ReadWrite: February 2009 Archives – ReadWrite

February 2009 Archives

Wednesday, 18th February 2009

Google Goes HTML5: Demos Experimental Version of Gmail

Google's VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, showed both a new mobile version of Gmail running on the iPhone and HTC Magic today, as well as a new mobile version of Google Maps running on the Palm Pre. The new mobile Gmail app, which Gundotra demoed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, makes extensive use of new features that are only…

Mobile Frederic Lardinois comments

Twitter Finally Integrates Its Real-Time Search Engine

Twitter just announced that it is slowly releasing a new interface to a subset of its users that will put Twitter Search and Trends right on users' profiles. Until now, Twitter's real-time search function, which was acquired from Summize last year, lived on a separate subdomain and was not fully integrated into Twitter. Clearly, Twitter has…

Social Frederic Lardinois comments

Product Reviews

ShareThis.com Aims to Become A Big Data Platform in the Next Web

Have you noticed those little links next to blog posts and news stories that say "Share This"? Click on that link and you get a pop-up with options to share an article on Delicious, Facebook, StumbleUpon or other services. Did you know that ShareThis.com has raised $21 million from venture capitalists for its version of that service? If you…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Suggest a Google Product Feature and Win a Ticket to Google I/O

Google I/O is a now annual event being held this year on May 27 - 28, 2009 in San Francisco. It's aimed at web developers, to whom Google will showcase "how to develop web applications with Google and open technologies." ReadWriteWeb has 10 free tickets to give away to Google I/O; and we thought an interesting way to do that would be to…

Richard MacManus comments

Yahoo! Search Turns 5, Has Tech to Show For It

It was 5 years ago today that Yahoo! stopped using Google to power its searches and started using its own search technology, the company wrote today in a blog post. Everyone knows that things aren't looking good for Yahoo! in business terms, and the company's search and advertising market shares look even worse. But you know what deserves some…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Previous
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
50
Next