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Skype Integration Tops List Of Windows Phone 8 Rumors 1:30 PM	ReadWriteWeb
Skype Integration Tops List Of Windows Phone 8 Rumors Microsoft could unveil a stand-alone Skype application for Windows Phone as soon as this month's Mobile Phone Congress, and Skype is expected to be standard on the mobile operating system when the company launches Windows Phone 8. Skype was acquired by Microsoft in 2011 and a Skype client for Windows Phone had been promised by the end of last year. So far, Microsoft and its Skype unit have been quiet about the integration, but the Verge is reporting that company employees can now download a te... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Weekly Wrap-up: Great User Experience, Pinterest, and ... Feb 04 2012 19:30:04	ReadWriteWeb
Weekly Wrap-up: Great User Experience, Pinterest, and Corporate Blogs Richard MacManus explores the characteristics of great user experience design. Alicia Eler explains what Pinterest is doing that Facebook should emulate. David Strom notes the decline of corporate blogging. 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. ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Cartoon: Firestorm! Feb 04 2012 18:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Cartoon: Firestorm! A while ago, I posted about one of the classic blunders in response to online criticism: deleting negative comments. Let's add another mistake to that list: silence. I'm not sure there's a force on earth that could have saved Susan G. Komen for the Cure from the social media firestorm that engulfed the organization this week. But lord knows their communications strategy didn't do them a lot of favors - starting with their initial silence.Whether the rationale is "Let's hope it blows ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[STUDY] Jonesing For A Retweet: Twitter Harder To Resis... Feb 04 2012 13:15:21	ReadWriteWeb
[STUDY] Jonesing For A Retweet: Twitter Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes And Booze Sleep, sex and...Twitter? A new study suggests that people are more likely to give into the urge to check email and their Twitter account than they are to smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. While the study headed by Wilhelm Hofmann of Chicago University's Booth Business School was limited in size, covering just 205 people between the ages of 18 and 85, it seems to confirm what many of us have suspected for years."Desires for media may be comparatively harder to resist because of their... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Why the "S&%t X Says to Y" Version of This Meme Exploded Feb 04 2012 00:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Why the "S&%t X Says to Y" Version of This Meme Exploded "The thing about memes is that through repetition, they create a shared language," says Professor Julie Levin Russo, an adjunct assistant professor at Brown's Modern Culture & Media Program. "If you understand the premise of the meme, you can communicate a lot very easily, with whatever twist you're putting on the meme structure." On Jan 4, the "Shit Girls Say" meme was radically transformed. New York-based graphic designer & video blogger Franchesca Ramsey a.k.a. Chescaleigh unleashed "Shit Wh... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How Social Media & Social TV Will Change Super Bowl 2012 Feb 04 2012 00:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
How Social Media & Social TV Will Change Super Bowl 2012 This year's Super Bowl will be more social than ever before. With the rise of social TV and the first-ever 2,800-square-foot social media command center, fans who have trekked down to Indianapolis and people at Super Bowl parties across the country can now opt to have a super-connected experience. This marks the first time that the NFL has partnered with a Super Bowl host city. Like a Midwestern truck stop that's got a restaurant, convenience store, bathrooms, random coin-operated claw games... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Top Tech Video of the Day: My 2 Year Old Discovered Fli... Feb 03 2012 23:01:41	ReadWriteWeb
Top Tech Video of the Day: My 2 Year Old Discovered Flickr Today This is old (as in 2007 old). The kid in the video is now seven years old and undoubtably jailbreaks his iPhone and programs Arduino boards. But five years ago he was just a toddler with a bottle, and this was the first time he was on the Web and Fleek-ler!, as he called it, on his own. It was "the moment" - the moment when you first realize that moving the cursor and clicking the trackpad leads to discovery, and that discovery is a whole lot of fun. My son discovered Flickr today fro... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
It's Time to Ditch StumbleUpon for Pinterest Feb 03 2012 22:48:00	ReadWriteWeb
It's Time to Ditch StumbleUpon for Pinterest StumbleUpon is one of those sites we've had on our radar for quite sometime. We covered the company's redesign last year, which re-focused the site on topic features. So when StumbleUpon snuck in a strange change the other day without telling anyone, we were shocked. This update made it impossible to get direct links for the pages one is stumbling unless they choose to not sign-in to the service. The entire point of StumbleUpon, for the user, is to build up a taste graph that will better deliv... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
What You Missed at Monki Gras Feb 03 2012 22:02:00	ReadWriteWeb
What You Missed at Monki Gras If you didn't make it to London for Monki Gras, the follow on conference to Monktoberfest, you missed out on quite a lot of great content and beer. The conference is organized by RedMonk, an unusual analyst firm. Their conferences, reflecting the analysts at RedMonk, are unusual as well. The Portland, Maine event was primarily organized by RedMonk co-founder Stephen O'Grady, who resides in Maine. This time around, the event was primarily organized by RedMonk co-founder James Governor.... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Goldilocks, A Dwarf and NASA's Short Term Future Feb 03 2012 21:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Goldilocks, A Dwarf and NASA's Short Term Future Space sucks. Literally. The void of space is one perpetual vacuum that would suck the brain out of any exposed human through their ears. In space there is also unfiltered radiation, extreme temperatures and a multitude of other ways that humans can be harmed outside of low-Earth orbit. Learning how to mitigate radiation and improve space crews' health are two of 16 recommendations made by the National Research Council to NASA for the agency's technological focus in the next five years. Research... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Nokia Publishes Policy on Conflict Minerals Feb 03 2012 20:05:00	ReadWriteWeb
Nokia Publishes Policy on Conflict Minerals "Conflict minerals," those mined to support groups conducting armed conflict or engaging in human rights abuses, have been an issue since long before we first wrote about it in July of 2010. The mineral equivalent of blood diamonds, they include tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold, all of which are used to manufacture our electronics. Nokia, the world's largest manufacturers of mobile phones, today published its policy on conflict minerals."Nokia Policy Against Illegal Trade of Natural ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Data Visualization for People Who Don't Visualize Data:... Feb 03 2012 20:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Data Visualization for People Who Don't Visualize Data: CA ERwin 8.2 In enterprises everywhere, including even the largest ones, the transition to cloud-based architectures has brought a new class of managers into the computing process. Suddenly, personnel managers and folks whose purview had been limited to finance and personnel, are being doubled-up with oversight roles for cloud deployments. The back office is no longer in the back (or the basement), and now these new managers are wondering: What is all this we're dealing with? Donna Burbank - who's a seni... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
iTunes Match Bug Censors the Bad Words From Songs Feb 03 2012 19:45:15	ReadWriteWeb
iTunes Match Bug Censors the Bad Words From Songs iTunes Match, the cloud music-matching service that Apple launched last year, is a great way to sync one's music library across numerous devices. If your collection happens to contain songs with profane lyrics, however, you may be in for a surprise. Apparently, iTunes Match has been inadvertently replacing certain tracks with the "clean" version of the same song, Cult of Mac reported. iTunes Match differs from Google's and Amazon's music cloud storage lockers in that it doesn't requi... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Hogwash: Top Mobile Designers Are Not Pushing Back Agai... Feb 03 2012 19:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Hogwash: Top Mobile Designers Are Not Pushing Back Against HTML5 Entrepreneur aficionado extraordinaire Robert Scoble posited a question on his Rackspace blog yesterday asking if there is push back against HTML5 by the top mobile designers in San Francisco. He cited new apps Path, Storify and Foodspotting as prominent examples of great apps with acclaimed UX that were rendered in native languages as opposed to HTML5. Are top developers really pushing back against HTML5 or is Scoble once again a little too deep in his fantasy world?One thing that oft... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Is Twitter Ready For Some Football? Feb 03 2012 18:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Is Twitter Ready For Some Football? Sunday's Super Bowl is full of betting possibilities, but one line we couldn't find in Vegas is whether or not Twitter will crash because of heavy traffic during the game. This year's NFL playoffs have already set one record for the most tweeted sports moment in history, when a Tim Tebow pass stunned the Pittsburgh Steelers on the first play of overtime against the Denver Broncos. The 9,420 tweets per second were not enough to cripple Twitter, but on New Year's Eve in Japan 16,197 per second br... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Anonymous Shows How Easy it is to Intercept FBI Confere... Feb 03 2012 17:40:24	ReadWriteWeb
Anonymous Shows How Easy it is to Intercept FBI Conference Calls "I'm not sure if we're the only two on right now or not," says a voice with an American accent. The voice belongs to a man who identifies himself as Bruce, likely an FBI agent, who had just joined a conference call with other law enforcement officials based in the UK. The irony of hearing Bruce utter those words at the beginning of the call is that, no, they were not the only people listening in. Somehow, members of Anonymous managed to tap into the call, record it and then post it online for ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Netflix' Daniel Jacobson: Letting APIs Change Everything Feb 03 2012 17:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Netflix' Daniel Jacobson: Letting APIs Change Everything What we today call the "mobile app" could, in a very short period of time, become known as the portable app, or just the "app." It tends to use such a simple and straightforward model of interaction that people are starting to prefer using their smartphones for certain tasks, even when their PCs are right in front of them. By this time next year, portable apps originally designed for use on smartphones and tablets may be running on laptops. The extent to which this changes everything is a top... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[Poll] What Is Facebook's Best Mobile Monetization Stra... Feb 03 2012 16:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
[Poll] What Is Facebook's Best Mobile Monetization Strategy? You would think that a company with 423 million monthly active mobile users would find a way to squeeze some revenue out of them. Easier said than done. The biggest question to come out of Facebook's S-1 filing for its IPO was how the company could monetize its robust mobile app ecosystem. How will Facebook do it? Stitching in mobile banner ads is not likely a solution for Facebook. We explore Facebook's opportunities and ask for your opinion in this week's ReadWriteMobile poll.From Fa... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Facebook's Incredible Growth Story In Charts Feb 03 2012 16:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Facebook's Incredible Growth Story In Charts Facebook's IPO filing, released this week, is fascinating for many reasons: We've already covered several angles. Perhaps the most exciting, though, is the wealth of data about the company that is finally public - from its user statistics to its growth around the world to its finances. I've highlighted and visualized some of the most interesting data in this series of charts.One of the most powerful things about Facebook is how many of its users log on every day. Facebook's IPO fil... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[Study] A Friend of a Friend in Real Life But Not on Fa... Feb 03 2012 15:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
[Study] A Friend of a Friend in Real Life But Not on Facebook Picture this: You're at a party, and your good friend introduces you to one of their friends. You two hit it off, and boom - a new friend! You've just become friends with a friend of a friend. In real life, this is a common occurrence. On Facebook, a friend of a friend isn't necessarily an actual friend. A new study from Pew Internet discovered this and an array of other interesting facts about peoples' Facebook friendships. The researchers found that most peoples' friend lists were not very i... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Get Ready For a World of Connected Devices Feb 03 2012 14:00:02	ReadWriteWeb
Get Ready For a World of Connected Devices "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it." HAL; 2001: A Space Odyssey Editor's note: this is a longer version of ReadWriteWeb Editor-in-chief Richard MacManus' article for the SAY Media newsletter. The newsletter is delivered weekly and features SAY Media's take on media, culture, venn diagrams and the occasional Kubrick homage. You can sign up for it here. Over half of all devices at this year's CES, the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, were Internet... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Convergence is Alive & Well in 2012 Feb 03 2012 04:55:01	ReadWriteWeb
Convergence is Alive & Well in 2012 Convergence. Remember that word from the dot com era? Well, it's back and this time it actually has substance. Convergence in the 90s meant combining old media with new media, a.k.a. the Internet. The 2000 merger of AOL and Time Warner was a failed $200 billion attempt at convergence. But fast forward to 2012 and convergence is happening for real this time, thanks to Internet-connected devices in the house and a rapidly growing app ecosystem. Entertainment now flows freely through home networks,... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
The Ups and Downs of the "America-Proof" Cloud: CloudSigma Feb 03 2012 02:31:20	ReadWriteWeb
The Ups and Downs of the "America-Proof" Cloud: CloudSigma If it's a feature your customers are asking for, it's difficult not to want to provide it. Although one of the benefits of public cloud computing is the ability to provision computing and storage resources from anywhere in the world on-demand, enterprises in Europe are wary that if their cloud-based assets are migrated to servers residing in the U.S., then they could (even if they never have yet) be subject to inspection by U.S. law enforcement authorities, even though the assets themselves are... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Why Zuckerberg Should "Share" the Facebook Kingdom Feb 03 2012 02:05:00	ReadWriteWeb
Why Zuckerberg Should "Share" the Facebook Kingdom Facebook is worth $75-$100 billion. If we broke that down by user, it would mean that each individual is worth $118.34. Or, if we're looking at it in terms of revenue from 2011 - $3.71 billion - each user is worth $4.39 in revenue per user per year. Yet Zuckerberg owns 28.4% of Facebook, and holds 56.9% of the voting power. The world over is reacting to the fact that Facebook has now put a dollar value on 845 million users' personal data. Zuckerberg had something to say about it, too. About th... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Daily Wrap: CTOs Should Avoid These Patterns and More Feb 03 2012 02:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Daily Wrap: CTOs Should Avoid These Patterns and More Joe Brockmeier shares several anti-patterns for technical leaders. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything 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. Anti-Patterns for Technical Leaders Joe B... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How To Pimp Your LinkedIn Profile Feb 03 2012 00:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
How To Pimp Your LinkedIn Profile I like using Twitter. I tolerate Facebook because I have to. And I'm on Google+ because everyone says I should be. So that has left little time to give love to my profile on LinkedIn, which is, depending on how you look at it, either the biggest niche social network or the smallest of the big, all-encompassing social networks. Some people will tell you that sooner or later, all of our networking, social and professional, will be centrally located on Facebook. Others will insist that you need a ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google Releases Rosetta Stone for Dart to JavaScript Feb 03 2012 00:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Google Releases Rosetta Stone for Dart to JavaScript If you're interested in Google's Dart as a potential replacement for JavaScript, you might want to take a peek at Dart Synonym. The Web app was hacked together by Aaron Wheeler and Marcin Wichary of Google to "map common JavaScript idioms to Dart." Wichary is best known for his playable Pac-Man Google doodle. Wichary and Wheeler were curious about Dart, and decided to check out the language and libraries during a Dart hackathon with the team.According to the post, "We started with the... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: YCombinator vs. ... Feb 02 2012 23:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: YCombinator vs. 1M/1M Today's roundtable, as usual, was an international affair, with entrepreneurs presenting from different parts of the US, India, Israel, and many other geographies. Before I share what we heard from them today, I want to highlight an important aspect of 1M/1M that is repeatedly underscored in these roundtables: the international, inclusive, democratic nature of the initiative. In fact, one of the best ways we can delineate this phenomenon is by contrasting 1M/1M with YCombinator. (Video after th... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
iPad Video Editing Gets Serious With Avid Studio Feb 02 2012 23:18:57	ReadWriteWeb
iPad Video Editing Gets Serious With Avid Studio When the iPad first launched in early 2010, the device was criticized by some for being geared toward content consumption, rather than creation. To be sure, the iPad turns out to be a very effective way to read and watch videos, but the tablet form factor is well on its way to maturing into a full-fledged content creation tool. Its not the first video-editing app for the iPad, but Avid Studio, which was released earlier today, stands out as one of the more sophisticated offerings out there. It... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Twitter Analytical Tools Threaten Third-Party Developers Feb 02 2012 23:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Twitter Analytical Tools Threaten Third-Party Developers Twitter may become the heavyweight in analytics of its own content, boxing out rivals HootSuite, bit.ly and Klout. As first reported by ReadWriteWeb, Twitter plans to launch sophisticated analytical tools, according to Erica Anderson, Twitter's manager for news and journalism. Anderson, who made the comments last weekend at a social media conference at Columbia University in New York, said the analytical tools will better help publishers track the reach of tweets sent through the microblogging... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Second Lamar Smith ISP-Oriented Bill Draws New Protests Feb 02 2012 22:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Second Lamar Smith ISP-Oriented Bill Draws New Protests Last December, an anti-child pornography bill co-authored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R - Texas) and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D - Fla.) passed the markup phase and was referred to the House floor. Though the bill's chief provision is to enable law enforcement authorities to arrest and prosecute entities that knowingly provide financial transaction services to child pornographers, the bill would also require Internet service providers t... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Big Question (Answered): "Can Online Petitions Change F... Feb 02 2012 22:03:07	ReadWriteWeb
Big Question (Answered): "Can Online Petitions Change Foxconn Conditions?" The conditions of workers at Foxconn have been the subject of discussion for the past few years, but lately more and more people seem to be interested in how the workers at the tech manufacturing giant fare. A petition asks for your signature to pressure Apple into "mak(ing) the iPhone 5 ethically." But can an online petition really make a difference in this situation? Apple is not the only company who uses Foxconn to supply their hardware manufacturing. Amazon, Microsoft and Sony also use F... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Top Tech Video of the Day: The SMS-Email-Facebook-Twitt... Feb 02 2012 21:27:00	ReadWriteWeb
Top Tech Video of the Day: The SMS-Email-Facebook-Twitter-Alert Musical To make his "musical," as he calls it, filmmaker/actor Chris Crutchfield's, took the ubiquitous dinging, pinging, almost-melodic alerts that pervade our digital lives and mashed them up into a surprisingly beautiful little song. "One day," he explains, "I got an email, an SMS, a phone call, a Facebook message and two tweets all within about five seconds of one another. This video is a re-manifestation of my brain's interpretation of that event." If you're a glutton for punishment, you can down... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google Gets a Bouncer to Patrol Malware in the Android ... Feb 02 2012 21:15:00	ReadWriteWeb
Google Gets a Bouncer to Patrol Malware in the Android Market Google is taking new steps to identify and eliminate malware in the Android Market. Codenamed "Bouncer," Google will now scan every new and existing app in the Market against known malware, permissions and publisher information. This is the first time that Google has been so proactive in attacking the Android malware problem and a welcome step for its application ecosystem. Google will institute Bouncer without disrupting the Android user experience or requiring an Apple-like approval process. ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[Video] NASA Releases 1st Footage of the "Dark Side" of... Feb 02 2012 20:59:05	ReadWriteWeb
[Video] NASA Releases 1st Footage of the "Dark Side" of the Moon NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has released the first footage shot of the moon's far side. The 30-second clip (after the jump) sweeps from the moon's northern pole to the southern polar region, passing, among other features, the Mare Orientale, a 560-mile wide dry sea that extends onto the side we can see from Earth. According to the press release NASA released with the footage: In the video, the north pole of the moon is visible at the top of the ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
A Ludicrous Value Proposition, If Not From Facebook Feb 02 2012 20:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
A Ludicrous Value Proposition, If Not From Facebook Some weeks ago, I happened to drive by an evangelistic church whose outdoor marquis speaks about as well of the present times as any I've come across. "And there followed hail and fire mixed with blood," it read, "and they were cast upon the Earth. Like us on Facebook!" The initial public offering of Facebook stock, now likely to come in May, is as much a test of faith as any corporation has ever given its prospective shareholders. To Facebook's credit, its prospectus, as given in its Form S... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[Case Study] Lessons in High Performance Computing with... Feb 02 2012 20:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
[Case Study] Lessons in High Performance Computing with Open Source Providing adequate software and tools for researchers has always been of great importance to organizations, but has often come at a great cost. In an era of constantly evolving technology and rapidly dwindling budgets, my IT team has had to work with a large pool of researchers to provide cost-effective solutions that meet the ever-growing demand for innovation and computing power. I am an Information Technologist for the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University.... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Why Facebook Will Become a Food Porn Kingdom Feb 02 2012 19:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Why Facebook Will Become a Food Porn Kingdom On the same day that Facebook announced its IPO, the FoodSpotting app dished up a few new offerings. Now it creates a personalized picture menu for you, the FoodSpotting user, delivering "smart dish recommendations" based on what you like. The "filter wheel" categorizes food into dishes that you want to try and have already tried, and those you hope to never eat again; you can also see how your friends feel about various dishes. FoodSpotting connects to your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquar... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Blissful Silence: Facebook Enters SEC-Mandated "Quiet P... Feb 02 2012 18:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Blissful Silence: Facebook Enters SEC-Mandated "Quiet Period" You hear that? Nothing, right? That is beautiful, delightful silence. And it will continue for the next three to five months. That is because the residents of a certain complex in Menlo Park, California have been forced to stop running their mouths following Facebook's S-1 filing for an initial public offering yesterday. The Securities and Exchange Commission requires a "quiet period" for any company preparing to go public. It is a bit of karmic justice for the ruckus caused when a company fil... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
New Reuters Site Turns News Decisions Over To Social Media Feb 02 2012 17:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
New Reuters Site Turns News Decisions Over To Social Media News agency Reuters launched Social Pulse, which it describes as a "social media hub" that will display "the most talked-about news, companies and influencers across the Web." The site is unique in the news-curating space in that it uses trends from the Twitter accounts Reuters and its journalists follow to arrange headlines: in effect, the news agency is automating editing and story selection and putting it in the hands of "everyone from Nouriel Roubini and Jenna Wortham to John McCain and Rac... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
StumbleUpon Says Goodbye to Direct Links Feb 02 2012 17:15:00	ReadWriteWeb
StumbleUpon Says Goodbye to Direct Links When StumbleUpon did its big rebranding, reorganizing and redesign late last year, we figured that the 20-million-plus discovering engine was done making big changes. At least, for a little while. Boy were we wrong. The newest SU update removes all direct links. Previously, once you were inside StumbleUpon, you could "X" out the page and go straight to the original site. Now if you're logged in, you have to say in the iframed version of the site. There is one way to get out, but it's super cl... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Showyou 3.0: The Remote Control for Web Video Feb 02 2012 17:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Showyou 3.0: The Remote Control for Web Video Showyou 3.0 launches today, and if you watch videos on an iPad, a Kindle Fire, an iPhone or an iPod Touch, you need to try it. If you have an Apple TV, so much the better. Showyou brings in all the videos from your various social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more. It displays them for you in a glorious, sweeping grid organized by magic. The new version makes browsing a little more down-to-earth, too (in a good way), adding category channels, browsable lists for individual u... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
One More Reason to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4S: Tweaking Siri Feb 02 2012 15:45:23	ReadWriteWeb
One More Reason to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4S: Tweaking Siri The first untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 dropped two weeks ago, much to the excitement of the hundreds of thousands of people who rushed to download it. Despite its recent growth in popularity, jailbreaking is still not a mainstream activity among iPhone and iPad owners generally. It's more for the tinkering type and those who want to customize their device's functionality and UI design. Whether it's done to download unauthorized (yet often quite useful) apps from Cydia or c... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Jumptap: Use of Native Apps Versus Mobile Web is Tied Feb 02 2012 15:01:00	ReadWriteWeb
Jumptap: Use of Native Apps Versus Mobile Web is Tied The mobile advertising industry was a $1 billion business in 2011. It is expected to hit $6.5 billion by 2014, according to eMarketer. For reference, it was 1998 when Web advertising hit the $1 billion mark. In 2010, it was a $26 billion industry fueling the growth of companies like Google and other Web-centric properties. What does this mean to you, the mobile app developer? Well, there is opportunity in front of you that is not correlated to paid downloads or in-app purchases. Mobile targeti... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Anti-Patterns for Technical Leaders Feb 02 2012 14:01:00	ReadWriteWeb
Anti-Patterns for Technical Leaders What's the difference between a CTO and a vice-president of engineering (VPoE)? According to Jason Hoffman and Bryan Cantrill of Joyent, the lines are blurry. At the Monki Gras conference in London on February 1st, Hoffman (CTO) and Cantrill (VPoE), shared the stage and talked about the differences in their roles. In keeping with the generally boisterous nature of Monki Gras, the conversation with Hoffman and Cantrill was a bit more bare-knuckle than your average conference presentation. Perhap... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Biggest Winners In Facebook's IPO Feb 02 2012 14:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Biggest Winners In Facebook's IPO When Hugh Hefner founded Playboy in 1953, he famously offered photographers, writers and artists the choice of cash or stock in the then-private company. While most chose cash, a few held onto shares that were worth millions by the time the company went public. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used a similar tactic, which means David Choe, a graffiti artist who was given stock for painting the walls of Facebook's headquarter, worth an expected $200 million when the company's shares start tradin... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Looking for a Better HootSuite? Try Gremln. Feb 02 2012 13:30:58	ReadWriteWeb
Looking for a Better HootSuite? Try Gremln. If you aren't happy with scheduling your Tweets and analyzing the sentiment of your social networking accounts, a new service from Gremln.com is available today that might be a better alternative. The company has been part of the St. Louis-based Capital Innovators startup accelerator/incubator program that we wrote about yesterday.Like Hootsuite, you can schedule your tweets in advance and the free service allows you to access five different social media accounts across Twitter, Linked... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Alfresco Makes its CMS More Social Feb 02 2012 13:02:03	ReadWriteWeb
Alfresco Makes its CMS More Social Today, Alfresco today launches its Enterprise v4, perhaps the biggest update since they began operations. The new software comes with mobile and tablet apps, business app integrations and is loaded with social features that help users share, comment on and collaborate on content. The software is built around an open source content management system that is used by more than 2500 enterprises in 55 countries around the globe. They call it cloud connected content. Like other social Intranet produc... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Trover Adds a Dash of Local Flavor to Wherever You Are Feb 02 2012 13:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Trover Adds a Dash of Local Flavor to Wherever You Are Trover launches Lists today, a new way to highlight the rich, guided tours its pioneer users create for the places they live. At its core, Trover is a location-based photo browser, putting its users' photos on a map you can explore. It uses social networks to help with discoveries, but its emphasis is on the things found by its users. In addition to lists, which will help highlight individual users more, today's update also adds @-mentions and redesigns the news feed to be more about the people... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How YouTube is Part of a Global Economic Transformation Feb 02 2012 08:36:44	ReadWriteWeb
How YouTube is Part of a Global Economic Transformation The Internet may have grown up first in the United States, but it's a global phenomenon now. The same can be said for the fast-growing body of educational content on the web. YouTube announced a new batch of partners that were added to its Education Channel today and noted that nearly 80% of the viewership of educational content on the site came from outside the United States. Less than 70% of the site's total traffic is International, so the educational content is disproportionately viewed b... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Daily Wrap: Android Fragmention of Less Concern and More Feb 02 2012 02:00:49	ReadWriteWeb
Daily Wrap: Android Fragmention of Less Concern and More Dan Rowinski explores the ramifications of fragmentation in Android app development. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything 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. [Study] Android Fragment... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Facebook's Biggest Risks Explained Feb 02 2012 01:47:00	ReadWriteWeb
Facebook's Biggest Risks Explained Facebook is about to jump into unfriendly waters. If founder Mark Zuckerberg thought the company faced fierce competitors in Silicon Valley, he is about to find that the denizens of Wall Street are not nearly so forgiving. There are risks to going public. How does the world perceive your company? Can the platform grow and maintain its edge? The trick for Facebook will be to balance the concerns of its shareholders with the need to push the boundaries of innovation. This is no easy task. In its ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Became One of the Most P... Feb 02 2012 00:50:00	ReadWriteWeb
How Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Became One of the Most Powerful Women in the World Mark Zuckerberg is on his way to becoming one of the richest people in the world, but when it comes to influence in the worlds of politics and business, he sits in the shadow of his chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg. Sandberg, 43, is credited for the success of Facebook's advertising strategy. When she joined Facebook in 2008 it had 130 employees and no cash. Three years later Facebook was profitable, 2,500 people worked there and the userbase had jumped from 70 million to almost 845 mil... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
BMC the Latest to Join VCE's All-in-One Answer to Exalogic Feb 02 2012 00:00:15	ReadWriteWeb
BMC the Latest to Join VCE's All-in-One Answer to Exalogic On Tuesday, we introduced you to CA Technologies' Private Cloud Accelerator for Vblock platforms, and if you're a frequent reader of ReadWriteWeb, you might still be wondering, "What's a Vblock platform?" It's an emerging contender in the out-of-the-box, full-service cloud server category from a company called VCE. And if you're wondering how a relatively unknown company goes up against the likes of HP, Oracle, and IBM, the answer is by integrating hardware and software from specialists in the... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How IT Addresses the Growing Cost of Poorly Planned Cha... Feb 01 2012 23:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
How IT Addresses the Growing Cost of Poorly Planned Changes "I like to describe the roots of all evil being unplanned, or poorly planned, changes," states Jimmy Augustine of HP Software. "Somewhere between 70% and 80% of all service disruptions are caused by faulty changes. Somebody goes in and makes a security change to a network device, and brings down the service. Downtime equates to costs and, in some cases, lost revenue." You would think Step #1, or something close to Step #1, for any kind of asset migration or disaster recovery plan would be to... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
WikiLeaks May Move Servers to International Waters to A... Feb 01 2012 22:45:03	ReadWriteWeb
WikiLeaks May Move Servers to International Waters to Avoid Shutdown It's been awhile since we've heard much from WikiLeaks. New leaked data continues to trickle out here and there and Julian Assange is even talking to the press, but major bombshells like the Iraq War Logs or Cablegate haven't been dropped since late 2010. Part of the relative silence has to do with the fact that Assange is currently under house arrest in the U.K. and WikiLeaks still faces a financial blockade and an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. The future of the organ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How Not to Advertise on Twitter Feb 01 2012 22:31:11	ReadWriteWeb
How Not to Advertise on Twitter Twitter's sponsored tweets and sponsored hashtags are cropping up more often as the social network places a heavy focus on advertising. As with any new advertising offering, we'll learn how to use it effectively by watching the efforts of others. Advertising on a social network offers up opportunities for engagement that can't be found elsewhere, but that opportunity comes with significant risk. ed hashtags can blow up in your face, they can be stolen by a competitor and they can be ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Zuckerberg's Letter to Shareholders: "Personal Relation... Feb 01 2012 22:12:16	ReadWriteWeb
Zuckerberg's Letter to Shareholders: "Personal Relationships Are the Fundamental Unit of Our Society" Editor's note: As part of Facebook's initial public offering announcement today, founder Mark Zuckerberg included this letter to potential shareholders. "Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected. We think it's important that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us, how we make decisions and why we do the things we do. I will try to outline our approach in this... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Breaking Down the Myths of NFC, Mobile Payments and Rea... Feb 01 2012 21:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Breaking Down the Myths of NFC, Mobile Payments and Real World Adoption From a technological perspective, near field communications (NFC) is one of the most powerful and prominent innovations to come about in the last several years. But from a functional, real world standpoint, NFC is a technology without a clear-cut purpose. What problems does it actually solve? When it comes payments, how much different is a tap with your smartphone than a swipe of your debit card? What about the ability to open doors or share content with your friends? There are solutions already... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Capital Innovators Graduates First Class of Entrepreneurs Feb 01 2012 20:03:00	ReadWriteWeb
Capital Innovators Graduates First Class of Entrepreneurs Tonight in downtown St. Louis the second group of companies to be funded by Capital Innovators will be announced. These will receive $50k in seed funding, free office space and credits toward other useful services as part of their acceleration program. We wrote about their innovative program last fall. Some of the first companies have launched products or services or are in the process of getting there, according to their entrepreneurs. Most have felt the program worthwhile and given them a jum... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Why Petitions Won't Change Apple's Labor Practices Anyt... Feb 01 2012 19:30:15	ReadWriteWeb
Why Petitions Won't Change Apple's Labor Practices Anytime Soon Not even 24 hours after Apple reported its jaw-dropping Q1 financial results, the company found itself the target of some relentless investigative journalism by the New York Times. In particular, as part of an ongoing series about Apple, the Times published a detailed investigation of some of the tech giant's biggest overseas suppliers, ugly labor abuses and all. From deadly plant explosions and poisonous screen-cleaning chemicals to unsafe working conditions and long hours, the report was any... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Lanyrd's Simon Willison on Today's Web Stack Feb 01 2012 19:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Lanyrd's Simon Willison on Today's Web Stack Once upon a time, the default stack for a lot of developers consisted of the LAMP stack. Linux, Apache, MySQL and one of the P triumvirate: PHP, Python or Perl. Those days, however, are over. Sure, Linux is still powering a lot of servers. But above that, almost everything is up for grabs. Today at the Monki Gras conference in London, Simon Willison of held forth on the new Web stack. Willison was part of the day's last talk, a conversation with Matt Biddulph, formerly Nokia's head of data stra... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Case Over Who Owns Ex-Employee's Twitter Followers Move... Feb 01 2012 18:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Case Over Who Owns Ex-Employee's Twitter Followers Moves Forward San Francisco-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James will allow a case by a company arguing that a Twitter list created by an ex-employee is its property to proceed. PhoneDog LLC, which reviews mobile phones and other tech products, is claiming that former employee Noah Kravitz owes it $340,000, or $2.50 for each Twitter follower he kept by switching the name of his Twitter account after he stopped working for PhoneDog. James denied a motion to dismiss by Kravitz on Monday in a case that... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Akamai Says The Internet Is a Nastier, and Faster, Place Feb 01 2012 18:03:00	ReadWriteWeb
Akamai Says The Internet Is a Nastier, and Faster, Place Akamai has released the results of its latest "State of the Internet" report covering the third quarter of 2011. What is interesting is how nasty the Internet has become, with increasing attack incidents recorded and changing strategies for hackers looking to exploit systems. Our last post on the first quarter results can be found here. "Akamai has seen a 2000% increase in the number of attack incidents recorded on our platform over the last three years, including several recent high-profile ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Flurry Adds HTML5 to Mobile Analytics Platform Feb 01 2012 17:50:00	ReadWriteWeb
Flurry Adds HTML5 to Mobile Analytics Platform Mobile analytics and monetization platform Flurry is adding a new vertical to its platform offering today. Recognizing the coming growth of mobile Web apps, Flurry will begin tracking HTML5 mobile Web apps starting with a beta software developer kit today. Flurry supports five other mobile platforms. That includes BlackBerry, iOS, Android, Windows Phone and J2ME. Flurry notes a recent survey by Kony that says that 74% of Fortune 500 companies were planning on some type of HTML5 integration. On... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Report: Facebook Ad Spending Grew 1600% in 2011 Feb 01 2012 17:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
Report: Facebook Ad Spending Grew 1600% in 2011 We're all on the edge of our seats waiting for the Facebook IPO to drop. Thankfully, Kara Swisher over at AllThingsD reports that we can all hang out a bit (maybe), because the FB IPO isn't dropping until later today (probably). Phew. The Wall Street Journal proper reports (no offense, AllThingsD) that Facebook probably makes most of its revenue from online advertising combined with cuts from game purchases. Before its public offering, Zynga reported $828.9 million in revenue through the third ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[UPDATED] Microsoft Takes Advantage of Google's Bad Press Feb 01 2012 17:29:00	ReadWriteWeb
[UPDATED] Microsoft Takes Advantage of Google's Bad Press Microsoft gloated on its official blog today about the oodles of coverage of Google's new privacy policy. The post uses the word "discussion," but it only linked to the vigorous freak-outs in which many sites engaged. It mentions "concerns and worries" and "lack of choice," but it never explains what Microsoft is talking about. The central thesis is that "Google... made it harder, not easier, for people to stay in control of their own information." The post then goes straight to the list of Mic... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
The Anti-Piracy Discussion We Haven't Had Yet Feb 01 2012 16:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
The Anti-Piracy Discussion We Haven't Had Yet In 1959 (as I recall), my mother, an acclaimed professional artist, had entered a handful of her oil paintings into an annual art show. Someone attending the show noted that one particular work, the face of a peasant boy, strongly resembled a photograph that had appeared in Life magazine. Well, there was no coincidence about it: Mom had studied precisely that face, and her work was based on that photograph. (The card tacked to the wall actually said so, if anyone had bothered to read it.) S... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How Social Sharing Changes What You Drink Feb 01 2012 16:10:00	ReadWriteWeb
How Social Sharing Changes What You Drink What do you drink when you're out at the bar? What do you brag about afterwards? If you're like a lot of Untappd users in the United States, they're not the same thing. At least that's what the data from Untappd suggests, according to lead developer and co-founder Greg Avola. Avola spoke on February 1st in London at the Monki Gras. As part of a larger talk about Untappd and its growth, Avola talked about the aggregated data that the company has gleaned from user shares via the Untappd app. Spon... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[Study] Android Fragmentation Not as Bad as You Think Feb 01 2012 14:22:00	ReadWriteWeb
[Study] Android Fragmentation Not as Bad as You Think Fragmentation is often seen as the biggest bane for publishers developing Android applications. There are hundreds of Android devices on the market, running different versions of the operating system across disparate screen sizes and pixel resolutions. But it might not be as bad as many people think. Mobile analytics company Localytics studied Android fragmentation and noted that things might not be quite as bad as everyone fears. Localytics found that between that nearly 96% of all devices in ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Big Question (Answered): "What Does the Facebook IPO Me... Feb 01 2012 13:02:00	ReadWriteWeb
Big Question (Answered): "What Does the Facebook IPO Mean To You?" Many people are expecting Facebook to file for its initial public offering today. In what could be the biggest tech IPO in history, Facebook would be aiming for a $75-100 billion valuation. They are looking to raise $10 billion in stock. Facebook is expected to go public under the symbol "FB," but it's unclear whether they will list on the NYSE or the NASDAQ. With $3.8 billion in ad revenues in 2011, Facebook is on a roll. But what does that mean to the typical Facebook user? What Does t... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Facebook Files IPO: What It Means For You Feb 01 2012 11:56:16	ReadWriteWeb
Facebook Files IPO: What It Means For You Facebook shocked no one by filing an initial public offering of its shares today. The filing was the first glimpse into the company's inner financial workings and, as expected, Facebook said it would try to raise $5 billion when the company's shares begins trading - a number that could eventually be raised to $10 billion and would ultimately value the company between $75 billion and $100 billion. Today marks the day that Mark Zuckerberg goes from being the guy who makes world-changing technolo... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Nest & The New Era of Home Appliances Feb 01 2012 03:35:52	ReadWriteWeb
Nest & The New Era of Home Appliances Earlier this week I listed 5 signs of a great user experience in a tech product. One sign is that it changes you. I referred to revolutionary products like the iPhone and Twitter, that modified our online behaviors or habits. This trend is becoming more noticeable with the so called Internet of Things, where everyday objects are connected to the Internet. If a device or object has traditionally been a static thing, then it's guaranteed to morph into something different once it becomes interactiv... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Daily Wrap: Lanyrd's Innovative HTML5 Mobile App and More Feb 01 2012 02:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Daily Wrap: Lanyrd's Innovative HTML5 Mobile App and More Dan Rowinski takes a look at how Lanyrd has created a great mobile web app using HTML5. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything 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. How Lanyrd Uses HTML5... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Launch Center's Curious Quest to Fix the iPhone Feb 01 2012 01:29:00	ReadWriteWeb
Launch Center's Curious Quest to Fix the iPhone Macworld | iWorld was last week, and as Apple-watchers expected, the emphasis was on the i-part. The iPhone and iPad are becoming blockbusters, so this must have been an exciting year to be at that show. I wasn't cool enough to be there, but I'm pretty sure I read the blogs of every single person who was. And there's one iPhone app they're all talking about this week: Launch Center. To a hardcore iPhone user, it seems like it should be relatively easy to explain what Launch Center does. But as ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Hate the Facebook News Ticker? Some Can Now Hide It Jan 31 2012 23:56:06	ReadWriteWeb
Hate the Facebook News Ticker? Some Can Now Hide It Users made a big stink about the Facebook news ticker, that annoying, constantly updating feed in the upper right-hand corner of the homepage. Facebook responded. Now some users have the option to hide the ticker. This is good news for people who prefer to use the news feed and would like to avoid noisier information about which links their friends "like," what friends are listening to on Spotify and who is now friends with whom. Teenagers spoke up about the news ticker, calling it the "stalker ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Obama & Romney Inching Closer to One Touch Donations wi... Jan 31 2012 23:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Obama & Romney Inching Closer to One Touch Donations with Square "We're always looking to get as close to one touch donations as we can," Romney Campaign's Digital Director Zac Moffat told the LATimes. Politico reports that both the Romney and Obama campaigns have started using Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's "magical" dongle, Square. Of course, you can't pay by saying your name as you now can at select merchants, but Square still makes campaign donations much faster and easier. Staff, field organizers and campaign volunteers hook up Square to their mobile... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
PhoneGap Build Support Comes to Version 1.4.0 Jan 31 2012 22:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
PhoneGap Build Support Comes to Version 1.4.0 When it comes to the pace of mobile app innovation, there are a couple leaders in the field that need to be watched on a regular basis. Foremost among them is the PhoneGap, also known as Apache Cordova these days. Call it the leader of the leaders. Today the company announced the newest version of its platform, PhoneGap 1.4.0. In addition to fixing many of the bugs found in version 1.3.0, the PhoneGap Build cloud service will be fully supported in the new version. Check out below to see what is ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
EFF: One Way or Another, We're Getting That Megaupload ... Jan 31 2012 22:15:56	ReadWriteWeb
EFF: One Way or Another, We're Getting That Megaupload Data Back In the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown that unfolded nearly two weeks ago, the story has splintered into a few interesting directions. One of the more controversial issues is the fate of the personal data stored on the now-defunct service's servers. Yesterday, news broke that the data could be at risk of deletion as early as this week, if Megaupload's former hosting service providers decide to do so. Well, not if the Electronic Frontier Foundation has anything to do with it. Th... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Top Tech Video of the Day: The Ultimate Way to Stalk Yo... Jan 31 2012 22:01:01	ReadWriteWeb
Top Tech Video of the Day: The Ultimate Way to Stalk Your Boss The creator, Michael Shirley, describes it like this: "The device is triggered by a reed-switch sensor that monitors magnetic proximity. The signal is sent through an Arduino board to a Processing sketch, which tells the computer to snap a webcam photo of Peterson and upload it to Twitpic with a saying chosen from a pool of prewritten zingers. The Twitpic post is immediately loaded to the BossTracker5000′s Twitter feed. Voila! A chair that tweets." Most importantly, it also updates when the bo... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
SGI Crams 2.37 Petabytes Into One 19-inch Rack Jan 31 2012 21:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
SGI Crams 2.37 Petabytes Into One 19-inch Rack The "G" in its name used to stand for "Graphics." A few decades ago, the most delightful room for one to be in during a computer conference was the one where Silicon Graphics was showing a demo. It was like one of those dreams where you knew you weren't really on-board the Starship Enterprise, but you forced yourself to ignore that fact and look at the pretty lights and colors. When SGI ceased to be a company unto itself in April 2009, most folks wrote off the SGI brand as an historical remna... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Gaze into Your Virtual Facebook Mirror Jan 31 2012 21:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Gaze into Your Virtual Facebook Mirror If you feel compelled to curate more of your Facebook life, there's an app for that: Timeline Movie Maker. Go to TimelineMovieMaker.com and click the green button. As with most Facebook apps, this one asks for your basic info, email, profile info and your Timeline stories. Then Timeline builds a one-minute movie for you. It's similar to Intel's Museum of Me, a virtual museum of you - all it needs is access to your Facebook data.The other week, Facebook launched 60 new social apps, incl... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Surprise, Surprise: Amazon Doesn't Say How Many Kindle ... Jan 31 2012 21:28:37	ReadWriteWeb
Surprise, Surprise: Amazon Doesn't Say How Many Kindle Fires It Sold Amazon is notorious for sharing very little information about how its products and business units perform. Its new Kindle Fire tablet is no different. Amazon just reported its fourth quarter financial results, and, shocking no one, it doesn't disclose how many Kindle Fire tablets it sold. Or even how many total Kindles it sold. Instead, Amazon just shared a few statistics designed to make it seem like the Kindle business is doing really well, without actually proving it.Specifically,... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How Pinterest Uses Your Content Without Violating Copyr... Jan 31 2012 21:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
How Pinterest Uses Your Content Without Violating Copyright Laws Pinterest, the increasingly popular pinboarding social network, is able to present a visually arresting interface in large part by using copyrighted images pinned by users. "It's a huge concern for creative bloggers," said Amy Anderson, who blogs on the arts and crafts site Crafter Minds. "I don't think Pinterest does anything to help protect copyright besides removing content when people ask."Pinterest is able to avoid violating U.S. copyright laws thanks to a provision in the Intern... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
The Other 99% of Entrepreneurs Jan 31 2012 20:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
The Other 99% of Entrepreneurs In my recent piece Reengineering Capitalism I highlighted a phenomenon that the global entrepreneurship ecosystem is paying very little attention to: Over 99% of entrepreneurs who seek funding get rejected. Yet, the entire world is focused on the 1% that is "fundable." The media, when pitched a startup story, is interested in who funded the venture. They seldom ask how much revenue the company has or if it is profitable."I don't foresee leaving the company for at least 10 years. I wou... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[Audio Download] Lomax Folk Recordings Go Digital Jan 31 2012 20:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
[Audio Download] Lomax Folk Recordings Go Digital Anyone with an abiding interest in American music will have heard of Alan Lomax. His travels around the U.S. and through other countries recording "folk music" was almost single-handedly responsible for how we think about Americana and world music both. But only a small amount of his recordings were available online, with few available for download. The Association for Cultural Equity is changing that. His archives include "5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotape... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[Infographic] The Rise and Fall of Megaupload Jan 31 2012 19:35:13	ReadWriteWeb
[Infographic] The Rise and Fall of Megaupload We're not even two weeks into the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown, but the saga seems to unfold with a new angle or detail everyday. From Kim Dotcom's colorful personal life to questions about the fate of non-infringing data uploaded by former Megaupload users, this story is far from over. However, if the company's lawyers don't manage to mount a convincing defense, Megaupload itself could disappear forever. It's too soon to tell, but in the meantime, we thought we'd take a look at some ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Opera Mini Predicts the Winner of Super Bowl XLVI Jan 31 2012 19:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Opera Mini Predicts the Winner of Super Bowl XLVI I am not going to lie to you. I am a little distracted this week. You would be too if your favorite NFL team were in the Super Bowl. I am spending an inordinate amount of time reading about the Patriots and the Giants when I should, you know, be bringing you the top notch technology news and analysis that you have come to except from ReadWriteWeb. Well, here is a story that satiates both needs. Mobile browser Opera Mini is predicting the winner of Super Bowl XLVI. By crunching aggregated anony... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Public Sector 4/5ths of the Way to Total Server Virtual... Jan 31 2012 19:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Public Sector 4/5ths of the Way to Total Server Virtualization Ever since human beings landed on the moon, the state of technology in government appeared to be on a downward slope. Never mind that it was really the U.S. Government that facilitated the original Internet; in public sector offices, the state of computing started lagging behind the private sector ever since IBM mass-produced the microcomputer. That slope may have bottomed out two years ago, with the urgent need to cut costs, reform practices and save jobs leading to an extraordinarily rapid a... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Blogger.com's New Takedown Policy Thwarts Censorship Jan 31 2012 17:48:00	ReadWriteWeb
Blogger.com's New Takedown Policy Thwarts Censorship Google's Blogger has found a way to handle local government takedown requests similar to the way Twitter now does. It will now start redirecting readers to country-specific top-level domains (TLD) instead of the usual blogspot.com domain. It does so based on the location of the user's IP address, just as many other Google services do. This gives Google the "flexibility" to comply with removal requests according to local laws. But don't start your knee-jerking just yet (as so many did with Twitt... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How to Take Better Food Porn Photos Jan 31 2012 17:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
How to Take Better Food Porn Photos Admit it. You're an amateur food porn photographer. But don't worry, you're certainly not alone. Last week, my esteemed Internet ReadWriteWeb-y colleagues Jon Mitchell and Curt Hopkins cooked up this insanely hilarious story about the grossness of amateur food porn. Amazingly, every single photograph in his story was shot by an amateur. And every single time, the food looked totally disgusting. The amateur food photographer is not trying to make their food look gross. In fact, quite the opposi... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
"Anonymous" Fights the Drug Cartels and the Movie Mogul... Jan 31 2012 17:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
"Anonymous" Fights the Drug Cartels and the Movie Moguls: Reaction It's being called the "Mexican SOPA," especially by press sources wanting to place highly with Google News. Last week, Mexican Senator Federico Döring announced an anti-piracy bill, which that country's justice ministry describes as establishing a notification service for suspected content pirates, one which would enable the authorities to obtain those suspects' identities. That triggered a series of denial-of-service attacks against Mexican government Web sites, probably because Sen. Döring... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Startup's Petition Raises $3M in 24 Hours if Senate Pas... Jan 31 2012 16:39:00	ReadWriteWeb
Startup's Petition Raises $3M in 24 Hours if Senate Passes Crowdfunding Act "We can gamble in Vegas. We can donate on Kiva or Kickstarter. But it's illegal to purchase $100 of stock in a job-creating business? That makes no sense." That is the tagline to a new project called WeFunder from three TechStars Boston alum who are trying to garner support for the "Democratizing Access to Capital Act" (S.1791) that would allow entrepreneurs to crowdfund startups. Launched yesterday with the hopes of getting $100,000 from 100 pledges, the guys behind WeFunder have already seen ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How Lanyrd Uses HTML5 for a Great Mobile Web App Jan 31 2012 16:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
How Lanyrd Uses HTML5 for a Great Mobile Web App When it comes to HTML5 mobile Web app development, a lot of developers are waiting for a blue print of success to follow before jumping into the deep end. Sure, HTML5 mobile Web apps have the potential to change the entire mobile app ecosystem, but right now native apps are a tried and true channel that developers have come to trust. It will take several prominent and successful HTML5 mobile Web apps before the rest of the ecosystem jumps on the bandwagon. One of the companies laying the archit... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Not So Fast: Teens Aren't Fleeing Facebook For Twitter Jan 31 2012 15:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Not So Fast: Teens Aren't Fleeing Facebook For Twitter Contrary to an Associated Press report implying otherwise, teens are not shutting down their Facebook accounts in favor of Twitter. Emil Protalinski has a much more thorough analysis of what is happening, which includes the Pew Research report AP used, as well as a July 2011 Pew report that focused solely on teens and social media use. His conclusion? Teens are definitely using Twitter more, but they are not giving up their Facebook accounts to do so.The numbers in the July 2011 repor... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Amazon Sets Sights on Support in the Cloud Jan 31 2012 15:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Amazon Sets Sights on Support in the Cloud Need support for Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux or Microsoft Windows on AWS? Amazon is now offering support for setup, configuration and troubleshooting of system software as part of its support program. The company is also adding a “trusted advisor” feature to inspect AWS environments and offer help ranging from performance improvements to security suggestions. The third-party support is being offered to customers with premium support packages. If you have gold or platinum su... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Big Question (Answered): "Which Brand Does the Best Job... Jan 31 2012 15:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Big Question (Answered): "Which Brand Does the Best Job in Social Media?" Most brands are doing their best to engage and serve their audience via social media. Those of us who are in charge of social for a brand pour over statistics and devour past learnings, but the science of social is still fairly new, so most of us are just guessing what will resonate. From time to time you'll see us ask you how we are doing. That's because, despite great analytics, nothing beats just asking your audience how you're doing and what you could do better. And, almost as valuable... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[REPORT] Twitter, LinkedIn Will See Slower Revenue Growth Jan 31 2012 14:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
[REPORT] Twitter, LinkedIn Will See Slower Revenue Growth Twitter and LinkedIn will continue to see strong advertising growth, with Twitter's revenue expected to nearly double between 2012 and 2014, according to a report by eMarketer Digital Intelligence. The report comes against the backdrop of Facebook's pending, initial public offering and illustrates that advertising models for social networks seem to be working. Twitter gets 90% of its revenue from U.S. advertisers, while LinkedIn depends more on foreign advertisers, with just 68% of its 2012 ad ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Gets Longer Lifecycle Jan 31 2012 13:01:00	ReadWriteWeb
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Gets Longer Lifecycle Red Hat’s customers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 are getting a little more breathing room when it comes to updates. The company announced today that it is extending the support life cycle from seven to 10 years for RHEL 5 and 6. Customers using RHEL 6 will have support through 2020. According to a FAQ from Red Hat, the move is in response to customer requests. Many of the customers adopting RHEL 5 were doing so mid-cycle, and were looking at dealing with upgrades sooner ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Network Access Controls for Your Cloud Jan 31 2012 13:00:05	ReadWriteWeb
Network Access Controls for Your Cloud Today CloudPassage boosts security for your cloud-based servers by announcing an enhanced version of its Halo SaaS security tools called NetSec. The new version brings two-factor authentication methods for remote terminal access, as well as improvements to cloud firewall policy creation and management. As with earlier versions, the tools only work on Linux-based instances, since you need to install their agents on each cloud-based server. The tools are being used by Foursquare, for example, to ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »

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