NYT The Perfect Social Tool (Hint: It's Not FriendFeed) Robert Scoble just admitted to spending 7 hours per day in FriendFeed. It's easy to see why. The more you explore that service, the more you find, and the deeper you fall down into the rabbit hole that is the social web. It's probably one of the most interesting and powerful social sties that we've seen develop over the… Social Sarah Perez View comments
Sponsors Explore the Smart Companies That Sponsor ReadWriteWeb At ReadWriteWeb our mission is to explore the very latest web technology products and trends. We like to test out all the new web apps and spot the trends before others, and we're fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So once a week we write a post about them; here's who they are, what they do and what they've been up… imported_1 View comments
NYT The Rise of Cloud Agents It was only this morning that we were lamenting about the lack of the perfect social tool when what did we stumble across but Twitchboard? No, no, it's not the perfect tool, silly, it's a Twitter app. Yet what it does is something that no other Twitter apps have done before: it gives us hope for the future of the social web. Social Sarah Perez View comments
Google Following the Big Man: Google and NORAD Team Up Again to Track Santa Claus You've been good all year. But did you make the official "nice" list? If you celebrate Christmas, you'll no doubt be wondering when the big man will be swinging by your house with Rudolph and the gang. "Up on the housetop, click click click" and all of that. Instead of waiting around for the jingle of sleigh bells and the pawing of tiny hoofs… Rick Turoczy View comments
Social Networks Second Life Finds Gaining Residents as Simple as Redesigning Home Page Sometimes, no matter how compelling your service, it all comes down to the basics. When the buzz begins to die down, you have to resort to compelling content to sell your site and services. This goes for every site. Even Second Life, who recently discovered that their existing home page design wasn't doing the site justice. Now, after testing a new… Social Rick Turoczy View comments