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December 2007 Archives

Where to Watch NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL Online
Written by Richard MacManus / December 11, 2007 9:58 PM / 4 Comments
On our network blog last100, Daniel Langendorf writes: "The Internet is not just a place to get the latest scores and follow your favorite team in the standings. The Web Continue reading »


Human Brain Cloud: Massively Multiplayer Word Association Game
Written by Josh Catone / December 11, 2007 1:31 PM / 8 Comments
Earlier this year game designer Kyle Gabler put up a just-for-fun side project called Human Brain Cloud - a massively multiplayer word association game that started with a single word Continue reading »


OMG, Japan Wages War on Literature
Written by Josh Catone / December 11, 2007 11:09 AM / 5 Comments
Call me a purist, call me stubborn, call me antediluvian, but I cringe whenever I see Internet chat, emails, or text messages that contain more acronyms, numbers, and symbols than Continue reading »


RIAA: Putting Your Own CDs on Your Computer is Prohibited
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 11, 2007 10:43 AM / 14 Comments
In a statement that directly contradicts an earlier position from the famous Grokster case - RIAA lawyers in Arizona told the defendant in the case Atlantic v. Howell yesterday that


Facebook vs. w00t: The Web Defines Word of the Year Competition
Written by Josh Catone / December 11, 2007 9:36 AM / 10 Comments
In 2004 it was blog. In 2005 it was integrity. Last year it was truthiness. This year, among the twenty words competing for Merriam-Webster's 2007 Word of the Year contest, Continue reading »


Hitwise: Google Continues to Grow Market Share, Financial Search Up Big, Health Search Growth Slowing
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 11, 2007 8:41 AM / 3 Comments
Web traffic analysts Hitwise released a report this morning claiming that Google's search market share has continued to grow and is now 65.1%, up 5% from November of last year.


The Economist's Oxford 2.0 Debates
Written by Richard MacManus / December 11, 2007 1:25 AM / 8 Comments
I love The Economist magazine. 164 years old, intelligent reporting, objective to the point where the writers aren't even allowed to display their names (poor bastards). This is serious journalism. Continue reading »


The Evolution of Personal Publishing
Written by Alex Iskold / December 11, 2007 12:00 AM / 13 Comments
digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/The_Evolution_of_Personal_Publishing'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Fred Wilson recently wrote a post on his blog in which he argues that the rapid adoption of Twitter and Continue reading »


Ask.com Unveils Search Privacy Tool: Users Control Their Search Data
Written by Josh Catone / December 10, 2007 6:05 PM / 5 Comments
Fourth-ranked US search engine Ask.com is tonight releasing a new feature, AskEraser, that will let users control the destiny of their search data. When enabled, AskEraser will automatically delete any Continue reading »


Best Web BigCo of 2007: Facebook
Written by Richard MacManus / December 10, 2007 2:08 PM / 7 Comments
Every year in December Read/WriteWeb does a Best Web Companies round-up. This is the 4th time and, like last year, we're splitting it over two posts. In this post we'll Continue reading »


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