About Josh Catone
Josh Catone is a freelance writer and entrepreneur from Rhode Island, USA. He is the co-founder of the web's largest community dedicated to Ruby on Rails development, Rails Forum.
Recent Articles by Josh Catone
So, yesterday was officially my last day at ReadWriteWeb. I know what you're all thinking: "Uh, so why are you posting today? Just get outta here already!" Okay, okay, you got me. But this is my 747th post at ReadWriteWeb, and I just couldn't bring myself to leave without saying goodbye (and apologize in advance...
Facebook announced last night that it was adding search to the Inbox feature of its site. According to Facebook engineer Prashant Malik, Inbox search was something the company knew they needed for a long time, and was heavily requested by users. Search is one of the fundamental features that any email-like messaging system needs, and...
Ameritocracy, which just launched into invite-only public beta, is a new political site that helps people cut through the noise and rate and review political information for credibility and relevance. The site helps users to sort through the sea of information we're pummeled with via the media each day and pull out the more credible...
Semantic search engine Hakia today announced a set of APIs that opens up their natural language processing and search platform to developers. Hakia's Syndication Web Services really comes in two parts: search queries, which allow developers to add web search functionality leveraging Hakia's five billion page index, and XML feed calls, which give developers access...
While some of our European readers may snicker if I were to complain about having to pay $4.10/gallon to fill up my car's gas tank, the fact is that across the world many people are feeling pressure at the pump. There are some who argue that the environmental benefits of high gas prices, which are...
Josh Catone Story Archive
- Huffington Post To Take on Local Newspapers June 19, 2008 9:18 AM
- China Web Boom: .CN Now More Popular than .Net June 18, 2008 7:31 PM
- Firefox 3 Sets Download 'Record' - Are You Using It? June 18, 2008 7:34 AM
- Build Your Own Reddit With Reddit June 18, 2008 7:09 AM
- Software Company Ditches AdWords for... Kiva? June 17, 2008 6:16 PM
- Long Tail Ad Network Makes Sense for Technorati June 17, 2008 11:02 AM
- Mobile Banking on the Rise June 17, 2008 9:52 AM
- Social Media Used to Keep Flood Victims Informed June 16, 2008 6:53 PM
- Quillpill: Cell Phone Novels Escape Japan June 16, 2008 12:32 PM
- Study: More People are Turning to the Web for Political Info June 16, 2008 11:24 AM
- eBay Launches Dev Platform - Too Little, Too Late? June 16, 2008 9:57 AM
- Poll: Which Blog Search Engine Do You Use? June 13, 2008 10:05 AM
- Is eBay Artificially Inflating Listing Numbers? June 13, 2008 9:32 AM
- Do Regular People Really Read Blogs? June 12, 2008 5:36 PM
- What's Next for Microsoft and Yahoo! June 12, 2008 1:53 PM
- Australia Rules Against eBay and PayPal June 12, 2008 7:23 AM
- Will the Future Novel be More than Text on a Page? June 11, 2008 7:32 PM
- Prediction Markets vs. Survey Data: Fight! June 11, 2008 10:29 AM
- Creative Block? Try Moodstream June 11, 2008 8:50 AM
- A Smart Social Media Play From... Coca-Cola? June 10, 2008 1:00 PM
- An Inside Look at Y Combinator June 10, 2008 6:00 AM
- SocialCash Launches New Facebook Ad Network June 10, 2008 5:00 AM
- AOL Announces Revenue Sharing for Open AIM June 9, 2008 9:01 PM
- 6 Ways to Sell Your Stuff Online June 9, 2008 12:35 PM
- And You Thought the Tech Blog Echo Chamber was Bad June 9, 2008 10:00 AM
- YouTube Monetization: Let Users Sell Ads June 9, 2008 8:39 AM
- US Congressman Tries Digg for Politics June 6, 2008 8:21 AM
- Could Facebook Be the New Ning? June 6, 2008 7:41 AM
- Watch Out TV: YouTube is Taking Over June 5, 2008 11:43 AM
- Thinkbase: Mapping the World's Brain June 5, 2008 10:30 AM
- Yahoo! Pushes Search Results Customization to Users June 5, 2008 7:14 AM
- Can Microsoft Win the Search Wars with Charity? June 4, 2008 12:54 PM
- Visualizing Digg: Tree Rings June 4, 2008 11:00 AM
- Yahoo! Releases Address Book API June 4, 2008 10:47 AM
- Trouble at eBay June 3, 2008 9:00 PM
- Watch Out Silicon Valley: Here Comes NYC June 3, 2008 10:11 AM
- Firefox Continues Long March to the Top June 3, 2008 9:36 AM
- Feed Compare: Alexa for Feedburner June 2, 2008 1:32 PM
- Blender Open Movie Project 2 Released June 2, 2008 9:00 AM
- Blockbuster Kiosks: Still a Bad Idea June 2, 2008 8:02 AM
- Oh Boy Obama: User Generated Campaign Think Tank May 30, 2008 10:47 AM
- Award Winning Fiction in 140 Characters May 30, 2008 8:59 AM
- Could Struggling Economy Help Second Life? May 30, 2008 8:52 AM
- idAuth: Proposed Push Identity-Data Relationship Standard May 29, 2008 1:05 PM
- How Many Friends is Too Many? May 29, 2008 9:43 AM
- Who Owns All These Comments? You? Us? Someone Else? May 29, 2008 8:35 AM
- 15 Places to Find Great Screencasts May 28, 2008 3:34 PM
- Google Gears Turns One: Future is in Open Standards May 28, 2008 9:30 AM
- SocialHistory.js: See Which Sites Your Users Visit May 28, 2008 8:04 AM
- The Social Networking Arms Race May 27, 2008 2:35 PM
- Poll: Are You Still Watching Cable TV? May 27, 2008 9:53 AM
- What's the Biggest Rails App? It Doesn't Matter May 27, 2008 8:40 AM
- Sometimes Crowds Aren't That Wise May 26, 2008 8:41 AM
- New York Times API Coming May 26, 2008 7:16 AM
- Studios Should Look to Trent Reznor for Future of Distribution May 26, 2008 6:00 AM
- Mars Phoenix Lander Live on Web in 1 Hour May 25, 2008 3:51 PM
- Facebook Will Be the Mainstream Everything May 24, 2008 7:45 AM
- Government 2.0: The Government as a Platform May 23, 2008 12:14 PM
- Facebook New Profile Dev Sandbox Now Live May 23, 2008 9:43 AM
- For Some Startups, Blog Coverage Really Matters May 22, 2008 12:40 PM
- The URL Is Dead, Long Live Search May 22, 2008 8:23 AM
- Top 10 Ways to Search Wikipedia May 21, 2008 9:01 AM
- Another Way to Measure Electoral Clout: Watch the Widgets May 21, 2008 6:00 AM
- To Beat Google, Beat Google to the Mobile Web May 21, 2008 4:06 AM
- Report: The Mobile Web is the New Hangout May 20, 2008 9:40 AM
- Is That Barack Obama in Your FriendFeed? May 20, 2008 7:23 AM
- Database Analytics Startup Aster Data Launches, Analyzes MySpace May 20, 2008 12:01 AM
- 20+ Ways to Learn a Language Online May 19, 2008 2:00 PM
- Why There Should Be Web Search on Facebook May 19, 2008 10:16 AM
- AOL Announces Open AIM Dev Contest Winners May 19, 2008 7:48 AM
- Reuters Launches Calais 2.0 - Now With Pop-Culture May 18, 2008 9:01 PM
- AideRSS Updates Filtering: Adds Twitter May 16, 2008 9:03 AM
- Spongecell Promote: The Event Management Platform May 16, 2008 6:35 AM
- Poll: Will You Still Use Plaxo? May 15, 2008 12:00 PM
- The Monkey is Out of the Bag: Yahoo! Opens Search Developer Platform May 15, 2008 10:30 AM
- iSlsk Brings Filesharing to the iPhone May 15, 2008 7:39 AM
- Adobe Releases Flash 10 Beta May 14, 2008 9:01 PM
- Play the News: Data Portability's Future May 14, 2008 1:55 PM
- Did Twitter Really 'Outshine' the Mainstream Press? May 14, 2008 11:27 AM
- Semantic Travel Search Engine UpTake Launches May 14, 2008 6:00 AM
- Report: Slowing Economy Finally Catches Up to Online Ads May 13, 2008 10:59 AM
- FontStruct: Font Making Made Easy May 13, 2008 10:20 AM
- Online Video for the Very Young May 13, 2008 8:45 AM
- Powerset vs. Google: The Completely Premature Head-to-Head May 12, 2008 2:32 PM
- FuelFrog: Track Your Gas Mileage May 12, 2008 7:35 AM
- Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce May 12, 2008 5:00 AM
- What People Say When They Tweet May 9, 2008 12:54 PM
- oEmbed: An Open Format for Embedding Media May 9, 2008 10:29 AM
- Roofarena: Bringing Million Dollar Homepage to Manhattan May 9, 2008 9:50 AM
- Google Says Goodbye to Hello May 8, 2008 3:04 PM
- Microsoft's Brand Confusion Runs Deep May 7, 2008 2:03 PM
- The Other Startup Exit: SitePoint Marketplace May 7, 2008 11:30 AM
- Similarr: Talk About Search Results May 7, 2008 10:15 AM
- Hitwise: MySpace Takes 3/4ths of US Social Network Traffic May 6, 2008 3:02 PM
- Twitter Leads Social Networks in Downtime, But Still Up Near 99% May 6, 2008 9:40 AM
- Forrester: Enterprise Mashups to Hit $700 Million by 2013 May 6, 2008 9:15 AM
- The Facebook Platform is Biased Toward "Fun" Apps May 5, 2008 2:00 PM
- Another Free Album from NIN - Is Free the New Price of Music? May 5, 2008 9:25 AM
- Mosso Adds Storage Service to its Hosting Stack May 5, 2008 5:01 AM
- Omnidrive: Officially Cooked? May 2, 2008 9:58 AM
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