ReadWriteWeb: July 2008 Archives

Wow, How Did Cuil Get So Much Publicity on Day 1?!

Written by Richard MacManus / July 28, 2008 4:58 PM / 77 Comments

An alternative search engine launched last night. It's called Cuil and, if you're a reader of tech blogs and/or the New York Times, you've no doubt been hammered with the Continue reading »

MySpace Classifieds Now Powered by Oodle

Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 28, 2008 3:54 PM / 1 Comments

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MySpace and Oodle today announced that MySpace's classifieds section has been re-launched and is now powered by Oodle. The MySpace Classifieds section highlights ads from MySpace users, but also features Continue reading »

Yahoo Music Does The Right Thing: Issues Refunds to Customers

Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 28, 2008 11:44 AM / 10 Comments

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Last Thursday, we reported that Yahoo Music was going to shut down its store and DRM licensing servers on September 30, which was basically going to leave anybody who ever Continue reading »

Cuil: Good, But Not Great

Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 28, 2008 9:53 AM / 59 Comments

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Last night, the new search engine Cuil launched out of stealth-mode. As some had predicted, it seems Google's announcement about the size of its search index was a preemptive move Continue reading »

Peering Into Microsoft's Cloud

Written by Sarah Perez / July 28, 2008 8:19 AM / 16 Comments

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On July 24th, Microsoft held their annual Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM), an event where many of Microsoft's top executives come together to talk about the company's progress and achievements. At Continue reading »

Smart Desktop Organizes Your Info, Both Online and Off

Written by Sarah Perez / July 28, 2008 6:03 AM / 5 Comments

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One of the software programs mentioned at this year's IORG conference (see our coverage here) was SmartDesktop. This program uses machine intelligence to automatically organize your information by project so Continue reading »

Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who's Doing It?

Written by Richard MacManus / July 28, 2008 2:43 AM / 44 Comments

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If there's a hot new social media trend happening, you can bet that companies are trying to find a way to use it too. It happened of course with blogging, Continue reading »

Cartoon: Knol Experts

Written by Rob Cottingham / July 27, 2008 2:04 PM / 12 Comments

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Earlier this week we reported that Google had opened up Knol, its Wikipedia competitor, to the public. It had announced a private beta of the service last December. Now that Continue reading »

Palringo Instant Messenger Comes to the iPhone

Written by Corvida / July 27, 2008 10:41 AM / 10 Comments

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One of the biggest problems with the iPhone is that you can't run multiple applications in the background. When it comes to IMing friends, this could be a huge Continue reading »

Mixed Messages in The Blogging Landscape

Written by Richard MacManus / July 27, 2008 1:03 AM / 24 Comments

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There has been a lot of discussion recently about the changing face of the blogging landscape. On one hand many bloggers have turned to the likes of FriendFeed and Twitter Continue reading »

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