ReadWriteWeb: December 2008 Archives

Written by Frederic Lardinois / December 11, 2008 11:16 AM / 13 Comments

After only 100 days and fifteen updates, Google has taken the "beta" label off Chrome, its WebKit based browser. Given that the company has a penchant for keeping products like Continue reading »

Facebook Shuts Down "Pro-Genocide" Group

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 11, 2008 10:50 AM / 44 Comments

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A fast-growing new group of Facebook users from Bosnia called on Facebook to shut down another group on the site that celebrates the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Continue reading »

Smiling in Your Social Network Photos? You Probably Have More Friends

Written by Sarah Perez / December 11, 2008 8:11 AM / 3 Comments

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Researchers Nicholas Christakis and James Folwer recently published a paper in the British Medical Journal where they examined how a person's happiness is related to the happiness of their friends Continue reading »

The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe

Written by Sarah Perez / December 11, 2008 6:27 AM / 38 Comments

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"Koobface" is the name of the Trojan worm that's been making its way through the social networking site Facebook lately, but to the site's users, it's been simply known as Continue reading »

JanRain Offers Distributed Social Options Galore, Interscope Geffen A&M Bites

Written by Rick Turoczy / December 11, 2008 5:00 AM / 2 Comments

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It's been quite the month for the world of distributed social networking. Both Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect - two services designed to help user manage a single profile Continue reading »

WordPress 2.7: If You Don't Like It, Change It

Written by Rick Turoczy / December 11, 2008 1:00 AM / 18 Comments

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The last time WordPress - the popular open source blogging platform - changed their user interface, they got a reaction. And it wasn't positive. Even diehard fans were questioning the Continue reading »

Microsoft Hiring From the Open Web: Assimilation or a Changing Redmond?

Written by Doug Coleman / December 10, 2008 10:57 PM / 2 Comments

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As we reported on Jobwire, OpenID thought leader Dick Hardt announced Friday that he has joined Microsoft. Hardt's hire will be added to a recent history of the software giant Continue reading »

Shopping 2.0: How to Target a Niche & Create Community

Written by Richard MacManus / December 10, 2008 5:10 PM / 7 Comments

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Yesterday our regular podcast show, RWW Live, was on the topic of 'shopping 2.0'. The show was very illuminating about how the Social Web has changed e-commerce and what tactics Continue reading »

Thumbtack: Microsoft Labs Launches New Bookmarking Service

Written by Frederic Lardinois / December 10, 2008 2:05 PM / 13 Comments

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Microsoft Labs today released Thumbtack, a new bookmarking application with a very slick user interface that represents an interesting take on bookmarking and saving online information, though it often falls Continue reading »

Adobe Experimenting With Semantic Autogeneration of 3D Worlds

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 10, 2008 11:23 AM / 9 Comments

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A grainy video has just become available from the Adobe Max conference in Milan, Italy last month of a sneak peek at a new experiment called Infinite Images. The project Continue reading »

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