ReadWriteWeb: August 2008 Archives

UPDATED: Six Apart NOT Relaunching Blogs.com As Index of the Blogosphere

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 15, 2008 2:34 PM / 13 Comments

Update: In the frenzy to cover this breaking story, we had high hopes for a Six Apart announcement that emerged today. After seeing the soon to be relaunched Blogs.com site, Continue reading »

MobileMe Users Targeted in Phishing Scam

Written by Corvida / August 15, 2008 11:34 AM / 3 Comments

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The MobileMe service from Apple has been presenting its users with problems since day one. First, it snuck quietly onto computers by being bundled with iTunes. We seemed to Continue reading »

Study: Fastest Growing US Companies Rapidly Adopting Social Media

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 15, 2008 11:15 AM / 13 Comments

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A one year follow up on a study of social media adoption at 500 of the fastest growing companies in the US has found that familiarity with and use of Continue reading »

Top 5 Streaming Music Apps for the iPhone

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 15, 2008 11:00 AM / 6 Comments

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The iPhone's memory might be too small to carry your complete music collection with you, but thanks to a growing number of streaming music apps, you don't have to rely Continue reading »

The Web Computer: Closed, Secure, and Tightly Controlled

Written by Sarah Perez / August 15, 2008 9:30 AM / 9 Comments

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Lately, people have been noticing that the big shift in computing - that is, moving our apps off the desktop and into the cloud - has more ramifications beyond what Continue reading »

Is Lifestreaming Going Mainstream? AOL Set to Snag SocialThing!

Written by Corvida / August 15, 2008 6:55 AM / 11 Comments

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While there are many popular lifestreaming services out there such as FriendFeed and Profilactic, SocialThing! can be argued to be the more mainstream of them all, with a less Continue reading »

Cooliris Lets You Enable Your Web Site For 3D In Minutes

Written by Sarah Perez / August 15, 2008 6:00 AM / 6 Comments

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We've been fans of Cooliris, the browser plugin formerly known as PicLens, for quite some time. This plugin transforms a normal 2D web page into an immersive 3D experience for Continue reading »

Cloud Failures Are Serious - Time to Revisit P2P?

Written by Bernard Lunn / August 14, 2008 9:10 PM / 11 Comments

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Google had a bad week in cloud computing, with serious downtime in Gmail, Blogger and Spreadsheet. Back in July it was Amazon that was embarrassed with their S3 outage. If Continue reading »

Is It Finally Over? Yahoo Appoints Icahn Nominees to Board

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 14, 2008 4:18 PM / 4 Comments

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It looks like we can finally put the Carl Icahn vs. Yahoo fight behind us. As part of the settlement between the two, Icahn was given three seats on Yahoo's Continue reading »

Livestreaming From Qik and Flixwagon Comes to the iPhone

Written by Corvida / August 14, 2008 2:02 PM / 4 Comments

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It's no secret that the iPhone lacks video recording capabilities, which has served as a huge roadblock for companies and services that would like to introduce services that take Continue reading »

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