Blogging Mullenweg Speaks Out on Twitter, WordPress and the Question of Competition After recent comScore data showed Twitter stats leveling off as WordPress traffic continued to grow, some bloggers framed the results as an either/or proposition; if one platforms wins, the other loses. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has weighed in on the subject, stating that the interaction between microblogging and what he's calling… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
Real-Time Web Getting More Out of the Conversation: The Real Real-Time Challenge It has been a few weeks since the ReadWriteWeb Real-Time Web Summit. Workshops ran the gamut of real-time Web applications and services. They addressed the impact of the real-time Web on search, feeds, aggregation and even branding and marketing. But several topics and terms were not discussed as much as one might have expected: "social… Guest Author View comments
Cartoons Cartoon: That's What Friends Are For A while back, a friend of mine wondered about LinkedIn's somewhat limited options for indicating how you know someone. ("I vomited on their shoes at the office party" isn't on the list, for example.) We had a back-and-forth on her blog, and I came up with a list of some potentially useful additions to LinkedIn's categories. You'll find them… Play Rob Cottingham View comments
Sponsors Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible Our mission at ReadWriteWeb is to explore the latest Web technology products and trends. We're fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So, once a week, we write a post about them; about who they are, what they do, and what they've been up to lately. Pay them a visit and show your appreciation of their sponsorship of… imported_1 View comments
Analysis XBRL: Accounting Geeks Get Radical It is not often that something as deeply geeky as XBRL gets onto the front page of Wired magazine. Daniel Roth's superb article about radical transparency raised the profile of those four letters. What could be more boring than an XML standard for accountants that has been around for a decade? On the other hand, what could be more exciting than… Enterprise Bernard Lunn View comments