Today Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW, with the main topic of discussion being Data Portability. Later in the day at the festival, a star studded panel discussed building portable social networks. The panel highlighted four technologies that help make identity and data more portable across social networks: hCard; XFN and FOAF; OpenID; OAuth.
P2P music service Grooveshark is at SXSW Music this week, promoting the upcoming release of an Analytics suite for music artists and labels. The company is also generously offering ReadWriteWeb readers $1000 worth of music vouchers (details below). We reviewed Grooveshark in August last year, when Josh Catone described it as "one part Last.fm, one part Limewire, and one part iTunes store."
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is at SXSW doing press interviews today and many people want to know what his thoughts are concerning data portability. There's a big web out there that would like to give and take user data in and out of Facebook. We focused on data portability in our conversation with Zuckerberg and got a fairly clear picture of his views on the subject.
In yesterday's post Why Apple Will Dominate Next Gen Computing, Alex Iskold wrote that Apple's announcement of iPhone support for Microsoft Exchange "makes perfect sense" - as a competitive move against Blackberry and to position the iPhone as the default consumer / enterprise phone. However, how smart was this move by Microsoft?
Former Google Product Manger, Steffen Mueller, has launched Topicle, a new search engine community. The service, which went live today, uses a model similar to that of Wikipedia, allowing anyone to contribute to the creation and enhancement of their own vertical search engines.
A new service from HP's IdeaLab is HP BookPrep, a print-on-demand service. With BookPrep, consumers can order any book, whether current or out-of-print, and have it prepared for them as a print-ready PDF eMaster file. What's more, the HP technologies used in the imaging process can restore older, damaged copies of books back to their original form.
Last week Steve Jobs took the stage at the Apple Town hall meeting and announced
two major things for the iPhone: 1) support for Microsoft Exchange and 2) the iPhone SDK.
The Exchange support was a relatively unexpected move, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense.
In order to unseat Blackberry as the number one wireless player in the US, Apple needed to have an enterprise story. What's more, Apple has realized that the days when people carried two phones are over.
Editor's note: last week the Health 2.0 Conference was held in San Diego - see our review. Josh Rosenthal, founder of Sprigley, was also there and in this post he identifies some of the health web apps that caught his eye, plus trends that were discussed.
ReliefInsite is a site that allows people to map, monitor and analyze their pain. It drew perhaps the most attention at the conference.
Due to the Ed traveling end of last week, we didn't announce any Comment of the Day winners. To catch up, we've selected 3 random commenters to win: Frandall, YItna Firdyiwek, Jez.
Congratulations to those 3 people, you've each won a $30 Amazon voucher - courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their Netflix Queue Widget.
A reminder about how this daily competition works... until at least the end of March we are giving away one $30 Amazon gift voucher every day for the best daily comment. Here's how it works:
After World War 2, America built the infrastructure to deliver mass produced products, by mass transit for mass markets. We consumed along the arteries of this infrastructure, in supermarkets, fast food chains and airport malls. We have now passed the high water mark of this long distance, mass culture; the trend now is towards “re-localization”, where we are less dependent on the two dominant grids of the 20th Century - electric grid and interstate highways - as we rely increasingly on the digital grid/cloud.
