ReadWriteWeb: October 2008 Archives

How to Use the New Google Web Search RSS Feeds

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 30, 2008 11:31 AM / 7 Comments

Google's been the lone hold out among major search engines on RSS but the company quietly enabled feeds for web search results this week. The offering is pretty limited and Continue reading »

AOL Redesigns and Opens Up a Little Bit More

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 30, 2008 10:53 AM

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When Google radically changed its iGoogle homepage a little while ago, many of its users were up in arms about these changes. By updating its homepage today, AOL ran a Continue reading »

Google Releases Third Beta of Chrome: Better Security and Performance

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 30, 2008 9:46 AM / 22 Comments

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Google just released a new beta version of Chrome, Google's first web browser, which addresses a number of issues we had noticed in earlier releases. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Releases_Third_Beta_of_Chrome';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin Continue reading »

Read It Later Comes To Google Reader

Written by Sarah Perez / October 30, 2008 5:55 AM / 21 Comments

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Popular Firefox addon Read It Later has just introduced an updated version of their plugin which adds new functionality to Google Reader. With the new extension, which now works in Continue reading »

LinkedIn, Stop Hiding People Behind Links

Written by Alex Iskold / October 30, 2008 5:00 AM / 14 Comments

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Last week LinkedIn announced an additional infusion of capital from strategic investors. The company has been around since 2003 and Bernard Lunn recently wrote an in-depth analysis of the LinkedIn Continue reading »

Hulu: Ugly Duckling No More

Written by Rick Turoczy / October 29, 2008 10:24 PM / 9 Comments

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It's hard to believe that it's been a year since Hulu - the joint online video venture between NBC Universal and News Corp. - began streaming content. Its initial reception, Continue reading »

The New Stack: SaaS, Cloud Computing, Core Technology

Written by Bernard Lunn / October 29, 2008 9:15 PM / 10 Comments

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During the PC era, the technology stack was controlled by Microsoft Windows and Wintel - the "Wintel" era. We are now entering a new era, called variously 'Cloud' or 'SaaS' Continue reading »

Win a Free Ticket to NewTeeVee Live

Written by Richard MacManus / October 29, 2008 8:45 PM / 12 Comments

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Our friends at Gigaom are running the second annual NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on November 13, 2008. It's an event focused on the online video arena and we Continue reading »

Flickr: Public vs. Private Around the World, A Map

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 29, 2008 1:26 PM / 10 Comments

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Guess which US state has Flickr users most likely to post their photos with privacy restrictions turned on? Utah. Think you can guess relative emphasis put on privacy by Flickr Continue reading »

Google is Now an OpenID Provider

Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 29, 2008 10:10 AM / 20 Comments

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This is turning out to be quite a good week for OpenID, an increasingly popular mechanism for creating and managing a single identity across the Internet. On Monday, Microsoft announced Continue reading »

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