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Meet the "Real" 4G Jan 20 2012 18:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Meet the "Real" 4G It is no secret that what the U.S. cellular carriers call "4G" is really not 4G at all. It is really more like "pre-4G" or "3G+." Real "4G", as defined by the International Telecommunications Union, does not exist. Yesterday though, we got one step closer. The ITU, a branch of the United Nations, announced yesterday the official standards for the next generation of wireless technology. Dubbed IMT-Advanced, the standard lays the rules of the road for what technologies like LTE and WiMax will ev... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Pinterest Works Better Than Google+ Jan 20 2012 18:10:00	ReadWriteWeb
Pinterest Works Better Than Google+ Let's be grown up about this. Pinterest is an app for sharing lists of scrumptious-looking stuff. It's not for girls or guys, it's for people who like looking at things. The story I've heard is that it was designed for architects and designers and "then brides found it." This is why, my sources explain, it tends toward the jewelry-and-table-settings end of the spectrum. But like on any social network, it just depends on whom you're following. On Pinterest, you have fine-grained control over wha... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Now You Can Jailbreak Your iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Jan 20 2012 18:05:44	ReadWriteWeb
Now You Can Jailbreak Your iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Owners of Apple's newest mobile gadgets can now break their devices free from the confines of the company's restrictions. The iPhone 4S and iPad 2 can be jailbroken without being tethered to a computer for the first time thanks to a new tool called Absinthe A5. Last month, hackers released a jailbreak for iOS 5 that covered all compatible devices except for those with an A5 processor. That meant that iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners were out of luck if they wanted an untethered jailbreak solution. ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Megaupload Saga Teaches Painful Lessons About Cloud Fil... Jan 20 2012 17:45:41	ReadWriteWeb
Megaupload Saga Teaches Painful Lessons About Cloud File Storage After yesterday's dramatic, international sting operation, the people behind Megaupload are in custody, their Web empire and fancy cars having been seized by authorities. Founder Kim Dotcom and his associates are charged with piracy on a massive scale, among other things. As for Megaupload.com, the site is inaccessible, perhaps indefinitely. That's a bummer for the millions of people who used it to share copyrighted albums, movies and software. It's an even bigger let down for users who used t... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
New Google Users Now Forced to Join Google+ Jan 20 2012 17:28:00	ReadWriteWeb
New Google Users Now Forced to Join Google+ New users who sign up for a Google account now have no choice but to join Google+. The sign-up form now requires a first and last name and a gender ('other' is allowed). It also asks for a phone number. At the bottom of the sign-in form, there's a checkbox allowing Google to use +1s to personalize content on non-Google websites. It's checked by default. "Your Google Account is more than just Search," the first box on the sign-up page now says. No kidding. When you click to the next page, you ar... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
SOPA, PIPA Votes Indefinitely Delayed Jan 20 2012 15:59:31	ReadWriteWeb
SOPA, PIPA Votes Indefinitely Delayed Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is delaying Tuesday's scheduled Senate vote on the controversial Protect IP Act. The move, as well as a similar delay on a vote of a companion bill before the House of Representatives, appears to be the clearest indication yet that Wednesday's Wikipedia blackout and Web protest swayed lawmakers. On Thursday, several lawmakers dropped their support of the controversial measure and all four Republican presidential candidates took stands against it. Spon... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
64 Billion Plays: What Online Music Looks Like Today (I... Jan 20 2012 15:58:19	ReadWriteWeb
64 Billion Plays: What Online Music Looks Like Today (Infographic) In 2011, we collectively listened to 64,876,491,602 songs on the Internet. Whether it was on YouTube, SoundCloud, Rdio or MySpace, the citizens of the Web listened to quite a lot of music last year. Bands and musicians made over 3 billion new fans, who viewed artist profiles over 16 billion times. These are just a few data points recently released by Next Big Sound, a startup that tracks the popularity of music and individual artists across a range of digital music providers and social services.... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
All Four GOP Presidential Candidates Now Oppose SOPA/PIPA Jan 20 2012 15:32:45	ReadWriteWeb
All Four GOP Presidential Candidates Now Oppose SOPA/PIPA The four leading presidential candidates voiced opposition to the Stop Online Piracy and Protect IP Acts in a televised debate Thursday. The most forceful stance may have come from frontrunner Mitt Romney, who called the bill written by one of his key backers a threat to freedom of speech. "The truth of the matter is the law as written is far too intrusive, far too expansive," Romney said. "It would have a depressing impact on one of the fastest growing industries... I'm standing for freedom." ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Thanks to iPads and Kindles, E-Book Lending at Librarie... Jan 20 2012 14:00:01	ReadWriteWeb
Thanks to iPads and Kindles, E-Book Lending at Libraries Explodes When the concept of libraries lending out e-books first came about, the idea had its skeptics. Some in the publishing industry worried that the practice could eat into e-book sales, while others questioned whether such a system would be popular or effective among consumers. Some recent statistics suggest that library e-book lending is taking off. Driven in large part by the proliferation of tablets and e-readers, digital book lending is on the rise, according to OverDrive, a leading supplier of... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
PentOS "Just Add Water" Private Cloud Released, Dell Si... Jan 20 2012 03:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
PentOS "Just Add Water" Private Cloud Released, Dell Signs On as Partner The creator of the Piston Enterprise Operating System, or PentOS, was lauded for his contributions in helping to create cloud computing itself, through the pioneering NASA Nebula project. There, NASA first demonstrated how to fit a data center cluster in an ordinary shipping container, proving the space program can still produce benefits today. But last year, Joshua McKenty one-upped himself. He fit an almost entirely self-provisioning cloud operating system for a common rack of servers, onto... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Why Apple, Why Does it Have to Be Like This? The Cold ... Jan 20 2012 02:50:40	ReadWriteWeb
Why Apple, Why Does it Have to Be Like This? The Cold Cynicism of the iBook EULA It's hard to wrap my brain around the cold cynicism of Apple's releasing a new tool to democratize the publishing of eBooks today, only to include in the tool's terms and conditions a prohibition against selling those books anywhere but through Apple's own bookstore. There's just something so achingly awful about it. Portland, Oregon iOS developer Dan Wineman calls it unprecidented audacity. Writer Ed Bott calls it "mind-bogglingly greedy and evil." I just find it very, very sad.He... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Daily Wrap: iBooks 2 Not an Immediate Game Changer and ... Jan 20 2012 02:00:43	ReadWriteWeb
Daily Wrap: iBooks 2 Not an Immediate Game Changer and More John Paul Titlow doesn't think today's launch of iBooks 2 will disrupt the textbook industry anytime soon. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story 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. ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Wikipedia: So How Do You Like Censorship? Jan 20 2012 01:07:00	ReadWriteWeb
Wikipedia: So How Do You Like Censorship? Wikipedia blacked out its English-language site yesterday along with other major websites. It was a protest against Web censorship and a demonstration of its effects. Wikipedia's participation was a big win for the movement opposing SOPA/PIPA, the twin anti-piracy bills in Congress. Wikipedia is a resource millions use every day and most take for granted. It's the fifth most popular website in the world. Wikimedia Foundation says the blackout reached 162 million people. Of those, 8 million used... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
New Open Group Cloud Standard Introduces "XaaS" - Somet... Jan 20 2012 00:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
New Open Group Cloud Standard Introduces "XaaS" - Something as a Service As prominent as cloud computing has already become in today's enterprises, it's amazing to realize that the world's reference standards are only now catching up with the concept. On Tuesday, the consortium of industry stakeholders known as The Open Group updated its reference standards for Service-Oriented Architecture. You remember SOA, don't you? Well, if you've been following along with the SOA story, you know that cloud computing platforms have catapulted the service concept onto a huge a... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
It Only Took One Year For Facebook To Beat Orkut In Brazil Jan 19 2012 23:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
It Only Took One Year For Facebook To Beat Orkut In Brazil Facebook has finally surpassed Google's Orkut in Brazil. Launched in 2004, Orkut quickly caught on in Brazil and remained the number one network until the end of 2011. Facebook was Brazil's number three most popular social network in 2010. A recent ComScore report showed Facebook's steady increase throughout 2011. It only took the lead in December 2011, edging out Orkut with 36.1 million visitors. In August 2010, the average Orkut user spent 275.8 minutes on the site, and only 29.3 mi... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
When Does 500 Million Equal A Lot Less Than 500 Million... Jan 19 2012 23:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
When Does 500 Million Equal A Lot Less Than 500 Million? When Twitter Hits Its Next Milestone Much is being made out of projections by Twitter tracking service Twopcharts's projections that Twitter will activate its 500 millionth account next month, but a closer look at the microblogging service's growth shows anything but a steady rise. Twitter passed the 200 million mark last February and then, on May 18, it reached 300 million accounts. That's 50 percent growth in roughly 90 days and the milestone gave Twitter stock as one of the Big Two (at the time) social networks.But so... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Online Ads Will Waste $12.4 Billion This Year In the U.S. Jan 19 2012 23:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Online Ads Will Waste $12.4 Billion This Year In the U.S. U.S. advertisers spend nearly $40 billion a year for online advertisements, but 31% of their ads are never seen. That means $12.4 billion will be wasted on U.S. online ads this year. That's the average across all sites; on some sites, only 7% of the ads were "in-view," meaning 93% of them went unseen. That sounds ominous for the health of Web content. But ad spending is up by over 20% this year. Online ad spending will exceed print magazine and newspaper ads for the first time this year. So, pu... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Are Media Sites ... Jan 19 2012 22:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Are Media Sites Fundable? Today's roundtable brought some core issues up for debate regarding media startups that are focusing largely on Content and Community features and expecting to get funded. So, I would like to take some time to offer a broad overview on the topic and some pointers to entrepreneurs who are making the assumption that you can raise $500,000 for such a venture. Be careful! Empower Lounge Misty Gibbs from Austin, Texas, presented Empower Lounge, a concept for a website that focuses on offering inspi... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Rob Lowe: Foolish Rumor Monger Or Twitter-Savvy PR Genius? Jan 19 2012 22:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Rob Lowe: Foolish Rumor Monger Or Twitter-Savvy PR Genius? We love the NBC cult-hit Parks & Recreation which features Rob Lowe as a hyper-healthy and super-enthusiastic city manager, so we're always a little concerned when we hear rumors that the show may get canceled. So, against that backdrop we got a little suspicious when Lowe, just ahead of a Thursday appearance on the Ellen Degeneres show and the Saturday premiere of a Lifetime movie he's starring in, tweeted that Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning was going to retire after missing the... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Piracy Wars Escalate as Megaupload Shuttered by Feds, A... Jan 19 2012 22:10:25	ReadWriteWeb
Piracy Wars Escalate as Megaupload Shuttered by Feds, Anonymous Retaliates Twenty-four hours after an Internet-wide protest against controversial anti-piracy legislation, big media and pro-copyright interests won a major victory with the shutdown of Megaupload and related websites. The company's flagship file-sharing site allowed users to upload files and share them via a unique URL. The service, which garnered several million visitors per month, was frequently used to share pirated music, movies, software and other copyrighted media. While the site's owners long arg... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
This Is How You Defeat SOPA/PIPA: 7.5M People Sign Peti... Jan 19 2012 21:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
This Is How You Defeat SOPA/PIPA: 7.5M People Sign Petitions, 40K Call Capitol Hill Yesterday Internet users across the United States rushed to their keyboards, sat up straight, and starred menacingly into their computer screens while silently saying in their heads: "Take that, Internet censorship!" Then they hit ENTER nearly 8 million times on petitions to help stop SOPA/PIPA. Internet giants Reddit, Wikipedia and Craigslist joined in the protests by going dark for an entire day. The bill caught the attention of mainstream media sources, even dominating the New York Times' hom... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
[UPDATED] Google+ Has 54 Million Daily Active Users, 90... Jan 19 2012 21:43:55	ReadWriteWeb
[UPDATED] Google+ Has 54 Million Daily Active Users, 90 Million Total Google just announced its Q4 earnings, and CEO Larry Page is "super excited." Revenue for the full year was up 29%. The quarter missed Wall Street's expectations, but Page has no reservations. It was a big quarter for Google+, and Page says that's a key to the company's strategy. "By building a meaningful relationship with our users through Google+," he says, "we will create amazing experiences across our services." Page says Google+ "now has 90 million users globally," which is more than doubl... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Why Google Hasn't Fixed Chrome's Password "Glitch" Jan 19 2012 21:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Why Google Hasn't Fixed Chrome's Password "Glitch" Last May Geeks Are Sexy reported that anyone with access to your computer could access passwords stored in Google's Chrome browser with just a few mouse clicks. When the story inexplicably resurfaced in several Twitter posts this morning, it was time to call Google and find out why they hadn't fixed the perceived glitch. The Geeks Are Sexy post showed how users could find passwords that are saved to for websites that require a log-in in the "Manage Passwords Section" of the "Personal Stuff" tab... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Cloud Roundup for January 19, 2012 Jan 19 2012 21:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Cloud Roundup for January 19, 2012 To abuse the cloud metaphor, there's a storm brewing over public and private clouds. Not surprisingly, providers of public clouds (who hope to see everybody move their computing to public clouds) are quick to dismiss private clouds. One of the best reads today is from the ActiveState blog, where Bart Copeland takes on the idea that private clouds are "vapor." Also, OpenStack's usage accounting system is coming into shape and why you can't live migrate VMs between Red Hat Enterprise Lin... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Appstores.com: The Platform That Wants To Run Your Nich... Jan 19 2012 20:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Appstores.com: The Platform That Wants To Run Your Niche App Store App discoverability is one of the biggest problems facing mobile publishers these days. That is especially true for HTML5 developers publishing apps to the mobile Web. A San Francisco-based startup wants to help. Appstores.com today is announcing the launch of a mobile app distribution network to help developers make their apps more discoverable and profitable. Publishers will have the ability to run their own niche app stores that can be loaded with up to a million apps across the iOS... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Hosting Decisions by YCombinator Companies in 2011 Jan 19 2012 20:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Hosting Decisions by YCombinator Companies in 2011 Ever wonder what other companies are choosing for hosting, Email, DNS, etc.? As it happens, there's an app for that (so to speak) and someone put the Y Combinator companies under the microscope. With 248 companies examined, you get some pretty interesting results. If Y Combinator companies are the future, Google is looking really good for email hosting, and Amazon is doing really well for Web Hosting.One of the surprises, for me at least, was the fact that even after all the SOPA prote... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Twitter Buys Summify for the Next 500 Million Users Jan 19 2012 19:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Twitter Buys Summify for the Next 500 Million Users Twitter has acquired Summify, a service that digests the links in one's Twitter feed and produces a daily email of the most relevant stories. The developers will join Twitter's Growth team, and their work will still "explore ways to help people connect and engage with relevant, timely news." As Twitter nears 500 million users, it needs new ways to teach them how the service works. It's hard to learn to use Twitter, and users give up easily if they don't get it. Summify can help Twitter show new... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Not Every App Is Joining Facebook's Oversharing World Jan 19 2012 19:15:00	ReadWriteWeb
Not Every App Is Joining Facebook's Oversharing World Spotify was essential to Facebook's frictionless sharing plan. But not every app is down for cluttering news feeds with moment-to-moment information about what its users are doing, saying, thinking and listening to. Music streaming service Pandora, for one, is staying out of Facebook's social apps completely. "It's true that music is a social experience, but it's also a very private experience," Pandora founder Tim Westergren recently told CNN. "We have to be very cautious."Yesterday... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Maybe Turning Off Email Is Catching On Jan 19 2012 19:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Maybe Turning Off Email Is Catching On Last year I wrote this post reviewing 40 years of using email. I am old enough to recall many of those events and while I wasn't exactly present at the dawn of email, I know people who were. But it seems as if email, at least corporate email, has come and is in the process of going all in my own lifetime. A number of factors are making turning off, or at least reducing your email dependency, more viable these days. And I should point out that we are talking here about just eliminating internal e... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Why Apple Won't Disrupt the Textbook Industry Anytime Soon Jan 19 2012 18:20:14	ReadWriteWeb
Why Apple Won't Disrupt the Textbook Industry Anytime Soon Apple revolutionizes stuff. It's practically conventional wisdom in the tech world that, even if they're not first in the game or necessarily even the best, the Cupertino-based giant has a tendency to make a noticeable impact. They didn't invent the MP3 player, smartphone or tablet, but they sure have redefined all of those products. Even if this tendency is strong, it's not necessarily always how things play out. For an example, look no further than the Apple TV. Today, the company set their... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Ditch the Dongle: Make Payments With Your Smartphone's ... Jan 19 2012 18:10:00	ReadWriteWeb
Ditch the Dongle: Make Payments With Your Smartphone's Camera With Card.io Imagine making credit card-based payment with your smartphone. Visions of dongles are go dancing through your head. This is a function of conditioning that companies like Square and Intuit have taught users to expect. But, what if you could make a payment just by scanning the card with your smartphone's camera? Ditch the dongle. That is the goal of payments startup card.io. card.io is releasing a software-based payment app today for Android and iOS. In and of itself, that is only mildly interes... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Foxconn Chair Calls Employees Animals Jan 19 2012 17:59:00	ReadWriteWeb
Foxconn Chair Calls Employees Animals Terry Gou, chairman of Taipei-based Hon Hai, Foxconn's parent company, called his employees animals at a recent company party, according to Want China Times. Foxconn makes many of the devices Western consumers use, such as the iPhone and the Kindle. "Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide," he said, "and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache." Foxconn has seen multiple suicides and a threat of mass suicide due to working co... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Infographic: Key Moments in Social Media Law Jan 19 2012 17:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Infographic: Key Moments in Social Media Law The Socially Aware blog has put together a nice infographic that highlights several key decisions in social media case law, starting with the Sony v. Universal Supreme Court Betamax recording decision of 1984 and continuing to the more recent past. In light of the SOPA and PIPA protests and discussions of this week, I found the review enlightening and interesting to see how far we have gone in terms of legislating copyright violations and other digital misdeeds. Remember Facebook suing and ultim... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Top 0 Lessons Learned from the SOPA Protest Jan 19 2012 17:15:00	ReadWriteWeb
Top 0 Lessons Learned from the SOPA Protest So what just happened? Well, several of the world's most prominent Web destinations interrupted their regular programming to remind their readers of the dangers of a world where certain content may be arbitrarily made to disappear. For most Americans, this was probably the first they'd seen of any efforts by Congress to change the Internet, for whatever reason they'd want to do so. They were given links to click on to learn more. Some of those links led to the White House Web site, where ove... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Al-Shabaab Tweets Terror Jan 19 2012 17:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Al-Shabaab Tweets Terror Since the Kenyan army has gone into Somalia in October (during my trip to Kenya), the main Islamist group Al-Shabaab has used Twitter in its propaganda war against the Kenyan government. It's latest tweets, posted yesterday on @hsmpress, include photos and descriptions of two Kenyan government officials they've kidnapped, Fredrick Irungu Wainaina and Mule Edward.The latest two were kidnapped from their government offices in Northern Kenya where Irungu is said to be "Registration Clerk... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Wall Street Journal Unveils Online China Econtracker Jan 19 2012 16:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Wall Street Journal Unveils Online China Econtracker China Real Time, the Wall Street Journal's blog devoted to the world's second-largest country, has developed and launched China Econtracker, a valuable tool to access and understand economic data on the country. Dealing with the statistical bureaus of the world's second-largest economy is even less pleasant than it sounds. So the Journal has created this well-organized, graphically effective and easy-to-use site. It organizes data by month-to-month and year-over-year presentations and users ca... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Hotspot Shield Now Protects iOS Users from Browser Rela... Jan 19 2012 16:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Hotspot Shield Now Protects iOS Users from Browser Related Malware We all know the relative truth that there is no such thing as malware that can strike iOS devices. Malware breeds in incestuous pits of the Internet with botnets and spammers lurking around every URL or third-party app store. Oh, but never on your iPhone. Malware is as synonymous with the Internet as search, chat or porn. Yet, when browsing with you Mac or iDevice, there is still a fair likelihood that you will run into a malware stricken site that could potentially do you harm. AnchorFree, mak... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Apple Takes Aim at Education With iBooks 2 and Textbook... Jan 19 2012 15:53:12	ReadWriteWeb
Apple Takes Aim at Education With iBooks 2 and Textbook Publishing Tools Having already done their part to shake up several industries, Apple officially unveiled what the company hopes is the next phase in textbooks. Starting today, iBooks 2 will be available in the iTunes App Store. The update will provide access to Apple's new breed of interactive textbooks, which are aimed at high school students and will cost $14.99 each. To help populate the store, the company is also launching a suite of digital publishing tools for authors. Phil Schiller, Apple's VP of Worldwi... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Will Windows Phone Get Instagram Before Android? Jan 19 2012 12:35:19	ReadWriteWeb
Will Windows Phone Get Instagram Before Android? Fast Company is reporting that Instagram is working with Microsoft to develop a version of the popular photography app for Windows Phone. Critics love Windows Phone, but it still has a relatively low market share, which left most people to assume Instagram would next aim to conquer Android. The photography application was named the iPhone's app of the year by Apple and now has more than 15 million users.Both Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom and Microsoft were vague when asked about the pot... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Can Codecademy Teach Poor Black & Brown Kids to Code? Jan 19 2012 04:02:10	ReadWriteWeb
Can Codecademy Teach Poor Black & Brown Kids to Code? Unemployment among youth of color is widespread & complex; can a tech education startup change things? The White House announced new participation in a jobs initiative yesterday from fast-growing technical education website Codecademy, as well as some venerable social justice oriented organizations Level Playing Field Institute and College Bound Brotherhood, a group dedicated to increasing the number of young African American men prepared for college. Called Summer Jobs +, the program aims to... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How Long Can Digg Rely Mainly on Facebook? Jan 19 2012 02:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
How Long Can Digg Rely Mainly on Facebook? When Facebook launched frictionless sharing last year, users flipped out. These days, it seems like they're starting to come around. At least, that's what Digg would like us to believe. Digg launched its very own social reader on Facebook in late December 2011. Now, 2 million impressions later, it's adding new features that it believes Facebook-Diggers (or maybe it should be Digg-Facebookers?) will enjoy. This announcement comes on the same day as the Facebook open graph rollout, and ties into ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Daily Wrap: SOPA Garners Mainstream Attention Today and... Jan 19 2012 01:40:18	ReadWriteWeb
Daily Wrap: SOPA Garners Mainstream Attention Today and More Joe Brockmeier explains what he wishes everyone was saying about SOPA. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story 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. What I Wish Wikipedia and Others We... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
MapR CEO: Hadoop Will Be Less About NoSQL, More About P... Jan 19 2012 01:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
MapR CEO: Hadoop Will Be Less About NoSQL, More About Parity Last month, veteran IDC analyst Dan Vesset predicted that while Hadoop will become a standard component of the modern data center, by 2015 the market around Hadoop will have matured at such a rate that the major players we recognize today probably would no longer exist. MapR - a commercial Hadoop provider whose name was inspired by the MapReduce programming model for Hadoop - was one of the companies on Vesset's target list for acquisition, and perhaps a ceremonial asterisk for history once Wik... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Which Of The Big Three Social Networks Will Win The Rac... Jan 19 2012 00:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Which Of The Big Three Social Networks Will Win The Race To China? Mark Zuckerberg's closely-watched, 2010 trip to China isn't the only reason why Facebook may be the safe bet on which of the major U.S.-based social networks will be the first to get the go-ahead to operate in China. Access to Facebook, Google+ and Twitter are all currently banned by the Chinese government. Google may be renewing expansion efforts in China, but a recent crackdown on popular Chinese microblogging sites designed to mimic Twitter suggest that if any of the big three get the permis... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
On the Eve of the iPad 3, Apple to Rethink Textbooks an... Jan 19 2012 00:10:18	ReadWriteWeb
On the Eve of the iPad 3, Apple to Rethink Textbooks and Education The unveiling of the third generation of Apple's iPad is still, unofficially, weeks away. That isn't stopping the company from taking a crack at the way tablets and other mobile devices could change the way people learn. Tomorrow, Apple is expected to reveal its latest plans in the education space at an official press conference in New York City. Exactly what they'll unveil tomorrow isn't yet known, but some hints and leaks have started to paint the picture. That the event is centered around e... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Red Hat Goes After VMware Hard with Red Hat Enterprise ... Jan 19 2012 00:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Red Hat Goes After VMware Hard with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 has been in the works for some time. Today Red Hat took the wraps off the release. Red Hat boasts more than 1,000 new features with RHEV 3.0, including a new user portal for self-provisioning, local storage and converting the management application to a Java application that runs on JBoss. With RHEV 3.0, Red Hat is going straight after VMware for customers.RHEV 3.0 has been in beta since last August, and an open beta since September of last... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Teens Fall In Love, Share Their Passwords Jan 18 2012 23:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Teens Fall In Love, Share Their Passwords In a moment of passionate texting, they decided it was time...to share their passwords. A thoughtful New York Times article published yesterday speaks to an eerie new trend: In the digital era, teenagers in love want to share their most intimate secrets, ideas and, of course, their Facebook accounts. They leave virtual residue on each others' Facebook walls, they send Facebook messages, they text each other and video chat. And they even share their passwords with each other. A 2011 Pe... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google+ Gets Video Status Updates Jan 18 2012 23:25:00	ReadWriteWeb
Google+ Gets Video Status Updates Google+ just got a feature that takes a bite out of YouTube. Google+ users can now post video recordings as updates to their circles. In the video sharing menu, there's now a 'Record video' option that turns on the webcam. After recording, the video can be shared as an attachment to a post. This kind of personal broadcasting is something YouTube is known for, but now informal video updates can be shared straight to Google+ circles. The Google+ stream allows all kinds of in-your-face content, in... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
YouTube Tries to Make "Doing Good" Part of its Everyday... Jan 18 2012 23:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
YouTube Tries to Make "Doing Good" Part of its Everyday Routine One of Google's earliest YouTube employees is now leading a new charge at the company: Trying to figure out how to make YouTube a better service for social good - focusing on nonprofits, education, and free expression/activism. YouTube has long worked with nonprofit-types to help them spread their causes and raise money. About 16,000 organizations are currently in its program for nonprofits, which gives them access to special YouTube features and support, Google says. And YouTube, the video ser... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
SOPA Uncensored: You Speak Out Jan 18 2012 23:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
SOPA Uncensored: You Speak Out Several internet giants either blacked out today, or came out strongly against SOPA and PIPA. ReadWriteWeb covered the issue, noting who spoke out, who blacked out and who jumped in to fill any gaps. You can see all of our coverage of SOPA and PIPA all in one place. But covering a story fully often means turning the lens back to the community. The community of readers here at ReadWriteWeb never cease to amaze us with their smart commentary and responses, so we've compiled a list of... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google+ Adds Search Features Twitter Should Notice Jan 18 2012 22:32:00	ReadWriteWeb
Google+ Adds Search Features Twitter Should Notice Google and Twitter couldn't make a deal to renew their real-time search partnership, and now Google+ is plowing ahead on its own. A new Google+ feature makes searches on the network more timely, social and shareable. Google+ users can now post updates to their streams directly from search results. If you search for a topic or hashtag, such as "SOPA," a post box at the top promps the user to "join the discussion." Posts from this box include the note "Shared from the Google+ SOPA stream." The to... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
CA's Clarity PPM v. 13: Not Every Business Task is a Jo... Jan 18 2012 21:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
CA's Clarity PPM v. 13: Not Every Business Task is a Job for the Cloud Way back in 1984, a company called Applied Business Technology Corp. produced a partly open source project management tool called Open Workbench. After it became part of a company called Niku in 2000, its resource management features had become leveraged for use for inventory of business applications. Big businesses - especially ones formed through mergers and acquisitions - ended up with more software than they knew what to do with. By the time the former Computer Associates - now just CA Te... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
The Effect of Samsung's Dominance Jan 18 2012 20:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
The Effect of Samsung's Dominance The king of digital devices is ready to impose its will on the rest of the ecosystem in 2012. It is lining up billions of dollars in investments and is rumored to be in on every significant acquisition or partnership. Its empire sprawls across televisions, smartphones, laptops and computer processors. What is Apple doing now, you might ask. That would be the wrong question. The biggest influencer of the entire digital ecosystem does not hail from Cupertino. Look across the Pacific to South Korea... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
What Mark Zuckerberg Says About SOPA/PIPA Jan 18 2012 19:40:00	ReadWriteWeb
What Mark Zuckerberg Says About SOPA/PIPA Today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg voiced his personal opposition to the proposed SOPA/PIPA legislation, joining the ranks of fellow Internet powerhouses Google, Wikipedia, Craigslist and Reddit. "The Internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected world," writes Zuck. "We can't let poorly thought out laws get in the way of the Internet's development." Facebook is full of images and videos, many of which violate copyrights. Users peruse the news feed and thei... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Wikipedia Goes Dark, News Orgs Say "I Got This" Jan 18 2012 18:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Wikipedia Goes Dark, News Orgs Say "I Got This" Wikipedia, Reddit, Craigslist, Mozilla, and many other vital websites have gone dark today to protest SOPA and PIPA, the twin online piracy bills Congress is working on. The blackout is certainly attracting attention, but it's also causing frustration, especially for unaware Wikipedia users. The Washington Post, the Guardian and NPR are collaborating on an experiment to see if they can fill the knowledge void left by Wikipedia's blackout. Using the Twitter hashtag #altwiki, these news outlets w... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
What I Wish Wikipedia and Others Were Saying About SOPA... Jan 18 2012 18:15:00	ReadWriteWeb
What I Wish Wikipedia and Others Were Saying About SOPA/PIPA The SOPA/PIPA blackout today by Wikipedia, Mozilla, WordPress.com and many other sites is (I hope) drawing attention to proposed legislation that is considered a threat to "Internet freedom." That's fine, admirable, and (with any luck) will be effective at curbing SOPA/PIPA for at least another legislative season. The backgrounders I've read so far by Wikipedia and others explain pretty well why SOPA/PIPA shouldn't pass. What they don't say is that SOPA/PIPA are business as usual, and ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
The Great Wall of Europe: Fear of the Patriot Act Squee... Jan 18 2012 18:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
The Great Wall of Europe: Fear of the Patriot Act Squeezes EU Out of the Cloud Prospective cloud customers - both consumers and enterprises - throughout Europe are wary of the possibility, however remote, that the contents of their cloud deployments may become open to inspection by government authorities. Not European governments, mind you, but American, by virtue of the Patriot Act. Passed into law before legislators ever pondered the prospects of virtual servers in the cloud, the U.S. law grants federal investigators authority, under court order, to ask service provide... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How One Higher Education Institute Is Protesting SOPA/PIPA Jan 18 2012 17:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
How One Higher Education Institute Is Protesting SOPA/PIPA Today hundreds of websites are participating in a virtual anti-SOPA/PIPA sit-in: Google, Reddit, Craigslist, Wikipedia, WordPress, Mozilla, MoveOn.org, O'Reilly and The Oatmeal, to name a few. Syracuse University's School of Information Studies (iSchool) is the only higher education institute to join the list of Internet powerhouse sites. Syracuse's iSchool offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in information technology and graduate degrees in library science with an emphasis in new/digita... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Antique Wine, Free Tacos & Blacklisted Strippers: Quirk... Jan 18 2012 17:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Antique Wine, Free Tacos & Blacklisted Strippers: Quirky Things You Can do With TrackVia It seems that the lowly spreadsheet can be used to do just about anything, apart from adding up columns of numbers. Spreadsheet abuse has been happening almost since its invention by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston (who wrote Visicalc) in 1979. But since spreadsheets have gone online, people have come up with even more creative ways to use them. Today on TrackVia's blog they have compiled their top ten most unusual applications, and some of them are quite quirky. We last wrote about them last sum... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google+ Adds Discovery Tab to Mobile Web Version Jan 18 2012 17:29:00	ReadWriteWeb
Google+ Adds Discovery Tab to Mobile Web Version Google+ has added two new features to the mobile Web version that will be coming to the native apps soon. The What's Hot section, which highlights trending and popular posts, now has its own stream. Swipe to the right of the Circles tab to find it. The update also enables users to see who +1'd a post by clicking on the +1 count. Google+ added What's Hot last October. It's one of several ways to discover new content on Google+. On the desktop, it appears periodically in the main news stream as w... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
With Today's Protests, SOPA Becomes a Mainstream Issue Jan 18 2012 17:10:17	ReadWriteWeb
With Today's Protests, SOPA Becomes a Mainstream Issue Something big is happening on the Internet today, as you may have noticed. Yes, the English version of Wikipedia is blacked out, as are Craigslist, Reddit, Boing Boing and O'Reilly Radar. Google, Mozilla, Wired.com and Wordpress all have put up some kind of anti-SOPA graphic or statement. Many of those that aren't blacking out text or turning their sites off are nonetheless posting updates expressing sympathy for the movement. All of this is significant, but what is perhaps most interesting is... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Cloud Roundup for January 18: Hadoop World Videos, Open... Jan 18 2012 17:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Cloud Roundup for January 18: Hadoop World Videos, OpenStack QA, Using AWS with Node.js Today we've got links to presentations and slides from Hadoop World 2011, tutorials on scripting KVM with Python, a library for working with AWS services using Node.js and more. Hadoop World 2011 Videos and Slides Available – Cloudera has published slides and videos from the Hadoop World 2011 presentations. If you couldn't be there in person, or were but missed some of the presos, it's worth checking out.Scripting KVM with Python – Over on IBM developerWorks, Paul Ferrill... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Apple's iPhone Strategy Cutting Into Android Market Share Jan 18 2012 16:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
Apple's iPhone Strategy Cutting Into Android Market Share Apple's strategy to take over the lead in the smartphone market from Android is working. In new numbers from research firm Nielsen, 37% of recent (within the last three months) smartphone buyers chose the iPhone, well above the 25.1% that did so in October 2011. Android still holds the market lead but the margin is beginning to shrink. Android rose to the top of the smartphone heap by sheer volume. It has a plethora of original equipment manufacturers pumping out new devices every week that ar... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Yammer And Other Virtual Workspaces Have Real Problems Jan 18 2012 16:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Yammer And Other Virtual Workspaces Have Real Problems One of the unexpected perks of starting work at ReadWriteWeb in December? No more Yammer. This, of course, is more of a company culture problem than anything Yammer can control. Yammer continues to grow, and the enterprise social network space is where companies who are conceding truly social networking dominance to Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, will seek to grow.That means more companies will be using or at least experimenting with enterprise spaces, and that means other firms in ot... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Usergrid + Apigee Will Lead to Cloud-based Mobile Data ... Jan 18 2012 16:15:00	ReadWriteWeb
Usergrid + Apigee Will Lead to Cloud-based Mobile Data Tool, Say CEOs Over the last year, a firm called Usergrid has been building an open source tool for leading mobile app developers through the process of creating back-end services for managing users. The Usergrid philosophy is contrary to quite a lot of the cloud-centered design methodology promoted by SaaS - the idea that the server can do everything, and a thin device can serve as the portal. Instead, Usergrid has promoted the idea of richer mobile apps that use Web services and APIs in a more passive, RES... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Amazon Takes Another Pass at NoSQL with DynamoDB Jan 18 2012 16:10:44	ReadWriteWeb
Amazon Takes Another Pass at NoSQL with DynamoDB Amazon's Dynamo paper (PDF) is the paper that launched a thousand NoSQL databases, if you'll pardon a twisted metaphor and wee bit of exaggeration. The paper inspired, at least in part, Apache Cassandra, Voldemort, Riak and other projects. Now Amazon is making its own take on Dynamo, melded with SimpleDB, available for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels wrote about the new service this morning on his blog, saying that Amazon DynamoDB is "the result of 15 years o... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Facebook to Users: Our Ads Are Never Gonna Give You Up Jan 18 2012 15:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Facebook to Users: Our Ads Are Never Gonna Give You Up If Facebook had it their way, users would come to the site and stay. Ads would send users to other areas of the social network. No one would ever leave. So it comes as no surprise that Facebook's latest ad strategy focuses on subtle ways to keep users in the network. In the second quarter of 2011, Facebook's advertising department offered an interesting incentive to advertisers: If your ad kept people on Facebook, it would cost you 29% less than an ad that sent users out to another website. Fo... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Big Question (Answered): "What Is Your Favorite Cliche?" Jan 18 2012 15:00:12	ReadWriteWeb
Big Question (Answered): "What Is Your Favorite Cliche?" We typically try to keep our Big Questions focused on technology, but today we decided to mix it up with a more general question about cliches. Love them or hate them, they come into most conversations. So what are your favorites (or least favorites) of all cliches? At the end of the day, it is what it is... you're all winners and that's life. We asked and culled your responses from Facebook, Google+ and Twitter and presented them back to you with Storify. If you have additional responses, ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Stop SOPA: What A Blacked Out Internet Looks Like Jan 18 2012 14:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
Stop SOPA: What A Blacked Out Internet Looks Like The Internet is fighting back. Today, hundreds of websites including some of the largest and most influential sites in the world are going black to fight the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act. The two acts would give unprecedented power to the government of the United States to order blocking and takedown notices of foreign websites found to be infringing on copyrighted material such as movies and music. The drumbeat is loud and most of the U.S. technology industry has come out against... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Congress May Soon Take Questions From The Great State O... Jan 18 2012 14:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Congress May Soon Take Questions From The Great State Of Social Media Someday, you may be able to view a Congressional hearing on your smartphone and then participate in the crowd-sourcing of questions for lawmakers and witnesses. The Congressional Hackathon held last month also envisioned a legislative process where constituents could read and comment on proposed laws, essentially particpating in a public mark-up process. In the shorter term, Congress should release legislative data to allow third-party programmers to develop apps and better interfaces, accordin... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Supreme Court Offers No Help To Schools Looking To Clar... Jan 18 2012 13:13:42	ReadWriteWeb
Supreme Court Offers No Help To Schools Looking To Clarify Online Speech Policies The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a case this term that could have clarified the authority schools have over students and their use of social media when they're not in school. On Tuesday, the court said it would not hear appeals on the suspension of a West Virginia student who ridiculed another student or a lower court's decision to overturn a Pennsylvania school district's suspension of a student who posted comments about her principal online. Officials on both sides of the issue saw the hi... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Enterprise Support Lessons Learned From Gen Y Jan 18 2012 13:00:05	ReadWriteWeb
Enterprise Support Lessons Learned From Gen Y Recent news reports name GenY as the most influential generation for retailers. Given ReadWrite's coverage of Gen Y working preferences here, I thought I would take a moment to provide some of the many lessons we've learned with building communities aimed at this cohort. Mikkel is the CEO and founder of Zendesk and launched it in October 2007 after founding several Danish software companies. He holds a BSc(Econ) in Market Economics from Denmark. Customers now call the shots. There wa... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
The Internet of 2011 vs. The Internet of 2010 Jan 18 2012 03:02:00	ReadWriteWeb
The Internet of 2011 vs. The Internet of 2010 Where were you on the Internet in 2010? What about in 2011? The folks over at Royal Pingdom have compiled a nice set of data for the Internet, by the Internet. That is, an entire list of data about email, websites, web servers, domain names by their .dot web addresses, Internet users by country, types of social media, web browser usage, mobile users, videos and images. We decided to take a look at the data points that tell us the most about the read/write web: websites and domain names, Facebook... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Daily Wrap: Steven Wittens' 3D Redesign and More Jan 18 2012 02:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Daily Wrap: Steven Wittens' 3D Redesign and More Steven Wittens' redesign of Acko.net pushes the 3D boundaries in a WebKit browser. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story 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. Pushing the 3D Boundari... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Extreme Scale File System to Premiere in Windows Server 8 Jan 18 2012 01:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
Extreme Scale File System to Premiere in Windows Server 8 The one really big problem with file systems designed for compatibility with PCs - and by that, I mean IBM Personal Computers - truly is the "big" problem. They do not scale, and as the size of databases expands far beyond the capacity of any cluster of storage devices, let alone any single device, a new class of "sharding" technologies has had to be deployed to let fragments of huge virtual volumes to be stored in multiple systems. This is, in fact, what much of cloud storage technology is al... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Another Reason To Become Facebook Friends With Strangers Jan 18 2012 00:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Another Reason To Become Facebook Friends With Strangers A few weeks ago, I found myself at Chicago's New Wave Cafe in the very hip, artsy neighborhood of Logan Square. After ordering my requisite sandwich and coffee, I searched for a table. It was the lunchtime hour, and the place was packed. So I did what any normal person does: I walked up to a girl who was sitting by herself at a two-top table, and I asked if I could join her. She sat behind her laptop, with a smartphone and KindleFire on either side of her. "Sure," she said, removing her headphon... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Bait Your Users with the Simple Phishing Toolkit Jan 17 2012 23:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Bait Your Users with the Simple Phishing Toolkit By now, most folks have heard of phishing scams, and know to be on the lookout for fake PayPal and bank sign-ons. But what happens when your co-workers get a link to a site that looks just like the corporate intranet? Using the Simple Phishing Toolkit (SPT) you can find out. The concept behind SPT is pretty simple: Most companies spend a fair amount of money on trying to secure their environment. How much do they spend on educating users? Very little, and in many cases nothing at all. As the s... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Study: Average App Session Lasts About 1 Minute Jan 17 2012 23:07:00	ReadWriteWeb
Study: Average App Session Lasts About 1 Minute Your mobile device is a little extension of you, loaded up with your text messages, emails, social apps (Facebook, Twitter), news apps, finance apps, photography, location-based social networks, music, travel, sports, health, lifestyle...the list goes on. But how long do you actually keep those apps open, and when do you use which apps? A new study entitled "Falling Asleep with Angry Birds, Facebook and Kindle--A Large Scale Study on Mobile Application Usage," looks at mobile application usage ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
SOPA Resurrected as Google and Others Join Protests Jan 17 2012 22:31:06	ReadWriteWeb
SOPA Resurrected as Google and Others Join Protests U.S. Representative Lamar Smith would like to remind you that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) he helped architect is not dead yet. The House will continue marking up the proposed legislation in February, according to a press release. By the beginning of this week, the bill was considered by many to be as good as dead, given recent political developments, including a statement from the Obama Administration that condemned the more restrictive and controversial aspects of SOPA and related legisla... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
The Broadcast World Takes Interest in the SOPA/PIPA Debate Jan 17 2012 22:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
The Broadcast World Takes Interest in the SOPA/PIPA Debate There are parts of the world where it's understandably difficult for the topic of Internet piracy, or the theft of U.S. intellectual property, to be elevated to critical significance. There is still rioting in Syria, a cruise ship has run aground killing some passengers, and Japan is still struggling to emerge from the devastation of the tsunami. But Saturday's statement from the Obama Administration awakened many broadcast organizations to a strange and, for some, unexplored new question: Is... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Could Facebook Become The Internet's Top Video Site? Jan 17 2012 20:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Could Facebook Become The Internet's Top Video Site? Facebook wants to win the race for the Internet. But one frontier that it hasn't yet mastered is video. If Facebook can capture the video-viewing Web audience, its users will stay on the site longer, sharing more with each other and to their Walls. As the concept of social TV continues growing, Facebook has an opportunity to reinvent social sharing around frictionlessly sharing full-length television shows and movies rather than just YouTube channels and clips.Currently, Facebook is ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Email Notifications Getting Out of Control? Zap 'em Wit... Jan 17 2012 20:05:28	ReadWriteWeb
Email Notifications Getting Out of Control? Zap 'em With This Handy Tool The last time you cleaned out your inbox, how many of those emails were auto-generated notifications from social networks and other websites? Unless you're particularly aggressive about turning off default notifications, it was probably more than a few. You've been meaning to get around to going through and changing all those settings, but - oh hey, hang on, there's another email. Editing the notification settings on a few big Web services doesn't sound like a big deal, and in reality it's not... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
College Students Choose Facebook Over Other Social Netw... Jan 17 2012 20:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
College Students Choose Facebook Over Other Social Networks For Coursework College students appear to have gotten over the creep factor of connecting with their professors on Facebook and would prefer to use the 800-million member social network for formal class assignments and discussions over other platforms, including Twitter. Those are the preliminary findings of Dr. Rey Junco, a college professor who has been studying social media in the college classroom. Not too long ago, students often bristled at the idea of using Facebook in classes because it meant connecti... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Aviary Mobile Upgrade Gives Users Powerful Photo Editin... Jan 17 2012 19:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
Aviary Mobile Upgrade Gives Users Powerful Photo Editing Tools The golden age of mobile photography is upon us. Smartphones are now more capable at producing high-quality photos than digital cameras were just five years ago. Editing photos has been an evolving process but a lot of great services have been released to mobile users in the last year such as filters from Instagram or full-featured suites from Aviary and Skitch. Today, Aviary is making a dramatic update to its platform to gives users a set of powerful tools to edit photos on the go.Avi... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Semantic Tech the Key to Finding Meaning in the Media Jan 17 2012 19:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Semantic Tech the Key to Finding Meaning in the Media News volume has moved from infoscarcity to infobesity. For the last hundred years, news in print was delivered in a container, called a newspaper, periodically, typically every twenty-four hours. The container constrained the product. The biggest constraints of the old paradigm were periodic delivery and limitations of column inches. Now information continually bursts through our Google Readers, our cell phones, our tablets, display screens in elevators and grocery stores. Do we really need to... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
AllTrails Partners With NatGeo Maps After Google's "Fal... Jan 17 2012 19:00:00	ReadWriteWeb
AllTrails Partners With NatGeo Maps After Google's "Fall From Grace" National Geographic Maps has partnered with AllTrails, an online network for outdoor enthusiasts, to launch a co-branded service at alltrails.com. The site aims to be a comprehensive destination for people planning hikes or other backcountry outings. Its 200,000 users can browse nearby or search for trails, post reviews and photos and share trails with friends. Users who have completed a trail are listed on its page. Trail profiles give time and distance measurements, weather forecasts and rout... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
The Hunt For A Perfect Twitter Chat Client Jan 17 2012 18:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
The Hunt For A Perfect Twitter Chat Client Last fall ProfNet, the company that connects reporters with sources, asked me to lead a Twitter chat on how journalists can use social media in their work. It was fun, and using a hashtag set up for the chat, I was able to disperse little bits of social media wisdom in 140 characters or less. I even got my picture in on ProfNet's sign in Times Square leading up to the chat, a photo of which is now a rather cool conversation piece in my living room. The problem is not everyone who follows me on... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Samsung Breathes Life Into Tizen By Merging With Bada Jan 17 2012 18:15:00	ReadWriteWeb
Samsung Breathes Life Into Tizen By Merging With Bada The long evolution of Tizen continues and is about to get its biggest boost yet. Samsung is going to merge its Bada platform with the Tizen project, bringing the Linux-based operating system to more smartphones and developers across the world. Tizen is the Linux smartphone operating system that was once called MeeGo that, in turn, was once the confluence of Maemo and Moblin from Nokia and Intel. Nothing tangible has ever really come out of the Tizen/MeeGo project except for a few demo phones a... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Google Launches Good to Know Campaign for Web Safety Jan 17 2012 17:52:00	ReadWriteWeb
Google Launches Good to Know Campaign for Web Safety Google has launched a consumer education campaign called Good to Know, which is designed to teach new users of high tech about safety, security and data management online. It's a walk-through with four sections: Stay safe online, Your data on the web, Your data on Google and Manage your data. Each section contains an organized brochure of topics with some instructional diagrams and videos. Google calls Good to Know its "biggest-ever consumer education campaign." It began with ad campaigns in th... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Why the iPad Works For Productivity Jan 17 2012 17:15:20	ReadWriteWeb
Why the iPad Works For Productivity When the iPad first launched two years ago, it was derided by some for its limitations. The first iteration didn't even have a camera on it, and it may never get a physical keyboard, so the notion of the device being used for content creation was laughable. Instead, the iPad was seen as a tool best used to lean back and consume content. For the most part, that's how things have played out. People use their iPads for reading, watching video, listening to music and gaming. Despite that, the iPad... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Oh Great. Google+ Got A Built-In LOLcat Generator Jan 17 2012 16:45:00	ReadWriteWeb
Oh Great. Google+ Got A Built-In LOLcat Generator Google+ now has a meme text generator for images, allowing the Internet to parody itself until it's no longer funny. The Google+ stream, already jammed with animated GIFs, full-width images and videos, Google Music players (theoretically) and 1,000-word rants, is now a full-fledged competitor to I Can Has Cheezburger. Google engineer Colin McMillen announced the feature this morning. The Google+ Creative Kit for editing images already had a text tool with lots of fonts to choose from, but this ... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Microsoft SC 2012 to Support Multi-Hypervisor Private C... Jan 17 2012 16:30:00	ReadWriteWeb
Microsoft SC 2012 to Support Multi-Hypervisor Private Cloud for a Flat Fee In a move to stay competitive in a cloud landscape that looked to be blowing it away, Microsoft this morning is making important strategic shifts that could advance its position in a two-front war against both VMware and Amazon. Today the company is making available a release candidate for its System Center 2012 administrative suite, which will utilize a new fabric controller (FC) for private cloud architectures. This new FC will be hypervisor-agnostic. Up until today, Microsoft's private clo... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
How Much XP is Still Around? Jan 17 2012 16:06:24	ReadWriteWeb
How Much XP is Still Around? With Microsoft gearing up this year for Windows 8, I thought I would survey the stats on desktop OS share, and to no surprise, XP is still the leader. According to Forrester in March 2011, 60% of the corporate desktops were running XP. The mix is somewhat less on the consumer side: According to NetMarketShare.com, XP has a 46% share as of December 2011. A compilation of other stats on Wikipedia shows between 26-45%, depending on who is counting. Certainly, there is still a lot of XP out in the w... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Coliloquy Launches Interactive E-Books That Let Readers... Jan 17 2012 15:37:00	ReadWriteWeb
Coliloquy Launches Interactive E-Books That Let Readers Choose The Story Remember Choose Your Own Adventure books? They pioneered the idea of the book as a game, an interactive form of reading that let the reader control the direction of the story. You reached a decision point in the plot, the book presented options, and you turned to a different page depending on your choice. A startup called Coliloquy launches today to bring that concept to the e-book market starting with four titles. They're young adult romance novels, each written by an established author who to... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »
Cloud Roundup for January 17, 2012 Jan 17 2012 15:30:10	ReadWriteWeb
Cloud Roundup for January 17, 2012 The OpenStack community is getting ready for a bug-squashing day, BitNami has Windows AMIs that qualify for Amazon's free usage tier and Christopher Miles has an interesting post on working with Hadoop, HBase and Clojure. All Your HBase Are Belong to Clojure – Miles goes into great detail on setting up HBase, defining the Hadoop job, and a lot more. Run BitNami Apps on Windows Free on AWS – We covered Amazon adding Windows Server to its free tier yesterday. If you want to... Read the full article on ReadWriteWeb »

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