ReadWriteWeb: April 2008 Archives

Written by Sarah Perez / April 21, 2008 9:01 PM / 5 Comments

Flock, the Mozilla-based "social web browser," which we've profiled in the past here and here, has just announced its new Eco-edition browser just in time for Earth Day. This "green" Continue reading »

Wine, Film and Books: Adaptive Blue Offers Open Format to Make the Web Smarter

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 21, 2008 5:36 PM / 11 Comments

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Semantic web company Adaptive Blue has published what it hopes will become a standard for publishers who want to signal in their header tags when a webpage is primarily about Continue reading »

Alternative Search Engines Day - Call For Alts to Band Together

Written by Richard MacManus / April 21, 2008 3:09 PM / 8 Comments

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I'm at the Alternative Search Engines Day, in San Francisco, an event put on by our network blog AltSearchEngines. We started out with a keynote talk by ASE editor Charles Continue reading »

Start Pages: The Next Social Networks

Written by Josh Catone / April 21, 2008 1:14 PM / 10 Comments

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Google today made an announcement that could prove to be not only important to the evolution of OpenSocial and iGoogle, but also to the social networking sector itself. Google announced Continue reading »

OpenID Usability: Two Solutions That Could Take OpenID Mainstream

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 21, 2008 11:43 AM / 8 Comments

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There's big news in the OpenID world; new solutions are hitting the market that aim to solve probably the biggest problem the paradigm faces - usability. JanRain, owners of MyOpenID.com, Continue reading »

IdeaScale - Crowdsourcing R&D

Written by Josh Catone / April 21, 2008 11:35 AM / 11 Comments

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The hot idea of the moment for large companies is to outsource their research and development efforts to their customers. Who knows your product better than your most loyal fans? Continue reading »

Semantify Your Web Apps with Triplify

Written by Sarah Perez / April 21, 2008 10:51 AM / 5 Comments

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Alright, "semantify" may not be an actual word, but you can probably guess at its meaning: "add a semantic layer to." In this case, we're looking at a small plugin Continue reading »

BBC Launches Social Media Music Chart

Written by Josh Catone / April 21, 2008 10:42 AM

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BBC Radio 1 announced a major update to their music charts about a week ago. Traditionally, mainstream music popularity has been measured by album sales or radio plays -- or Continue reading »

SproutBuilder Grows Up, Releases SDK

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 21, 2008 8:35 AM / 2 Comments

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SproutBuilder, the drag and drop Flash authoring environment for widget building we fell in love with at the DEMO conference, released a much more sophisticated version of its service today. Continue reading »

Etelos Goes Offline with MediaWiki, WordPress and the Apps You Build

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 21, 2008 3:02 AM / 6 Comments

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The Etelos Application Framework today launched a key new feature: the ability for applications there to run offline and sync when connectivity is available. The company requires zero code changes Continue reading »

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