Google Three Ways to Enjoy Google Chrome Without Privacy Concerns Since its launch, Google's new web browser, Google Chrome, has been applauded for its lightweight look and feel and for the speed of its JavaScript engine. Although the browser still lacks support for things like RSS and browser add-ons, the company has already ripped off the beta label, a move that was probably made in preparation for Google's… Sarah Perez View comments
News Suits Up, Geeks Down: The Latest Tech Hiring Numbers Hires of software developers and web designers slowed last week, while tech and new media company hires for Director level positions increased substantially over the six weeks prior. Developers and designers still remained among the season's most in-demand people in tech while marketing and IT firms saw big increases in hires. A whole lot of… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
NYT "Twitter of Korea" Acquired by "Google of Korea" for $2 Million Web 2.0 Asia is reporting that Me2Day - a Korean microblogging service likened to Twitter - has been acquired by Naver - the most popular search portal in Korea - for 2.2 billion Korean Won, which equates to roughly $2 million US. Rick Turoczy View comments
Product Reviews Krunchd: Another URL Shortener... with an Interesting Twist Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're no strangers to URL shortening services. We use them all of the time - and we're proponents of using something other than TinyURL. But with the vast array of URL shortening services out there, it generally takes something interesting to turn our heads. Now, a new URL shortener called Krunchd has done just that, by… Rick Turoczy View comments
Product Reviews BackType Subscriptions Monitors Comments by Blog Post BackType, the free service that aggregates all of the comments you make across the Web, launched a new feature last week called Subscriptions which lets you follow comments by blog post. BackType Subscriptions sends you an e-mail with updates that you can choose to receive as they happen, daily or weekly. Subscriptions is also offered via… Lidija Davis View comments