About Mike Melanson
Mike Melanson is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb, joining the team in December 2009. Mike is an ex-Austinite living in San Francisco, where he is wandering the streets in hopes of finding the real tech stories of our time. He considers himself a sort of technomad cyclist and has a background in co-ops, collectives, coding, hacking and BBSes. He has a bachelors from Bard College and a masters in journalism from the University of Texas. He is @rwwmike on Twitter and you can reach him by email at mike@readwriteweb.com.
Recent Articles by Mike Melanson
Once upon a time, things didn't happen now, they happened later. Editing a document meant volleying back and forth over email or fax, meetings were something everyone had to be in the same place for and group communication on-the-go meant saying "hold on, let me call you right back" over and over. Then came the...
Earlier this month, patent-holding company Lodsys started going after small-time iOS developers, sending them "notice" letters which claim the developers are infringing on one of Lodsys' patents for in-app purchasing technology. In these notices, Lodsys demands that developers license the patent from them for 0.575% of the U.S. revenue generated using in-app purchases and many...
I don't know about you, but when it comes down to figuring out the "where" of my life on my smartphone, Google Maps is pretty much it. On the Android, the Maps experience is great and complete, but on iOS, the maps app can be a bit lacking. Thankfully, Google offers an equalizer in its...
Pick up a book like James Joyce's Ulysses and you'll likely want a library at your side to help define, translate and help give the context needed to understand the plethora of heady content inside. Before the days of the Internet, reading some of the more scholarly literary texts involved just that - having a...
Since Google's official unveiling of the Chrome Web Store six months ago, the company has been on a mission to redefine our perception of what constitutes an operating system, a browser and a program, blurring the lines between each. In Google's world, an OS is a browser and a program - one of those hefty...
Mike Melanson Story Archive
- No Porn on iOS? "Uncensored" iPlayboy Hits the iPad May 19, 2011 9:20 AM
- Google Takes Social Search Global, +1 Coming Soon May 19, 2011 8:32 AM
- 2WAY Q&A: Layar's Maarten Lens-FitzGerald on Building a Digital Layer on Top of the World May 18, 2011 6:45 AM
- Why Bing Could Beat Google in Social Search May 17, 2011 3:15 PM
- Twitter's Humble Origins: Jack Dorsey, His Pager and a Hack May 17, 2011 2:08 PM
- Twittamentary: A Documentary By, For & About Twitter May 16, 2011 2:15 PM
- How to Unlock All Levels on Chrome Angry Birds May 16, 2011 11:36 AM
- Report: No NFC for the iPhone 5 May 16, 2011 10:41 AM
- Google Addresses One of Android Market's Biggest Problems: App Discovery May 12, 2011 6:45 PM
- 2WAY Q&A: Fancy Hands' Ted Roden on "Going it Alone" in the Startup Game May 12, 2011 5:45 PM
- Blogger Goes Down While Rolling Out Its Redesign May 12, 2011 4:04 PM
- Twitter Brings #NewTwitter to the Mobile Web May 11, 2011 3:15 PM
- iFlow Reader Closes Shop, Says Apple "Screwed Us" May 11, 2011 7:30 AM
- Google Opens Places API to the Public May 10, 2011 6:58 PM
- Virtually Walk the World With an Android-Enabled Treadmill May 10, 2011 4:45 PM
- A Sneak Peek of Evernote for Android Tablets [Video] May 10, 2011 4:30 PM
- Move Over Netflix, Android Gets Google Movies May 10, 2011 12:50 PM
- Google I/O Live Blog: Google Launches Music, Movies, "Ice Cream Sandwich" & More May 10, 2011 8:59 AM
- Disqus Adds @mentions To Bring The Users Back May 6, 2011 12:54 PM
- Hackapalooza: Lollapalooza Launches an API May 6, 2011 10:01 AM
- In the Name of Engagement: Facebook Auto-Suggests Friends in Status Updates & Comments May 5, 2011 4:38 PM
- GroupMe Buys Sensobi: Elastic Groups on the Horizon? May 5, 2011 3:58 PM
- Google Street View Goes Inside Businesses With Google Business Photos May 5, 2011 10:06 AM
- XYDO Feels Like It's Taking The Pageviews Out of Publishers' Mouths May 4, 2011 5:10 PM
- Justin.tv's Socialcam Gets a Website May 4, 2011 12:41 PM
- In the Market for a Web Designer Directory? 37Signals Puts Sortfolio Up for Sale May 4, 2011 11:20 AM
- Disqus Raises $10 Million, Doubles in Size Despite Facebook Comments May 4, 2011 10:02 AM
- Knock Knock. Who's There? Pandora! (Pandora Got Comedy, Get It?) May 3, 2011 9:58 PM
- Apple, Please Hire This Man And Implement His iOS Notifications Already [Video] May 3, 2011 7:29 PM
- Bank of America App Comes to Windows Phone 7 May 3, 2011 6:24 PM
- Business Card App Cardcloud Links Up With LinkedIn, Adds Events May 3, 2011 4:43 PM
- Opera Introduces "Next" for Early Adopters, Previews Interactive Speed Dials May 3, 2011 9:08 AM
- MapQuest Integrates Skyhook: Can It Outperform Google Maps? May 3, 2011 7:01 AM
- Meet Craiggers: It Blows Craigslist Out of The Water May 2, 2011 7:00 PM
- Why A TweetDeck Acquisition Could Stink For The Users May 2, 2011 3:55 PM
- BlackBerry Brings Augmented Reality Mainstream, Preloads Wikitude On New Phones May 2, 2011 12:56 PM
- Google Begins Testing Multiple Profiles on Chrome Canary Build May 2, 2011 12:01 PM
- How To Save Your iPhone's Location Data Before Apple Destroys It May 2, 2011 11:00 AM
- Has The Smartphone Location Tracking Fiasco Gone Too Far? Or Not Far Enough? April 29, 2011 3:56 PM
- Nock Nock: Where The Foursquare Geeks At? April 29, 2011 12:45 PM
- What Can an App Do With Your Twitter Account? New Login Screen Will (Sort of) Tell You April 28, 2011 9:06 PM
- PayPal Buys Fig Card: A Stepping Stool to Mobile Payments for Merchants? April 28, 2011 7:37 PM
- How Netflix Stole my Eyepatch & I Stopped Stealing Movies April 28, 2011 6:00 PM
- Study: 77% Don't Want to Share Location on Smartphones April 27, 2011 3:36 PM
- Extensions Bring Facebook's New "Send" Button to Google Reader, WordPress & More April 27, 2011 1:13 PM
- Charge It: Square Gets a Visa Investment April 27, 2011 11:54 AM
- Add Location-Based Q&A With the Localmind API April 26, 2011 9:00 PM
- Got Windows Phone 7? Microsoft's Tracking You Too April 26, 2011 7:00 PM
- Instapaper Founder: Apps Don't Need To Be Free April 26, 2011 4:26 PM
- Yolink Brings Full-Featured Search to WordPress April 25, 2011 9:01 PM
- AwayFind Adds On-The-Go Email Alerts That Could Make Life So Much Better April 25, 2011 3:44 PM
- Netflix Letter to Shareholders Shows It Couldn't Care Less About DVDs April 25, 2011 3:16 PM
- Facebook Announces "Send" Button: A "Like" With Context April 25, 2011 12:52 PM
- Yahoo Buys IntoNow: Paradigm Shift or Wasted Potential? April 25, 2011 12:02 PM
- Spot O' Tea With That? Flipboard Gets the Telegraph, Guardian & Royal Wedding April 22, 2011 2:45 PM
- Google Reportedly In Talks With Music Service Spotify April 22, 2011 1:20 PM
- Facts Should Be Free: SimpleGeo Puts 20 Million Places in the Public Domain April 21, 2011 11:53 AM
- Loopt Introduces Qs: Real-Time Polls in Place of Reviews April 20, 2011 12:10 PM
- Chinese Hackers Bring Down Change.org in Response to Ai Weiwei Campaign April 19, 2011 5:53 PM
- AppCircus Makes Its Way to the West Coast April 18, 2011 5:09 PM
- Foursquare Takes a Crack at Color With Shared Photos April 18, 2011 4:29 PM
- Groupon Could Take Out Foursquare with Pelago Acquisition April 18, 2011 2:41 PM
- Report: Twitter In Talks to Buy Tweetdeck April 18, 2011 1:54 PM
- Cardcloud: Never Bring a Business Card Again April 18, 2011 8:55 AM
- YouTube: Fair Use is Why Conan Can Make Fun of Rebecca Black April 15, 2011 12:50 PM
- 3 Awesome Twitter Apps Built in 3 Days Using Infochimps API Calls April 15, 2011 11:25 AM
- Color Wants to Prove its Point: Partners with Fox for Film Premiere April 15, 2011 9:02 AM
- The Twitterfication of the Enterprise April 14, 2011 10:37 PM
- Google Keeps Building the Tower of Babel, Floor by Floor April 14, 2011 6:19 PM
- What to Expect from Where 2.0 in 2011: Context, Crowdsourcing & Proximity April 14, 2011 4:15 PM
- Oprah Comes to Flipboard April 14, 2011 7:00 AM
- Chrome Left Behind as Safari Gets "Do Not Track" April 13, 2011 3:43 PM
- What Does That Much-Hyped, Over-Used, Muddled Word "Cloud" Really Mean? April 13, 2011 1:38 PM
- 18 Million WordPress.com Blogs Compromised In Attack April 13, 2011 12:03 PM
- Intimidated By Travel Planning? Check Out Plnnr April 13, 2011 11:31 AM
- Government Agrees With Microsoft: Google Wasn't Certified [Update] April 13, 2011 10:44 AM
- ChromeOS Feels Like the Past Before It Ever Became the Future April 12, 2011 10:05 PM
- Fearsquare: If You Knew the Crime Stats, Would You Still Go There? April 12, 2011 8:09 PM
- Facebook: Our Comments Plugin Increases Publisher Traffic up to 45% [STATS] April 12, 2011 6:38 PM
- Bump: Moving Beyond People to Places & Things April 11, 2011 6:17 PM
- Traffic Down at Post-Paywall New York Times [STATS] April 11, 2011 3:27 PM
- Google's Battle Against Content Farms Goes Global for English Users April 11, 2011 2:18 PM
- Move Over +1, +Like Extension Brings Facebook Likes to Google Search Results April 11, 2011 12:12 PM
- Google Brings Hotpot Recommendations to Places, Almost Reinvents Yelp April 8, 2011 12:46 PM
- What Is Google Getting at With Chrome OS for Tablets? April 7, 2011 8:27 PM
- Google Takes Deals Country-Wide: Will You Check In? April 7, 2011 5:25 PM
- An iPhone User's First Days on Android: Where Are the Apps and Why is My Phone Frozen? April 7, 2011 4:20 PM
- LinkedIn Gets an Android App April 7, 2011 9:00 AM
- Rome2Rio: Travel Directions by Plane, Train & Automobile April 7, 2011 8:21 AM
- TweePLayer: Time-Shifted Tweets for Time-Shifted Television April 6, 2011 4:08 PM
- Dislike Facebook's "Memorable Status Updates"? There's a Group for That April 6, 2011 2:13 PM
- Grooveshark Pulled From Android Market Over RIAA Letter April 6, 2011 12:45 PM
- LinkedIn's Answer to Facebook's Open Graph April 6, 2011 8:01 AM
- Hunch Brings Predictions to Internet TV April 5, 2011 5:50 PM
- Formulists One Ups Twitter's Topic Search with Filters, Lists April 5, 2011 12:15 PM
- Meet The 5 Finalists of the Data 2.0 Startup Pitch April 4, 2011 6:23 PM
- Have Issues With Big Data? Check Out These 5 Data-as-a-Service Startups April 4, 2011 4:48 PM
- Facebook Pushes Location: Adds Event Check-Ins, Places Maps April 4, 2011 4:21 PM
- Twitter Continues to Friendly Things Up for New Users April 4, 2011 2:09 PM
- 3taps Wants to Democratize the Exchange of Data April 4, 2011 12:52 PM
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
