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Facebook Management Has Lost Its Grip on Reality
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 26, 2009 2:08 PM / 56 Comments
Facebook made one of the most important announcements in the young company's history today. It has proposed a set of foundational documents, including the first official statement of Facebook Principles. Continue reading »


Could Wikipedia's Future Be as a Development Platform?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 23, 2009 1:21 PM / 15 Comments
Content creation at Wikipedia is slowing down. The already small number of active regular editors is on the decline and Jimmy Wales has called for live edits to be held Continue reading »


Why Wikipedia's Policy to Blacklist Blogs is Outdated and Wrong
Written by Richard MacManus / February 13, 2009 1:06 PM / 79 Comments
This week we received an email from a reader telling us that he'd tried to add a link to ReadWriteWeb onto a Wikipedia article, only to get the message: "The Continue reading »


Techmeme's New Editor: An Interview with Megan McCarthy
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 12, 2009 5:24 PM / 5 Comments
Techmeme is a semi-automated site that tracks the hottest conversations among tech blogs each day, with updates every five minutes. It's one of the most innovative efforts in news gathering Continue reading »


5 Reasons Why Facebook + OpenID is Good News
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 5, 2009 7:03 PM / 15 Comments
Facebook has joined the OpenID Foundation, something that many OpenID advocates have hoped would happen for some time. The two systems of logging in to distributed websites, OpenID and Facebook Continue reading »


IBM, Google Health Aim to Blow Medical Records Wide Open
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 5, 2009 2:32 PM / 21 Comments
IBM, Google Health and a consortium of medical device makers and other companies announced today that they have created a software platform that will allow medical data from at-home devices Continue reading »


How a Facebook "Sentiment Engine" Could Be Huge
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 2, 2009 4:21 PM / 10 Comments
Rumors of a Facebook "sentiment engine" analyzing aggregate user data, or a new form of the company's Engagement Ads that offer rapid polling to advertisers, have been flying around the Continue reading »


Blogging Days May Be Waning at AOL's Weblogs, Inc.
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 28, 2009 2:42 PM / 16 Comments
A source close to AOL has informed ReadWriteWeb that it will be shutting down and relaunching the Weblogs Inc. "Lifestyle Blogs" as online magazines. These blogs make up roughly 1/4 Continue reading »


4 Realistic Things You Should Know on International Data Privacy Day
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 28, 2009 11:25 AM / 5 Comments
Today is being observed as the second annual International Data Privacy Day by the United States government, Canada, 27 European countries and a number of big corporations, including Yahoo! and Continue reading »


Why Twitter's New Security Solution Could Pave the Way to a Future Web of Mashups
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 23, 2009 5:48 PM / 21 Comments
Microblogging service Twitter's habit of playing fast and loose with user passwords may be coming to an end, if a technical trial started today can be successfully implemented by its Continue reading »


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