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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Web annotation is a sexy and increasingly crowded space in the market. As in any such pool, the amount of elbow-rubbing between individuals and similarity between products can lead to suspicion of theft. Annotation startup Reframe It , a 14-person team, claims that Google's hot new product Sidewiki crosses the line between competitive innovation and IP infringement. And with a few Googlers caught...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 59 minutes ago
Five years ago I interviewed tech publisher Tim O'Reilly about a new term that his company had just coined: Web 2.0. The first Web 2.0 conference had been held the previous month, October 2004, and O'Reilly had graciously agreed to give an interview to yours truly - "an unknown blogger from New Zealand," as I put it back then. The interview ran in a 3-part series (see also part 2 and part...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Life360 is often described as an "OnStar for life," providing its users with tools to track and protect people and things through a variety of interfaces. The company offers IRL services such as child identification paraphernalia, medical IDs, and credit and identity protection; but they also have a cool suite of features that revolve around Internet and mobile tracking of people, objects,...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
We recently told you about the Flickr App garden and gave a list of five interesting apps we found using this new section of the site. One app we didn't find - and one that brilliantly appropriates the Flickr API in a delightful, infectious user experience - is Noticings . Part game, part geotagging app, part photoblog, Noticings asks users to upload geotagged photos of interesting artifacts to Flickr....
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
Those of us who manage online communities have learned to crowdsource a big chunk of our work: identifying user contributions that deserve a higher profile - and those that deserve to be dropped in a deep, dark hole. But there has to be something more nuanced than just thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. And so... Sponsor More Noise to Signal. Discuss
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here is this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans. Know of an event taking place that should appear here?...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
After successfully selling MyBlogLog to Yahoo, it was surprising to see Lookery founder Scott Rafer write a blog post announcing his company's "orderly shutdown" . In heartbreaking detail he took full responsibility for the company's demise saying, "In chronological order, the sins Lookery committed under my leadership were continuing our dependency on a large partner, not knowing when...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze a new breed of content site that is rapidly gaining momentum, look into recent statistics showing that Gen Y is using Twitter more, compare five recommendation services for iPhone apps, review the new-look MSN, and more. We also check in on our two main channels: ReadWriteEnterprise (devoted...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dennis Howlett sure got the attention of the Enterprise 2.0 community today with his continued skepticism about "social" technologies and their place in the business world. Here's one of his quotes from his post yesterday: Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate : Why am I not surprised? I've argued for years that the notion of anything that has 'social' attached to its moniker is about as welcome...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Finding specific online videos from TV networks and independent producers can often be a daunting challenge. Some TV shows are on Hulu , some can only be found as paid downloads on iTunes or Amazon and some are only available for streaming on the network's and producer's own sites. Clicker wants to change this by making it easier to find shows from TV networks, music videos, and web videos from across...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
When you've got a global audience, maybe it's good to make sweeping, ambitious statements. Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald, co-founder of Augmented Reality browser company Layar , was interviewed by CNN today and took the opportunity to claim that AR on phones is going to be so big in the future that only voice will be more popular. Maybe. Many people in the Augmented Reality world are rolling their eyes...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In 1906 John Philip Sousa criticized the gramophone saying, "These talking machines will ruin the artistic development of music in this country." Nevertheless, because Sousa did not forsee user-generated culture proliferating alongside "mechanical music" he could not have been further from the truth. Not only have machine technologies aided in musical development, but there are...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Seesmic just announced the launch of Twitter lists in its browser-based Seesmic Web Twitter client. Earlier this week, Seesmic released the first desktop Twitter client with support for lists. Despite Seesmic's best efforts, Brizzly managed to become the first company to release web client with support for lists earlier today. Seesmic Web offers another first for web-based Twitter clients, however:...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
We had almost forgotten about Orb , the media-sharing software that lets you stream video from your home computer to your iPhone or any other internet-connected device. In fact, the last time we had even looked at the application was November of 2008 when the company announced an update to their iPhone application which allowed you to stream live TV over the 3G network. At that time though, the desktop...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Some LinkedIn users will have noticed a change to the navigation and user interface of the LinkedIn.com website, announces a company blog post . The business-focused social network is in the process of rolling out an updated design that aims to improve and simplify site navigation while also offering a cleaner, less-cluttered look. Does the fresh coat of paint hit the mark? Sponsor What's New: Navigation...
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