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First Details About Lift, the Next Social Network From the Founders of Twitter

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Marshall Kirkpatrick - Aug. 24 (News Report) - The recently-departed co-founders of Twitter who are now working together again under the old Obvious Corp. name (Ev Williams, Biz Stone and Jason Goldman) announced their first official partnership today, with a stealth alpha app called Lift. It's described as simple app for achieving goals through positive reinforcement. It sounds like Twitter and from what I've seen (which is more than I've seen reported about elsewhere yet) it looks a lot like Twitter too - but with more structure. What's called Lift today was apparently called Mibbles just weeks ago and was described then as "a very simple tracking and...

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Facebook's Mysterious Hire: The Guy Who Designed Much of the iPhone

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Marshall Kirkpatrick - Aug. 03 (Opinion) - Matas wasn't just one of many Apple designers; he designed many of the key interfaces you probably interact with every day if you own an iPhone, an iPad or a Mac.

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Gates Foundation Distributes $10M to Build Tech Tools to Boost College Graduation

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - These first award recipients are developing tools and programs for higher education, all in order to boost college graduation rates.

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Alleged Wikileaks Leaker Faces Death Penalty

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:49:02 -0800

ReadWriteWeb - Mar. 02 (Opinion) - Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private who allegedly passed classified documents to the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks, has just been charged with 22 additional counts, according to his attorney, Lieutenant Colonel David Coombs. Among these are "aiding the enemy," a capital offense. Before we go on, you should understand two things. First, I am Son of Regular Navy. Second, I am not a fan of Wikileaks. Both of these things are relevant to my understanding of what has happened to Manning....

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Zuckerberg's Page Hacked, Now Facebook To Offer "Always On" HTTPS

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

ReadWriteWeb - Jan. 26 (News) - Facebook announced this morning that it was making several security changes to protect users' accounts, including boosting the availability of accessing the site using a secure connection. The announcement comes less than a day after CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile was hacked, and while the announcement isn't necessarily a result of this, it's a good reminder of the importance of always using a secure connection to access your accounts online - Facebook and otherwise. Facebook says it will begin giving users the ability to choose an "always on" setting for HTTPS. The option, which

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Blaming Piracy, Music Industry Says It's Lost a Third of Its Value Over Past 7 Years

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

ReadWriteWeb - By Audrey Watters - Jan. 20 (Opinion) - It's a familiar refrain from the music industry: sales are down and piracy is to blame. That's the gist of the the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's (IFPI) annual Digial Music Report, which points to a slowdown in the growth of digital music sales. While digital music revenue has grown 1000% over the past seven years, the entire music industry has lost a third of its value over that same time period. And while digital music seems to represent both the best hopes and the worst fears of the industry, even its growth is slowing.

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Pitching Without a Pitch Deck

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

ReadWriteWeb - By Audrey Watters - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - Startups often put a lot of work into a pitch deck. That's not necessarily a bad thing. After all, you don't want to be stuck delivering a presentation to potential investors which is eminently awful because of your slides.But here's a piece of advice that may run counter to "build good slides."

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Here's What Happened to Delicious

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

ReadWriteWeb - Dec. 18 (News) - Over at Quora, Tripline founder and CEO Byron Dumbrill answers the question, "Why did Delicious fail?" Dumbrill joined Yahoo in 2006, about nine months after it acquired the bookmarking service, and his explanation corresponds with what we've been hearing for several years about its fate. Delicious was back-burnered while the company focused on Yahoo Bookmarks. It was a second class citizen, a fact that Yahoo tacitly acknowledged in its statement earlier today when it said that Delicious needs a home where "it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive." Dumbrill talks about tha

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New Visualization Tool from Google With Data From 5.2 Million Digitized Books

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

ReadWriteWeb - By Audrey Watters - Dec. 16 (Review) - We've written a lot this year about the boom in e-readers and the benefits that e-books have over print. ... But a new project available in Google Labs today - Books Ngram Viewer - highlights some of the other benefits of digitizing texts beyond better reading and storage.

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Skype Comes to Verizon Prepaid Phones

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:41:02 -0800

ReadWriteWeb - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - Verizon Wireless announced that it's extending Skye support to more devices, specifically, "select prepaid smartphones," now bringing the total number of supported devices to 20. For Verizon customers ...

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Twitter Gets to Use Your Photos, for Free? (Updated)

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Violet Blue - Oct. 18 (News Report) - Twitter has been making a lot of changes lately, and photographers may want to re-read that fine print in the Terms of Service... every photo you share on Twitter can be sub-licensed by Twitter, or worse - all royalty-free.

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My6Sense & The Geek Who Rode His Blog to the Edge of the World

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:13:54 -0700

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Legislature Moves to Make Funded Research Public

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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You Are Not a Gadget: The Continuing Case Against Web 2.0

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Richard MacManus - Apr. 05 (Review) - Lanier's main issue with web 2.0 is that, in his view, it promotes the 'hive mind' over individual expression. He writes that web 2.0 presents the current generation of kids with a "reduced expectation of what a person can be."

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Does StreamWork Give a Picture of SAP's Future?

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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China To Media: Toe the Government Line on Google

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Mike Melanson - Mar. 25 (News Report) - est we forget what is at stake with the situation involving Google and China, the Washington Post has published today a list of directions from the Chinese government sent out to all media outlets on how they are allowed to cover the incident. The rules are a stark reminder of why, no matter how long Google kowtowed to government demands there, the search engine's actions are important for the development of a free society.

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Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - Mar. 19 (Opinion) - Most any journalism professor, upon mention of Wikipedia, will immediately launch into a rant about how the massively collaborative online encyclopedia can't be trusted. It can, you see, be edited and altered by absolutely anyone at any moment. But how much less trustworthy is the site for breaking news than the plethora of blogs and social?

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How US Government Spies Use Facebook

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Marshall Kirkpatrick - Mar. 17 (Opinion) - The US Department of Justice this week released slides from a presentation deck titled Obtaining and Using Evidence from Social Networking Sites. The document was released in response ...

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Privacy Is Not Dead: Danah Boyd Talks About Privacy at SXSW

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:59:29 -0800

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Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Marshall Kirkpatrick - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. Figuring out how to rank real-time social content is "the great challenge of the age," Schmidt said in an interview in front of thousands of CIOs and IT Directors at last week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009.

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What Facebook Quizzes Know About You

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Sarah Perez - Aug. 27 (Investigative Report) - The Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has put together a campaign to raise awareness of privacy issues surrounding Facebook applications, in particular quizzes. According to this group, the millions of Facebook users taking quizzes are revealing far more personal information to application developers than they are aware of. This is mostly due to the fact that Facebook's default privacy settings allow access to all your profile information whether or not your profile is set to "private." Even worse, the ACLU reports that even if you shun quizzes yourself, your profile info is revealed when one of your friends takes a quiz. Want to see how bad the problem is? Just take the ACLU's Facebook Quiz and prepare to be shocked. As any regular Facebook user knows, quizzes are some of the most popular applications in use on the social network. Every day, our News Feeds are filled with everything from the latest variation on the "5 Things" theme to the "What (insert popular movie title) character are you?" and more. But these seemingly innocuous time wasters could have dangerous privacy implications if they ended up being distributed by malicious app developers who want access to Facebook's treasure trove of personal data.

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The Digital Mafia: Online Crime Gets Organized, Says Cisco

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Steven Walling - Jul. 21 (News Report) - Bot herders and other nefarious characters are still using cutting-edge computing and social engineering. But according to Cisco's analysis, the real innovation is how those behind some of the biggest threats are collaborating in new ways. It's enterprise 2.0 for the criminal underbelly of the Internet.

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Yahoo Buzz is a Game Changer for Social Media; And Spells Trouble for Digg!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Richard MacManus - Mar. 18 (Opinion) - Yahoo Buzz is a social media experiment by Yahoo! that is currently in a closed beta. We found out today what kind of boost Buzz is giving the current selected blogs and news sources - Muhammad Saleem wrote that it is giving publishers huge bumps in both traffic and comments. Muhammad, you'll recall, wrote on ReadWriteWeb just about the only positive review of Yahoo Buzz when it first launched. In case you missed it, let's revisit the reasons why Buzz is a game changer. And why Digg is in big trouble... First the facts. Yahoo told ReadWriteWeb that "Yahoo.com has sent approximately 16 million total referrals to just a subset of the publishers in the beta during the first two weeks via "Buzzing Now" links in the Featured section of the homepage."

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How Will Publishers Fare Under Microhoo?

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

ReadWriteWeb - By Rajeev Goel - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - ... the Microsoft-Yahoo! acquisition process is likely to be bad for publishers. The lack of focus and investment that Microsoft and Yahoo! will have on the medium and long tail market will result in a slower pace of innovation and poorer monetization opportunities for publishers. In the long term, there is potential upside for publishers but the acquisition process, integration, and renewed product development will take a long time to sort out. The time frame involved reminds me of the old economics adage: "In the long run, we are all dead." How long might we wait until Microsoft and Yahoo! deliver?

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Technology and Terrorism: Are we being too naive?

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:00:50 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Alex Iskold - Jun. 02 (Opinion) - There is an old truism - we can not stop progress. The truism has been used to justify investments in technologies that could potentially not only harm people but wipe out the entire planet. While we cannot stop the progress, we still should think carefully about the consequences of the technologies that we invent. Particularly because since September 11, 2001, we are all wondering when will the next terrorist attack occur.

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