Doug Coleman

Doug Coleman joined the ReadWriteWeb team in October, 2008. He owns a small multimedia company in Portland, Or. USA and is passionate about writing, web technology, multimedia and life. Doug can be contacted at: doug@readwriteweb.com.

Posts by Doug Coleman

Sunday, 5th July 2009

Web Trend Map 4 Goes Interactive, Drops July 14th

UPDATE: According to a recent iA Twitter update the interactive Web Trend Map 4 will open for beta testers tomorrow if it can solve some server problems. We were very excited earlier this year when RWW made its way onto the latest edition of the Web Trend Map. For those of you unfamiliar with this map, it "plots the Internet's leading names…

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Saturday, 4th July 2009

It's Not Really a Party Until Someone Shoots Rockets Out of Their Butt

As America celebrates its 233rd year of independence from England today, many red-blooded Americans will celebrate the old-fashioned way, by going outdoors, having a picnic or barbecue, decorating everything in red, white and blue and watching or holding their own fireworks displays. But in this rough economy lots of people are choosing to stay…

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Cloud Computing

Expono: Flickr, Picasa and the Kitchen Sink

You can't swing a stick on the Web these days without hitting a photo or media sharing service. Some of the most popular ones like Flickr and Photobucket have become an indispensable part of our online lives. Among the most recent services to enter the game is Expono, a photo sharing, organizing and protecting service with added features like GPS…

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Sunday, 28th June 2009

Knowledge Management

DARPA Hires Company to Build a Machine Reader That Scours the Web

The intelligence community is inputting data to the Web at an amazing rate. That mountain of data can be overwhelming to mere humans who are trying to read through pages and pages of information to pinpoint exactly what they're after. Mark Rutherford of CNET News reports that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has hired a…

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Saturday, 27th June 2009

Non-Programmers Can Create an iPhone Newsreader App With TapLynx

Have you ever wanted to create an iPhone app, but can't code your way out of a wet paper bag? Users of NewsGator's NetNewsWire iPhone news reader will have to wait a little longer for the next version of that application because its creator, Brent Simmons, has been busy working on a new iPhone framework called TapLynx. The goal of TapLynx is to…

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Sunday, 21st June 2009

PicBrk Launches Early, Breaking Pics and Real-Time Image Search From Tehran

Los Angeles, California based PicBrk dropped us a note today to let us know that it just launched its new Website devoted to breaking news pictures and real-time image searches. The company had planned to launch on July 1st but given the recent events in Tehran, it has decided to launch early. In a recent RWW post, Marshall Kirkpatrick notes…

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What Are Bloggers, Tweeters and Forum-Posters Saying About the New iPhone 48 Hours After Launch?

48 hours after the release of the much-anticipated iPhone 3GS and its new 3.0 software, people are just beginning to put it through its paces and report on their reactions. Norwegian consumer generated media (CGM) analysis firm Integrasco has been monitoring several social media outlets including Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and YouTube and has…

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One Million Numbers Strong, Google Voice Prepares for Takeoff

Earlier this year RWW reported that Google had made plans for the telephony service it acquired in July, 2007 called GrandCentral. GrandCentral was reborn as Google Voice, which includes all of GrandCentral's features and much more. Google Voice's free service will allow users to unify all of their phone numbers and transfer calls to all of their…

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Saturday, 20th June 2009

Open Source Bridge is a Huge Success

When the open source convention OSCON decided to move from Portland, Oregon to San Jose last year, the open source citizens of Portland set about developing their very own "conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way". And since Portland is a hub of the open source…

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Saturday, 13th June 2009

Google to Launch Microblogging Search Engine?

Microblogging has become a very popular way for people to share news and information or even live-blog events in real time, but if you have ever tried to search through services like Twitter using only Google, the Twitter native search or any number of other services, you know how difficult it can be to find exactly what you're after. Today the…

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