Google UK Privacy Watchdog: Google Streetview Can Go Ahead We reported on the controversy around Google's Street View in the UK earlier this month. At that time, a number of UK privacy activists had raised concerns over the privacy implications of Street View and challenged Google's ability to automatically blur faces in the photographs used in the service. According to the BBC, the Information… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Features Welcome To The Mobile Web, Now Here Come The Viruses? Ever since our cell phones started shipping with web browsers built-in, security companies have been warning us about the threat of mobile viruses and malware. While this was likely just an attempt to broaden their reach by selling us anti-virus protection for our phones, some recent numbers make us wonder if there's perhaps some truth to their… Sarah Perez View comments
Events Guide Defrag: Fixing Foundational Information Channels One of the conferences we're supporting this year is Defrag. The topics that Defrag explores are very close to our hearts - OpenSocial, Attention, Next-Level Discovery, The Implicit Web, and more. One of this year's Defrag sessions that caught my attention is entitled: Fixing Foundational Information Channels -- Email, Calendars, RSS, etc. Richard MacManus View comments
News Socialmedian Launches Open Beta: Personalize Your News Filter After 4 months of private, invite-only alpha testing, social news network Socialmedian is now open and available in a public beta. During the last 4 months, Socialmedian has taken its motto of shipping fast and iterating faster quite seriously. Today, the service looks nothing like it did 4 months ago when we first reviewed it. Since then… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Analysis After Cuil, Blekko Will Be More Careful - But Does It Matter? My first post for ReadWriteWeb, just over 1 year ago, started with the premise that search was “game over”, that Google had won and the only space left was (re)search - what users do after the basic search. None of the search start-ups since then has made me change my mind. None of the cool new user interface features or ways of… Bernard Lunn View comments