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April 2008 Archives

Grooveshark Launches Awesome Streaming Music Service
Written by Josh Catone / April 15, 2008 3:40 PM / 9 Comments
Gainesville, Florida-based Grooveshark, a music sharing startup that we first profiled in August today launched their latest product: Grooveshark Lite. Lite is a slick, flash-based streaming music service that takes Continue reading »


Facebook's Lifestream: Nothing to See Here
Written by Sarah Perez / April 15, 2008 2:55 PM / 6 Comments
A new post on the Facebook blog announces the arrival of "a new way to share with friends" - that is, they're offering a way for you to import content Continue reading »


Facebook Lexicon Launches - Google Trends for Facebook
Written by Richard MacManus / April 15, 2008 2:53 PM / 4 Comments
Facebook has just launched a neat new trend mapping tool, called Lexicon. Similar to Google Trends, it allows you to create a trend graph for different words and (two-word) phrases Continue reading »


Meme13 Tries and Fails to Solve the Techmeme Echo-Chamber Problem
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 15, 2008 1:04 PM / 9 Comments
Many people love to check out automated blog meme aggregator Techmeme throughout the day for the latest in tech news - but a considerable number of other people consider it Continue reading »


ReadBurner Relaunches
Written by Sarah Perez / April 15, 2008 11:55 AM / 6 Comments
ReadBurner was an RSS aggregator service which displayed the most popular URLs at any given time based on how many people had shared them through Google Reader's Shared Items. To Continue reading »


Calais Gets a Wordpress Plugin
Written by Josh Catone / April 15, 2008 11:25 AM / 5 Comments
Open Calais, a semantic markup API from Reuters that we've written about on ReadWriteWeb before, has finally gotten the Wordpress plugin it has been looking for since January, when it Continue reading »


Windows Live Mesh to Launch Next Week
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 15, 2008 9:16 AM / 8 Comments
Microsoft watchers are all abuzz about an announcement the company is scheduled to make at the Web 2.0 Expo next week. It's believed that the event will be where Live Continue reading »


Farecast: Travel Nerds Rumored to Have Been Bought
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 14, 2008 10:29 PM / 5 Comments
Seattle PI tech beat reporter and frequent news breaker John Cook is reporting that the math-heavy travel price prediction service Farecast has been bought by parties unknown for $75 million. Continue reading »


Is the Mobile Web Dead? Some Mobile Entrepreneurs Say Yes
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 14, 2008 5:29 PM / 57 Comments
Former Yahoo! Mobile evangelist turned startup entrepreneur Russell Beattie announced today that he's calling it quits for his company Mowser because the market for mobile browsing is taking a fast Continue reading »


Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 14, 2008 2:01 PM / 9 Comments
Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today indicating that while online video sites as a category have seen a 7% drop in traffic year over year since March 2007 - Continue reading »


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