Contests Comment of the Day: Lifestreaming Helps Blog Comments Today we have 2 prizes to give away. They both come from a very appropriate post from Sarah Perez: The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere. In it, Sarah noted that "a lot of new aggregation services and lifestreaming applications [have] come into play recently", which may be dragging discussions off blogs and onto the likes of FriendFeed, digg… Richard MacManus View comments
Product Reviews SugarSync File Syncing Platform Launches - 50% for 2 Years for RWW Readers In January, ReadWriteWeb brought you an exclusive look at SugarSync, the long awaited file syncing utility from Sharpcast, our 2006 Most Promising Web LittleCo. SugarSync is a software program that syncs files across multiple systems -- i.e., desktop, web, and mobile -- allowing users to access backed up data from whatever device they happen to be… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Is Oprah Going to Save the Internet? Don't look now but Oprah is at the top of the iTunes podcasting chart. Her discussion series with writer Eckhart Tolle is bringing not just podcasting to her huge audience, she's doing a ten week "class" by live video with a Silverlight player and Skype discussions. It's events like this that change the technology landscape. Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Trends Should Employers Use Social Network Profiles in the Hiring Process? The Internet has made our personal lives public. Thanks to social networks, the kind of public scrutiny that was once reserved for the very famous, is now possible for many of us. As we wrote last month, social networking sites like Facebook have become your "permanent record" on the Internet, and that privacy on the web is just an illusion… Josh Catone View comments
Product Reviews Swotti - A Semantic Opinions Aggregator Swotti is a new semantic search engine that aggregates opinions about products to help you make purchasing decisions. With Swotti, you can learn from the good and bad experiences of others as the site gathers together reviews and feedback from across the web and categorizes them to provide you with more information about the product you're… Sarah Perez View comments