News Better Live Blogging: CoverItLive Adds Support for Qik, Mogulus and Ustream The Canada-based live-blogging tool CoverItLive added support for live video streaming to its application this week. Users covering live events can now add streaming video from Qik, Mogulus, and Ustream.tv to their live blogs. Bloggers can simply copy and paste the embed code from one of these services into CoverItLive. Adding video to live… Frederic Lardinois View comments
News Identi.ca Implements Twitter API When we first reported about the new microblogging service Identi.ca earlier this month, it looked like an interesting experiment. Since then, its community has grown rapidly and today, it implemented an API that is compatible with the Twitter API. Thanks to this, any application that connects to Twitter can now also work with Identi.ca by… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews Host Your Own Lifestream With Sweetcron Not everyone loves FriendFeed - its social media firehouse qualities can lead to a lot of noise which can certainly be overwhelming to newcomers. However, even those who don't participate on the service may see the value of a lifestream. By hosting your own lifestream, you can easily share your current activities from across the social web with… Sarah Perez View comments
Product Reviews Mesh, Deep Zoom, Netflix on Xbox: Is Microsoft Becoming "Cool"? Microsoft. Depending on who you are, their name alone elicits some pretty strong feelings. Some people love them, others love to hate them. Few people are neutral. However, everyone can pretty much agree that Microsoft has been fighting an image problem lately and one that has started to make them look less like a towering giant and more like the… Sarah Perez View comments
Events Guide DEMOfall 08 Sessions Announced As mentioned earlier this week, ReadWriteWeb is partnering with a couple of conferences this year and one of them is DEMOfall 08, the long-running launchpad for startups. DEMOfall 08 is on September 7-9 in San Diego. They're just announced the sessions, including a "head-to-head" between tech reporters Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher of… Richard MacManus View comments