Using Wikis for Online Collaboration: The Power of the Read-Write Web (Online Teaching and Learning Series (OTL))
The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Read Write Web recently posted a short study which listed the Top 10 US Cities Where Twitter is Mentioned in Craigslist Jobs. It’s an interesting list. The results are below… New York City, NY San Francisco, CA Boston, MA Seattle, WA Chicago, IL Portland, OR LA, CA Austin, TX Dallas, TX Phoenix, AZ I’m quite surprised [...]
Philadelphia Tech News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Vivendi may sell NBC Universal share via IPO (Fierce Online Video) First Digital Newsstands Launched Center City CBS Stations Launch First Digital Newwstands (CBS3) Independent Shareholder Group SAVE Issues Stop, Look and Listen Letter To USA Technologies Shareholders (Business Wire) Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance (ZDNet Blogs) SAP Joins PowerPoint and Twitter - Does This Work?...
Gordon's Tech (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've seen this site used with quick group questions such as dates, places, etc. SurveyMonkey.com : ... SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily... In a similar vein are a number of products for setting up meeting times and spots ... TimeToMeet : visual calendar sync Doodle : this one's quite popular for quick scheduling. Probably next...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Google has announced today that, just in time for holiday shopping, they are enabling local retailers to display coupons for in-store use on mobile devices of Google-searching users. Any business using Google Local Business Center can upload mobile coupon offers, and any user searching on Google.com using a mobile device can find the coupons on the businesses' Place Pages - a feature that also debuted...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Feedly , the magazine style feed reader we first covered back in August of last year , is now available for the Google Chrome web browser. As with the Firefox implementation of the service, the Chrome version also uses a browser plugin to offer an alternative user interface to Google Reader. This early version of the Feedly for Chrome release offers most of the features found in the original Firefox...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
At the White House today, President Obama talked robots, hung out with the guys from MythBusters, and launched a campaign designed to create smarter, techier American kids. "Reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation is essential to meeting the challenges of this century," said Obama. "That's why I am committed...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
According to a statement made today by Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone, the company is interested in acquiring more companies to expand upon their current core set of features. At a news conference held in Tel Aviv, Stone was quoted as saying that acquisitions are "something we are definitely interested in. We made an acquisition last year that turned out to be an outstandingly good decision."...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
As we approach 2010, a number of new efforts are underway to make documents more social. One consultant told us how recently a client tried to turn Sharepoint into a Twitter client. That's a monster! But we have to give SAP credit for developing a more innovative way to add social elements to Power Point presentations. Sponsor Last month, SAP launched a free Power Point Twitter tool. Yesterday they...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
When Bing debuted a feature called Cashback , the product was intended to save users money while they shopped from online retailers. As we told you last month when discussing the program's early successes , Cashback works by giving users a certain amount of money back every time they search for an item and then buy it from a participating store. But some users have found the opposite to be true: Retailer...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Yesterday we reviewed the past decade in online retailing . Today we look at some forward-looking statistics about e-commerce. In particular we analyze the upcoming holiday season and how online retailers can expect to fare. Amazon.com was founded in 1995, but it famously didn't make its first annual profit until 2003. Those days of struggle for e-commerce vendors are long gone. In its State Of Retailing...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Google Chrome has begun taking submissions from third party developers. In a blog post written earlier today, Google is asking developers to contribute to the Chrome extensions gallery - an act that will put third party applications on both the Chrome browser and eventually the operating system. Sponsor ReadWriteWeb covered the company's first official extensions in the Spring. Since then Google announced...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
If your job requires you to have your finger on the pulse of an industry, then you should take note. Curated feed community, Collected offers users a great option for aggregating the latest info from their favorite sites. First developed by Stockholm-based new media agency Great Works , Collected aggregates feeds from blogs, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr and Friendfeed and allows you to create fast web-based...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two years and a month after announcing that it would launch a more professional-looking developer platform than the wildly successful one at Facebook, LinkedIn today finally opened up a series of application programming interfaces for other companies to build on top of. Make no mistake about it, though - there's some good news and there's some bad news. LinkedIn holds an incredibly useful body of...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
Chester French is a rock band that has built an application on the Force.com platform. That's compelling for the simple fact that when a rock and roll band develops its own application, you know that the market is seeing a far wider adoption than it has ever before. Even more, it's an important reminder of the advantage of building your own applications over complete reliance on a social network that...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
Google just announced the launch of its Google Maps Navigation app for Android 1.6 and higher. Until now, Google's turn-by-turn navigation app was only available on Android 2.0 phones like Motorola's Droid . Now users of older Android handsets like the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and G1 can get free turn-by-turn navigation courtesy of Google. The Android 1.6 version of Google Maps Navigation doesn't offer...
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