Apple Apple to Microsoft: "Eat My Dust!" Yesterday Apple passed Microsoft to become, for the first time, the "world's most valuable technology company," according to the New York Times. Apple gained a stock-based valuation of $222.12 billion while Microsoft's was $219.18 billion. Does this make Steve Jobs the Bill Gates of technology? Although Microsoft is still a powerful and… Curt Hopkins View comments
Contests Announcing Visual Studio Summer of Extensions Competition We're pleased to announce that in collaboration with Microsoft, ReadWriteWeb will be hosting a competition for Visual Studio developers to see who can create the most compelling Visual Studio 2010 extensions. Extensions are an add-on to Visual Studio 2010 that improves the user experience. Your extension could provide additional functionality to… Sean Ammirati View comments
Music Fanit Uses Sets Gameplay to Music Fanit is another start-up that has discovered the gospel of game play and is using it to promote their music recommendation experience. Fans support their favorite artists and bands by purchasing badges. 100% of the money for the badges go to the artists, according to the company's PR representative. As the fan purchases badges and engages in… Play Curt Hopkins View comments
Augmented Reality Win 1 of 4 Free Passes to Next Week's Augmented Reality Event Hey augmented reality fans! Next week in Santa Clara, California, is the first ever Augmented Reality Event where the best and brightest in the AR field will join together for a two-day conference to advance the business of everyone's favorite emerging technology. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area (or are willing to pay for a plane ticket… Play Chris Cameron View comments
Blogging How To Use Google Wave for Live Blogging Last month we wrote a short post about using Google Wave for live blogging. Today, during Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook privacy press conference, we decided to put this theory into practice and live blogged the event with Wave. The reaction to our experiment was overwhelmingly positive, so we decided to share how we it up for our live blogging session… Frederic Lardinois View comments