Articles by Josh Catone

So Long, Farewell, auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye

So, yesterday was officially my last day at ReadWriteWeb. I know what you're all thinking: "Uh, so why are you posting today? Just get outta here already!" Okay, okay, you got me. But this is my 747th post at ReadWriteWeb, and I just couldn't bring myself to leave without saying goodbye (and apologize in advance for quoting "The Sound of Music…

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Facebook

Facebook Improves Messaging: Adds Search

Facebook announced last night that it was adding search to the Inbox feature of its site. According to Facebook engineer Prashant Malik, Inbox search was something the company knew they needed for a long time, and was heavily requested by users. Search is one of the fundamental features that any email-like messaging system needs, and adding it is…

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Politics

Ameritocracy: Crowdsourced Campaign Clarity - 100 Invites

Ameritocracy, which just launched into invite-only public beta, is a new political site that helps people cut through the noise and rate and review political information for credibility and relevance. The site helps users to sort through the sea of information we're pummeled with via the media each day and pull out the more credible and relevant…

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Search

Hakia Announces Semantic API

Semantic search engine Hakia today announced a set of APIs that opens up their natural language processing and search platform to developers. Hakia's Syndication Web Services really comes in two parts: search queries, which allow developers to add web search functionality leveraging Hakia's five billion page index, and XML feed calls, which give…

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Trends

Vint Cerf: High Oil Prices Could Help the Web

While some of our European readers may snicker if I were to complain about having to pay $4.10/gallon to fill up my car's gas tank, the fact is that across the world many people are feeling pressure at the pump. There are some who argue that the environmental benefits of high gas prices, which are changing our energy consumption habits for the…

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Blogging

Huffington Post To Take on Local Newspapers

Last night at Guardian News & Media's internal Future of Journalism conference, Arianna Huffington revealed that her Huffington Post property is planning to expand into local news. Initially, the site will launch an edited news aggregation site (similar to the main Huffington Post web site) localized for the US metro area around Chicago, Illinois…

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International

China Web Boom: .CN Now More Popular than .Net

China's top-level domain has now surpassed .net as the web's third most popular top-level and second most popular country-specific domain, according to a study by VeriSign says the Associated Press. VeriSign said that registrations of .cn domains had surged 23% in the first quarter of this year, and tripled year-over-year. China's domain boom…

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Features

Firefox 3 Sets Download 'Record' - Are You Using It?

Firefox has already surpassed the 5 million download mark it set out to meet in its first 24 hours. As I write this, the browser just passed the 7 million download mark for its version 3.0 software, and with over 6800 downloads per minute (and rising) is on track to do 8 million or more by 1pm ET (24 hours since the download went live). Whether…

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Product Reviews

Build Your Own Reddit With Reddit

Social news site Reddit's secret announcement -- which people have been speculating about for the past 24 hours -- is out of the bag: Reddit is open sourcing their code. "We've always strived to be as open and transparent with our users as possible, and [open sourcing our code] is the next logical step," said Reddit in a blog post. Reddit, which…

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Trends

Software Company Ditches AdWords for... Kiva?

Two months ago, Portland, Oregon-based Jama Software -- the makers of a web-based project management app called Contour -- began a program called "You try. We give." The idea was simple, for everyone who signed up for a free trial of Contour, the company would set aside some money to invest in microloans at Kiva. In theory, word of their…

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So Long, Farewell, auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye

Facebook Improves Messaging: Adds Search

Ameritocracy: Crowdsourced Campaign Clarity - 100 Invites

Hakia Announces Semantic API

Vint Cerf: High Oil Prices Could Help the Web

Huffington Post To Take on Local Newspapers

China Web Boom: .CN Now More Popular than .Net

Firefox 3 Sets Download 'Record' - Are You Using It?

Build Your Own Reddit With Reddit

Software Company Ditches AdWords for... Kiva?