ReadWriteWeb: May 2009 Archives

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 26, 2009 6:10 PM / 46 Comments

What are you doing? How about now? Has anything changed since you started reading this blog post? Every story has a who, what, where, when, and why - but the Continue reading »

Shouts on Digg are Now Gone - Replaced with Email, Facebook, and Twitter

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 26, 2009 12:44 PM / 11 Comments

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At a Digg townhall meeting earlier this month, Digg's founder, Kevin Rose, and CEO, Jay Adelson, announced that Digg's shout feature would be removed sometime this week and replaced with Continue reading »

Yahoo Image Search: Now With Creative Commons

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 26, 2009 11:57 AM / 5 Comments

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Yahoo Image Search got a nice update today that allows users to filter search results by Creative Commons (CC) license. For now, this search only includes CC-licensed images from Flickr, Continue reading »

Why the Web 3.0 Conference Was a Success

Written by Bernard Lunn / May 26, 2009 11:40 AM / 5 Comments

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The Web 3.0 Conference in New York last week was a visible success. Attendance was good, and so it seems that the organizers are making money. That is significant in Continue reading »

Visualize Your FriendFeed Stats with FeedStats

Written by Sarah Perez / May 26, 2009 10:23 AM / 4 Comments

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Today, the folks over at Microblink have launched a new application which allows you to visualize your FriendFeed data or the data belonging to your friends. Called FeedStats, the app Continue reading »

NYTimes Appoints First Social Media Editor

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 26, 2009 9:44 AM / 15 Comments

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Jennifer Preston has been appointed the first Social Media Editor of the New York Times. It has come to this; the flagship institution of traditional journalism now has an editor Continue reading »

Facebook Goes East: Takes $200 Million Investment from Russian Investment Firm

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 26, 2009 9:35 AM / 4 Comments

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After we saw some rumors about this over the weekend, Facebook today confirmed that it will receive a $200 million investment from Digital Sky Technologies (DST), one of the leading Continue reading »

Comparing Yahoo and Google's Voice Search Applications

Written by Sarah Perez / May 26, 2009 8:29 AM / 7 Comments

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At the end of last week, Yahoo! introduced an update to their iPhone application (iTunes URL) which now includes the ability to perform web searches using only your voice. This Continue reading »

Yahoo Meme: Hands On With Yahoo's Twitter 'Clone'

Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 26, 2009 8:23 AM / 25 Comments

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A few weeks ago, we heard that Yahoo was readying a Portuguese-only Twitter clone under the name Yahoo Meme. Today, we finally got our invitation to try this new service, Continue reading »

Stop Trolling Craigslist & eBay, Try Easy E-Commerce at Woya

Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 25, 2009 9:29 PM / 20 Comments

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I am not a shopper. I am a buyer. I need something; I locate it; I buy it. By some accounts, this makes me a total gender traitor. On the Continue reading »

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