Tweeple Twak (The Twitter App I’ve Been Dying To Show You) (4)
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When a friend showed me the Twitter app he was building not too long ago, I was pretty darned excited. I knew for a fact that this app would greatly appeal to Twitter users who would like to keep track of their followers, especially in the wake of the great Twitter follower drop of 2008, courtesy of Twitter themselves. The app is called Tweeple Twak and it lets you track your Twitter followers and keep ...
LinkedIn: A New Must-Have App For iPhone (11)
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The iPhone has been making headway in its battle to become a business-ready tool. Obviously, the addition of Microsoft Exchange support was a big step towards being considered a viable alternative to the traditional smartphones used at work, like Blackberry and Windows Mobile. However, beyond simply supporting enterprise email, the iPhone platform has a lot of potential to cater to the needs of its business users, too. Today, we're introduced to what hopefully will continue ...
Iterasi Launches Mac Version, Scheduler (2)
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Iterasi, the dynamic bookmarking tool we told you about earlier this year, has just announced a new release that finally brings their service to the Mac. Previously, Iterasi was available on Windows machines (IE & Firefox), but Iterasi will now also work on Macs via a Firefox plugin. In addition, the much-anticipated scheduling service has also been released. What's New What makes Iterasi unique is that, unlike other bookmarking tools that just save a link, ...
The Microsoft Sphere (3)
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By now, you probably have heard the news about the Microsoft Sphere. From the same researchers who developed Surface, the Sphere is a similar multi-touch device except instead of being a table, it’s shaped like a globe. The sphere was built as a collaborative effort between Global Imagination, makers of a digital globe known as the “Magic Planet” and Microsoft R&D, who added the sphere’s multi-touch capabilities. The big question everyone wanted to know was ...
Get A Personal Search Engine Dashboard With Hittery (7)
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As you may know, we are very fond of custom search engines here at ReadWriteWeb. We find them incredibly useful and we hope you do, too. In the past, we've shared many of our CSEs with you and we've showed you how to build CSEs of your own. So of course when we came across this new site called Hittery, we were really excited. A whole personal dashboard filled with CSEs you can customize? What ...
FriendFeed: Hotter Than Ever Or Starting To Fade? (POLL) (24)
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No matter how you feel about FriendFeed, you can't argue with the fact that it has been one of most popular services among the early adopter set this year. For social media enthusiasts, the site fulfills a need to be always sharing, always active, always involved. In some cases, this led to a self-imposed information overload scenario - there was so much good stuff going on at FriendFeed that it was hard to turn away. ...
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bhc3 said:
"Wait! Stop the presses! Robert Scoble tired of FriendFeed?! If Scoble is the canary in the coal mine of social media, what does this mean for the rest of us? (Note: he appears to have gotten over this)."
For Love (or Not) of FriendFeed (9)
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Today, I asked this question on Twitter and I got some interesting responses: Now I’m really curious. I was surprised to see so many NO’s. I guess I thought that most of the people following me on Twitter would probably be social media enthusiasts who loved the FriendFeed service, too. This is a great example of how you can gain valuable insight from a quick Twitter poll. And it also convinces me that the Twitter ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
Twitter peeps hate anything but Twitter - I experienced the same thing when moving to Identi.ca, only with greater passion.
3jam Launches Twitter SMS Service (12)
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When Twitter announced they were killing SMS for anyone located outside the U.S., Canada, or India for financial reasons, many Twitter SMS users were upset as they had come to rely on that aspect of the service to send and receive tweets. However, in only a matter of days, numerous services sprung up to fill the void, including sites like TweetSMS, TwitSMS, and ZygoTweet. Today, you can add one more to that list: 3jam. 3jam ...
First Android Phone Just Approved By FCC (28)
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Today, the news broke that the HTC Dream, the first handset to run Android (aka "the Google Phone") has been approved by the FCC. In the documents provided, it appears that we have now a release date for this highly anticipated phone: November 10th, 2008. So what will the HTC Dream offer? We take a look at some of the details and unknowns surrounding this device. This morning Engadget Mobile broke the news of the ...
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Brian said:
interesting... a reason to stick with t-mobile? time will tell
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nyenyec said:
I'm planning to get one.
The Web Computer: Closed, Secure, and Tightly Controlled (20)
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Lately, people have been noticing that the big shift in computing - that is, moving our apps off the desktop and into the cloud - has more ramifications beyond what simply appears to be a return to a mainframe/thin client architecture. On the surface, today's web seems to be a developer's dream - there are more platforms than ever and everything has an API. Yet the darker side to this shift leaves developers with less ...
So…I’m Going to DEMO (5)
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Note: This is a personal update. For those of you who read this blog solely for info about new web apps, you can skip this post. Since Marshall will be getting married in September (congrats!), I will be going to this year’s DEMO conference as ReadWriteWeb’s representative. I have just one thing to say: Sweet! I’m so freaking excited. Now, I’ve heard that there’s some sort of rivalry between DEMO and TechCrunch 50, but frankly ...
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Be sure to live blog EVERYTHING. We're counting on you! (Already congratulated 'the boss' :)
Cooliris Lets You Enable Your Web Site For 3D In Minutes (13)
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We've been fans of Cooliris, the browser plugin formerly known as PicLens, for quite some time. This plugin transforms a normal 2D web page into an immersive 3D experience for viewing photos and videos. It allows you to fly through all the media on a page, zoom in and out, watch the videos full screen or view the pictures in a slideshow format, and so much more. However, the one problem with Cooliris was the ...
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I recommend CoolIris for Firefox just for its base abilities: hover over a link and a few seconds later a new browser window appears. Invaluable in FriendFeed, GReader, and pretty much everywhere.
The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type (51)
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Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn't require advanced technical expertise to do so. Now, the next revolution for publishing is to bring that same ease of creation to the process of building social networks. With Six Apart's recent release of Movable Type 4.2, that revolution has begun. The new release provides DIY tools for building your own social networking ...
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Tcritic said:
it would be great if something like openID or some kind of common identity component could be used to tie together disparate networks.
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Jay said:
其实，我很想一些插件，把我用 WP 搭建的 Jaylee.cn 与校内、Facebook 上的朋友互动起来。
How to Make Facebook Useful Again - ReadWriteWeb (3)
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Oh the heels of some of Facebook's missteps (ahem, Beacon) and the proliferation of a myriad of useless, silly, and time-wasting apps, some former Facebook users decided to quit the site for good this year. However, a handful of early adopter angst doesn't have Facebook worried. Why is that? Because Facebook has a whole generation of users who grew up using their site for everything social back when it was just a way to network ...
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BlueCockatoo said:
Maybe I'll give Facebook another try. It just seemed so cluttered, spastic and ugly when I tried to use it... Trimming back to the essentials might be the answer.
Pageonce's New iPhone App: Now 100% Mobile and Self-Destructs When Stolen (8)
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When Pageonce unveiled their first version of their iOnce iPhone app, it became an instant success. Within 10 days it was ranked in the top three applications in the Productivity category, and overall it was ranked in the top 50 out of all the free iPhone applications. What made this app so appealing? Simple: it's a one-stop-shop for managing all of your online accounts - finance, utilities, travel, shopping, email, and social networks. Now, the ...
How To Lifestream From Your iPhone (16)
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Recently, we took a look at the growing trend involving lifestreaming and how more people are choosing to go this route instead of establishing a more traditional blog. But outside of certain celebrity lifestreamers like Julia Allison, the streams belonging to "regular folks" may serve more as a personal collection of content for your own reference instead of a site that's meant to draw traffic or readers. There's nothing wrong with that, though, and you ...
The Semantic Desktop? SDS Brings Semantics To Excel (6)
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When you hear the word "semantic" you likely think of the semantic web - the supposed next iteration of the World Wide Web that features structured data and specific protocols that aim to bring about an "intelligent" web. But the concept of semantics doesn't necessarily apply just to the web - it can apply to other things as well, like your desktop...or even your Excel spreadsheets, according to Ian Goldsmid, founder of Semantic Business Intelligence, ...
