ReadWriteWeb: March 2009 Archives

Twine Could Soon Surpass Delicious, Prepares Ontology Authoring Tool

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 16, 2009 4:48 PM / 29 Comments

Nova Spivack's semantic web company Twine is developing a free service to write and host semantic ontologies; the classification trees that enable machines to put concepts in topical context. Ready Continue reading »

Facebook's New Privacy Controls Encourage Openness

Written by Sarah Perez / March 16, 2009 3:13 PM / 12 Comments

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Today, Facebook announced new privacy settings which let you selectively open up portions of your personal profile to everyone on the Facebook social network. As an alternative to the new Continue reading »

Is There a Reverse Network Effect with Scale?

Written by Bernard Lunn / March 16, 2009 1:00 PM / 23 Comments

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The Internet economy has been built on the network effect (i.e. the effect that one user of a good or service has on the value of that product for other Continue reading »

Tweetdeck and Seesmic: The Twitterization of Facebook Comes to the Desktop

Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 16, 2009 10:14 AM / 15 Comments

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Now that Facebook has rolled out its new real-time homepage, which in many ways feels like a crossbreed between Twitter and FriendFeed and has allowed third-party developers to access status Continue reading »

ComScore: Mobile Internet Usage Doubled in 2008

Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 16, 2009 9:10 AM / 2 Comments

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According to comScore, the number of people who accessed news and information sites from their mobile phones in the U.S. more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009. ComScore Continue reading »

New SMS Receipts Service Makes Mobile Banking More Secure

Written by Sarah Perez / March 16, 2009 6:04 AM / 4 Comments

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The latest tool to fight identity theft may already be in your pocket - it's your mobile phone. Using a new solution from Clickatell, a mobile messaging service provider, consumers Continue reading »

HSTP: Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol

Written by Lidija Davis / March 15, 2009 11:52 PM / 11 Comments

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IBM's research scientists in India have developed a technology that will offer users the ability to talk to the Web and create 'voice' sites using mobile phones according to a Continue reading »

Is Your PC Part of a Botnet?

Written by Lidija Davis / March 15, 2009 8:04 PM / 29 Comments

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Being part of a botnet is no fun. Your computer becomes your worst enemy, watching everything you do, collecting all of your secrets, and then delivering all that data to Continue reading »

Cartoon: SXSW

Written by Rob Cottingham / March 15, 2009 7:40 PM / 6 Comments

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I'm not at SXSW this year, but I might as well be. True, I don't get to run into my friends and colleagues in person, and I'm not rubbing elbows Continue reading »

WeFollow: A Top Twitters List

Written by Lidija Davis / March 15, 2009 9:24 AM / 14 Comments

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Kevin Rose, founder of Digg and the man who two years ago removed the Top Diggers List after deciding it could be problematic for his site and its most popular Continue reading »

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