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There was once an era when website content could only be changed by wrestling time away from someone who specialized in such technical matters. Blogging changed all of that. Applications

Adobe will launch the first public alpha version of its Apollo platform later tonight - Ryan Stewart got the news out first. Apollo is the code name for the much

Social networking platform Ning announced support for the OpenSocial standard today. Thanks to this, developers can now easily create applications for the Ning platform. At this time, Ning already features

Spotted on the blogosphere (via Ryan Stewart): Macromedia's The Kiwi Project, which is about creating read/write web components for Flex. From the intro post: "With the rising interest in AJAX

Jailbreaking, the act of hacking your iPhone or iPod Touch so that it allows for the installation of unapproved third-party applications, is a popular activity among the tech community. But

My latest ZDNet column is a potential doozy: Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP

Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event. On Saturday we covered an SXSW panel called Web App Autopsy,

"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance," Steve Ballmer told USA Today a few years ago. Seems the CEO's perception of

Today, Amazon launched a new service which brings the company's payment processing tools to mobile devices. Called the "Amazon Mobile Payments Service," the technology includes a set of APIs (application

This morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Jason Grigsby of Cloud Four, a mobile and web development firm, presented at a session about the mobile web's future.