Analysis How Many of You Subscribe to Topic Feeds? 5 years ago I wrote a prediction about RSS here on ReadWriteWeb. I proclaimed that "in the not too distant future, more people will subscribe to topic/tag/remix feeds than feeds of actual people." I think it's fair to say that I was totally wrong on that prediction. Thanks to Facebook and Twitter, in particular, many more people… Richard MacManus View comments
NYT Twitter's Growth Slows Dramatically After news about the landing of US Airways 1549 in the Hudson first broke on Twitter in January 2009, the microblogging service quickly captured the imagination of a new group of potential users. Throughout the first months of 2009, Twitter grew at a rapid pace, peaking at a growth rate of 13% in March 2009. Now, however, according to the latest… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
Twitter Is Twitter's First Conference Coming April 14th? Twitter's #1 User Says So If you're hoping to go to Twitter's first-ever developers conference, Chirp, you might like to know when it's scheduled for, right? Twitter hasn't publicly announced the date, but we wanted to know so that we didn't schedule our next public event on the same date. So I just asked on Quora, the new Q&A service just launched by Facebook's first… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
mobile INFOGRAPHIC: With New Mobile Rates, There Are Now 10 Million Ways to Pay for a Cell Phone After AT&T and Verizon announced new mobile rates this past weekend, many users were happy to hear that the cost of voice calls would be reduced for two major American carriers. Today, the restructured mobile plans and packages went into effect, but the costs, benefits and corporate revenues aren't as simple as a few saved dollars for cell phone… Mobile Jolie O'Dell View comments
Product Reviews PollDaddy Hits 1 Billion Page Views a Month, Major Updates Coming Soon According to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, the poll and survey Web service PollDaddy has just hit the 1 billion monthly page views mark. This makes the PollDaddy network the second Automattic web property - excluding Gravatar - to reach this milestone. Automattic's holdings include content management system and blogging software WordPress.com… Jolie O'Dell View comments