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Facebook Announces New Homepages: It's All About the Stream
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 4, 2009 11:24 AM / 22 Comments
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Facebook today announced a major update to its homepages that will go live next Wednesday. The new homepages will put the news feed front and center and have both a Continue reading »


How Many Friends Can You Really Have on Facebook?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 27, 2009 9:00 AM / 26 Comments
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According to Cameron Marlow, Facebook's "in-house sociologist," that number is four if you are male and six if you are female. As the Economist reports this morning, Marlow's research indicates Continue reading »


MySpace Continues to Play Catch-up but Is It Too Late?
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 27, 2009 12:34 AM / 18 Comments
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While it used to be a bit of a media darling, it's not often that we write about MySpace anymore, but they continue to plug along - as one of Continue reading »


Just Work Please: Mainstream Media Meets the Fail Whale
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 25, 2009 12:34 AM / 15 Comments
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The online world is an imperfect place. Gmail goes down, chunks of blog posts disappear, and users are deceived on a regular basis. Most of us who spend time online Continue reading »


Times Open: Developers Gather to Discuss The New York Times APIs
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 23, 2009 2:00 AM / 12 Comments
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Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're big fans of the Times Open strategy, the program that focuses on making the data of The New York Times more accessible to the developer community. Continue reading »


OpenID Foundation Introduces New Executive Director
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 20, 2009 1:47 AM / 3 Comments
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The awareness of OpenID continues to grow. At the same time, the OpenID Foundation - the organization founded to promote, protect, and enable OpenID technologies and community - has been Continue reading »


What Are People Reading in The New York Times? Ask the TimesPeople API
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 18, 2009 2:30 AM / 12 Comments
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When it comes to venerable publications, few hold as much esteem as The New York Times - and few have as much access to interesting user data. That's why we're Continue reading »


Twitter OAuth Spotted in the Wild
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 11, 2009 9:00 PM / 11 Comments
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Twitter OAuth - oft promised but lagging in delivery - had begun to take on a mythical status, leaving many to wonder if it would ever be released. Now, that Continue reading »


Government 2.0: The Rise of the Goverati
Written by Mark Drapeau / February 5, 2009 4:00 AM / 28 Comments
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Everyone knows how well Barack Obama's presidential campaign made use of new media to raise money and market the candidate. We also know how big a role social technology played Continue reading »


SocialWhois: Whois Lookups for the Social Web
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 4, 2009 11:45 PM / 8 Comments
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When you want to know about a domain name, you jump to whois to get all of the information on the person who registered it. But when you want to Continue reading »


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