ReadWriteWeb: April 2008 Archives

New Facebook Ad Network Takes a Page from Beacon

Written by Josh Catone / April 18, 2008 12:46 AM / 2 Comments

Identified Hits is a new Facebook ad network that is taking a page from the Beacon play book. Beacon, you'll remember, is Facebook's endorsement-based ad service that uses user actions Continue reading »

Web 2.0 Expo Competition Winners

Written by Richard MacManus / April 17, 2008 9:10 PM / 9 Comments

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We had a great response to last night's competition offering 2 full passes to the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo. Over 100 people left a comment telling us their favorite web Continue reading »

Super Hot: Muxtape With Coverflow

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 17, 2008 6:05 PM / 6 Comments

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MP3 "mix tape" site Muxtape has been my preferred source of new music for the last few weeks now, in large part because the simple interface is such a joy Continue reading »

MyOpenID for Your Domain - The Easiest Way to Use Your URL as an OpenID

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 17, 2008 11:56 AM / 21 Comments

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OpenID, a technology that allows users to sign in to new supporting websites through a single trusted ID provider of their choice, is notoriously hard for non-developers to implement and Continue reading »

Battle of the AIR Apps: Twhirl vs. Alert Thingy

Written by Sarah Perez / April 17, 2008 11:55 AM / 9 Comments

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Today, the battle between the two most popular AIR apps as of late has begun. Yesterday, the FriendFeed AIR app, Alert Thingy, having only just launched on April 13th, was Continue reading »

Google News Becomes Near Real-Time Bartlett's

Written by Josh Catone / April 17, 2008 11:44 AM / 1 Comments

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Just two days after Microsoft released a Google News competitor, Google has upped the ante by adding a useful new feature to their popular news site: Quotations. Google announced today Continue reading »

Inbox 3.0 Brings Better RSS to Outlook

Written by Sarah Perez / April 17, 2008 10:01 AM / 5 Comments

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NewsGator is a company that develops RSS aggregators for individuals and businesses. It is the maker of the popular FeedDemon RSS Reader for Windows and NetNewsWire for Mac. Today, NewsGator Continue reading »

Amazon Gets Serious About AWS, Adds Premium Support

Written by Josh Catone / April 17, 2008 9:25 AM / 1 Comments

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Amazon today announced premium for-pay support packages for some of its core infrastructure services. The Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Simple Queue Service (SQS) each received Continue reading »

Competition: Win a Free Pass to Web 2.0 Expo

Written by Richard MacManus / April 16, 2008 10:44 PM / 113 Comments

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ReadWriteWeb has 2 tickets to next week's Web 2.0 Expo to give away, courtesy of Technorati. These are full conference passes, worth $1,895 each, so they will get you into Continue reading »

Alexa Updates Its Web Rankings - Still Not Good Enough

Written by Josh Catone / April 16, 2008 7:20 PM / 15 Comments

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Amazon-owned Alexa has announced a major update to its 10 year old web ranking system. Previously, Alexa's rankings were based solely on data collected from the downloadable Alexa Toolbar, but Continue reading »

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