Features Weekly Wrapup, 23-27 June 2008 Here are some of the highlights from the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we reported on Nokia's buyout of the open source mobile OS Symbian, reviewed a "memory augmentation" service and a semantic search engine, and looked at what LinkedIn's strategy tells us about the IPO market. On the trends side, we… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis FriendFeed: One Feature to The Tipping Point I used to be annoyed by people who commented on my Twitter messages (tweets) in FriendFeed, rather than replying directly to me in Twitter (the platform I was using). However with the introductions of Rooms, FriendFeed is no longer a lifestream aggregator anymore - it is the perfect platform for sharing and discussing content with groups… Muhammad Saleem View comments
Product Reviews Smashbuys: Popurls for Stuff Some ideas are either so good (or so easy to copy), that it's only a matter of time before they have been cloned so many time that they become cliché. Popurls was exactly such an idea - a simple web site that aggregates headlines from various Web 2.0 blogs and social media sites. The latest Popurls clone is Smashbuys: a site that displays the top… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews ScreenSteps: A Beautiful Way to Share Information Online Tutorial creation tool ScreenSteps released a new version today and we're excited to discover this very useful looking tool. This desktop app for Windows and Mac lets users create attractive screenshot-based support documents in minutes. You can capture full or partial screenshots, add relatively sophisticated annotation and then publish to the… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Mashups Mashups: Google's Adoption Makes oAuth a Must Have for All Apps Open standard based user authentication protocol oAuth has now been implemented across all Google Data APIs, quickly offering this young standard for easy mashups more market validation than it's ever had before. Eight months ago we wrote about the launch of oAuth 1.0, asking if the standard would lead to a flood of mashups across the web. Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments