Features Google Gears Turns One: Future is in Open Standards Google Gears, the offline web application API it debuted last year at its developer conference, is turning one this week, and to celebrate, Google will be dropping the company name from Gears. The name change is a symbolic move aimed at reinforcing Google's commitment to working with existing standards communities and helping them to define better… Josh Catone View comments
Product Reviews SocialHistory.js: See Which Sites Your Users Visit With so many social media sites in circulation today, badge soup can become a real problem for web sites trying to squeeze the most out of their traffic. Everyone has a different set of core social media sites that they use -- from del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia, to Digg, Reddit, and Diigo, we all have our favorites. But appealing to your users… Josh Catone View comments
mobile Experience Better Mobile Web Browsing with Skyfire Skyfire, the mobile web browser that allows users to experience the web as they would on a PC, has secured $13 Million in Series B Funding. The application has a waiting list that amounts to the publicity Gmail received with its invite system. Here's a closer look at a next generation web browser that users should look forward to. Mobile Corvida View comments
Features Recommendation and RSS: A Look at Two Readers Filtering the Noise With all the discussions about information overload and the need for filtering, it looks like we're going to finally start getting some relief. This month, two companies made announcements about updates to their RSS readers which will now provide their users with built-in filtering technologies. Those two companies are illumio and Newsgator Online… Sarah Perez View comments
Conferences Mobile 2.0 Europe: RWW Has 5 Free Tickets The next Mobile 2.0 Conference is happening in Europe, on July 4 in Barcelona, Spain. ReadWriteWeb is a media partner, because we support what Rudy De Waele and team are doing to promote the Mobile Web across the world. I myself attended the last event in San Francisco last October and learned a lot. We have 5 free tickets to the event to give… Richard MacManus View comments