ReadWriteWeb: August 2008 Archives

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 8, 2008 4:49 PM / 2 Comments

Today, Bloglines has unveiled a new skin for its public beta site and has announced that it will start displaying ads on its start page. The new skin for the Continue reading »

Yahoo Gives You More Options to Opt Out of Personalized Advertising

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 8, 2008 12:10 PM / 1 Comments

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Yahoo today announced that it will allow its customers to opt out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. Yahoo made this announcement in a response to the an inquiry by U.S. Continue reading »

Use Twitter for Work With Twellow

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 8, 2008 10:48 AM / 7 Comments

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Does Twitter Have a Role in the Workplace? A Directory Project Thinks it Can Help Did you know that there are more than 100 people who work in the Oil Continue reading »

Facebook Didn't Want to Sue StudiVZ

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 8, 2008 10:42 AM / 7 Comments

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According to a report in the International Herald Tribune, Facebook tried to acquire the popular German social network StudiVZ. When those negotiations ended without a deal, Facebook decided to sue Continue reading »

Poll: What Should Be Done About The "I Am Rich" App?

Written by Sarah Perez / August 8, 2008 8:30 AM / 25 Comments

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By now you've surely heard the story about the "I Am Rich" app that sold in Apple's iTunes store for the ridiculous price of $999.99 (U.S.). What you may not Continue reading »

Three New AIR Apps To Bring Facebook To Your Desktop

Written by Sarah Perez / August 8, 2008 6:40 AM / 8 Comments

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If you love both Facebook and Adobe AIR, then you're going to love these three new AIR apps for your desktop: Facedesk, Zebr, and Flair. Facedesk is a standalone application Continue reading »

A First Look at Mozilla's Snowl

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 7, 2008 10:30 PM / 11 Comments

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Yesterday, Mozilla announced Snowl, a prototype of a universal messaging/content aggregation plugin for Firefox. In its current incarnation, Snowl only allows you to view your Twitter messages and RSS feeds, Continue reading »

Winners: Web 2.0 Expo NY Competition

Written by Richard MacManus / August 7, 2008 8:28 PM

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Earlier this week we ran a competition for 2 full tickets to the New York Web 2.0 Expo conference 16-19 Sept. The tickets are valued at over $1000 each and Continue reading »

#080808 Twitter Campaign For Beijing Olympics

Written by Gang Lu / August 7, 2008 5:08 PM / 13 Comments

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This week we've discussed how Social Media Marketing and Online Video is being used in the Beijing Olympics. It's now 8.08am on Friday 8th August 2008 in Beijing and some Continue reading »

New Translation Services Come to MS Office and JaJah

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 7, 2008 12:05 PM / 4 Comments

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Automated translation services seem to be getting more and more traction these days. Today, we saw announcements about new translation related products from both Microsoft and telephony service JahJah. Microsoft Continue reading »

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