ReadWriteWeb: July 2008 Archives

Twhirl Adds Identi.ca, Becomes Killer App (Yes, Really)

Written by Sarah Perez / July 21, 2008 11:25 AM / 10 Comments

Yesterday, the big news for the identi.ca crowd was an answer to their wishes: Identi.ca is now supported in the AIR app Twhirl. Why is the support for this open-source Continue reading »

Union Square Ventures Invests in Open Source Cloud Platform

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 21, 2008 10:04 AM / 1 Comments

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Union Square Ventures, the VC shop that funded Del.icio.us, FeedBurner, Etsy and Twitter, has placed its latest bet in the clouds. Cloud computing service 10gen has taken $1.5 million from Continue reading »

Newspapers Shifting Coverage Local As Online Challenge Grows

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 21, 2008 8:57 AM / 9 Comments

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A Pew study of US newspapers released today finds that national and international news coverage is declining as ad revenue plummets an emphasis shifts toward local stories. While those survey Continue reading »

Battle is Over: Icahn Will Join Yahoo Board

Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 21, 2008 8:45 AM / 1 Comments

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Just last week we said that the proxy fight between Carl Icahn and the Yahoo board was going to drag on until at least August. In a surprising twist of Continue reading »

Nokia vs Apple in The Internet Mobile Device Market

Written by Richard MacManus / July 21, 2008 3:30 AM / 34 Comments

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We've been as excited as everyone else about the iPhone 3G. But it's easy to forget that the iphone is just a tiny player in the mobile phone market. Even Continue reading »

More Amazon S3 Downtime: How Much is Too Much?

Written by Richard MacManus / July 20, 2008 2:04 PM / 46 Comments

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Today's big news is that Amazon's S3 online storage service has experienced significant downtime. Allen Stern, who hosts his blog's images on S3, reported that the downtime lasted 3.5 over Continue reading »

Facebook Redesign To Go Live Tomorrow

Written by Corvida / July 20, 2008 8:39 AM / 74 Comments

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Five months later and it looks like Facebook is ready to release its new profile redesign. Facebook had announced it was working on a redesign earlier this year. In May, Continue reading »

Relay For Life of Second Life Raises Over $150k in First Hour!

Written by Corvida / July 19, 2008 1:42 PM / 3 Comments

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Relay for Life of Second Life is a charity event that celebrates the victories and remembers those that have been lost in the fight against cancer. Th 4th annual Continue reading »

Cartoon: Favicon Dead Pool

Written by Rob Cottingham / July 19, 2008 1:00 PM / 5 Comments

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Here is a new cartoon from Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of Continue reading »

Google Integrates Services Into the New iGoogle

Written by Corvida / July 19, 2008 9:38 AM / 8 Comments

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Users love it when products and services from one company are nicely integrated with one another. It helps to keep users from bouncing around services. Companies love it because Continue reading »

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