Features A Deeply Flawed Infographic: Most "Innovative" Countries and Industries Measuring an intangible like "most innovative" is tricky, at best. At worst, it's a complete disaster, like measuring "most innovative" by using patents as a measure, like this infographic from Good and Column Five Media. It's based on Top 100 Global Innovators, which uses the Derwent World Patents Index and looks at patent-related criteria… Joe Brockmeier View comments
International Citizens Author Sweden's Official Twitter Sweden has surrendered its official Twitter account, @sweden, to the hoi polloi. The project, Curators of Sweden, signs up Swedes to tweet a week at a time. It started December 10 with Jack Wermer, a writer and marketing specialist. The second tweeter was Hasan Ramic, a Bosnian immigrant Currently, the position is filled by the moose-hunting, oral… Social Curt Hopkins View comments
Analysis Who Owns Your Followers? Earlier this fall, a judge ruled that a lawsuit filed by PhoneDog.com against one of its long-departed employees, Noah Kravitz, has merit. According to Eric Goldman's Technology and Marketing Law Blog, the company is suing Kravitz over three points, including trade secrets and misappropriation of the account. The ruling, reported by Goldman and the… Enterprise David Strom View comments
2011 Redux CloudFlare Aims to Save the Future Baby trashes bar in Las Palmas One year ago a distributed DNS and content delivery network startup called CloudFlare launched at a TechCrunch event. It didn't win. ReadWriteWeb's Frederic Lardinois wrote about its promise to "speed up your website by an average of 30% and dramatically decrease your bandwidth usage and server load by preventing… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Events Guide ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, December 27, 2011 We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us. Curt Hopkins View comments