Socialbrowse: Don't Surf Alone (4)
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Browsing the web is typically a very solitary activity, even if the Web 2.0 revolution has given us easy tools like FriendFeed or SocialMedian to share our online activities. However, a different breed of services like Browzmi or the Y Combinator funded Socialbrowse are trying to make the actual browsing experience more social by displaying your friends' actions right in the browser. Socialbrowse is releasing a new version of its service today which, besides being ...
New Adobe AIR App Delivers Live Video From FOX News (6)
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Are you addicted to the news lately? Here in the U.S., it's election season which means that easy access to live news coverage is a must-have these days. There was a time when you could only get the news via TV, radio, or paper, but now the web offers a number of different ways to watch the news. Whether it's your favorite news web site, up-to-the-minute blog coverage, streaming video, citizen journalism, or even desktop ...
Word Processing: Most of You Still Use Desktop Software (4)
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This week we ran a poll asking which word processing tool you primarily use. We wanted to see if things had changed much since we ran the same poll one year ago. So are ReadWriteWeb readers, many of whom are early adopters of Internet technology, using online word processing services now instead of desktop software? Er, no. As at time of writing, over 1,500 people had voted. 48% of those still use Microsoft Word as ...
Chrome Not Ready For Enterprise (4)
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We've covered the launch of Google's new browser Chrome extensively this week. But as we near the end of the week, one of the questions yet to be answered is how Chrome will fare in the enterprise. As we all know Google is making a strong push into the enterprise with Google Apps, which received a further boost this week with the launch of Google Video for Business. However, there is a lot of work ...
Facebook Live Feed a Killer? More Like a Hindrance (10)
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Recently, Facebook released a live feed feature for the homepage of Facebook users. This new feature allows you to see the latest updates by your Facebook friends in real-time. You could compare it to functionality that FriendFeed and Twitter already have with instant updates from any friend. Since Facebook released this feature, numerous posts have been made calling it a killer of FriendFeed and Twitter. While we appreciate the update, we don't think it's that ...
The Seinfeld Ad Microsoft Paid Millions For: Pro and Con Opinions (15)
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Microsoft ran its first commercial with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld on NBC this afternoon, to mixed reviews. Seinfeld will reportedly take home $10 million for his part of the $300 million "Windows Not Walls" ad campaign. Does that seem like money well spent so far? Below you'll find the commercial and two opposing opinions about it from members of the ReadWriteWeb team. Con: This Was an Arrogant Waste Marshall Kirkpatrick: The Windows Not Walls ...
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Joe said:
Whatever the pro's and con's I just don't get the point of this commercial. It really is vague and it's not going to raise any awareness or bring down any walls!
Democratic Convention Web Site Gets 3.2 Million Visits (5)
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Just as the Republican National Convention is about to wrap up tonight, the Democratic National Convention Committee released some interesting numbers about its web presence during the Democratic convention last week. During the convention week, the official Web site received more than 3.2 million visits. Also, visitors to the DNC site watched a total of more than 360,000 hours of online video from the convention. SilverStripe The convention site was built on top of SilverStripe, ...
It's Time for a New Terms of Service Regime (17)
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Yesterday's flare-up about the Terms of Service for Google's new browser Chrome, followed by the company's rapid backtracking on the demands it was making of users, left many people wondering about Google ToS in general. Is it ok for service providers to require that they be exempt from the copyright norm of no re-use without explicit permission? We don't think it is. Chrome's original ToS made far reaching claims to rights for promotional re-use and ...
Tumbltape Mashes Up Muxtape and Tumblr - ReadWriteWeb (10)
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The demise of Muxtape, the popular mixtape service, clearly left a void on the Internet that a number of new companies are now trying to fill. Most clones, from 8tracks to the self-hosted OpenTape, have followed the Muxtape model very closely. Tumbltape, which launched today, takes a slightly different route by using the Tumblr for storing and posting the actual MP3 files. While Tumbltape has some limitations, it is a great way for Tumblr users ...
MeeID: A Simple App For Your Online Identity (15)
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Throughout the years, many sites have attempted to organize our online identities. There are people search tools like Spock, Naymz, and Rapleaf, to name a few that can locate your profile across the web and display for others to see. More recently, lifestreaming services like FriendFeed, SocialThing, or Profilactic act as homes to your online identity. These social media aggregators to combine your web profiles in one spot and stream your activity in near real-time. ...
Chrome: 1% Market Share In Less Than a Day (21)
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While the early release of the Chrome comic might have changed the way Google went about launching its new browser, it definitely did not hurt Chrome's early success. According to data from Net Applications, Chrome captured more than 1% of the browser market within its first day of release. Since then, it has been growing steadily and is now at around 1.5%, as both technology blogs and mainstream publications have written about it almost nonstop ...
Socialmedian Introduces News Streaming: Like FriendFeed Without the Noise (10)
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Here at ReadWriteWeb, we've talked about how the hot new trend of lifestreaming has been taking off lately. Now the social news service Socialmedian aims to capitalize on that trend by releasing an upgrade to their service that features something they're calling "news streaming." Like lifestreaming, news streaming lets users automatically share their "newsworthy" content on the service without sharing their other more personal content. Think FriendFeed minus the tweets about the about cat or ...
Find The Hottest Events in Major Cities with Buzzd (6)
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Most mobile social networks are quite alike. They're all competing for a host of information from you and your circle of friends. This information ranges from various messages to the most embarrassing photos of your friends that you can find. Here is where NYC based start-up Buzzd differentiates itself. Interested in finding out what's going on tonight in your town? If the hottest club or event of the night is what you're looking for, then ...
Chrome To Get Extensions - Just Not Yet (18)
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Even though we have quickly come to enjoy using Google Chrome after its launch yesterday, we still miss a couple of things from Firefox that Google's browser just doesn't offer yet. Most importantly, Google doesn't yet have any architecture in place that would allow developers to program extensions for it. For Firefox, the extension ecology that developed around it has a been a major contributor to its success and many users who might prefer the ...
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Chris said:
I'm kind of surprised they don't have extensions ready to roll out, since this is such a critical feature of FF. That's pretty much the deal-breaker for me using Chrome. So, not only do we have to wait for Chrome to "eventually start" supporting extensions, but then for the extensions we've come to depend on the be ported. Could be quite a wait.
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dd said:
Sundar Pichai, a VP for product management at Google, promised that Google would eventually start supporting extensions and stressed that it was high on Google's to-do list for Chrome.
Confirmed: Chrome Is Coming To Android (29)
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Are you sick of Google Chrome news yet? We can't blame you, but you'll have to bear with us. It's not everyday that Google releases a brand-new web browser. The latest news regarding the much-hyped browser? It's coming to Android. According to Google Co-founder Sergey Brin, "a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack." Wow, did he just say that the Google phone is getting a Google ...
SaaS Trial - Lessons Learned (9)
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A growing part of the software sales process involves offering trials or try-before-you-buy programs. Buyers love it, but it puts pressure on the vendors to deliver during this important process. I recently trialed software from Vertical Response, which offers self-service email marketing. I needed a way to create, send, and analyze our email campaigns. So I signed up and the product ended up doing a great job across the board. Here then are some lessons ...
Google and Privacy: A History (27)
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Google's finally gone and done it - they've built and released a browser, the most fundamental window to the computing experience of a new era. That's big news, but the small print is raising some concerns. What appears to be a recycled Terms of Service (from Google Docs) gives Google a long list of rights to reuse and share with other companies "any Content which you submit, post or display on or through the Services." ...
Goodbye Fail Whale: Twitter Dramatically Increases Reliability (36)
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For a while, Twitter's reliability issues were a running joke in the blogosphere, with Twitter's iconic Fail Whale appearing on anything from tatoos to t-shirts. According to the latest update from Twitter, however, the service had an uptime of 99.88% in August. As Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone points out, Twitter is working diligently to improve Twitter's reliability. So far, those efforts seem to be working out quite well for the popular microblogging service. During August, ...
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Bwana said:
Meanwhile, IM and Track are nowhere to be found. Shenanigans. Next time a service gets bad press for failing, just disable half your features and everything will be alright.
Finding Interesting Feeds Just Got Easier: Toluu Adds Tags - ReadWriteWeb (14)
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The OPML sharing and matching service Toluu provides a great way to find and share interesting RSS feeds. One feature that had been missing so far, however, was tagging. In its latest update, which was released today, Toluu has made tagging one of the central features of the service, which will make finding new and interesting blogs through Toluu even easier. Adding Tags Now, every feed page on Toluu will show a "Tags" tab. This ...
