2009 Redux Why and How Embargoes Work in Tech Blogging An embargo is something that tech companies use to set a time when their product will launch and the press can publish their reviews of it. Embargoes aren't as simple as they sound and they aren't uncontroversial, either. We believe they can be a good idea, though. Below we discuss why and share thoughts about how we think an embargo can be… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
2009 Redux Where's my Jet Pack? Apple Tablet and Future Interfaces Ever since Jeff Han demoed his Multi-Touch Workstation at the 2006 TED Conference, the world has been waiting for a high resolution sensory work experience. As a generation of hunched night creatures with intimate knowledge of our chiropractors, we've suffered and conformed to our traditional interfaces for too long. Touch was the future of… Dana Oshiro View comments
2009 Redux ReadWriteWeb Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, Part 1: Linked Data During my trip to Boston earlier this year, I had the opportunity to visit MIT. At the end of a long day of meetings with various MIT tech masterminds, I made my way to the funny shaped building (see photo right-below) where the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its director Tim Berners-Lee work. Berners-Lee is of course the man who invented… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Awsm.fm = Ffffound + Tumblr + Your Favorite Music - Respect for Copyright The new "artists" are curators of other people's created content, if sites such as Tumblr, Ffffound, WeHeartIt and newcomer Awsm.fm are any kind of zeitgeist. Awsm.fm is a digital multimedia scrapbooking app that regards copyright issues with a gleeful abandon, allowing users to pick images and group them with text, tags and uploaded songs. But… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Digital Lifestyle 5 Very Last-Minute Gifts from the Internet Hero/Shopping Mall Zero If you're reading this, you already know you're screwed. Someone, somewhere has been forgotten on your gift list, and you're scrambling. As per usual, we at RWW have got your back. Here are five ideas that will not only save you from certain disgrace but just might make you look a little more with it and wired than your loved ones expected. Jolie O'Dell View comments