8.5 Million
Now You Can Tether Your iPhone to Your Laptop Without a Monthly Fee [Updated: Not Anymore]
BradBell is amazed that we're still dealing with this issue in 2011.
Who would ever imagine, with all the innovation in digital communications, we'd be paying the lions share to the poor, dumb, half-assed telephone companies for the thumb on our wind pipes.
Google Opens the Door to Mobile Maps Inside Buildings
Google Ditches The Black Bar, Puts Search Atop All Pages
How Facebook Screwed With Everyone's Privacy And What It's Doing About It
The Five Signs That an Application is Ripe For the Cloud
EU Advocate General: You Can't Copyright a Programming Language
The iPad Isn't Just Killing PC Sales - Memory Chips Take a Hit Too
Tom Foremski, a ReadWriteWeb reader, added:
DRAM makers have always been losing money, way too much over-production is the cause, not iPads. Otherwise you would see an effect on microprocessor sales, and you don't, Intel is killing it every quarter.
Windows Phone Outperforms Android and iOS In Mobile Advertising, Smaato Reports
ReadWriteWeb commenter, Jonathan Neumann wondered:
I'd be very curious to know what other mobile developers think too. I just released an iPhone app following the traditional paid scheme, but I am wondering if I shouldn't also offer this app with ads. Would you recommend ad-supported apps, fellow coders?
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November 26 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: Facebook Frictionless Sharing and More
Marshall Kirkpatrick explains Why Facebook's Seamless Sharing is Wrong. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web - plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
Why Facebook's Seamless Sharing is Wrong
Our coverage of Facebook's frictionless sharing was of great interest to the ReadWriteWeb community. Several of this week's top stories were focused on Facebook's oft overwhelming auto-sharing of banal minutiae.
Marshall looked at why the sharing was wrong, and even compares Facebook to malware.
From Marshall:
I think Facebook ought to put a greater emphasis on acting in good faith and helping its users make informed decisions, in line with their reasonable expectations, as the company seeks to experiment with building the future of media.
ReadWriteWeb commenter JLishere summed it up:
Infographic: xkcd Shows You the Money
Another popular post this week was our coverage of xkcd's infographic, "Money": A well-done visualization of money, from the cost of a single restaurant meal at McDonalds to the net worth of Jeff Bezos. It's really a must-see infographic. I ordered a copy of the poster because it's difficult to appreciate on a computer monitor.
Google+ Was Never a Facebook Competitor
Guest blogger, Brad Jordan, makes the case that Google+ was never intended to compete with Facebook, but to expand their advertising reach further.
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- Cautious Optimism Follows SOPA Hearings: Don't Get Cocky
- In Quest to Become World's Most Ridiculous Nation, Pakistan Bans Make-Believe Curse Words from Texting [Updated]
- Facebook Hasn't Ruined Sharing, It's Just Re-Defined It
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November 19 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: Effects of the Internet Blacklist Bill and More
HR 3261 has riled up the internet and with good reason. We take a look at the effects of the new bill, in an easy to follow infographic from the folks at AmericanCensorship.org. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
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Top Stories of the Week
Infographic: Effects of the Internet Blacklist Bill (SOPA) [Updated]
Trying to keep up with every threat to privacy online is a never-ending race on the hamster wheel. For that reason, when someone jumps up and down and tells us to pay close attention to the latest threat, many of us shrug our shoulders because we just don't have the time to learn about each and every major privacy threat in the tech new cycle. To help us cut through the overwhelming amount of information we've already received about SOPA, the Stop Internet Piracy Act, the team at AmericanCensorship.org brings us this simple to follow infographic that very clearly details the risks of SOPA.
ReadWriteWeb commenter COV summed it up best:
The Brand Pages Face Off: Google+ vs. Facebook
In this corner, veteran marketing tool, Facebook brand pages. In the other corner, newcomer to the social space, Google+ brand pages. Richard takes a hard look at both offerings by checking out the brand pages of luxury auto makers BMW and Mercedes-Benz on each.
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Here's a review of DataSift, the second licensed reseller of tweets. More likely a business offering than a consumer tool, DataSift has great potential and a confusing UI. Read Marshall's post for a look at the possibilities of Twitter data mining with robust data tool.
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9 Innings worth of MLB on ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb coverage of the MLB.com College Challenge, a 14 hour Hack Day open to only a few students but with impressive VC potential.
More Top Posts:
- Updated: Hollywood and Congress Target Mozilla
- Women's Heel Size Drops, Thanks to IBM Analytics
- From DevOps to NoOps: 10 Cloud Services You Should Be Using
- Foursquare's Website Just Got a Whole Lot More Useful
- Hacker Shows How To Easily Root the Kindle Fire
- Tumblr Censors Our Dashboards In Opposition To SOPA
- So This is Openness, Google X, and What Have You Done?
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- Infographic: Data Deluge - 8 Zettabytes of Data by 2015
- IBM Tech Trends 2011 Highlights Biz Analytics Needs
- So This is Openness, Google X, and What Have You Done?
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- Red Hat Beefs Up Java Experience for OpenShift PaaS
- EnterpriseDB's Karen Padir: From MySQL to Postgres + Hadoop
- Box.Net Launches $2M Innovation Fund
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- Draft W3C Standard Looks More Like 'Please, Do Not Track'
- RWW at MLB.com Challenge
- Maybe it's Time for Kinkos to Offer 3D Printers
- Top Mobile Developer Priorities of 2011: Reach, Engagement, Loyalty & Monetization
- Google Starts Pushing the Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Code Hacker Shows How To Easily Root the Kindle Fire
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November 12 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: Cartel Kills Another Journalist in Mexico and More
Another journalist was killed for speaking out against drug cartel, Las Zetas. Dan reviews the mobile apps released for October. Grove.io promises a better IRC experience. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
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Top Stories of the Week
Drug Cartel Murders Another Blogger [Updated]
Journalism in Mexico is dangerous. More than a dozen men and women who report on the drug cartel, Las Zetas, have been savagely murdered. The most recent casualty of this war is Rascatripas. His body, hung from the same overpass as last month's double murder of journalists, was adorned with a sign that said, in Spanish, "This happened to me for not understanding that I shouldn't report on the social networks."
ReadWriteWeb commenter iamdamian summed it up best:
New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for October 2011
Every month, as a labor of love, Dan Rowinski puts together a list of the most interesting apps that were released, along with any updates you need to see. Check it out and give us your feedback.
Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams
IRC has some annoyances, but all in all, it's a darn fine protocol that has served us well for years. Leah Culver and Jori Lallo, both of Convore, have created Grove which promises to remove some of the IRC hurdles, like hosting, so that we can continue to use this open protocol with ease.
ReadWriteWeb Commenter, David Yang is hopeful:
ReadWriteWeb Meetups Around the World - TUESDAY 11/15
Only a few days left before our ReadWriteWeb worldwide technology meetup on November 15! There are already some amazing meetups planned in Tokyo, Seoul, Vladivostok, Russia, Amsterdam, New Zealand, Boston, MA, St. Louis, MO, Washington, DC and more. Don't see your city listed? Add it in one click!
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More Top Posts:
- New 5 Billion Page Web Index with Page Rank Now Available for Free from Common Crawl Foundation
- Hacker News and the Damage Done? 10gen Responds on MongoDB
- Steve Jobs Wins: Adobe to Give Up Mobile Flash for HTML5
- Facebook Restores the Old News Feed
- 3 Key Business Lessons From Steve Jobs: Intuition, Reinvention, Focus
- Salesforce's Do.com Aims to Torpedo Microsoft's Collaboration Stronghold
- Microsoft Gives Up on Competition, Tries to Buy IE Users Instead
ReadWriteWeb Channels
- Microsoft Gives Up on Competition, Tries to Buy IE Users Instead
- Yammer Widens Its Ecosystem Big Time
- Eric Schmidt, Patents, and the 'Sword of Damocles' Defense
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- Startup Pancake.io Hosts Websites Using Dropbox
- Hacker News and the Damage Done? 10gen Responds on MongoDB
- New Amazon AWS Cluster Lowers Costs for Both Customers and Amazon
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- HTML5 Apps Platform Creator Absorbed by Facebook
- Grove.io Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat for Teams
- RWW Special: MLB.com Challenges Students to Reinvent Web Sports
- Mobile App Inflection Point: 25 Billion Apps Downloaded in 2011
- Crashlytics Knows Why Your iOS Apps Crash
- Tablet Users Watch More Video Content
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October 21 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: 4Chan's Founder Tells Facebook and Google They're Doing It Wrong and more
Founder of 4Chan, Chris Poole, aka moot, gave a particularly strong talk at Web 2.0 Expo, in which he asserted that Facebook and Google were doing it wrong, and that they should emulate Twitter's stance on identity.
After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - Mobile, App Stores and Identity - plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
Chris Poole had already stressed the importance of anonymity earlier this year at SXSW, but since the release of Google Plus, which he says is even more worrying, he reiterated his assertion that allowing handles on the web is essential. The resulting discussion of the ramifications of forced real names, handles and identity as only based on the name on your ID card, was one of the most interesting I've seen in months. When you take the time to read through this story, don't forget to pour through the comments. There's real wisdom therein.
Where Is the iPhone Malware? Lookout Releases iOS Security App
Lookout, a popular Android security app, has released a version of their app for iOS. The app works differently on iOS than on Android, primarily in that it doesn't detect and remove malware. Dan explains the other differences, including the fact that the new app wasn't possible until iCloud was released.
Everything that Lookout does is in the cloud - almost nothing runs on the device itself.
ReadWriteWeb Meetups Around the World
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More Top Posts:
- Teenagers Will, Like, Totally Abandon Facebook for Google+
- Be Careful Whom You Befriend on Social Networks
- Infographic: A History of Facebook Failures
- Gmail to Unveil New Interface to Help Fight Information Overload
- Meet the New APIs Behind Android Ice Cream Sandwich
- Why You Can't Downgrade iOS
- Mary Meeker's 2011 Web 2.0 Summit Presentation
- How Mobile Payments Will Evolve In the Next Several Years
ReadWriteWeb Channels
- Infographic: A History of Facebook Failures
- Infographic: Why Content is King for SEO
- Be Careful Whom You Befriend on Social Networks
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- Diaspora Becomes PayPal's Latest Victim
- Cassandra Reaches 1.0: What's Next?
- Is Simplicity the Secret of Amazon Web Services Success?
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- Chrome Gets Text-to-Speech APIs
- Will BlackBerry BBX Matter?
- Red Hat Green-lights a Behavior Modeling Platform for JBoss
- Where Is the iPhone Malware? Lookout Releases iOS Security App
- Meet the New APIs Behind Android Ice Cream Sandwich
- Why You Can't Downgrade iOS
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October 14 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: Google Hands Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data to U.S Government and more
It was announced this week that a Wikileaks volunteer's Gmail data, including his IP address and his contacts list, was handed over to the U.S. Government upon request. This, plus FSF founder Richard Stallman's final (we hope) insensitive blow to the memory of Steve Jobs, are our top news stories this week at ReadWriteWeb.
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Top Stories of the Week
Google complied with a request from the U.S. Government and handed over the IP address and contacts list of Jacob Appelbaum, a WikiLeaks volunteer and developer for Tor. Appelbaum's ISP, Sonic.net, attempted to fight the order, but in the end, also complied. According to Google's Transparency Report, the company received 4,601 user data requests from the U.S. government in the second half of 2010, complying with 94%.
Our own Joe Brockmeier called for a new voice to lead the Free Software Foundation after reading Richard Stallman's controversial post after the death of Steve Jobs. From Joe's post, "It's unseemly to wish away those we do not agree with. What Stallman is saying, in essence, is that his ideals of free software can only compete with what users want from computing products when they're less attractive."
More Top Posts:
- Top 6 Dumbest Hacks of All Time
- The Women Who Made Google Plus: 22 Developers Behind the World's Fastest Growing Social Network
- Google Plus Traffic Drops, 1269% Gains Erased
- How To Share Google Reader Stories to Google Plus
- Google Guns for Amazon Web Services with New Storage, App Engine Offerings
- Why Twitter Users Aren't Using Google Plus
- New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for September 2011
- Infographic: Most Disruptive Companies in Tech
ReadWriteWeb Channels
- Remembering Dennis Ritchie, Creator of the C Programming Language and UNIX Co-Creator
- SQL Server 2012: Microsoft's Quentin Clark on Data You Can Touch
- Time to "Like" Your Local Mall
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- Google Guns for Amazon Web Services with New Storage, App Engine Offerings
- How I Learned to Stop Whining and Embrace the Cloud
- Microsoft, Hortonworks to Integrate Hadoop with Windows Server
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- The Data Journalist Tool Belt
- Top 6 Dumbest Hacks of All Time
- AMQP Aims to Resolve the Middleware Messaging Logjam
- Beware of Fake Netflix Android Apps
- Samsung & Google Set to Deliver Ice Cream Sandwich in Hong Kong
- New Version of CyanogenMod Boasts New Features for More Devices
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October 08 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: The Death of Steve Jobs and More...
This week the internet said goodbye to the incomparable Steve Jobs. The staff of ReadWriteWeb covered some of his best moments, and his worst. Though he has passed on, his impact was large, and we will not soon forget Apple's founder. RIP Steve.
After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web - plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
At 56, Steve Jobs rocked our world, and his death was felt from Silicon Valley to Bahrain. Here are a few of our posts commemorating his life.
- Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
- What Steve Meant Back Then
- A Great User Experience: The Web Legacy of Steve Jobs
- From Silicon Valley to Bahrain, the Web Mourns Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs' Legacy In the Pantheon of Great American Innovators
- 6 of Apple's Greatest Mistakes
- The Other Steve Jobs: Censorship, Control and Labor Rights
- WordPress Offers Free Retro Mac Blog Theme In Honor of Steve
On a brighter note, this week we learned that Facebook is as Big as the Internet of 2004. The cool infographic on that post had us all reminiscing on our own early internet experiences and ReadWriteWeb took some time this week to look back on the internet of 1995. Were you on the internet in 1995?
Overshadowed this week was the launch of the iPhone 4S. This latest iteration from Apple includes iCloud, an 8 megapixel camera, will work on CDMA and GSM networks and more. Below is a comprehensive wrap-up of our coverage.
iPhone 4S Launch
- Who's Gonna Buy the iPhone 4S? Not Us!
- iCloud: Can Apple Finally Get Seamless Sync Right?
- iPhone 4S: Siri Should Be Sulu
- 8 Things the iPhone Rumor Mill Got Dead Wrong This Time
- Why Is Apple Joining the Snail Mail Cards Business?
- Apple Unveils iPhone 4S: Faster CPU, Better Camera and Voice Controls
- Apple's "Find My Friends" is Apple at Its Worst
- Apple: iOS 5 Will Be Available For Download on October 12
- Where Does the iPhone Stand In The World?
- Why There Was Never Going to Be Facebook Integration In iOS 5
- Big Question (Answered): "You've Seen the iPhone 4S... What Do You Think?"
More 'Don't Miss' Posts
- Is Dropbox Really The World's 5th Most Valuable Startup?
- Going It Alone As An Indie App Developer
- How False Rumors of a Surprise Radiohead Concert Spread Online
- Dice.com: Signs of a .NET Talent Shortage
- Porn Is No Longer A Leading Indicator of Web Innovation
- One Billion Tiny, Hyper-Detailed Glowing Earth Models Now in the Wild
- Google Maps Adds New Crowdsourced Maps of Afghanistan, Iraq & Elsewhere
ReadWriteWeb Meetup in Portland
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ReadWriteWeb Channels
- California Gets Reader Privacy Act: Still Not Enough
- 6 of Apple's Greatest Mistakes
- The Way We Were c.1995
- Amazon Adds SQS Queue Administration to AWS Console
- Who Wrote Hadoop? It's the Community, Stupid
- Lessons Learned From Target.com's Mess
- If HTML5 Kills the Blog Format, I Won't Shed a Tear
- What Microsoft Can Learn After Choking Off Desktop Gadgets
- Dice.com: Signs of a .NET Talent Shortage
- Going It Alone As An Indie App Developer
- Maine Was the Top State for Tablet Lovers in September
- Gingerbread Almost on 40% of Android Devices, Froyo Finally Under 50%
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October 01 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: Google Plus, Facebook, Kindle Fire, Wikpedia and More...
Opening Google Plus to everyone gave them a tremendous traffic boost. With a 1269% increase in visits, Plus traffic increased to 15 million U.S visits, up from 1.1 million the week before. That news, plus Facebook's re-design, the Kindle Fire launch and a look at a very cool Wikipedia QE addition, rounds out our top stories this week at ReadWriteWeb.
After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - Google Plus, Facebook and Kindle Fire - plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
This week's Google Plus traffic win was a favorite of ReadWriteWeb readers. Contrasting that to Facebook's re-design, which also garnered much attention, shows you the impact of this rivalry for social networking domination.
Wikipedia also impressed this week with a very cool QR implementation. Take a photo of a QR code and you'll be automatically routed to a linked mobile Wikipedia entry about the object, in your language. As ReadWriteWeb Lead Writer, Marshall Kirkpatrick said, "I dare you to find a cooler example of QR codes in action than QRPedia."
Amazon announced their Wi-Fi only, 7-inch tablet, the Kindle Fire, this week. The $199 device is full-color, backlit and weighs 14.6 ounces. While it may not be an iPad killer, as one ReadWriteWeb reader pointed out in the comments, Netflix may be in for some serious competition once this thing arrives. Look for the KIndle Fire to ship on November 15.
More Kindle Fire Coverage
- The Implications of Amazon's Silk Web Browser
- What Did Amazon's Kindle Fire Just Do To Android?
- Amazon's New Cloud-Fueled Web Browser Will Predict Your Browsing Habits
- Why the Kindle Fire is No iPad Killer
- Poll: Will You Develop Apps For the Kindle Fire?
- Big Question (Answered): Who is the Intended Market for the Kindle Fire?
ReadWriteWeb Meetup in Portland
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More 'Don't Miss' Posts
- Microsoft's Non-Response to the Secure Boot Problem
- Firefox Creator Says the Web is Dead Meat; Android Creator Disagrees
- Here's What Spotify's New Facebook Integration Looks Like
- Google Analytics Finally Goes Real Time (Plus New Premium Accounts)
- The Implications of Amazon's Silk Web Browser
- Infographics: Why Your Company's Intranet is Failing
- How Facebook Mobile Was Designed to Write Once, Run Everywhere
ReadWriteWeb Channels
- PwC Survey Says: Telecoms Are Overconfident About Security
- The Implications of Amazon's Silk Web Browser
- Are You Ready for Windows in Your Things?
- Hotel Lobbies Become More Social
- First Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality: Is Splitting Hairs Legal?
- Infographics: Why Your Company's Intranet is Failing
- Sencha Likes IE10: A Native Apps Library for JS is Coming
- "Testing" Your Code With Myers-Briggs
- Microsoft Makes the Case for More jQuery, Fewer Dependencies
- PhoneGap Applies to Apache Software Foundation, Contemplates Name Change
- Mozilla Brings WebSockets API to Firefox for Android
- How Facebook Mobile Was Designed to Write Once, Run Everywhere
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September 03 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: The Future of the Internet, Flickr's Geofences and More...
The Future of the Internet, Flickr's new Geofences and Google AppEngine developers are up in arms in this week's ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web - Internet TV, Internet of Things and Google - plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
- The Future of The Internet is Converged Services
- Google App Engine Pricing Angers Developers, Kills PlusFeed
- SSL Certificates: What's Left to Trust?
- Flickr Nails Photo Privacy With New Geofence Feature
- Will Static Sites Rise Again with Cloud Services?
- Microsoft: 'Virtualization Is Not Cloud Computing'
- The US Open Explains the Dangers Posed by Twitter
- Analysis: Are We Ready to Become Friends With Things?
More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb
Don't Miss
- Instagram Plans To Build an Android Version...Eventually
- Microsoft's Touchscreen Revolution Now Not Quite So Revolutionary
- China's List of 100 Songs Banned on the Internet
- Designing For 5 Screens: PC, Mobile, TV & More
- The Hive Mind Needs More Women
- The Direction of Success: The Startup Genome Compass
- IBM Mobile Connections Now Free
- Anonymous Former Member SparkyBlaze Tries Going Legit
- Win $50k in a Dell & MasterCard SMB Contest
- Analysis: Are We Ready to Become Friends With Things?
- Starz Drops Netflix Just as Subscription Rate Hike Takes Effect
- Amazon to Launch a $250 7-inch Android-based Tablet in November
- Michael Arrington: The Kingmaker Who Would Be King
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August 27 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple, HP Touchpad Fire Sale, Google, StumbleUpon, Twitter and More...
By far the biggest news this week is Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO of Apple. Long one of the most fascinating and enigmatic technology leaders, Jobs' resignation had us ruminating on the things to learn from his leadership, what entrepreneurs should disregard, and just how large of an impact this detail oriented CEO had on our world.
After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web - tablets, Google Plus, Twitter - plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
- HP's $99 TouchPad Fire Sale Can Teach Everybody A Lesson [Op-Ed]
- StumbleUpon Delivers Half of U.S. Social Media Traffic
- Twitter adds image galleries
- What Devices Will You Carry in 10 Years Time?
- Google's +1 Button Now Works As Intended on Plus
- First Details About Lift, the Next Social Network From the Founders of Twitter
- Facebook Hits 1 Trillion Pageviews
More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb
Don't Miss
- Klout Seeks More Legitimacy, Adds Facebook Fan Page & Twitter List Support
- Half of U.S. Adults Use Social Networking Sites
- Smartphone Evolution Over the Last 40 Years [Infographic]
- MacBook Air Contest: Tell Us Your Top Three Features for Virtualization Solutions
- How International is Twitter? @Twitter_Es Now Has More Followers Than @Twitter
- T.co Will Reveal Twitter's True Traffic Referral Power
- TechCrunch is Wrong: Here's the Real Location Opportunity for Quora
- TheInterviewr: A Really Easy, Fast, Free Way to Record Telephone Interviews
- Buffer Finds Tweet Scheduling Can Increase Clicks by 200%
- United Pilots Get iPads [Video; Screenshots]
- What Makes Educational Technology Successful in the Developing World?
- Gamers Today Are More Social Than You'd Think
- Mobile Workers Put In Longer Hours and Like It [Infographic]
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April 23 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: iPhone Location Tracking, Optimize Your Brand's Facebook Page, Facts Should Be Free and More...
Big news from the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference this week. Data scientists Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden (who is also a ReadWriteWeb contributor) revealed that iPhones running iOS4 are keeping an ongoing record of your location in an unencrypted and unprotected file. Privacy concerns plus security concerns plus anything to do with Steve Jobs' company equals the most popular story of the week.
After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web - mobile, location, Internet of Things - plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
- Your iPhone Is Tracking Your Every Move
- Internet Explorer, WebGL and a Return to the Bad Old Days
- What it Takes to Run the Top Visited Web Sites [Infographic]
- How to Optimize Your Brand's Facebook Page For Search Engines
- Facts Should Be Free: SimpleGeo Puts 20 Million Places in the Public Domain
More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb
Get Ready For The ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit: June 13-14 in New York City
Join ReadWriteWeb for one of the top tech events of the summer. Day one of the summit will feature talks from some of the smartest folks in technology and media, including Fred Wilson, Gawker CEO Nick Denton, Jason Calacanis, danah boyd, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue, Chris Dixon, NPR's Andy Carvin and more. Day two is all about learning and interaction, with breakout discussions and enriching workshops that cater to all levels of Web knowledge.
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Location
- Android Phones Track Your Location, Too
- Nielsen: U.S. Smartphone Users Concerned About Privacy and Location Data
Mobile
- Open Data Kit: Mobile Data Collection in Africa
- PlayBook Launch Better Than Expected: About 50,000 Units Sold
Internet of Things
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ReadWriteEnterprise is devoted to enterprise 2.0 and using social software inside organizations.
- iPad for Business Round-Up: Tablets Cutting into PC Sales, Doctors Prefer iOS and More
- Is Moorea Microsoft's "Killer App" for Tablets?
- 3 Must Read Articles on Management for Anyone Involved in Enterprise 2.0 or Social Business
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ReadWriteCloud
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- What it Takes to Run the Top Visited Web Sites [Infographic]
- Amazon Web Services Experiencing One of the Worst Ever Regional Disruptions
- Amazon Web Services Starting to Come Back Online but Problems Persist & Questions Arise
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- How to Optimize Your Brand's Facebook Page For Search Engines
- How to Keep Company Data Safe on Employees' Personal Devices
- SMB Tech Roundup: Free Email Marketing, the Latest in Mobile Payments and Mobile Devices in the Workplace
ReadWriteHack
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- Internet Explorer, WebGL and a Return to the Bad Old Days
- You Got NoSQL in MySQL: Memcached Plugin in MySQL Technology Preview
- 5 Free E-Books and Tutorials for Learning PHP
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- How to Create Lovable Mobile Apps
- Just in Time for PlayBook's Launch, New SDKs from RIM
- More Resources for Mobile Design Inspiration
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April 16 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: The Year the Check-in Died, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java, The Future of the Camera and More...
One of our top posts this week was Richard MacManus' look at the future of the camera. We all know how smartphones integrated cameras. "Could we be about to see the inverse - cameras integrating smartphone technology?" he asked. The story is part of our ongoing series looking at what it means to consume and produce media in post-PC-centric world.
After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web - mobile, location, Internet of Things - plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
- 2011: The Year the Check-in Died
- Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java
- Facebook is Great, But Does It Make Businesses Any Money?
- UX Evolutions: The Future of the Camera
- Apple Hiring a Team to Build "the Future of Cloud Services"
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Location
- What to Expect from Where 2.0 in 2011: Context, Crowdsourcing & Proximity
- Check-ins Are Dead? Location App Life360 Adds 1 Million Users in 10 Weeks
Mobile
- Using Windows Phone 7: One Week with an HD7
- HTC Dominating Online Chatter, Says Market Research Firm
Internet of Things
- Microsoft Announces Kinect SDK: Why This is the Future of Windows
- The State of the Internet of Things - Is There Enough Commercial Activity?
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ReadWriteEnterprise
ReadWriteEnterprise is devoted to enterprise 2.0 and using social software inside organizations.
- Government Agrees With Microsoft: Google Wasn't Certified [Update]
- Mixed Reviews for Blackberry's Tablet, But Will It Be a Good Enterprise Device?
- IT Poll: Which NoSQL Company Will Be Acquired by a Major Player First?
ReadWriteStart
ReadWriteStart is a resource for startups and entrepreneurs.
- 5 Top Marketing Blogs by Entrepreneurs
- 5 Tools to Improve Your Idea Before You Write a Line of Code
- 4 Tips for Taking Your Startup International
ReadWriteCloud
ReadWriteCloud is dedicated to virtualization and cloud computing.
- Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java
- Apple Hiring a Team to Build "the Future of Cloud Services"
- The Cloud Stratosphere [Infographic]
ReadWriteBiz
ReadWriteBiz is a resource and guide for small to medium businesses.
- Facebook is Great, But Does It Make Businesses Any Money?
- How to Manage Your Business's Presence on Bing
- iContact Offers Free Email Marketing Service for Small Businesses
ReadWriteHack
ReadWriteHack is a resource and guide for developers.
- Live Blog: Microsoft MIX 2011 Day 1 - Internet Explorer 10 Preview, and More
- Microsoft MIXed Messages on Silverlight, Internet Explorer 10
- Live Blog: Microsoft MIX 2011 Day 2 - New Windows Phone 7 Features, Silverlight 5, Kinect SDK
ReadWriteMobile
ReadWriteMobile is dedicated to helping its community understand the strategic business and technical implications of developing mobile applications.
- All About "Mango:" New Version of Windows Phone Arriving this Fall
- iPad to Dominate Tablet Market Until 2015
- Nokia Reveals Symbian Update, New Phones & Ovi Store Numbers
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April 09 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: What Tech Obstacles Do Kids Face? Twitter Brand Pages, An iPhone User's First Days on Android and More...
Our top story this week was Audrey Watters' report on a survey that asked students how they use technology in the classroom. Almost 300,000 students from kindergarden through 12th grade - along with 43,000 parents, 35,000 teachers, 2,000 librarians, 3,500 administrators - took part in the study.
The results show that parents and teachers' desire to either provide or improve access to digital tools in the classroom is strong. And teachers and administrators are confident they're doing a good job using technology to enhance how students learn. But fewer than half the kids agreed. And it's no wonder: The majority of administrators surveyed have no interest in incorporating one of the most common computing devices in the world - the cell phone - into their schools this year.
After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web - mobile, location, Internet of Things - plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
- What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School?
- LinkedIn's Answer to Facebook's Open Graph
- Twitter to Offer Brand Pages Like Facebook's, Report Says
- An iPhone User's First Days on Android: Where Are the Apps and Why is My Phone Frozen?
- Thanks to Kinect, Google's Gmail Motion Joke Becomes Reality
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Location
- Google Brings Hotpot Recommendations to Places, Almost Reinvents Yelp
- Facebook Pushes Location: Adds Event Check-Ins, Places Maps
Mobile
Internet of Things
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ReadWriteEnterprise
ReadWriteEnterprise is devoted to enterprise 2.0 and using social software inside organizations.
- 5 Apps That Bring SharePoint to the iPad
- Watch Google I/O from the Comfort of Your Own Home
- Linux Celebrates its 20th Anniversary and the Story of its Roots [Infographic]
ReadWriteStart
ReadWriteStart is a resource for startups and entrepreneurs.
- 5 Tools to Improve Your Idea Before You Write a Line of Code
- FounderLY: An Open Platform for Sharing Startup Stories
- LevelUp Your Startup with a New Offer from SCVNGR
ReadWriteCloud
ReadWriteCloud is dedicated to virtualization and cloud computing.
- Data Defined [Infographic]
- Facebook's Open Compute Project Means Infrastructure is Now a Commodity
- The NewSQL Movement
ReadWriteBiz
ReadWriteBiz is a resource and guide for small to medium businesses.
- What Google +1 Means for Small Businesses and Site Owners
- Hands-On with Google Docs for iPad and iPhone
- Should Companies Restrict Web Access For Employees? Maybe a Little
ReadWriteHack
ReadWriteHack is a resource and guide for developers.
- 6 Free E-Books and Tutorials for Learning and Mastering Node.js
- The Guardian is Migrating Its Website from Java to Scala
- Video: Node.js Tutorials
ReadWriteMobile
ReadWriteMobile is dedicated to helping its community understand the strategic business and technical implications of developing mobile applications.
- List of Android Phones Getting Gingerbread
- Mono for Android Ships, Now .NET Developers Can Build Android Apps
- Mobile-Patterns: New Resource for Mobile App Makers from Foursquare's Lead Designer
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April 02 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: Goodbye Data.gov, Hating Bieber's 'Baby', Facebook Depression? and More...
It was two short, short years ago that the Obama administration thrilled data and transparency wonks by launching Data.gov, USASpending.gov and a number of other ambitious sites. But as Marshall Kirkpatrick reported in our top story this week, Congress is now planning to eliminate the sites' funding. There's a push to save them (check the story for the updates), but I have a sinking feeling that it was just too good to last.
After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web - mobile, location, Internet of Things - plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.
Top Stories of the Week
- Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut
- Awesome Augmented Reality App Could Save Librarians Hours
- Bieber's 'Baby' Will Hit 500m Views Today; It's Also The Most Hated Video on YouTube (For Now)
- New Illness: Facebook Depression?
- Why Would Google Release an iPhone-Only Group Messaging App?
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Location
- Is Publicly Sharing Your Location Creepy? This App Thinks So
- No Wireless? No Worries. ForeverMap Gives You Offline Access to Maps
Mobile
- The iPad Turns One: My Top 10 iPad Apps Over the Past Year
- Google's Newest Mobile Search Feature is a Thing of Beauty
Internet of Things
More Internet of Things coverage
ReadWriteEnterprise
ReadWriteEnterprise is devoted to enterprise 2.0 and using social software inside organizations.
- A Facebook Operations Chief and the Product Lead for Google Chrome OS Join Jive Board
- Microsoft Needs to Open-Source Something Big. But What?
- Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6: Are Businesses Ready for the Social Data Fire Hose?
ReadWriteStart
ReadWriteStart is a resource for startups and entrepreneurs.
- How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps
- Is "Stealth" the Best Way to Build Your Business?
- Entrepreneurship's Unclear, Unsanctioned Path
ReadWriteCloud
ReadWriteCloud is dedicated to virtualization and cloud computing.
- The Advantage of Cloud Infrastructure: Servers are Software
- Oracle Had a Killer Quarter - What Does That Mean for Open Source in the Cloud?
- Forget Rivalries, Pay Attention to the Developers
ReadWriteBiz
ReadWriteBiz is a resource and guide for small to medium businesses.
- Tweeting Often and on Weekends is More Effective, Suggests Data
- Are Your Files Backed Up? March 31 is World Backup Day
- Using Posterous for Your Small Business Email Newsletters
ReadWriteHack
ReadWriteHack is a resource and guide for developers.
- 3 Presentations on R: Data Mining, Web Development and Data Visualization
- Gitmarks: A Bookmark Sharing System Built on Git
- PhantomJS: The Power of WebKit but Without the Broswer
ReadWriteMobile
ReadWriteMobile is dedicated to helping its community understand the strategic business and technical implications of developing mobile applications.
- Need a Mobile Web App Template? Mobile Boilerplate 1.0 is Here
- Google Tightens Its Grip on Android
- IDC Predicts Windows Phone Will Beat RIM & Apple by 2015
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March 27 2011
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Skip to info about: Socialize: Monetizing Social Media: Two-day conference dedicated to money-making unified social media strategy | Conduit: Customized components | Alcatel-Lucent: Application developer platform | Medill School of Journalism: Digital journalism programs | Meshin: Understands and sorts critical messages in your inbox | Skytap: Cloud solutions for enterprises and ISVs | MIX11: The Future of the Web is at MIX11, April 12-14 | BTBuckets: Free personalization and on-site behavioral targeting tool | Mashery: API management services | SciVerse Applications: A marketplace for applications that customize the search and discovery of scientific information | StrataScale: Server and cloud hosting solutions | Clickatell: SMS provider | Toopia: Our iPhone app developer
Socialize: Monetizing Social Media
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Always-connected consumers, location-aware mobile apps and services, and gaming platforms are making business and entertainment more social than ever. The question is: how do you leverage social media to drive revenue? Mediabistro's Socialize: Monetizing Social Media is a two-day conference dedicated to money-making unified social media strategy. Four tracks give you a 360-degree perspective:
- Gamify. Social games keep getting hotter: the virtual goods market will surpass $2 billion in 2011
- Mobilize. The social web has gone mobile: lessons for social sharing, search, browsing, and networking
- Optimize. Learn how to effectively track and measure social media campaigns
- Monetize. At the root of all these topics, uncover key revenue drivers: content, apps, and more
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Conduit
Conduit enables Web publishers to distribute their offerings both directly and through its global network of 250,000 publishers and their 170 million users. The Conduit platform is a powerful marketing tool that allows you to offer the best of your site through apps or a Community Toolbar, sending desktop alerts to your users, and much more.
The Conduit platform opens a new world of content sharing. Your site visitors can add your content right to their browser by clicking on a branded 2go button that you place on your site. You can also share your content in the Conduit App Marketplace where all the publishers and users in the Conduit network can grab it.
The platform has been adopted by major brands such as Fox News, iWin, Major League Baseball, TechCrunch, and Travelocity, as well as thousands of small and medium organizations in 120 countries.
If you would like to Conduit your website, go to www.conduit.com.
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Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry, is turning the network into a powerful platform for developers.
With the launch of the Alcatel-Lucent Developer Platform, the company provides service providers and enterprises with tools that enable third-party developers to build, test, manage and distribute applications across networks, including television, broadband Internet and mobile. Alcatel-Lucent's introduction of a radical new business model combines network APIs with other third-party APIs, and opens revenue sharing opportunities to support developers in their pre-revenue wallets and provides an additional revenue channel for service providers.
The developer platform is part of a larger push by the company to combine the trusted capabilities of service providers with the speed and innovation of the Web.
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Medill School of Journalism
The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University offers programs that combine the enduring skills and values of journalism with new techniques and knowledge that are essential to thrive in a digital world. You might have a passion for creating finely crafted prose, or for telling stories using visual tools. Maybe you are invigorated by the possibilities of interactive publishing, or by videography for the small screen. Maybe you are an experienced professional looking to renew and retool your multimedia skills. You can find your niche in Medill's graduate journalism program.
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Meshin
Todays' worker craves context and focus from their blizzard of information. Meshin understands and sorts critical messages in your inbox to help you easily find task-critical information on demand. Check out our new MeshinFocus to see your most important messages, in real time and in one place.
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Skytap
Skytap provides cloud automation solutions for enterprises and software vendors to develop, test, migrate, evaluate, demo, and train on new and existing applications in the cloud. Skytap Cloud is ideal for distributed Dev/Test, Training and Sales Demo teams. Teams are empowered to:
- Create multiple cloud environments in seconds
- Run existing applications without any code changes
- Deploy virtual data centers, take snapshots and collaborate
- Accelerate bug resolution cycles by 75%
- Reduce operating costs by 70% annually
Customers of all sizes can deploy Skytap in a day. Try Skytap for free.
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MIX11
The Future of the Web is at MIX11, April 12-14 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. MIX is a gathering of developers, designers, UX experts and business professionals creating the most innovative and profitable consumer sites on the web. Sessions range from technical, code-based topics to expert advice on content strategy, usability and design. Visit live.visitmix.com to learn more about the speakers and content planned at this year's event.
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BTBuckets
BTBuckets is a free personalization and on-site behavioral targeting tool that allows websites to increase engagement and ultimately maximize conversion rate optimization (CRO) by clustering and targeting specific user groups. With a simple installation process (a
single tag implemented on your site's webpages just like Google Analytics), BTBuckets can update and adapt your website in real-time to create the best experience for that specific user segment without the need to change any HTML code on your website.
BTBuckets segmentation capabilities include behavioral, demographic, customer life-cycle, technographic and firmograhic. Install the BTBuckets browser extension to create segments from within the Google Analytics interface and target these users immediately.
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Mashery
Mashery is a platform for Web services, allowing companies to manage their APIs using Mashery's expertise. At the "Business of APIs" conference, Mashery CEO Oren Michels explained to the audience that while APIs are a technology, their use is a business decision. He went on to say that Mashery has helped customers such as WhitePages.com, Thumbplay, Compete.com, and Calais. Check out the white paper "Five steps to scaling your business development using Web services" to discover how you can use APIs for your business.
You can find out more about APIs and their business use at www.mashery.com.
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SciVerse Applications
SciVerse Applications is a marketplace where researchers, librarians and information specialists can find applications that customize the search and discovery of scientific information. These applications access content on SciVerse (ScienceDirect, Scopus and Hub) containing over 10 million scientific articles and more than 42 million abstract and citation records from Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of scientific and medical information.
Through the Developer Network, developers can collaborate with researchers and librarians to create applications accessing the content via RESTful APIs based on OpenSocial specifications. These applications can be fee-based or free, focus solely on SciVerse content or integrate external content, and will be available to more than 10,000 research institutions and 15 million platform users worldwide.
Visit us at: http://developer.sciverse.com
Email us at: developer@elsevier.com
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StrataScale
StrataScale offers innovative server and cloud hosting solutions to meet the IT infrastructure needs of today's growing and established businesses. Now IT professionals can obtain affordable hosting solutions that control costs, provide agility, and supply peace of mind. Whether your hosting needs are cloud, dedicated server, or a hybrid of the two, the StrataScale complete package of on-demand solutions is easy to buy, build, manage, and scale -- all within minutes via our web portal. Every hosting environment is backed by guaranteed uptime, financial-grade security, and 24x7 engineering support.
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Clickatell
Clickatell has over 22,000 customers utilizing our service from small mom & pop outfits to large Fortune 500 companies including Avaya, Oracle, Shell, Barclays, BP, CNN, BBC and more. Here's why you should trust us to mobilize your business: Our SMS gateway offers you wider coverage than any other SMS provider delivering messages to 600 network operators in 200 countries. Our gateway is not limited to SMS text messaging. You can also send a number of other message types including Ringtones, VCards, Binary, EMS, Unicode, Flash SMS, WAP Push, and more.
Clickatell offers you direct connectivity to its core SMS gateway platform via a number of APIs (application programming interfaces) including; HTTP (internet post), SMPP, FTP, XML, SMTP (email to SMS), SOAP and COM Object. Each API has full documentation with sample code where applicable. Learn more about Clickatell here.
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Toopia
Nicolas Koenig is the developer who made our beautiful iPhone app a reality. He runs an iPhone development shop from the Netherlands called Toopia. Toopia also created the Thermometer iPhone app, which enables your iPhone or iPod touch to get the current temperature based on your location. The RWW app lets you read us on the go, follow us on Twitter, share stories on Facebook and Twitter, and browse at your leasure using Read it Later and Instapaper. Download the ReadWriteWeb iPhone application here.
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