Product Reviews Quintura Launches Site Search - Private Beta Offer for RWW Readers Russian search engine Quintura (one of our sponsors) has released a private beta of a custom search service for blogs or websites. It's similar to the Eurekster swicki we use on ReadWriteWeb. The defining feature of Quintura's service is a tag cloud that moves fluidly when you click it - see it in action on our network blog AltSearchEngines. If… Richard MacManus View comments
Product Reviews Web Site Attempts to Collect Every Rule of Thumb You can stay in control of virtually any situation as long as you know where your towel is. That's a good rule of thumb to remember for anyone planet hopping around the universe. But how do you know how to evaluate the programmer for your next project? Or know if that girl (or guy) at the end of the bar likes you? Don't panic. Terrestrial… Josh Catone View comments
Product Reviews Bogglific Avoids Facebook Deadpool - Reborn as Prolific At the same time as Hasbro/Mattel's well-publicized take down order of the uber-popular Facebook game Scrabulous (which is based on their Scrabble board game), they were also going after a far smaller app called "Bogglific." Bogglific, an online clone of Hasbro's Boggle game, was at the time played by over 7,000 users per day. A far cry from… Josh Catone View comments
Product Reviews Wakerupper: Free Wake-up Calls from the Web Wakerupper is a nifty light-weight text-to-speech web app with a great name that will call any phone at a preset time. The site is currently in private beta, though its basic features are publicly available now (advanced features such as scheduling and a snooze function are only available to beta testers). I tested it out earlier this week and it… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication? Enterprise collaboration company Jive Software posted today about a theory it's advancing on the rise of XMPP (called Jabber in IM) for powering communication services hosted in the cloud. The company also announced that it will include what it says will be the first XMPP-powered document sharing and collaboration tool in the forthcoming 2.0… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments