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Friday, 17th October 2008

Qik Comes to Mass Market Phones: Mobile Live Streaming Goes Mainstream

Live video streaming while on the go has always been the domain of relatively high-end smartphones like the Nokia N95. Starting today, however, Qik is also opening up its service to a large number of popular mass market phones from Nokia and Sony, making it one of the first live video streaming service to do so. The Java ME-based application is now…

Mobile Frederic Lardinois comments

Gist's New Email Mashup To Fight Inbox Overload

For years we've been hearing about the problem of information overload. The situation has become so bad that it's now costing businesses $650 billion per year in wasted productivity, according to a study from Basex released earlier this year. To date, we've seen only a handful of real solutions address this issue although none have been what we…

Sarah Perez comments

Thursday, 16th October 2008

Semantic Web: Making Advertising More Relevant to Consumers

Amiad Solomon, CEO of Peer39, kicked off the Web 3.0 Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA on Thursday with a keynote discussing the Semantic Web and how it relates to advertising. He told the audience that this is one of the key business opportunities in the Web 3.0 era. "I believe the simplest definition of Web 3.0 is the monetization and…

Lidija Davis comments

Vimeo's Newest Feature: More Predictable Revenue Stream

As more and more Web users gain access to broadband connections, the ability to consume high-definition video becomes an option for more people. But where are they going to access that content? If a loyal user base - and USA Today - are to be believed, few user-generated video sites compare with Vimeo, a small but well-loved online video site with…

Rick Turoczy comments

ReadWriteWeb Lance Une Version Française

Parlez-vous français? No neither do I, apart from the smattering of French I learnt at the beginning of high school. But to cater to our friends in Europe, we've just opened a French language version of ReadWriteWeb. The idea was suggested by Romain Péchard, who approached us about translating our articles into French and also writing unique…

Richard MacManus comments

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