ReadWriteWeb: August 2008 Archives

How Web Technology is Boosting Productivity in Organizations

Written by Richard MacManus / August 14, 2008 2:00 PM / 3 Comments

ReadWriteWeb is a partner with Defrag, a conference about web innovation. Defrag's Eric Norlin has lately been blogging about enterprises and organizations starting to move beyond mere 'cost containment' (although Continue reading »

Innovation: Historic Intellectual Property Ruling Could Validate Open Licenses

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 14, 2008 11:33 AM / 3 Comments

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If I apply some wacky new type of license to my creative work, is it going to hold up in court if a conflict comes down to that? According to Continue reading »

The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type

Written by Sarah Perez / August 14, 2008 8:00 AM / 53 Comments

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Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn't require advanced technical expertise to do so. Now, Continue reading »

Wuala Launches P2P Cloud Storage Solution

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 14, 2008 2:00 AM / 11 Comments

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Wuala puts a new twist on cloud storage. While typical cloud storage services move your data onto servers managed by the provider, Wuala also uses disk space on other members' Continue reading »

12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers

Written by Alex Iskold / August 14, 2008 12:45 AM / 10 Comments

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Unit Testing is one of the pillars of Agile Software Development. First introduced by Kent Beck, unit testing has found its way into the hearts and systems of many Continue reading »

Pageonce's New iPhone App: Now 100% Mobile and Self-Destructs When Stolen

Written by Sarah Perez / August 13, 2008 9:55 PM / 4 Comments

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When Pageonce unveiled their first version of their iOnce iPhone app, it became an instant success. Within 10 days it was ranked in the top three applications in the Productivity Continue reading »

Freebase Parallax Taunts Us With Awesome Semantic Web Video

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 13, 2008 5:41 PM / 14 Comments

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Staff researcher David François Huynh has created an interesting tool for browsing semantic database Freebase, called Freebase Parallax. Written up by ZDNet's Oliver Marks, the video Huynh recorded demonstrating Parallax Continue reading »

Google Should Buy eXpresso

Written by Bernard Lunn / August 13, 2008 4:00 PM / 12 Comments

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Like a lot of people, I had my problems with Google Apps this week. Sure, Google "feels my pain" but they also lost my confidence. And confidence is a delicate Continue reading »

Google Reader Now Lets You Share Selectively

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 13, 2008 2:34 PM / 4 Comments

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The Google Reader team just announced that it has implemented more granular controls for who you share items with, including the ability to manage a list of friends within Google Continue reading »

Zapproved: A Lightweight Decision Making App

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 13, 2008 2:16 PM / 4 Comments

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Want to go to fewer meetings at work? By making group decision making faster, easier and more accountable, new app Zapproved may help you avoid hours of painful face to Continue reading »

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