ReadWriteWeb: July 2008 Archives

Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 17, 2008 10:01 PM / 7 Comments

Tapulous, the developers of the highly popular Tap Tap Revenge game for the iPhone and iPod touch, released a native, location aware Twitter client for the iPhone tonight. Twinkle (iTunes Continue reading »

Corporate Social Networks Are A Waste of Money, Study Finds

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 17, 2008 6:19 PM / 55 Comments

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How would you feel if you spent more than $1 million throwing a party and less than 100 or even 1,000 people showed up? That sinking feeling is spreading over Continue reading »

Twitter Testing a New Design - Getting Ready to Integrate Summize?

Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 17, 2008 4:00 PM / 3 Comments

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There have been various sightings of a new design for Twitter this afternoon, though by now, Twitter has reverted back to its old design. Possibly, Twitter is testing this new Continue reading »

Last.fm Re-Design Goes Live, With New Lick of Paint (Literally)

Written by Richard MacManus / July 17, 2008 3:58 PM / 20 Comments

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Today online music service last.fm released the new design they've been working on since May. At first glance it looks quite different to the Facebook-like UI that we saw in Continue reading »

The Story of the Fail Whale

Written by Sarah Perez / July 17, 2008 12:15 PM / 35 Comments

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How An Unknown Artist's Work Became a Social Media Brand Thanks To the Power of Community Twitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the Fail Whale. This Continue reading »

Will Mainstream Users Ever Learn About The Browser's Address Bar?

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 17, 2008 10:42 AM / 74 Comments

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Traffic analytics company Hitwise released search market share numbers for dating websites in June today and two things were striking about the data. Ad supported free site PlentyOfFish is trouncing Continue reading »

No More Downloads, Amazon Moves Its Online Video Store To The Cloud

Written by Sarah Perez / July 17, 2008 10:33 AM / 7 Comments

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Amazon's original video store, Amazon Unbox, is a lot like iTunes - you shop online and the files must be downloaded to your computer in order to view them. For Continue reading »

Google Gears Coming to Gmail and Google Calendar Soon

Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 17, 2008 8:40 AM / 8 Comments

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According to Andrew Fogg from kusiri, Google will start rolling out offline support for both Gmail and Google Calendar through Google Gears within the next six weeks. Google enabled offline Continue reading »

Joint Contact: First Business Tool To Integrate Twitter?

Written by Sarah Perez / July 17, 2008 7:45 AM / 11 Comments

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Enterprise 2.0 is a rapidly growing trend that takes the concepts and tools of social media (social networking, RSS, wikis, blogs, etc.) and re-purposes them for business use, wrapping them Continue reading »

The Future of Computer Applications: Help Me or Entertain Me

Written by Alex Iskold / July 17, 2008 5:00 AM / 13 Comments

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In the introduction to his book, Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, wrote that life is about entertainment. He might seem the last person you'd imagine as focused Continue reading »

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