Analysis Salesforce's Benioff: Biometric Bracelet Could Connect You to Products So what's the next step, I asked? Do people start wearing biometric tokens that send signals to devices in the neighborhood, letting you know when you're in their vicinity so they can respond by tweeting you to please buy them? Sure, why not, comes the swift response from Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. Last August, as regular ReadWriteWeb… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments
Product Reviews Path, Timeline & Worship of The Self An app called Path launched its version 2 do-over yesterday. "The smart journal that helps you share life with the ones you love," it calls itself now. I ignored this app until today. All I saw from version 1 was emoji spam in my Twitter stream. Let's take it as read that version 1 failed to catch on, hence version 2. How does an app help you… Social Jon Mitchell View comments
Music Spotify Launches Music App Directory All-you-can-stream music service Spotify is letting third party developers expand on its functionality using its API. It is offering the results to users in a new HTML5 app directory, CEO Daniel Ek announced today in New York. Developers have already built apps with features like the ability to find and purchase concert tickets, the means to… Play John Paul Titlow View comments
News Au-to-do: Google Releases App Engine Ticket Tracker Google is hoping to entice a few developers over to Google App Engine (GAE) by providing a ticket tracker that runs on GAE for developers to study and test out. Called Au-to-do, it's written in Python and uses Google Cloud Storage, the Prediction API, Tasks API and OAuth 2. Joe Brockmeier View comments
Analysis Tablet Publishers Evolving Toolset The media and news industry, after 10 years of disruption and economic torture, finally thought that it had gotten a step ahead. Publishers were in on the ground floor when the tablet revolution started with products ready to go even before Steve Jobs introduced us to the original iPad. The marriage of tablets to publishing would be a boon for… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments