ReadWriteWeb: May 2009 Archives

Amazon Launches New Features For Elastic Compute Cloud: Scaling, Monitoring, and Traffic Distribution

Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 18, 2009 3:10 PM / 8 Comments

Amazon Web Services today announced the public beta of new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The new features purport to allow for simple and automatic monitoring, Continue reading »

Twiistup Calls for Startups to "Show Off" at July 30-31 Event

Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 18, 2009 3:05 PM / 9 Comments

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Twiistup, the explosive SoCal event that was recently bought by a secret investor, has announced its call for "Showoff" entries. Ten slots are available in the New Tech-esque startup presentation Continue reading »

The Dam Just Broke: Facebook Opens Up to OpenID

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 18, 2009 1:22 PM / 47 Comments

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In a few minutes Facebook will become the biggest example of a social network that allows users to log-in with OpenID credentials granted to them by other companies' websites. Major Continue reading »

Report: Mint Considers Selling Anonymized Data from Its Users

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 18, 2009 12:01 PM / 15 Comments

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According to a report from Bloomberg today, Mint.com's CEO Aaron Patzer is considering selling anonymized data about the service's users. Mint, the online personal finance aggregator, obviously sits on a Continue reading »

Creative Commons Releases Facebook App: Choose a License for Your Photos, Videos, and Status Updates

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 18, 2009 10:33 AM / 9 Comments

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Thanks to a new Facebook application from Creative Commons that launched today, Facebook users can now place a Creative Commons license badge on their Facebook profile pages. The badge explains Continue reading »

Study: Getting on Twitter's Suggested Users List Means Gaining 53,000 New Followers in a Week

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 18, 2009 8:35 AM / 17 Comments

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It's no secret that getting on Twitter's suggested user list will quickly drive a user's follower numbers up, but thanks to O'Reilly's Ben Lorica, we can now actually quantify this Continue reading »

Napster Relaunches Tonight, Here Are The Details

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 18, 2009 7:18 AM / 16 Comments

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Last fall, Best Buy bought Napster for a jaw dropping $121 million, a staggering sum in the free-music era that Napster helped create. The electronics retailer thinks it can do Continue reading »

Linked Data is Blooming: Why You Should Care

Written by Richard MacManus / May 18, 2009 3:15 AM / 28 Comments

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Last week we discussed how the current era of the Web is evolving. One of the concepts we noted was Linked Data, an idea whose time has come in 2009. Continue reading »

Shopping 2.0: Current E-commerce Trends (Redux)

Written by Richard MacManus / May 17, 2009 7:00 PM / 30 Comments

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In a RWW Live podcast from last December, we discussed 'shopping 2.0'. In this analysis of the show, we explore how e-commerce has evolved over the past few years - Continue reading »

12 Companies Targeting Early Tech Adopters

Written by Admin / May 17, 2009 6:00 PM

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Our mission at ReadWriteWeb is to explore the latest Web technology products and trends. We're fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So, once a Continue reading »

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