Congratulations! You made a big announcement and got great reviews, feedback and an influx of people to your website. Yesterday. Today, any number of other organizations and individuals are having the same experience and except for (hopefully) a long tail of residual late bloomers stumbling through your door - you run the risk of being old news already.
Last week, we highlighted Microsoft Research's URank, an experimental search engine interface that allows users to rearrange their search results from Live.com. Now, Garett Rogers reports that Google is slowly releasing a very similar product called SearchWiki, which will allow users to modify their search results in Google Search. Judging from what we have seen about this feature so far, users will be able to move results up and down, hide results, and even suggest their own.
One of our first posts on the new RWW Jobwire site was about the hiring of Kellie Parker as the new community manager for gaming company Sega. Jobwire guest editor Sam Whitmore chose Parker's story as our first Featured Hire because of its significance to her former employer, tech publisher IDG, and the publishing industry in general.
If you have an iPod Touch, then you know the benefit of finding apps that work offline. But some iPhone owners, too, need offline access from time-to-time. Maybe you spend your commute in an underground subway or perhaps your office building has shoddy cell coverage, or maybe you just want to use your iPhone on a plane...whatever the reason, offline access to apps is still a necessary evil these days.
In spite of - or perhaps due to - its ongoing trials and tribulations, Yahoo! has done an admirable job of remaining on track with plans to open its platform to the developer community - plans that could mean the survival of a company that is among the old guard of the Web as we now know it.
Today marks a significant step forward in bringing those plans to fruition as the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) team officially throws open the gates to a newly rewired and open Yahoo!, providing developers with unprecedented access to Yahoo!'s network and social data.
LinkedIn has always served a very specific purpose in the business community: helping you find a new job. That utility came in a variety of flavors: posting your resume, looking through job listings, answering questions in hopes of highlighting your intellect, or getting in touch with former co-workers in hopes of landing a new gig. Up to this point, LinkedIn has remained focused but - apart from those invitations to connect - not especially social or dynamic.
With the launch of the LinkedIn Applications platform, they're hoping to change that by helping "over 30 million professionals on LinkedIn to communicate, collaborate, and share information even better than before." But they still remain focused on one thing: helping you find a new job.
Recently we noted that some large enterprise software companies were calling SaaS a fad that would soon pass away. We theorized that they were doing this not because they actually believed it, but because SaaS is a fundamental threat to the old way of doing business that they dominate. In this post we look at some of the traditional enterprise vendors who are taking a different approach - embracing SaaS and competing in that market.
Lately, Google has rolled out new features for its experimental Google Labs functionality in Gmail at a rapid pace. Today, Google announced a similar product that will bring experimental features to enterprise and small business customers: Labs for Google Apps. These apps are built on top of the Google App Engine, which launched in April, and include Google Moderator, Google Code Reviews, and Google Short Links.
We've long been critical of concessions that the big web companies make to authoritarian governments around the world, but today Google, Yahoo and others announced that they're going to do something about it. Some time tomorrow a new website will launch at www.globalnetworkinitiative.org where we'll be able to see the fruits of two years of labor preparing a strategy for supporting human rights and operating in troubled markets, at the same time.
Will this be of any consequence? We like former CNN journalist turned human rights campaigning blogger Rebecca MacKinnon's take on it: maybe.
Do you like to know what sort of music, movies, books, and other things your friends like? If so, you have a couple of options for following your friends' interests on the web today. You can either join a social network dedicated to sharing this information (think Goodreads, Flixster, Last.fm) or you can follow your friends on lifestreaming service like FriendFeed where you might happen upon a shared interest somewhere in their stream of updates. A third option would be to only see your friends' interests in context when you were actively viewing a book, movie, album, etc. on the web.
