mobile Is AT&T's Denial of Service to Hacker Justified? Hacker turned security expert Kevin Mitnick has been denied service by both his web host and his cell phone provider. HostedHere.net and AT&T argue that the barrage of hacker attacks on Mitnick's accounts make them too difficult to defend. Said Mobile Dana Oshiro View comments
Crowdsourcing Wikimedia Celebrates Hewlett Grant The Wikimedia Foundation just emailed ReadWriteWeb to announce receipt of $500,000 in grant funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The grant is a part of a $100 million dollar program to fund open education resources, and given Wikimedia's mission to encourage the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content… Dana Oshiro View comments
Facebook Facebook Pages to Automatically Publish to Twitter Facebook just announced that administrators of Facebook Pages will be able to publish their updates to their Twitter accounts automatically. Administrators will decide which info to share from a Page including status updates, photos, notes and events. A number of well-known groups and celebrities are already using the feature including Dane Cook… Social Dana Oshiro View comments
Google Google Labs Launches Listen Podcast App Google Labs just launched Listen - an "audio magazine" that allows Android users to subscribe to programs and search terms to queue up their podcasts for easy listening. While Listen only offers English audio podcasts for now, the company plans on expanding to index video and content in other languages in the coming months. The product allows you… Dana Oshiro View comments
Features Top 10 Most Exciting Web Apps or Services Yesterday we asked what 3 web apps or services you find the most exciting right now. Not your 3 most used or favorite, but the apps that currently make you tingly with excitement. We got some great responses in the comments, so in this post we pick out our top 10 from your choices. We've chosen the 10 in two batches. Firstly, the services that got… Richard MacManus View comments