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Vancouver, BC Wants to be an Open City
Written by Doug Coleman / May 16, 2009 7:00 PM / 10 Comments
Vancouver, BC's city government posted an agenda for next week's council meeting that outlines its interest in adopting open data, open standards and open source software for all of its Continue reading »


ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 16 May 2009
Written by Andrew Lobo / May 16, 2009 6:00 PM / 3 Comments
We've added a lot of great events to our guide this week. Check out what's coming up, below. In this feature on ReadWriteWeb, we provide a weekly roundup of upcoming Continue reading »


Inside Job Brings Career Networking to Facebook
Written by Doug Coleman / May 16, 2009 3:20 PM / 6 Comments
Social media sites like LinkedIn and Twitter are often the go-to applications for career networking, but now Facebook users can contact people who have interviewed, worked, or are currently employed Continue reading »


Breaking: Six Apart Announces Wordpress Plugins
Written by Doug Coleman / May 16, 2009 12:25 PM / 16 Comments
San Francisco based social networking and blogging company Six Apart announced today at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic that it is introducing plugins that will work on rival Wordpress sites and other blogging Continue reading »


Weekly Wrapup: Google Search Options, Twitter Repliesgate, Web 3.0, And More...
Written by Richard MacManus / May 16, 2009 5:00 AM / 1 Comments
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we give you a blow-by-blow account of the Twitter replies policy debacle this week, Continue reading »


Digg Lead Architect & Socialthing! Founder Start Mobile Gaming Company
Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 15, 2009 9:52 PM / 8 Comments
Socialthing! founder Matt Galligan and Digg's Lead Arichitect Joe Stump are each leaving their day jobs behind to focus on Crash Corp, an alternate reality mobile gaming venture. The concepts Continue reading »


Wolfram Alpha Launch Starts Tonight at 5pm Pacific: Here is What You Need to Know
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 15, 2009 12:20 PM / 29 Comments
Wolfram Alpha, the new "computational knowledge engine" from the makers of Mathematica is scheduled to officially launch on Monday next week, but starting tonight, Alpha will 'soft launch,' starting with Continue reading »


Is Facebook Working on a Recommendation Technology?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 15, 2009 11:48 AM / 9 Comments
Given how much user activity goes on every day on Facebook, the company has to be working on some kinds of recommendation technologies. Charming invisible robots that say, "If you Continue reading »


Zotero Goes 2.0: Makes Doing Research in Groups Easier
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 15, 2009 10:29 AM / 5 Comments
Zotero, the popular open-source research, bookmarking, and bibliography tool, just released version 2.0 of its Firefox plugin, which, among other things, adds support for sharing libraries with groups. With this Continue reading »


Online Stats: Hulu Says Nielsen's Numbers are Wrong
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 15, 2009 9:20 AM / 8 Comments
Yesterday, we reported that Nielsen Online's April numbers showed that the number of unique streams on Hulu grew 7.9% since March, though the number of unique users dropped slightly to Continue reading »


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