ReadWriteWeb: April 2009 Archives

Get Facebook on Your Desktop with New Official App

Written by Sarah Perez / April 29, 2009 7:31 AM / 15 Comments

At the same time as Facebook announced their Open Stream API technology, the company also released a desktop application built with Adobe AIR as a way to demonstrate the sorts Continue reading »

Faves.com Lives!

Written by Sarah Perez / April 29, 2009 5:44 AM / 3 Comments

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Do you remember Faves.com? Don't feel bad if you shook your head "no." This older social bookmarking site formerly called Blue Dot was built way back in 2005, a couple Continue reading »

Backboard: Getting Feedback Made Easy

Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 29, 2009 3:00 AM / 4 Comments

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Backboard, a sophisticated online solution for gathering feedback about various types of documents, came out of public beta this morning. Backboard allows users to upload and comment on standard Word, Continue reading »

Miro Wins "Most Adorable Funding Model" With Adopt-a-Line-of-Code Program

Written by Jolie O'Dell / April 28, 2009 4:45 PM / 1 Comments

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You can keep your fusty old venture capital. For our money, you can't beat the Tamagochi-eqsue cuteness of Miro's Code Adoption Program. Miro is the free, open source, cross-platform online Continue reading »

Facebook Has Twitter Envy - But Why?

Written by Alex Iskold / April 28, 2009 4:15 PM / 56 Comments

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It is no secret that Facebook has Twitter envy. The number one social networking site is not content to win over rival MySpace. It is not satisfied being far Continue reading »

A Mobile App That Saves Lives, Literally

Written by Jolie O'Dell / April 28, 2009 2:20 PM / 3 Comments

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DataDyne's EpiSurveyor program, funded by the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation, has been implementing mobile technology to track and contain disease in developing nations since 2007. In a Continue reading »

Google Begins to Make Public Data Searchable

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 28, 2009 1:28 PM / 17 Comments

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Google just announced its first foray into making public data searchable and viewable in graph form. The company is starting with population and unemployment data from around the US but Continue reading »

63% of Businesses Fear That Social Networking Endangers their Corporate Security

Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 28, 2009 12:26 PM / 19 Comments

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Social networks are becoming a default way for many employees to stay in touch with friends, colleagues, and business associates, but according to a new poll by the anti-virus firm Continue reading »

The Opera Browser Turns 15 Years Old Today

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 28, 2009 9:57 AM / 9 Comments

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Opera the Browser may not be a household name in the United States, but around the world it's wildly popular and on the company's 15th birthday things are moving in Continue reading »

Mozilla Releases Beta 4 of Firefox 3.5: Faster JavaScript, Built-In Geolocation, and More

Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 28, 2009 9:43 AM / 11 Comments

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Mozilla today released the latest beta version of Firefox 3.5, which was formerly known as Firefox 3.1. Beta 4 is now available in over 70 different languages, and, compared to Continue reading »

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