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Not Everyone is Excited About Facebook Vanity URLs

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 10, 2009 10:33 AM / 32 Comments

Mega social network Facebook announced yesterday that it will make "vanity URLs" like Facebook.com/yourname available for users this Friday night. Many people were ecstatic; these links are scarce, they are Continue reading »

How Twitter's Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It Could Cause Problems)

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 5, 2009 3:12 PM / 106 Comments

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Twitter has captured peoples' imaginations like nothing else on the web in years. It's growing fast, gets talked about all the time in other media, has fostered a huge developer Continue reading »

The Emerging World of Real-Time Cellphone Data

Written by Richard MacManus / June 3, 2009 5:30 AM / 5 Comments

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At ReadWriteWeb we've been following with interest the projects of the MIT SENSEeable City Lab, which is producing some excellent analysis and visualizations of cellphone data in urban centers. MIT Continue reading »

Web 3.0 Might Be Really Stupid

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

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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 »

Web 3.0 or Not, There's Something Different About 2009

Written by Richard MacManus / May 20, 2009 6:00 AM / 64 Comments

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This week I gave a short presentation at a local event, Webstock Mini, in which I looked at some of the trends we're seeing in Web Technology this year. The Continue reading »

Understanding the New Web Era: Web 3.0, Linked Data, Semantic Web

Written by Richard MacManus / May 14, 2009 5:15 AM / 48 Comments

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I've been following a fascinating 3-part series of posts this week by Greg Boutin, founder of Growthroute Ventures. The series aimed to tie together 3 big trends, all based around Continue reading »

Is This Why Twitter Changed Its Replies Policy?

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 13, 2009 11:47 AM / 33 Comments

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Yesterday afternoon Twitter made a fundamental change to the options available to users by eliminating the option to receive messages from our friends sent publicly to people we are not Continue reading »

Google Search Evolves - But Has Google Finally Lost its Core Focus?

Written by Richard MacManus / May 13, 2009 4:20 AM / 18 Comments

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Yesterday at Google's Searchology event, which we live-blogged, the search market leader announced two significant features to its search product: Search Options and Rich Snippets. It also previewed a new Continue reading »

Twitter Puts a Muzzle on Your Friends: Goodbye People I Never Knew (Updated)

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 12, 2009 8:10 PM / 243 Comments

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It's not exactly a silent spring, but a change made to Twitter's settings this afternoon has already greatly reduced the tweets its users are witness to. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_puts_a_muzzle_on_your_friends_goodbye_peop.php'; tweetmeme_source Continue reading »

Google Execs: Twitter-like Functionality Could Be Added to Search

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 8, 2009 10:48 AM / 23 Comments

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While taking questions yesterday about alleged violation of anti-trust laws, Google execs including CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly told press that the company is, in the words of Reuters scribe Alexei Continue reading »

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