Recommendation Engines GetGlue Adds New Releases to Recommendations Made by Human & Machine It's hard to keep up with all the newly released movies and music these days, but a lightweight social network with a whole lot of smarts under the hood says it can now offer you personalized recommendations of new releases that suit your very particular interests. GetGlue is a semantic web browser plug-in that has, for years, been smart… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Tips Learning From Failure: One Startup's Story of What Went Wrong Devver, maker of developer coding tools and TechStars 2008 graduate, announced last Monday that it would be shutting down after being active for nearly two years. News of a startup closing up shop is never a fun thing to hear about, but fortunately many lessons can be gleaned from the experiences of the entrepreneurs. Today, co-founder Ben… Chris Cameron View comments
NYT Twitter, DMCA Take-downs & the Prior Restraint of First Amendment Speech Last week, the big news in DMCA takedowns was the sweeping removal of Hitler parody videos. Earlier this year, it was Google suddenly wiping out six separate music blogs. Today, it's the removal of a tweet. While this might not seem like a big deal on the surface, it leads to some much bigger questions about free speech, what content should fall… Mike Melanson View comments
Sponsors ReadWriteWeb and Tableau Announce Winner of Data Visualization Contest ReadWriteWeb and Tableau are pleased to announce the winner of the Tableau User Generated Graph Contest: Rina Bongsu-Petersen and her interpretation of U.S. obesity data (see below). The judges - Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb's co-editor; Stephen Few, a leading data visualization expert; and Jock Mackinlay, Tableau's director of visual… imported_1 View comments
Facebook Facebook Gets a Suggested Pages List New Facebook users now see a list of some of the most often "liked" Pages on Facebook when they sign up for the popular social networking service. New users get the option to choose from about 100 popular Pages. These Pages mostly belong to celebrities, brands, news outlets and politicians. Eric Eldon first wrote about this new addition to… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments