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About Jon Mitchell

Jon Mitchell is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb, joining the team in July, 2011. Prior to joining RWW, he was managing editor of NewsTrust, which provides Web-based tools to help consumers, students, and journalists separate fact from fiction in the news. Jon loves to wonder about the meaning and purpose behind the Web technologies we use every day, which is what led him to ReadWriteWeb in the first place. Contact Jon on Twitter at @JonMwords or at jon@readwriteweb.com.

Recent Articles by Jon Mitchell

  • Storify for iPad: Make The News By Hand

    Storify for iPad. That's a complete sentence. Storify is a noun, yes. It's a company that makes an app. But it's also a verb that company invented. To storify is to take a series of discrete moments and thread them into a story. It stand alone or be embedded on a blog. With the Storify...


  • Buzz Rethinks How the iPhone Handles Contacts

    Buzz Contacts for iPhone is the latest offering from savvy apps, makers of the popular alternative calendar app, Agenda. Both apps take built-in iOS apps and offer new interfaces to save users time and sanity. Actually, Buzz takes on three apps at once: Contacts, Phone and Messages. It also uses FaceTime, a feature another popular...


  • Google Flight Search Goes Mobile

    Last year, Google added a new category of in-house search results for domestic U.S. flights to Google.com on the desktop. They're now available on mobile as well. It will take you all the way to checkout, but you can't buy tickets directly through Google. Yet. Google acquired ITA Software, a flight info software company, for...


  • The App Store Is A Republic

    It comes down to this fundamental question: How much responsibility do you want for the workings of your device? The religious divide between iOS and Android hinges on this point. There are nerds - and I always use the term affectionately - whose nerdliness depends upon that responsibility. Without it, they feel no control over...


  • Bottlenose 2.0 Is a 6th Sense for the Social Web

    I just received surprise news that Bottlenose hit version 2.0. It's an intelligent social dashboard, but don't think "another social dashboard." Here's the breakdown: If you think in customers, use Nimble. If you think in interpersonal connections, use Engag.io. But if you want a social dashboard for ideas, that's what Bottlenose is for. I'll give...


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