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The ReadWriteWeb Q2 2009 VC Funding Report
Written by Bernard Lunn / July 21, 2009 2:30 PM / 0 Comments
We're excited to announce the availability of ReadWriteWeb's Q2 2009 VC Funding Report, our second premium report powered by data from ChubbyBrain. We have been tracking early-stage investment in Internet, Continue reading »


Seven e-Learning and Teaching Resources
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 21, 2009 2:19 PM / 18 Comments
While the down economy continues to hurt funding to our schools, more and more teachers are looking to web-based services to help educate their students. Whether it's through open resource Continue reading »


Adobe: Mobile Flash to Get Accelerometer, Multi-touch Support Early Next Year
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 21, 2009 11:13 AM / 9 Comments
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch said at a company event for analysts today that a full featured version of Flash for mobile phones will be available in beta by the end Continue reading »


Jimmy Wales Joins Open Textbook Organization
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 21, 2009 9:47 AM / 3 Comments
Wikipedia and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales has just joined the advisory board of CK-12 Foundation - a nonprofit organization that provides standards-aligned online textbooks to kindergarten to grade 12 students. Continue reading »


Photo Tagger: Facial Recognition for Auto-Tagging Facebook Photos
Written by Sarah Perez / July 21, 2009 9:00 AM / 9 Comments
We have invites, click through to get yours! Earlier this year, a company called Face.com brought facial recognition technology to Facebook by way of an application called Photo Finder which Continue reading »


Can Barnes & Noble Challenge Amazon's eBook Empire?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 21, 2009 8:29 AM / 8 Comments
Barnes & Noble, the beleaguered online bookstore, opened its eBook store yesterday. That, by itself would be a major news story, but B&N also announced that it has partnered with Continue reading »


How Usable is the Mobile Web?
Written by Sarah Perez / July 21, 2009 6:03 AM / 11 Comments
Recently, researchers at the Nielsen Norman Group put the mobile web to the test in a usability study that looked at twenty different web sites on six different types of Continue reading »


Free Alternatives to Photoshop With All the Bells, Whistles, Filters, & Layers
Written by Jolie O'Dell / July 21, 2009 1:41 AM / 81 Comments
Let's face it: If cropping was all you needed to do, you'd just use MS Paint. Photoshop, Adobe's industry standard for image editing, costs a whopping, unforgivable $600; and because Continue reading »


The Tweeting House: Twitter + Internet of Things
Written by Richard MacManus / July 21, 2009 12:00 AM / 11 Comments
I recently spoke to Andy Stanford-Clark, a Master Inventor and Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He's been working on a number of Twitter and real-time monitoring projects, many of them at Continue reading »


How One iPhone App Could Save Public Radio
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 20, 2009 8:32 PM / 15 Comments
Some newspapers scrambling to survive the internet condemn websites like Google News and the Huffington Post. Aggregators, they say, need to pay for the right to point to a newspaper's Continue reading »


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