"You can't judge if someone is one of the best programmers in the country in 1 minute, but it turns out you can in 5 minutes."Good software developers are hard to find. Startups are all about finding creative solutions to common problems - so why not this one too? Two...
Flowtown releases a great social media cheat sheet for those new to social media. Dan Frommer wonders if downloads or discs are more applicable for the next gen XBox. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories...
When the iPad first launched two years ago, it was derided by some for its limitations. The first iteration didn't even have a camera on it, and it may never get a physical keyboard, so the notion of the device being used for content creation was laughable. Instead, the iPad...
When the iPad first launched two years ago, it was derided by some for its limitations. The first iteration didn't even have a camera on it, and it may never get a physical keyboard, so the notion of the device being used for content creation was laughable. Instead, the iPad...
Google personalizes search and lets you decide it you want to use it or not. Dan Rowinski releases his app roundup for December. Several hundred Foxconn employees threaten suicide. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories...
At today's roundtable, we had an unusual amount of discussion on ERP startups. Given that ERP is such a mature market, the fact that all this startup activity is going on in ERP is a bit puzzling to me.Rural ERPSurjith Singh from Chennai, India, pitched Rural ERP, a business that...
In my last post on ReadWriteStart, I talked about how, in many cases, it wasn't an advantage to build your start-up in stealth mode. As a continuation of that theme, I thought it would be interesting to explore five tools you can use to iterate and improve your startup idea...
At today's roundtable, we had a 30-minute segment on Web 3.0 and Social Dancing. We basically took the Web 3.0 framework - Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS) - and did a blue sky exercise on how to create a comprehensive user experience for social dancers. We also...
Shopping is overwhelming enough, especially around the holidays. The leading consumer Web companies are falling over themselves to make it easier using all the innovative technologies at their disposal. As they figure it out, though, that only leaves consumers with even more options. Do we shop in person, on our...
Many big stories this week, but the biggest for our readers surrounded the Google Reader changes, and the lack of alternatives therein. There was also much discussion around the Internet of Things and Google's indexing of Facebook comments. After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories...
People didn't understand the iPad immediately. No one believed in the form factor. "Just a big iPhone," people called it. But it caught on, it took off, and now consumers can't let go of their tablets. The intimate, intuitive interface has created its own use case. People curl up with...
The ever-changing world of backup services, both online and on-premises, has a few news items this week. New features and models show that this market is maturing and it may be time to take a closer look at what is out there.SonicWall is offering continuous data protection in a new...
One way to target your audience and expand your reach is the daily exercise your social media accounts should be getting by doing text chats with others in your network. Twitter makes this easy, and there are now more than 500 weekly chats to choose from. Here is how to...
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them,...
If you are a cloud virgin, what is the best way to get started and learn more about what the cloud can offer? Here are several suggestions, from the perspective of someone who has moderate IT knowledge and not necessarily the full backing and support resources of an IT department...
The value of email, screenshots from the earliest days of Twitter and a look at WinRT from Build 2011 round out the top stories in this week's ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping...
Everybody wants to make their own tablet these days. Heads turned last year when BlackBerry announced it would be making the PlayBook. Then Hewlett-Packard got in on the act with the TouchPad. Samsung has three lines of tablets in the pipe. HTC already has two with more coming. Asus, Acer,...
Why writing good code matters, Google's private version of Open and the 5 worst CEOs in Tech round out the top stories in this week's ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web...
There are few products in the computer industry that have been around for 25 years, and fewer still that have their creator at the helm of the original company still selling the product. I am talking about the Listserv email list management tool. (Warning: loud audio embed in that link!)...
The Future of the Internet, Flickr's new Geofences and Google AppEngine developers are up in arms in this week's ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web - Internet TV, Internet of Things...
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