Real World Social Media Used to Keep Flood Victims Informed Getting information out to victims and their families during a disaster is a major issue for any relief organization. So while the Central United States recovers from a spate of storms that has ravaged towns with tornadoes and flooding, the American Red Cross is relying on a number of web 2.0 technologies to spread information to the press and… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Yahoo Clings to Its Leading Web "Starting Points" Yesterday we questioned whether Yahoo is focusing enough on its core products. We wrote that "Yahoo's key properties remain yahoo.com, email, myyahoo, and even Answers can be considered special. In short, content is what continues to drive Yahoo and those core properties are still enormously popular." A leaked Yahoo memo has come to light today… Richard MacManus View comments
Features 11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google My first post for ReadWriteWeb (nearly a year ago) started with the premise that search was "game over", that Google had won and the only opportunity left was (re)search - i.e. what one does after the basic search. Unfortunately, none of the search start-ups since then has made a dent in Google's relentless march towards search market dominance. In… Bernard Lunn View comments
Features UPDATED! Poll: Which Instant Messaging Client(s) Do You Use? Due to demand in the comments, 3 new IM clients have been added to the poll. You can now vote for Pidgin, Miranda, and Apple's iChat. Apologies for omissions! Our poll this week focuses on IM clients. This weekend Corvida wrote that interoperability between popular IM clients is happening, albeit slowly. Richard MacManus View comments
Product Reviews Quillpill: Cell Phone Novels Escape Japan For better or for worse the concept of the cell phone novel is making a splash in Western countries via a Twitter-like app called Quillpill. Quillpill handles all the heavy lifting -- i.e., aggregating each post and displaying them in the correct order. Essentially, Quillpill is a mobile writing application that imposes a Twitter-style 140… Josh Catone View comments