Last week Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only newspaper The Daily was launched. The Daily is a newspaper app available to U.S. users on the iPad for 99c per week (the first 2 weeks are free; non-U.S. people can download it for trial via this method). The Daily has been touted as the...
Minister Slim. Blogger, free speech proponent and ReadWriteWeb France contributor Slim Amamou was arrested during the recent uprising in Tunisia. Then he was freed. Then he was made Minister of Sports and Youth. I'm not sure what more can be said about that. It was a weird, mighty journey. It...
The 112th US Congress, which will run for the next two years, will kick-off with swearing in tomorrow at noon EST. For the first time in history, the first day at least will be live broadcast on giant social network Facebook, according to an announcement CNN says Republican leadership will...
It's been 11 days since the first batch of U.S. diplomatic cables was released by the online organization WikiLeaks.A lot has happened in those 11 days. Below is a recounting of the key events, issues and debates that have arisen. There's enough going on that it's almost sure to include...
Are you ready to learn a whole lot more about the world around you every time you launch a location-aware application? Countless apps are likely to get a lot of real-world data dumped into their databases thanks to two new data sources available for free as of today.SimpleGeo, the closely-watched...
Jay Adelson, known to some as the recent CEO of Digg but known to others for far more, has taken a position as the new CEO of pre-launched and eagerly-awaited geolocation data platform SimpleGeo, the company announced today.SimpleGeo says it will launch "this Fall" and its goal will be "to...
It's Election Day and people across the U.S. are making their way to the polls to cast their hopefully well-informed ballots. If you're one of the many looking for some last minute information on your candidates this morning, beware your source, as much of those grassroots-looking Tweets may actually just...
Marshall Kirkpatrick makes a good point when he argues that Facebook should be giving out more, not less user info. And I have to say, the recent Wall Street Journal series about Internet privacy has been been more scare tactics than substance. My 67-year-old father, for example - avid Wall...
Twitter has come out several times now and said straight up - it is not a social network. Rather, it is a medium for discussing politics, entertainment and, more importantly, disseminating news.It appears that Google News has caught on to this (not that Google is slow on the draw) and...
Caterina Fake was one of the co-founders of Flickr, an iconic web 2.0 online photo service that was sold to Yahoo. Her latest product is Hunch, a service that started out as a Q&A service but is now being positioned as a personalization service. It's basically a recommendation engine that...
Early in the life of Facebook, the social network was used to organize a big march against violence in the South American nation of Colombia. The march was organized by everyday people, empowered to communicate more quickly and effectively than ever before by the network of communication technology. That's a...
Anyone who writes on a specific topic will have a set of resources he or she refers to in order to keep on top of what's happening. Those of us who keep an eye out on how free speech issues affect the online world tend to use resources that are,...
The new iTunes social network Ping will let you connect directly with your favorite artists, but Apple's promotional image for the new feature conveniently omits a string of Tweets from Lady Gaga's timeline in which she protests anti-gay marriage legislation Proposition 8.It's a little thing, but given the controversies Apple...
Next month, the federal government will launch a new .gov website with a big idea behind it and high hopes that there will be big ideas generated within it. Challenge.gov is the latest effort in the evolution of collaborative innovation in open government. Should the approach succeed, challenges and contests...
A recently leaked report [PDF] from France's State Secretary of Digital Economy reveals the government's efforts to deeply bury net neutrality for this country. This is the latest episode in an ongoing attempt to control the Internet. The final chapter could take place as soon as next month when the...
Take one look at the newly launched Facebook Questions feature and it's clear that things are about to change dramatically on the world's largest social network. Take a second look and it's also clear that the feature isn't working very well yet - but it will be fixed and is...
Launched this week, ABC News for iPad is a notable free application which continues the trend of companies developing innovative and creative interfaces designed specifically for tablet-sized touch screens. The new app, which includes photos, videos and various news stories, presents the content in a 3D spinning globe which users...
The theme of our upcoming Real-Time Web Summit in New York City is use cases for the Real-Time Web. In the run-up to our June 11 event, we'll publish a series of posts exploring use cases across a variety of industries - finance, enterprise, science, education, and more. We aim...
For mainstream newsweeklies like Time Magazine, Newsweek, the Web must still feel like a wild and wooly place. Now that we expect to get news in real time over the Internet, a weekly publication rhythm seems almost quaint to many news consumers. While all of these weekly magazine now have...
Lunch.com, a year-old personal recommendation network that functions somewhat like Yelp, is implementing Facebook's newly launched Open Graph API (application programming interface) in an interesting way: It's doing Facebook "like" imports. In the next 24 hours, this feature will appear on the Lunch website for all users to try.Lunch's Recommendation...
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