ReadWriteWeb: June 2008 Archives

Participate in Social Media, Get Money for College

Written by Sarah Perez / June 19, 2008 6:54 AM / 2 Comments

CollegeNET is a new, education-based social network where participation can lead to more tangible results than a large friends list or a lot of wall posts. Instead, the students participating Continue reading »

Mainstream Web Watch: NBA.com

Written by Richard MacManus / June 19, 2008 3:17 AM / 9 Comments

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Welcome to a new series on ReadWebWeb, which we're calling 'Mainstream Web Watch'. Over the coming weeks I will be exploring a whole range of websites for RWW - from Continue reading »

China Web Boom: .CN Now More Popular than .Net

Written by Josh Catone / June 18, 2008 7:31 PM / 8 Comments

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China's top-level domain has now surpassed .net as the web's third most popular top-level and second most popular country-specific domain, according to a study by VeriSign says the Associated Press. Continue reading »

Learning from Flickr's Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 18, 2008 12:01 PM / 15 Comments

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In June 2005 Yahoo! acquired upstart Canadian photosharing web site Flickr and the web hasn't been the same since. Yahoo, on the other hand, didn't change nearly as much as Continue reading »

Info Overload: What Can We Do?

Written by Sarah Perez / June 18, 2008 10:00 AM / 12 Comments

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This is post #2 of a 2-part post on today's information overload problem and how we can cope. Please read part 1 here. The information overload problem has reached a Continue reading »

Fring API Could Shake Up the Mobile Web

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 18, 2008 9:33 AM / 4 Comments

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Popular mobile IM and VOIP service Fring just launched an Application Programming Interface that could bring some awesome new applications to mobile phones around the world. The new API offers Continue reading »

Firefox 3 Sets Download 'Record' - Are You Using It?

Written by Josh Catone / June 18, 2008 7:34 AM / 23 Comments

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Firefox has already surpassed the 5 million download mark it set out to meet in its first 24 hours. As I write this, the browser just passed the 7 million Continue reading »

Build Your Own Reddit With Reddit

Written by Josh Catone / June 18, 2008 7:09 AM / 2 Comments

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Social news site Reddit's secret announcement -- which people have been speculating about for the past 24 hours -- is out of the bag: Reddit is open sourcing their code. Continue reading »

Info Overload: The Problem

Written by Sarah Perez / June 18, 2008 5:32 AM / 15 Comments

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This will be post #1 of 2 posts on today's information overload problem and how we can cope. Part 2 is here. Information overload is no longer a joke. For Continue reading »

The Coming World of Mobile Sensors

Written by Daniel Langendorf, last100 writer / June 18, 2008 1:55 AM / 6 Comments

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At Supernova 2008 this week we got a glimpse of what’s next for mobile; and it has little to do with hardware like the iPhone, software like Google’s open-source operating Continue reading »

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