Apple 2 Billion Downloads Later, Apple's App Store is Still Going Strong Apple today announced that a total of 2 billion apps have now been downloaded from the App Store. There are now over 85,000 apps in the store, up from 65,000 on July 14, and the number of developers has grown from 100,000 in July to around 125,000 today. iPhone and iPod touch users now download close to 6.6 million apps every day and this number… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Facebook More Proof: Facebook for the Rich, MySpace for the Poor Oh how the mighty have fallen. The one time king of social networks, MySpace, now has the honor of being the site where the less affluent members of the online population stake their claims by way of bedazzled profiles overrun with auto-playing videos and songs. Meanwhile, the upscale, financially solvent users have moved on - and by moved on, we… Social Sarah Perez View comments
mobile A New Venue for Indie Films: Your iPhone Did you see the latest Jude Law movie? The film, a murder mystery from art house director Sally Potter takes place in Manhattan's fashion world and features other famous actors including Dame Judi Dench, Steve Buscemi, John Leguizamo, and Dianne Wiest. "Rage," as the film is called, isn't all that remarkable in and of itself, but the way it's being… Play Sarah Perez View comments
Features Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies As part of our lead-up to The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, which is just over two weeks away, in this post we're listing 50 leading companies of the Real-Time Web. Like any list, it is bound to be missing some worthy companies - so we invite you to list more in the comments. Our aim is to unveil the top 100 Real-Time Web companies at our… Richard MacManus View comments
Cartoons Cartoon: The Worm Has Turned Last week's flurry of Twitter DM spam from hacked or phished accounts wasn't the first instance of that and won't be the last. As long as people are willing to trust their Twitter log-in information to third parties - and don't look carefully at URLs before they log into websites - and as long as a small number of bad actors want to pee in the… Play Rob Cottingham View comments