Product Reviews Smart Desktop Organizes Your Info, Both Online and Off One of the software programs mentioned at this year's IORG conference (see our coverage here) was SmartDesktop. This program uses machine intelligence to automatically organize your information by project so you can quickly find what you need. In addition to organizing your emails and files created by desktop software, the beta version of this… Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who's Doing It? If there's a hot new social media trend happening, you can bet that companies are trying to find a way to use it too. It happened of course with blogging, it happened with Twitter, and it is now happening with FriendFeed and other lifestreaming apps. UPDATE: On August 16, 2008 ReadWriteWeb was sent a letter from the lawyers of a company named… Richard MacManus View comments
Cartoons Cartoon: Knol Experts Earlier this week we reported that Google had opened up Knol, its Wikipedia competitor, to the public. It had announced a private beta of the service last December. Now that Knol is public, it makes us wonder who you would rather party with: Knol experts, Squidoo lensmasters or Wikipedia editors? Play Rob Cottingham View comments
Messaging Services Palringo Instant Messenger Comes to the iPhone One of the biggest problems with the iPhone is that you can't run multiple applications in the background. When it comes to IMing friends, this could be a huge problem. Currently there's only one application available that lets you connect to all your IM networks, saving users the time and pain of switching between clients. Here's a look at… Corvida View comments
Analysis Mixed Messages in The Blogging Landscape There has been a lot of discussion recently about the changing face of the blogging landscape. On one hand many bloggers have turned to the likes of FriendFeed and Twitter to express themselves, instead of their blogs. On the other hand we have a group of professional blogs that are becoming more and more like 'old media'. But interestingly, in… Richard MacManus View comments