ReadWriteWeb: February 2008 Archives

The Future of Search: Peter Morville Defines, Shows Examples

Written by Richard MacManus / February 13, 2008 3:47 PM / 7 Comments

I'm at the Webstock conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Currently speaking is Peter Morville, whose topic is "Ambient Findability and the Future of Search". Peter Morville was co-author of the Continue reading »

Plan B for Microsoft: Split up the Advertising Atom

Written by Emre Sokullu / February 13, 2008 1:44 PM / 8 Comments

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Since Microsoft made its $44 billion offer for Yahoo! (so far rejected), many industry veterans, including Fred Wilson and Paul Kedrosky, have proposed ideas for Yahoo! to increase profitability, avoid Continue reading »

37Signals' Backpack Getting Major Upgrade - Losing Focus?

Written by Josh Catone / February 13, 2008 11:56 AM / 18 Comments

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This week, 37Signals started to preview the upcoming update to their Backpack service, which received its last major update in July. Though most of the new features seem very useful, Continue reading »

Crude Android Prototypes Unveiled

Written by Daniel Langendorf, last100 writer / February 13, 2008 11:00 AM / 2 Comments

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Syndicated from last100, our digital lifestyle blogAndroid has landed. And it looks like, well, some sort of space alien. Several companies at this week’s Mobile World Congress unveiled prototypes of Continue reading »

BlogJuice: Learn About A Blog's Readers With One Click

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 13, 2008 10:10 AM / 1 Comments

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MyBlogLog is a powerful application for learning more about any blog's readership but with the release of an API last month, we knew this Yahoo! owned service was only going Continue reading »

Tired of Blackberry Outages? Run Your Own Blackberry Server Instead

Written by Sarah Perez / February 13, 2008 9:59 AM / 4 Comments

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Research in Motion, the maker of Blackberry smartphones, was once again under fire due to Monday's service disruption, the second in a span of 10 months. The outage left customers Continue reading »

Will ManagedQ Be Disruptive to Search?

Written by Sarah Perez / February 13, 2008 9:09 AM / 6 Comments

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ManagedQ is a new search search that provides a visual interface to Google's results (see our full review on AltSearchEngines here). Since ManagedQ's results come directly from Google, there's no Continue reading »

Microsoft: Kid Pirates Just Don't Understand, We'll Teach 'Em

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 13, 2008 9:08 AM / 3 Comments

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Microsoft released the results of a survey today indicating that the small percentage of young people who know the laws around copyright are much less likely to violate them than Continue reading »

Facebook Makes it Easier to Delete Your Account, Sort Of

Written by Josh Catone / February 13, 2008 6:15 AM / 10 Comments

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It was just Monday that the New York Times reported on the difficulty some users were having when trying to permanently delete their accounts from Facebook. The social networking site Continue reading »

PicLens Brings Cover Flow-style Photo Viewing to the Web

Written by Josh Catone / February 13, 2008 5:40 AM

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PicLens is a nifty web browser addon from Cooliris that I hadn't tried until the company emailed us a couple of weeks ago to let us know that they had Continue reading »

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