Community Big Answer: Top 10 Social Web Picks Earlier today Richard MacManus cataloged the ReadWriteWeb Top 10 Social Web Products of 2011, including Google+ in the number one spot. Do you agree? Does it deserve to be ahead of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Reddit? Would you have added to or taken away from the list in any way? We asked and culled your responses from Facebook, Google… Robyn Tippins View comments
Tools Built-in Dev Tools in Firefox 10 Look More Chrome-ish For most of its existence, Firebug has been the de facto JavaScript developers' console for Firefox; and for several years, most Web development in general involved Firebug to at least some extent. Now with HTML5 developers expecting to see more workbench functionality built into the browser, Firefox finds itself in yet another chase, this time… Hack Scott M. Fulton View comments
Internet TV Connected TV Marketing Association Launches We've been hearing a lot about the convergence of television and the Web this year. From second screen apps and Twitter chatter about TV to set-top boxes and Internet-connected HDTVs, the two worlds are colliding in a big way. Apple is even rumored to be planning to get in on the game, launching an HDTV set of its own next year and possibly making… John Paul Titlow View comments
Analysis Identity & Trust It seems like only yesterday RWW's own Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote the foreword to a book discussing the new ecosystem, business models and value chains in a hyper-connected world. In actuality, it was a little over a year ago when the book, The Shift, was released. It documented an 18-month primary research study commissioned by Alcatel-Lucent to… Enterprise Allison Cerra View comments
International Gulf Bloggers Pardoned The five bloggers from the United Arab Emirates who were sentenced to between two and three years in prison yesterday were today pardoned. Ahmed Mansour, Nasser Bin Ghaith, Farhad Salem Hassan, Ali Al-Khamis and Ahmed Abdul Khaleq, were sentenced for "insulting" the leadership of the U.A.E. and fomenting discord by encouraging protests and a… Curt Hopkins View comments