About Rick Turoczy
Rick Turoczy is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb. Rick has helped Portland, Oregon, USA startups with traditional and Web-based communications activities for more than a dozen years. You can contact Rick at rickturoczy@readwriteweb.com.
Rick Turoczy Archive
Note: number of comments in brackets
02/27/09: MySpace Continues to Play Catch-up but Is It Too Late? (19)
02/26/09: NYT Times Newswire API: All the News That Will Fit (8)
02/25/09: Just Work Please: Mainstream Media Meets the Fail Whale (15)
02/24/09: Google.org Gets More Business-Like (0)
02/23/09: Times Open: Developers Gather to Discuss The New York Times APIs (13)
02/20/09: OpenID Foundation Introduces New Executive Director (3)
02/19/09: ReadWriteWeb France Catches Up with Matt Mullenweg (30)
02/18/09: Is This Thing On? SpeakerRate Helps Speakers Get Honest Feedback (4)
02/18/09: What Are People Reading in The New York Times? Ask the TimesPeople API (13)
02/17/09: Facebook Launches Facebook Bill of Rights, Reverts to Previous Terms of Use (16)
02/17/09: Kiva Alerts Make Microlending Information More Accessible (8)
02/16/09: Social Media Saves Lives: Salmonella Outbreak Pushes HHS, FDA, CDC to Get Social (9)
02/16/09: Would You Pay $200 for an Android App? Android Market Preps Priced Applications (5)
02/13/09: Flickit: Gracefully Add iPhone Photos to Flickr (8)
02/12/09: Bespin: Could Your Favorite HTML Editor Live in the Cloud? (14)
02/12/09: MySpace's Former Owner: Facebook Will Win - for Now (14)
02/11/09: Twitter OAuth Spotted in the Wild (11)
02/11/09: Onehub Makes FTP Simple, Straightforward, and Sexy (11)
02/11/09: Now Where Was I? Gmail Labs Adds Location to Signatures (22)
02/10/09: Lovely Charts: When Any Old Flowchart Simply Won't Do (12)
02/10/09: Ka-Boom! Marvel Plans to Release Motion Comics via iTunes (10)
02/ 9/09: Embedr: Embed Videos from Multiple Services in a Single Player (17)
02/ 6/09: ReadWriteWeb Guide to Following The Grammys (1)
02/ 6/09: Domain Pigeon: Your Unintelligible Five Letter Domain Name Awaits (51)
02/ 5/09: 30 Google Doodles We Love: Could Your Kid's Be Next? (8)
02/ 4/09: SocialWhois: Whois Lookups for the Social Web (8)
02/ 4/09: Google Latitude: Ready to Tell Your Friends (and Google) Where You Are? (15)
02/ 4/09: GOP, RSS, and API! Oh My! US Congress Republicans' New Site (8)
02/ 3/09: If Woot Went Green: EcoSteal (3)
02/ 2/09: Beaming Like It's 1999: Easycontact Simplifies iPhone Contact Sharing (7)
02/ 1/09: Image Spark Moodboards Share Inspiring Collections of Images (8)
01/31/09: ReadWriteWeb Guide to Super Bowl XLIII: Geeking Out on the Big Game (3)
01/30/09: Do We Need Another Web Survey Tool? Survs May Have You Checking "Yes" (Invites) (8)
01/29/09: Google and Plaxo Combine OpenID and OAuth for Improved Usability (5)
01/29/09: Collaborative Whiteboard Turns iPhones into Linked Sketchpads (4)
01/29/09: Synop.it: A Different Take on Cataloguing the Web (4)
01/28/09: PayPal Joins OpenID Foundation Board as Sustaining Member (8)
01/28/09: iClipper: iPhone Copy and Paste without Jailbreaking (7)
01/27/09: Sqworl: A Lightbox for Shared Links (2)
01/26/09: iPlotz: Goofy Name Belies Powerful Wireframe Tool (7)
01/25/09: Reveal Yourself: Versionista Exposes Edits for Any Site (2)
01/23/09: CoolFlick: Flickr Embedding Cooliris Style (9)
01/23/09: Nothing Interesting to Say? Plinky Hopes to Change That (9)
01/22/09: Understand Your Electronica: Mugasha Makes Sense of Long DJ Sets (Invites) (4)
01/21/09: Who Is Syndicating Your Content? CopyGator Knows (10)
01/20/09: Whitehouse.gov: Looking Back at 12 Years of the US President's Web Presence (17)
01/20/09: Need a Little More Personality in That Presentation? SlideShare's YouTube Embed Can Help (0)
01/20/09: Public Sentiment: Taking the True Pulse of the Public with Farewell W, Aloha Obama (1)
01/19/09: Dipity: Visualizing the Passage of Time (5)
01/19/09: The Road More Traveled: Dopplr Compiles Personal Travel Histories for 2008 (1)
01/16/09: Obama in 3D: Photosynth to Crowdsource Synth of the 44th Presidential Inauguration (7)
01/16/09: LifestreamBackup: Keeping a Copy of Your Posts, Tweets, Photos, and More (10)
01/15/09: Odds Are, You Now Have a TypePad Connect Login (0)
01/14/09: Too Lazy to Click that StumbleUpon Button? Playericious May Be for You (7)
01/14/09: SMS to Kwiry: TiVo Flight of the Conchords kthxbai! (1)
01/13/09: Art Historians Rejoice: Google Earth and The Prado Bring Masterpieces Up Close - Really Close (2)
01/13/09: What Do You Think? RateItAll Rolls Out Additional Social Features (4)
01/13/09: Userfly: Get Usability Insights with One Line of Code (20)
01/12/09: Searching for Random Tracks? Just Hear It May Let You Do Just That (3)
01/11/09: Hiring? Two New Apps Simplify Job Postings and Resume Review (2)
01/ 9/09: Banking on the Wiki Way: AboutUs Secures $5 Million in Funding (3)
01/ 9/09: WhosTalkin: Social Media Search for a Moment in Time (10)
01/ 8/09: Mr. Microphone 2.0: Microsoft Songsmith Puts Even the Worst Lyrics to Music (10)
01/ 7/09: Cramming for Your Next Exam? Try Cramberry (8)
01/ 7/09: Wibe7.tv: Visually Oriented Search for YouTube (5)
01/ 6/09: Encouraged Commentary: Bringing Natural Conversational Dynamics to Commenting (13)
01/ 6/09: TripSay: Tell Your Friends Where to Go (1)
01/ 5/09: Skype 2.8 for Mac: Your Online Demo Is Calling (8)
12/31/08: Google Product Ideas: In 2009, You Could Be Working with Google R&D (1)
12/30/08: OpenID Foundation Board Election Results Announced (0)
12/24/08: Following the Big Man: Google and NORAD Team Up Again to Track Santa Claus (0)
12/23/08: Second Life Finds Gaining Residents as Simple as Redesigning Home Page (7)
12/23/08: Three New Music Services to Try in the New Year (8)
12/23/08: Even More IM at Meebo: Facebook and MySpace IM Added (7)
12/21/08: "Twitter of Korea" Acquired by "Google of Korea" for $2 Million (2)
12/21/08: Krunchd: Another URL Shortener... with an Interesting Twist (22)
12/19/08: Google Image Search Gets More Specific (9)
12/19/08: Dataopedia: Quick Snapshot of Quantitative and Qualitative Site Metrics (3)
12/19/08: XING Acquires Socialmedian (5)
12/18/08: Now It's Gmail, Now It's a Doc with New Labs Offering (6)
12/18/08: Ski Lodge: Your Newest Ski Accessory Is Your iPhone (3)
12/18/08: Snackr Opens Beta Program (0)
12/16/08: OpenID Foundation Board of Directors: 17 Candidates Vie For Seven Spots (4)
12/15/08: SlideShare Presents Your Newest Social App: PowerPoint (6)
12/15/08: Gmail Enables SMS Messages from Chat for US Phones. No, Really. (10)
12/14/08: First Microsoft iPhone App? Seadragon Mobile (3)
12/12/08: Remindr: Ruthlessly Hassle Yourself to Get Things Done (7)
12/12/08: Ocarina: This Contest Blows (3)
12/11/08: JanRain Offers Distributed Social Options Galore, Interscope Geffen A&M Bites (2)
12/11/08: WordPress 2.7: If You Don't Like It, Change It (18)
12/10/08: Embed Whole Seasons of Hulu Shows with SplashCast (2)
12/10/08: WebNotes: Not Just Another Annotation Service (500 Invites Available) (20)
12/ 9/08: Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2008 (47)
12/ 9/08: Clerk Dogs Promises to Find Better Flicks For You (1)
12/ 8/08: MySpaceID: MySpace Sides with the Open Stack (1)
12/ 8/08: Share Your Keynote: SlideShare Finally Accepts Native Apple Presentation Files (8)
12/ 8/08: Sifter: Straightforward Bug and Issue Tracking (7)
12/ 5/08: Freckle: Feel Good Time Tracking (9)
12/ 4/08: YouTube Search Bar: Now You See It, Now You Don't (8)
12/ 4/08: Times Extra: The New York Times Opens Web Front Page to Outside Content (12)
12/ 3/08: Cooliris Release Features Personalization, New Ad Format (4)
12/ 3/08: Dopplr City Pages Offer Interesting View of Techie Travel Patterns (2)
12/ 2/08: Deadline: Simple, Intuitive Task Management (5)
12/ 2/08: I Want Sandy Back, Says Open Source Project (3)
12/ 1/08: Join the YouTube Global Symphony, Play Carnegie Hall (4)
12/ 1/08: Search.io: Search More Sites, More Quickly (11)
11/30/08: Facebook Connect Readies for Broader Distribution with Digg and Hulu (14)
11/27/08: Nimbuzz IM for the iPhone: Friendly to Fat Fingers (1)
11/26/08: EarthCam Live Streaming Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (2)
11/26/08: PicClick: Look for What You're Looking for (7)
11/24/08: YouTube: More to Love (8)
11/23/08: Connecting the Dots: Palantir Visualizes Facebook Activity (2)
11/23/08: Yieldex Wins Amazon AWS Start-Up Challenge, Woos Former AOL Exec (1)
11/21/08: Dark Side of the Cloud (11)
11/20/08: Six Apart TypePad Connect Beta Holds Promise for All Bloggers (2)
11/19/08: Google Lively Is Dead-ly (8)
11/19/08: Microsoft Working on Free Vaccine for Windows Viruses (10)
11/18/08: Zamfir 2.0: The Enigmatic Appeal of Ocarina (4)
11/18/08: Amazon CloudFront: Outlook for CDN Is Cloudy (and That's Good) (9)
11/18/08: Yahoo!: Koogle, Semel, Yang... Next? (3)
11/14/08: OpenSocial: One Year Later (2)
11/14/08: IntenseDebate Emerges from Post-Acquisition Private Beta (7)
11/12/08: MySpace Finally Completes Mobile Trifecta with BlackBerry App (1)
11/12/08: What's Hot on the Web Right Now? OneRiot Aims to Tell You (7)
11/11/08: Google Flu Trends: A Glimpse into the Future of Google Health (11)
11/11/08: Opera Mini 4.2 Beta Promises Faster Mobile Browsing (8)
11/10/08: Say What? Google Reader Translates Any Feed into Your Native Tongue (13)
11/ 7/08: Old Dog, New Tricks: LimeWire Adds Social Features (1)
11/ 6/08: Obama's Social Media Advantage, Act II (9)
11/ 6/08: Meebo Takes Advantage of Android Multitasking for IM App (1)
11/ 6/08: Lance Armstrong on Politics, Ego, and Twitter at Web 2.0 Summit (7)
11/ 5/08: OpenSocial Foundation Elects Parikh, Smarr to Board (1)
11/ 4/08: Twitter Gives Japan Groups, Turns Delete Off Briefly [Updated] (7)
11/ 4/08: Facebook Connect: Coming Soon to a Site Near You? (18)
11/ 3/08: Juice Makes You Smarter, Faster (If You're on Firefox 3) (17)
11/ 3/08: To Do: Check Out Remember The Milk Gmail Gadget (5)
11/ 3/08: Yahoo! Brickhouse Ends Live Streaming Video Experiment (2)
11/ 2/08: MTV to MySpace: Post Our Content, Please (3)
10/31/08: Android Market Shows Steady Growth (5)
10/30/08: Selling Ads on Your Twitter Background? You'll Love Magpie (26)
10/29/08: Hulu: Ugly Duckling No More (9)
10/29/08: Yahoo! Opens Y!OS to Developers (0)
10/28/08: LinkedIn Applications: Your Resume Just Got More Dynamic (15)
10/27/08: Google Labs Adds More Gmail Goodness: Gadgets for Calendar, Docs (21)
10/27/08: Microsoft Windows Live Supports OpenID (9)
10/26/08: Qik Teases BlackBerry Users with Alpha for Pearl and Bold (9)
10/24/08: The Guardian Gives Readers the Whole Story via RSS (7)
10/24/08: Email Still Matters: WordPress.com Tests Reply Via Email (12)
10/23/08: OpenSocial Foundation Announces Elections for Community Directors (2)
10/23/08: Gmail Gets Graphic: When ;) just won't cut it (14)
10/22/08: LinkedIn: $75.7 Million in Series D with Follow-on (6)
10/22/08: Utterli Launches Free Group SMS via Facebook, Bebo (0)
10/22/08: Adobe's Ichabod and The Headless Search of Flash (11)
10/21/08: Gmail Canned Responses: If I've Said It Once... (11)
10/20/08: Three Hot G1 Android Apps Already Out (8)
10/16/08: Vimeo's Newest Feature: More Predictable Revenue Stream (2)
10/16/08: Everything Old Is New Again: Google AdWords Launches Display Ads (10)
10/15/08: FriendFeed Opens the Floodgates with Real-Time Updates (6)
10/15/08: Facebook fbFund Awards 25 Apps $25k Each (0)
10/14/08: FreshBooks Provides Unique View into Small Business Finances (4)
10/14/08: Download Firefox 3.1 beta 1: Get Geolocation API, @Font-Face, and More (3)
10/13/08: Meebo: Web-based IM Is Bigger Than You Think (9)
10/13/08: Google Webmaster Tools API Update Offers Users More Control (2)
10/13/08: Google Apps Unseats Incumbent Microsoft Office in Washington, DC (3)
10/12/08: MySpace MyAds: Target Ads to "Drinking" and "Partying" (3)
10/ 9/08: OpenID Gets SaaS-y: JanRain Works to Ease OpenID Adoption (4)
10/ 8/08: No More Squinting: Google Maps' First High-Res Satellite Images (7)
10/ 8/08: Campaigning with Technology: Palin's Email Hack Remains One of the Few Negatives (1)
10/ 7/08: Game on! Google AdSense for Online Gaming (3)
10/ 7/08: Microsoft Stake in Facebook Begins to Bear Fruit (14)
10/ 7/08: Does Your Browser Know Where You Are? With Mozilla Geode, It Might (4)
10/ 6/08: Google Mail Goggles: Are You Sure You Want to Send That? (20)