News Vanity Apps: The Next Big Thing For the iPhone? Thanks to the recent proliferation of do-it-yourself iPhone app services, the next big thing in Apple's App Store might just be vanity apps. Take, for example, Appsfire's Ouriel Ohayon, who just announced the launch of his own iPhone app. Ohayon used Odiogo Apps to create this personalized app. Odiogo, which mostly focuses on providing… Frederic Lardinois View comments
2009 Redux Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Internet of Things This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. So far we've explored these trends: Structured Data, The Real-Time Web, Personalization, Mobile Web / Augmented Reality. The fifth and final part of our series is about the Internet of Things, when real world objects (such as fridges, lights and… Richard MacManus View comments
News Meet the New OpenID Foundation Board Members OpenID, the open standard for federated user identity across multiple websites, is led by the OpenID Foundation. That organization announced the election of its newest Board members today. These are the people who will be moving and shaking OpenID on a policy and standards level. While systems like Facebook Connect and Twitter Auth are… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
NYT 5 Enterprise Trends To Watch in 2010: Part 2 In our first post about trends in the enterprise for the coming year, we looked at five forces that will rise in importance in 2010. In part two, we picked five more trends that we feel will have importance in the enterprise for the year ahead. The more we look at the space, the more we see how mobile looms over all of these trends. It will help… Enterprise Alex Williams View comments
NYT Britain's Conservative Party Offers £1 Million Prize for New Crowdsourcing Platform Britain's Conservative Party plans to offer a £1 million taxpayer-funded prize for a website that can "harness the wisdom" of voters. The price will be given to the team that develops a platform that enables large groups of people to come together online to solve common problems and develop new policies. According to the Guardian, some of the… Frederic Lardinois View comments