News Who Needs a Beta? Apple Extends MobileMe Subscriptions Another 60 Days Apple once again had to accept defeat and has announced that it will extend all subscriptions to its bug-ridden MobileMe service for yet another 60 days. This move comes after the company already gave every subscriber an extra 30 days after the botched launch of the product in July. MobileMe is quickly becoming Apple's most public failure in recent… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Product Reviews NewsCred, a Credible News Dashboard Opens to the Public NewsCred garnered quite a bit of attention in its initial private beta launch where ReadWriteWeb was considered by its users to be one of the most credible news sources to read. With less than 20% of readers really believing what their news sources are saying, NewsCred aims to be the solution to this particular problem. With plenty of sources to… Corvida View comments
Trends Google Sites Now Home For Spammers Google Sites, the Google platform for document sharing and collaboration, has been dubbed "SharePoint Light" by many members of the tech community. However, the platform might be getting a new name soon, and one that won't be so nice. Apparently, spammers have adopted Sites as a tool to host spam and malware, and, thanks to the google.com domain… Sarah Perez View comments
Sponsors Sponsor Announcement: DEMOfall 08 Agenda The conference agenda for DEMOfall 08 has been announced. ReadWriteWeb is one of the media partners for DEMOfall 08, which is on September 7-9 in San Diego. There are 70 companies presenting and they fall into the following broad categories: Moving the Chains ("smart incrementation" of innovation); Television Meets the Web; Web Meets… imported_1 View comments
Features What Three Web Apps Excite You Most? One of our favorite Australians, Lachlan Hardy, twittered an interesting question today: What are the three things online that are exciting you most? Lachlan was asked this question as part of a newspaper article in the Sydney Morning Herald. His own answers were interesting, but he also got a great response from commentors on his blog. So we… Richard MacManus View comments