Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2 (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Ok, the warnings were explicit everywhere I looked. I picked up this from rexblog.com, who picked it up from Read Write Web. I guess that makes both sites pushers. I should have listened. I didn't. I downloaded and installed Snackr,...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
There's no doubt that the focus of the web is shifting to the community. At the forefront of this shift is social media. Social media can be loosely defined as the movement of community contributions in an effort to help one another. There's plenty of giving, taking, promoting, and marketing. In an effort to also contribute, here are 5 great ways to contribute to social media. Provide Fresh Content...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
As you may have heard , we're big fans of RSS here at ReadWriteWeb. We've covered many RSS readers, aggregators, sites, and services in the past and have provided RSS tips in posts like " Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader " and " 6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds ." We also like reading feeds and sharing some of our favorites with our readers. Over the past year or so, we've provided...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
Andrew Sorcini lives in Los Angeles, works as an animator for Dinsney and is the most powerful user that social news site Digg.com has ever seen. Known at Digg and elsewhere as MrBabyMan , Sorcini has submitted a site-leading 2,400+ stories that have hit the site's coveted front page. Those front page submissions have delivered an estimated 50 million pageviews to the sites the submissions came from....
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
OpenID provider JanRain has launched an interesting project called Demand OpenID , which lets users click a bookmarklet whenever they are on a website that they want to request OpenID support on. It's a handy, if a touch rude, way to demonstrate user demand for OpenID on popular websites. Right now the most popular services for users to demand OpenID are Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Facebook, Amazon and...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Snackr is a new Adobe AIR app that lets you display items in your RSS feeds in a beautiful scrolling ticker on any edge of your screen. I am absolutely giddy about it after only a few minutes of use. Snackr is something you'd supplement your existing reader with, not a replacement. It is not for the faint of heart or information averse, either. If you've ever fantasized about having the river of news...
mathewingram.com/work (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Sarah Perez at Read/Write Web (who also blogs at Sarah in Tampa) has a post up about how Generation Y is going to change the Web, and she makes some excellent points. But I would argue that the generation entering the workforce now isn't just going to change the Web — it's changing all kinds [...]
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Six weeks ago, ReadWriteWeb published their definitive list of the top Twitter clients . The methodology for that list was watching the Twitter public feed and logging tweet sources. However, how does the list of clients people are using match up the list of the ones people are talking about? Using data from blog search engine Twingly , we decided to see which Twitter clients are getting the most...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Allen Stern points out that RSS filtering service AideRSS has added Twitter to its PostRank algorithm. AideRSS works by measuring social media interaction with blog posts, and then comparing them to what's normal for that blog. The service then algorithmically applies a ranking to each post allowing users to filter out only the best posts based on the theory that people will only bother interacting...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
The music search engine and Internet jukebox, Songza , lets you seek out any song on the web and stream it immediately. In January of this year, we announced the site's partnerships with Seeqpod and Skreemr , which allowed them to grown their online library to 28 million songs. Now, Songza grows again with a launch of a new Facebook app and the arrival of a Songza API. The Songza Facebook app lets...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Last August we called Spongecell "the most intuitive of the online calendar apps," and picked it as one of our 10 Must Have Online Office Apps . Since then, though, a lot has changed. Spongecell is no longer just a personal calendar, but rather a full-scale event management platform aimed at businesses with complicated event calendars. Last week I caught up with Spongecell CEO Ben Kartzman and Chief...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
The way we create, interact with, and share information on the web is continuously changing, and at a very rapid pace. The end goal, most would argue, is the create a medium that completely democratizes the entire process. This evolution has taken us through editorially driven community sites (Slashdot), socially driven bookmarking sites (del.icio.us), and socially driven news sites (Digg), but none...
mathewingram.com/work (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... should have been.” Others seem to think the deal makes tremendous sense: Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web says that CNET is “as stable an online collection of brands as anyone out there” and that: “What gets validated here is this: great online ad sales, high production value, serious talent, company maturity and breadth in both content and distribution.” Paul Kafka at Silicon Alley...
OS News (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Read Write Web has an interesting article on the concept of the contextual user interface. A contextual user interface - as the name implies - is an interface which adapts to the current wishes of its users, the context. The interface will change according to the actions the user takes; present a set of minimal options, and show other options as the user goes along. While the article...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Since we reported yesterday that cable and Internet provider Comcast had acquired social address book Plaxo for an estimated $150 million, we've been fielding a lot of comments and emails -- most of them not very supportive of the acquisition. Most people seem wary of Comcast -- which has a poor reputation on the web due to "bandwidth throttling" practices -- and some have told us that they'll be...
