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Survey: Young Adults Think Facebook is #1; Women More Into it Than Men
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 5, 2007 1:02 PM / 5 Comments
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A new survey released this week by the marketing analysts and consultants at Anderson Analytics found that Facebook is now the #1 most liked website among US respondents between the


Can A Thousand People Working Together Beat a Chess Grandmaster?
Written by Josh Catone / October 5, 2007 12:48 PM / 4 Comments
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In August we wrote about Stan Oleynick, an Internet developer who was selling the rights to his name to finance a web project. At the time, his top bid was Continue reading »


1000 Docstoc Invites for Read/WriteWeb Readers
Written by Josh Catone / October 5, 2007 11:25 AM / 8 Comments
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Docstoc, which demoed at the TechCrunch40 last month, is offering 1000 private beta invites to Read/WriteWeb readers. Docstoc is aiming to be the YouTube or Flickr of professional documents, by Continue reading »


Dear New York Times: The Pay Wall Was Only Half the Problem
Written by Josh Catone / October 5, 2007 11:06 AM / 11 Comments
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A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times removed the pay wall in front of its TimesSelect service, which controlled access to much of the paper's archives and its Continue reading »


YouTube Spam Panic Emerging; Why Don't All Networks Have Spam Control?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 5, 2007 8:17 AM / 10 Comments
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Multiple press outlets are reporting this morning about the increasing use of YouTube's messaging and basic video hosting features for spam. There's nothing that many people hate more than spam, Continue reading »


Notes From the Field: Future of Web Apps Conference
Written by Guest Author / October 5, 2007 2:38 AM / 9 Comments
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[Richard] The Future of Web Apps conference was held again this week in London. John O'Shea and Fergus Burns of nooked were there (a company I am an advisor to) Continue reading »


Creative Entrepreneurs: The Next Masters of the Universe
Written by Bernard Lunn / October 5, 2007 2:14 AM / 11 Comments
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For decades financiers of one type or another have been the “Masters of the Universe”. People who, as Bob Dylan once sang, “make the rules, for the wise men and Continue reading »


Microsoft Aims to Store Health Records Online -- Will Anyone Bite?
Written by Josh Catone / October 4, 2007 2:22 PM / 8 Comments
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Microsoft today unveiled their new consumer health and search site Health Vault. Built around their fairly impressive health search engine, Microsoft hopes that the site will become a central repository Continue reading »


The New Rules Of Technology VC
Written by Alex Iskold / October 4, 2007 1:16 PM / 24 Comments
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Just a few years ago, large venture firms were incubating companies for months. During the incubation period, the founders wrote 70+ page business plans, which described the market opportunity, the Continue reading »


A Flood of Mashups Coming? OAuth 1.0 Released
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 4, 2007 11:36 AM / 12 Comments
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digg_url = 'hhttp://digg.com/tech_news/A_Flood_of_Mashups_Coming_OAuth_1_0_Released'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The distributed group of developers working on the Open Authentication spec OAuth have released what they hope will be the Continue reading »


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