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...
Yesterday the Mozilla folks released numbers and a "field guide" with sample code, tutorials and additional resources on Do Not Track (DNT). How's DNT doing so far? According to a post by Anurag Phadke a bit less than 5% of Mozilla users have turned on DNT. This might be a...
Clear Channel, the largest radio station owner in the United States, has teamed up with music intelligence platform The Echo Nest to build an Internet radio service similar to Pandora and Last.fm.Clear Channel's iHeartRadio service uses The Echo Nest's massive dataset of 30 million songs and 5 billion related data...
The UK government has published 5 years of nation-wide road safety and casualty data freely online on a map that anyone can view in a web browser. It's a remarkable instance of data-driven public accountability; presumably citizens will use this newly accessible data to apply pressure on government agencies regarding...
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed the House's version of the latest patent reform bill, H.R. 1249, the America Invents Act, by a vote of 89 to 9. During a speech to Congress yesterday, Pres. Obama praised the Senate for that action, and vowed to sign the bill. When he does,...
It was a pretty straightforward challenge: Design and build the most comprehensive application you can in just 48 hours' time. The secret ingredient in this battle was Node.js, a JavaScript library based around a simple, asynchronous callback function. It enables server-side JavaScript to accept function calls and return values to...
Silicon Valley design firm ZURB has just launched a free, simple Web design tool called Spur, which lets users play with a Web page or image and think about its visual design. The app is based on a ZURB blog post called "Critique a Web Page in 30 Seconds or...
For many users of Spotify, the feature that's most painfully absent from the music streaming service is a recommendation engine for songs and artists. After all, listeners have come to expect this feature after years of it being available in Internet radio products like Pandora and Last.fm. Echofi is a...
There is a strong feeling in the air that cloud-based enterprise apps are no longer the "challengers." The sheer breadth of activity surrounding last week's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco was a clear indicator that SaaS applications had evolved into complete ecosystems, with strong support from third-party developers and strong...
The first time I stood in a Major League Baseball clubhouse was a month after the original iPad came out. My editor at the time was standing next to me and joked how Apple products were like a fever in the MLB. Whenever the newest and coolest was released from...
The explosion of big data has caused far-reaching ripples in the enterprise. Organizations today are faced with unprecedented challenges in sorting, processing and analyzing their data, which has in turn given rise to a new generation of technologies. One such example is the R statistics language, which was originally developed...
It had already been law in California since 2002 for service providers experiencing a database breach to notify their customers when they suspect the security of their personal data may have been compromised. But for the last few years, there was a strange little controversy over just how businesses make...
The press is one of the many casualties of Mexico's ongoing violence, in particular, the local media. Newspapers and TV stations are caught in a battle between censorship, control and threats from the drug cartels and the local governments. In some cities, people often witness shootings, grenade attacks and other...
This week we saw lots of new apps and activity around Salesforce, as expected, given its Dreamforce conference. But it reminded us of why it will continue to dominate the CRM space, and why Microsoft's own CRM offerings - despite some solid foundations and active users - still don't measure...
There are four major players in the customer relationship management market: SAP, Siebel, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com. Their market share differences are negligible. (This article is the counterpoint to an analysis by David Strom here.)But this week, only one was behaving like it has the formula to dominate the market. Salesforce...
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...
It's been a crazy conference week with VMworld and Dreamforce '11 going on at the same time. News from those shows have been all over ReadWriteWeb's channels this week, like the VMware vFabric Data Director announcement, and CloudStack going 100% open source.We also looked at storing Salesforce data locally, and...
Summer is over. Time to get back to work. At today's roundtable, I synthesized some posts from our blog to give entrepreneurs, incubators, investors, and economic development agencies a flavor of what we've been doing this summer to make life easier for you. In How Not To Sell Equity Too...
The site that hosts the Linux kernel's source code, Kernel.org was compromised earlier this month. The discovery was made on August 28th, and steps are being taken now to enhance security for the site and recovery is underway. The kernel code repositories are believed to be unaffected. According to an...
What makes startups succeed or fail? More than 90% of startups fail, due primarily to self-destruction rather than competition. For the less than 10% of startups that do succeed, most encounter several near-death experiences along the way. Simply put, while we now have some good theory, we just are not...
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