ReadWriteWeb: February 2008 Archives

Earthquake in UK? News Broken on Twitter

Written by Josh Catone / February 26, 2008 5:07 PM / 29 Comments

It would appear that an earthquake was just felt across the UK (hopefully not a major one!). Where did the news first break? Well, we heard about it over Twitter. Continue reading »

Beware of Freeconomics

Written by Alex Iskold / February 26, 2008 1:43 PM / 46 Comments

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A few weeks ago we published a piece on this blog entitled The Danger of Free, in which we discussed the rise of free - a marketing strategy where digital Continue reading »

Orglex: Semantic News, Blog and Job Search for Industry Verticals

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 26, 2008 1:42 PM / 5 Comments

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Orglex is a new semantic-web powered news, blog and job search engine with a social networking component and industry vertical focus. It's an interesting service that brings together a number Continue reading »

TextBound Heralds Mobile Marketing's Arrival

Written by Sarah Perez / February 26, 2008 11:40 AM / 6 Comments

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Mobile marketing startup, TextBound, has big plans to make text messages the new mass media for advertisers. Like we mentioned earlier, more and more companies are going to be betting Continue reading »

In Malaysia, Bloggers Become Politicians

Written by Josh Catone / February 26, 2008 10:19 AM / 1 Comments

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We've written a lot about the Internet's role in American politics over the past six months as the US heads toward presidential elections next fall. How the web is playing Continue reading »

An Online Collection of Visualized Networks

Written by Sarah Perez / February 26, 2008 9:25 AM / 2 Comments

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VisualComplexity.com is a site that intends to be a unified resource space for the visualization of complex networks. Their main goal is to better understand the different types of visualization Continue reading »

Social News: Can the Digg/Mixx/Buzz Model Hold Up Against FriendFeed and Sphinn?

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 26, 2008 8:46 AM / 14 Comments

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The social news space is developing at a mind-boggling pace. Just in the last 48 hours Yahoo! launched its new site Buzz, the increasingly mainstream site Mixx announced more funding Continue reading »

Link Journalism: Is Linking to News a form of Journalism?

Written by Josh Catone / February 26, 2008 2:00 AM / 12 Comments

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Scott Karp attempted to coin a new term on his Publishing2 blog today: link journalism. "Link journalism is linking to other reporting on the web to enhance, complement, source, or Continue reading »

Comment of the Day: Build an Offline Browser

Written by Richard MacManus / February 26, 2008 1:59 AM / 1 Comments

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We have two winning comments today, from Michael Lambie and Vibhu Norby. Michael's comment was on our post The Best Things About Adobe's AIR Platform. He suggested that AIR could Continue reading »

BricaBox - The Beginning of Social Content Platforms?

Written by Blake Robinson / February 25, 2008 10:07 PM / 16 Comments

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BricaBox is a new type of service that combines elements of social networking and content creation into a medium it calls a "social content platform." The NYC-based startup hopes to Continue reading »

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