Facebook Facebook Growth Explodes, Site Reaches 140 Million Active Users If there's any doubt that Facebook is rapidly becoming the next big thing in social networks, you only need look at their recent statistics. According to new reports, in recent weeks Facebook is growing at a rate of 600,000 users each day, up from 300,000 to 400,000 users per day earlier this quarter. The company is also reporting that, as of… Social Sarah Perez View comments
2008 in Review Best BigCo of 2008: Apple Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to identify the ones we think had the biggest impact. Today we're announcing the Best BigCo of 2008 and next week we'll announce Best LittleCo and Most Promising Company - all selected by the ReadWriteWeb writers. In 2007 the Best BigCo went to Facebook, due to the launch and subsequent… Richard MacManus View comments
RSS & Feeds Snackr Opens Beta Program If you're as addicted to RSS feeds as we here at ReadWriteWeb, then you've no doubt tried Snackr, an Adobe Air based RSS ticker that provides a scrolling readout of all the latest information from your favorite feeds. It's as riveting as it is useful. Now, you could have the chance to help influence where Snackr goes in the future by joining the… Rick Turoczy View comments
mobile The iPhone is Apple's Netbook: Almost Half of All Traffic from WiFi Networks According to the latest report from AdMob, 42% of all requests from iPhones to Admob's partners worldwide are coming in over WiFi instead of through the networks of mobile operators. This puts the iPhone in a league of its own, given that on average, AdMob is only seeing about 10-20% of all requests from Wifi capable phones actually coming in… Mobile Frederic Lardinois View comments
Analysis Entrepreneurs: We Will Happily Respect Your Embargoes Michael Arrington at TechCrunch said today that his site will no longer respect press embargoes, the informal system where press outfits agree to hold back publishing until an agreed upon time so that multiple sources can cover a story well. Arrington says that embargoes are broken too often, that PR people are too pushy and that the whole… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments