E-Learning OpenStudy Teams Up With MIT OpenCourseWare to Help OCW Users Study Together As we wrote earlier this month, MIT OpenCourseWare is one of the most popular site for learners to freely access university course materials, with over 70 million visitors to the site from all over the world. Yet despite the increasing popularity (and push, by the likes of the Gates Foundation's new initiative) for opencourseware, one of the… Audrey Watters View comments
E-Books Leatherbound Helps You Compare eBook Prices and Availability Even as eBook sales soar, the experience of browsing and buying eBooks still leaves a lot to be desired. If you are more interested in a particular title than in your loyalty to a particular eReader, looking for the cheapest version - or even an available version - of a book can be pretty tedious. Is it even in the iBookstore? Is it cheaper on… Audrey Watters View comments
P2P Gene Simmons Threatens Anonymous, Responds to DDoS Attacks Against His Site "Some of you may have heard a few popcorn farts re: our sites being threatened by hackers," wrote KISS bassist Gene Simmons on his website yesterday, responding to a DDoS attack that took down GeneSimmons.com earlier this week. The attack was part of Operation Payback, a campaign that over the past few weeks has been targeting organizations who… Audrey Watters View comments
Cartoons Cartoon: Analyze This... Repeatedly Google has just released a new feature for Analytics, replacing Site Overlay with In-Page Analytics. And I think I have a terrific pitch for the media outlets that like to run huge social-media-is-killing-us-all headlines. Here's how it goes: When you're playing Minesweeper, Solitaire or Angry Birds, it's a little difficult to convince yourself… Play Rob Cottingham View comments
Sponsors Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that's ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too. Once a week we introduce our sponsors to our readers and let them know a little more about who they are and what they do. You can say thanks to the companies that make ReadWriteWeb happen by tweeting them (see the link below each… imported_1 View comments