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BOKU Launches Mobile Payments Service
Written by Sarah Perez / June 16, 2009 5:00 AM / 7 Comments
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There are 4 billion mobile phones in the world, but only 2 billion bank accounts. That's not just a bit of trivia, but the very raison d'etre for the new Continue reading »


Opera "Reinvents the Web" with Unite, Makes Every Computer a Server
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 16, 2009 1:50 AM / 52 Comments
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Opera has been buzzing up our inboxes lately with rather vague press releases on how it planned to "reinvent the web." Well, we've just received concrete confirmation of exactly what Continue reading »


Twitter Postpones Maintenance as Iran Furor Builds
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 15, 2009 9:35 PM / 13 Comments
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The Twitter firehose is glutted with retweets, hashtags, and information of every possible bias and contradition surrounding one topic: The recent election in Iran and supposed fraud in tallying votes Continue reading »


Mozilla Plays the Do-Gooder Card, Encourages Users to "Be the Difference"
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 15, 2009 7:42 PM / 11 Comments
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This September, Mozilla is challenging users to earn their Internet merit badges by donating their time and talents to public benefit institutions, non-profits, and those in need. According to an Continue reading »


Spinn3r Adds Twitter Support and Social Media Ranking
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 15, 2009 6:58 PM / 4 Comments
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Blog-indexing service Spinn3r announced today that for their new 3.1 release, they will offer support for the Twitter firehose - that's right, the entire public Twitter stream - as well Continue reading »


All Grown Up: Facebook Gets Bigger, Older
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 15, 2009 5:20 PM / 10 Comments
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According to a recent Hitwise bit of research, Facebook's users have grown up dramatically over the past year. That is to say, more than half of all Facebook users are Continue reading »


Share Links With ReadWriteWeb With Just a Click
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 15, 2009 2:04 PM / 17 Comments
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We love it when members of the ReadWriteWeb community share links with us to things we might like to write about. In order to make that easier to do, thus Continue reading »


MapQuest Launches iPhone App
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 15, 2009 9:54 AM / 12 Comments
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Not too long ago, for most of us, MapQuest was the default online mapping service. Even today, after a number of changes to its site, MapQuest is still one of Continue reading »


Palm Silences Talk of Tethering
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 15, 2009 8:58 AM / 8 Comments
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Palm's new Pre smartphone is supposed to be remarkably easy for developers to work with but this weekend the company reached out to one such community and demanded they shut Continue reading »


Secondbrain Starts Over, Goes Back to Basics
Written by Sarah Perez / June 15, 2009 8:21 AM / 9 Comments
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It's not often you hear an application's creators describe their service as "an unmanageable complexity" that "compromised the user experience," but that's exactly what those behind the content aggregation system Continue reading »


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