January 2007 Archives
We're piloting a new feature on Read/WriteWeb, called Point/Counterpoint. It's where two authors (John Milan and Alex Iskold in this case) argue two sides of an intriguing question. We'd also
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Written by Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb and edited by Richard MacManus Social Media researcher danah boyd recently wrote in her blog about throwaway identities in MySpace: "Sara created a MySpace
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The big news today is that IBM has released an enterprise social networking suite, called Lotus Connections. The NY Times explains: "Lotus Connections has five components — activities, communities, dogear
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3D interfaces have been around since the Web began - and more than one dot com fell by the wayside partly because of an over-reaching 3D interface (cough, boo.com). Indeed
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Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus Metacritic, now a property of CNET, has been around since before the last bubble burst. The site has a unique system
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Another startup has bitten the dust, RSS company Syndicate IQ has "ceased operations" according to a notice on its homepage. Syndicate IQ was a company that provided feed management, statistics
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Occasional Read/WriteWeb guest writer Rudy De Waele has started up a Mobile 2.0 wiki. Rudy's intro: "Following the response and feedback on "Understanding Mobile 2.0" article at Read/WriteWeb, I
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Lately I've received some odd emails from wiki vendors Wikia and MindTouch about the domain wiki.com. A brief history: wiki.com (the domain name) was bought last year by entrepreneur John
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Hitwise has released data that suggests Bloglines is still the clear leader in the RSS Reader stakes, with 3 times more US visits than its nearest web-based competitor Rojo. I
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