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Thursday, 22nd May 2008

The URL Is Dead, Long Live Search

Last week I was watching TV and saw something that really caught my eye. It was a commercial for Special K, the breakfast cereal from Kellogg, and rather than end with a plug for the product's web site -- SpecialK.com -- it advised people to search Yahoo! for "Special K" instead. I started to wonder two things: 1. is Yahoo! paying Special K for…

Josh Catone comments

Wednesday, 21st May 2008

How to Use Social Media for Social Change

Did you participate in the Twit-Out yesterday? Do you even know what that is? To get you up to speed, a handful of Twitter users, fed up with the regular outages of their favorite service, decided to band together to show Twitter some tough love by boycotting the service for a day. (Unfortunately, despite having fewer users on the service…

Social Sarah Perez comments

Reality TV Show for Startups Announced; RWW Editor a Judge

In the tradition of American Idol, The Apprentice, Top Chef, and Dragons' Den, a new TV show is in development in New Zealand that will bring the 'Elimination/Game show' format of reality TV to the world of startups. I will be one of the 3 judges.

Richard MacManus comments

Facebook Censoring User Messaging: Spam Prevention or Unaccountable Control of Conversation?

Facebook and MySpace have replaced email for a substantial number of young people. Facebook, though, appears to believe that some things are better off not discussed in conversations between its members. We've found two instances of words that will get a Facebook message blocked and we presume there are others. The company says it's spam…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Want a Printer Friendly Version of RWW? Here It Is!

We've gotten quite a few requests for a "print this page" button on RWW, something that styles up an article nice and clean for readers to print out and pass around. We never set something like that up, in part probably because here at RWW we don't ever see any of our co-workers. We've got people in New Zealand, Rhode Island, Florida, Georgia…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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