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Facebook Eats Away at Email Usage on Today's Web
Written by Sarah Perez / September 17, 2009 6:35 AM / 17 Comments
According to recent analysis by the Online Publishers Association (OPA), more people than ever are spending their time online visiting content sites which provide news, information, and entertainment. Despite the Continue reading »


Researchers Discover Botnet Commanded by Google Groups
Written by Sarah Perez / September 14, 2009 7:42 AM / 4 Comments
New Trend: Web 2.0-controlled malware? Security researchers at Symantec recently uncovered a backdoor trojan whose spread is being dictated by commands hosted in Google Groups, Google's online discussion forums. The Continue reading »


How Facebook Beat MySpace: From College Dorm to Platform
Written by Dana Oshiro / September 9, 2009 7:03 PM / 9 Comments
Two years ago Danah Boyd's article "Viewing American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace" mesmerized marketers and tech journalists. Facebook was described as tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_facebook_beat_myspace_from_college_dorm_to_platform.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; "hegemonic" Continue reading »


ContextVoice: Real Time Tracking with Big Picture Analytics
Written by Dana Oshiro / September 8, 2009 10:00 PM / 1 Comments
No one with any tact would ever tell you that you look fat to your face. But a sea of anonymous netizens will tell you in real-time on multiple channels. Continue reading »


Facebook Connect Expands: Next Stop, Mobile Web
Written by Sarah Perez / September 3, 2009 6:14 AM / 8 Comments
Facebook used Nokia World, the mobile conference taking place now in Stuttgart Germany, to make a major announcement about the expansion of their Facebook Connect platform. According to Henri Moissinac, Continue reading »


Appolicious is Like Delicious for iPhone Apps
Written by Sarah Perez / September 1, 2009 7:44 AM / 11 Comments
Looking for new iPhone apps? With a marketplace filled with over 65,000 applications (give or take), finding the best ones via iTunes has become an exercise in futility. With the Continue reading »


Finding Better Friends: Delicious and SPEAR
Written by Dana Oshiro / August 31, 2009 6:00 PM / 2 Comments
Between self-aggrandizing FriendFeeds, bottom-feeding link baiters, and perpetual Twitter spammers, finding cool online friends can be challenging. Michael G. Noll and Ching-man Au Yeung created the SPEAR (SPamming-resistant Expertise Analysis Continue reading »


Facebook Backs Off Total Exposure Requirement to Use Apps
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 27, 2009 10:14 AM / 6 Comments
Facebook announced today that after facing legal pressure from the Canadian government, it will begin working on ways for users to choose which parts of their full profile they are Continue reading »


Magic Beans Grow Portable Social Networks
Written by Dana Oshiro / August 19, 2009 6:30 PM / 10 Comments
You've seen the calls for open identity standards and data portability. Well, Social Beans aims to create standardized "skeleton portability" across social media publishing platforms. What is "skeleton portability"? According Continue reading »


Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 11, 2009 4:07 PM / 57 Comments
Maybe it's better to host your own. That's the thinking coming from a growing number of early technology adopters as service after service goes down, sells out or otherwise frustrates Continue reading »


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