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January 2008 Archives

Earthmine: Building a 3D Datamine of the Urban Environment
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 18, 2008 7:29 PM / 6 Comments
Earthmine, the Best Technology Innovation/Achievement category winner at tonight's Crunchies, is a company that might seem uninteresting at first glance. When I first saw earthmine I assumed that it was Continue reading »


Toonlet: DIY Cartoon Strips Made Social
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 18, 2008 10:28 AM / 3 Comments
Toonlet is a new site where you can create your own cartoon strips with customized characters and leave cartoons as comments in response to other peoples' strips. It's fun, fast Continue reading »


Amazon Looks to Crowd to Find Next Bestseller
Written by Josh Catone / January 18, 2008 8:29 AM / 3 Comments
Amazon is entering the second leg of their Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and they're calling on Amazon customers to help them decide which unpublished author scores the grand prize that Continue reading »


Keep Your Resolutions with Wellsphere
Written by Sarah Perez / January 18, 2008 8:28 AM
Wellsphere is a perfect website for those of us who have trouble keeping our New Year's Resolutions. At Wellsphere, the goal is to build online communities where people encourage each Continue reading »


What Does the English Language Look Like?
Written by Josh Catone / January 18, 2008 7:24 AM / 5 Comments
Have you ever wondered what the English language looks? Yeah, neither have I. But a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University did, and Continue reading »


Semantic Wave 2008 - Free Summary Report for RWW Readers
Written by Richard MacManus / January 17, 2008 9:40 PM / 10 Comments
Project10X has just released a 400-page study of semantic technologies and their market impact, entitled Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities. The Continue reading »


LongJump: Database in the Cloud
Written by Sarah Perez / January 17, 2008 6:55 PM / 4 Comments
LongJump, a company based out of Sunnyvale, California, has introduced a Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) product that offers you an easy way to build a database application backend for your website Continue reading »


Yahoo! to Provide OpenID - Will It Take the Next Step?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 17, 2008 11:34 AM / 12 Comments
Yahoo! announced this morning that the company will authenticate the identities of its 248 million users if they chose to login to OpenID supporting sites with their Yahoo! ID. Like Continue reading »


Last100 Macworld Coverage: Analysis of Keynote, Jobs on Kindle, BBC on iTunes
Written by Josh Catone / January 17, 2008 11:03 AM
With the Macworld conference in full effect at the Moscone Center in San Fancisco, our network blog last100 has been keeping tabs on all the juicy tid-bits to emerge from Continue reading »


Idealware Releases Technical Guide to Data Portability
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 17, 2008 10:45 AM / 1 Comments
Nonprofit tech analysts Idealware released a collection of resources today that anyone can use to evaluate APIs under consideration. Titled “Getting Your Systems Talking: A Framework to Evaluate APIs and


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