Analysis The Whatchamacallit, Post Recession Phase Transition We are in the early stages of a major phase transition. Whatever you call it, something new is brewing, and that nasty R word has a lot do with it. It is not the semantic web. That is a part of it, a big piece of the new technology pie, but it feels too much like a solution looking for a problem. Nobody knows what name will eventually resonate with… Bernard Lunn View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 April 2008 This week was a hectic one, with a number of RWW writers present at the annual Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The big Internet news of the week was the launch of Microsoft's Live Mesh. Yahoo also announced key support for Social Graph and data portability. In social networking news, MySpace officially opened its Application Gallery to all users… Richard MacManus View comments
Digital Lifestyle Internet TV News: Three More Netflix Set-Top Box Partners, New Hollywood JV, PS3 Movie Download Service Lots more Internet TV-related coverage on our network blog last100 this week, including news of a new joint venture from Viacom, Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate; Netflix has secured three new set-top box partners who'll add support for the companys Watch Now video streaming service; more speculation surrounding Sony's forthcoming movie… Steve O'Hear, last100 editor View comments
Analysis How We Use Twitter for Journalism How useful can communication limited to 140 characters be for serious journalism? It turns out that the short messages you find on Twitter have proven wildly useful for some writers penning larger pieces. Here at ReadWriteWeb we've been leveraging Twitter heavily for some of our most important news writing. While cynics dismiss twitter as… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews Social Tools for the Office Worker: How to Subvert I.T. and Play at Work We can't all eat, breathe, and live social media 24x7, as much as we might like to. Some of have day jobs that require a bit of our attention, too. And unlike the web-app embracing startups we read about, the policies at more traditional companies actually discourage mindless web surfing, tweeting, facebooking, and the like. However, there are… Social Sarah Perez View comments