Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrapup, 25-29 August 2008 It's the weekend, so time to review the Web tech news, reviews and analysis we brought you this week on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we reported on Facebook hitting 100 million users, checked out 10 great web apps for school, looked at the state of online accounting, and reviewed the latest in lifestreaming. On the trends side we did a… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Why and How Embargoes Work in Tech Blogging An embargo is something that tech companies use to set a time when their product will launch and the press can publish their reviews of it. Embargoes aren't as simple as they sound and they aren't uncontroversial, either. We believe they can be a good idea, though. Below we discuss why and share thoughts about how we think an embargo can be… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Mashups Javascript Hero: Some Awesome Friday Night Fun We usually write about serious things here at ReadWriteWeb but it's Friday night and we've got to make an exception for Javascript Hero. Note: We're hearing reports that the site doesn't work well in IE, just so you know. It's the work of developer rock star John Resig and was brought to our attention by Chris Messina (again). We'd tell you… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News Google Implements Social Graph API and hCard in Profiles this February, Google released its Social Graph API, which allows developers to give users the option to easily find data on their social connections around the web. Google itself, however, hasn't really implemented any of this technology yet. Starting today, however, it seems Google is starting to surface some of this information from your… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Analysis Statistics: Online Music Apps To complement the poll we ran this week about streaming music sites, we sourced data from comScore about the Internet Radio industry. comScore's data shows that the big Internet companies still dominate, specifically AOL Radio and Yahoo Music. In contrast, our poll - the second annual time that we've run it - shows that last.fm and Pandora are… Richard MacManus View comments