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January 2008 Archives

Humans Interupting Algorithms: Wales v. Calacanis on Human Powered Search
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 21, 2008 12:30 PM / 14 Comments
A large group of international tech rock stars are at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich today and friend of RWW Martin Källström of pre-launch search startup Twingly sent Continue reading »


Defining User Generated Content; Or, Digg Is Too a UGC Site
Written by Josh Catone / January 21, 2008 12:19 PM / 9 Comments
In post on his blog today, my friend Allen Stern takes issue with Digg winning the "Best User Generated Content Site" award at Friday night's Crunchies Awards. Allen, who provided Continue reading »


The Significance of the MyBlogLog API
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 21, 2008 11:29 AM / 4 Comments
If you could capture and use the names, ages, genders and demonstrated interests of the specific people who visited your website - would you? A whole lot of people providing Continue reading »


New York Times High on Citizen Journalism Tools
Written by Josh Catone / January 21, 2008 10:02 AM / 2 Comments
The New York Times ran two stories today affirming the usefulness of citizen journalists and microjournalism tools to the reporting of major news stories. In October we reported that citizen Continue reading »


Report: Nokia, Facebook Discussing Deal
Written by Josh Catone / January 21, 2008 10:00 AM / 1 Comments
paidContent reports that Finnish handset maker, Nokia, is in talks with Facebook to put social networking on the company's mobile phones. The placement of Facebook on handsets could be "as Continue reading »


MySpace Plans to Launch Startup Incubator
Written by Josh Catone / January 21, 2008 8:42 AM / 1 Comments
According to the New York Times, MySpace is planning to launch a startup incubator that would nurture the development of new web companies, presumably to feed its growing widget universe. Continue reading »


Flock 1.1 Arrives in Two Weeks
Written by Sarah Perez / January 20, 2008 9:40 PM / 7 Comments
Flock, the Social Web Browser, has announced that the Flock 1.1 beta will launch in just two weeks. The browser, built on Firefox code, is designed for social interaction on Continue reading »


Weekly Wrapup, 14-18 Jan 2008
Written by Richard MacManus / January 19, 2008 10:16 PM
Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Continue reading »


Crunchies - Thanks All (& An Apology)
Written by Richard MacManus / January 19, 2008 11:22 AM / 3 Comments
The Crunchies event last night in SF was a blast. Thanks to everyone involved, but especially Michael Arrington, Heather Harde and the team from TechCrunch - who put in Continue reading »


Crunchies Winners Announced
Written by Josh Catone / January 18, 2008 7:30 PM / 12 Comments
While the Crunchies award ceremony is in full swing at the historic Herbst Theater in downtown San Francisco, we've got the winners for you right here. Over 100,000 votes were Continue reading »


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