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February 2009 Archives

Online Research: Zotero Moves Into the Cloud
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 23, 2009 3:45 PM / 7 Comments
Zotero, the popular open-source research and bibliography tool, just announced the latest version of its Firefox plugin (1.5b1), which now allows users to synchronize their databases between different machines, as Continue reading »


Could Wikipedia's Future Be as a Development Platform?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 23, 2009 1:21 PM / 15 Comments
Content creation at Wikipedia is slowing down. The already small number of active regular editors is on the decline and Jimmy Wales has called for live edits to be held Continue reading »


MicroPlaza: A Personalized Twitter Memetracker
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 23, 2009 11:24 AM / 7 Comments
MicroPlaza provides you with a personalized memetracker based on the links that your friends share on Twitter. While we have seen a fair number of Twitter memetrackers, none of them Continue reading »


Bebo Now Emphasizes Lifestreaming - Updates Profile Pages
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 23, 2009 9:22 AM / 2 Comments
Bebo, AOL's social network, added a lifestreaming feature today that allows users to pull in updates from Twitter, Flickr, and Delicious, as well as from Facebook and Myspace. Bebo also Continue reading »


Real-Time Web Comes Alive with Mobile Blogging Platform, Zcapes
Written by Sarah Perez / February 23, 2009 7:20 AM / 7 Comments
Zcapes is a new "augmented reality" application that lets you instantly transform any object or event into a mini blog using your mobile phone. But this is no ordinary blogging Continue reading »


Twitter Track is Back Thanks to New Service from Particls
Written by Sarah Perez / February 23, 2009 5:44 AM / 20 Comments
Particls, the one-time RSS feed organizer and alerting service, has today launched a new project they're calling "Particls Fountain." Although it's hinted that the service will eventually do much more, Continue reading »


Biometrics for Identification or Authentication Still Has a Way to Go
Written by Lidija Davis / February 23, 2009 5:00 AM / 17 Comments
PC manufacturers have been introducing biometric technologies into their products over the past several years; the implication being that such technologies are inherently more secure than the traditional password, especially Continue reading »


Times Open: Developers Gather to Discuss The New York Times APIs
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 23, 2009 2:00 AM / 12 Comments
Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're big fans of the Times Open strategy, the program that focuses on making the data of The New York Times more accessible to the developer community. Continue reading »


Introducing Microsoft's Gazelle: A Web Browser as a Multi-Principal OS
Written by Lidija Davis / February 22, 2009 6:37 PM / 18 Comments
Late last week, Microsoft Research released an interesting paper [PDF] about a Web browser it calls Gazelle that's constructed in such a way to act like an operating system with Continue reading »


13 Online Resources To Catch The Oscars On The Web
Written by Lidija Davis / February 22, 2009 1:49 PM / 31 Comments
Tonight's Academy Awards ceremony will be the 81st in the award's venerable history. The film industry's biggest digg_url = 'http://digg.com/celebrity/13_Online_Resources_To_Catch_The_Oscars_On_The_Web';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';stars have gathered in Hollywood, the Oscar Continue reading »


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