Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today examining the media's ambivalent approach to addressing technology finding that, among other things, the positive effects of technology on productivity just barely edge out privacy concerns as the most common theme in technology coverage. According to Pew, the...
Digg, and its sharp decrease in traffic, was our top story this last week. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: A big new wireless spectrum for the Internet of Things opened; there's a new augmented reality childrens fantasy novel; and as part of our...
It's hard to deny that the U.S. education system faces a multitude of challenges: lack of funding, overcrowded classrooms, high drop-out rates, falling test scores (not to mention the pressures of testing altogether). The phrase and legislation "No Child Left Behind" leave a bitter taste in many people's mouths as...
Twitter will make a real-time analytics dashboard available for free to a limited set of beta testers beginning in Q4 of this year, Twitter's business development executive Ross Hoffman told attendees at the Sports Marketing 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday.Web analytics company WebTrends reported on the statement and offered...
Forrester Research just released its annual survey of American technology adoption, this time focusing on the generational divide. The findings, which arose from a survey of over 37,000 participants, reveal that when it comes to the adoption of digital tools and technology, the generation gap still exists, with Generation Xers...
Multiply.com, a well-designed social network that emphasizes different levels of privacy and has a super-loyal fan base, has sold a controlling interest in its company to South African media company Naspers.Joseph Tartakoff of PaidContent reported on the deal this morning, but the big picture take-away is this: There are large...
Just like last week, our live blogging - in this case the launch of the redesigned Twitter.com - was readers' favorite post of the week. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: Disney proposed standards for Internet of Things toys; iPhone apps can be augmented...
Seesmic is entering a new phase by offering SaaS services through its platform.This past week, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Seesmic Founder Loic LeMeur showed the integration with the SaaS service and the consumer application.It's a turn for Seesmic. It could be a significant one, too, as Dennis Howell pointed...
As promised, open source social network and Facebook alternative Diaspora released its source code yesterday. And while it's a developer release meant to be hacked on and is by no means a finished, there are already of plenty of predictions that Diaspora will fail - or at the least, that...
The drive to turn customer support into a social engines is playing out with RightNow, a publicly traded SaaS provider that is launching a robust Facebook platform for support agents to respond in real-time to Facebook wall posts and other comments.RightNow CX for Facebook gives call center operations a direct...
Yesterday Twitter announced a major redesign of its homepage. The new twitter.com is designed to make it easier for mainstream people to consume content on Twitter. "You don't have to tweet," said Twitter co-founder Evan Williams at the press gathering yesterday, "any more than you have to make a webpage...
I've posted a few times about how my unease at the way social media can help a marketing mentality shape our self-expression and online relationships. Obsessing over metrics and follower counts is the beginning; before you know it, you're thinking of romantic dinners and late-night liaisons as "conversions."But give marketing...
Our live blog of the Google Instant Search event was, well, instantly readers' favorite post for this week. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: We learned how the Internet of Things may be used against us; how playtime could be the road to the...
Today sees our first full interview here at ReadWriteHack, with Richard Clark, a web developer from New Zealand. Richard is a coder who runs a one-man business designing and implementing code, networks and systems for clients at every scale, from tiny silicon valley startups to national corporates and government departments.He...
V3 is running an interview with Google director of security Eran Feigenbaum. Feigenbaum makes some interesting points about cloud security and the possibility that cloud solutions might actually be more secure than on-premise solutions. What do you think? Are these valid reasons to migrate to the cloud, or just marketing...
There's an interesting chart making its way around the Net this morning comparing the number of iTunes app downloads to the total downloads of songs. The surprising reveal is that it shows apps are being downloaded much more rapidly than songs. In only 2.2 years, the iTunes App Store has...
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,...
RIM, the company behind Blackberry smartphones, is getting into the smart billboard business, according to twopatent applications it filed recently. But what would a smartphone maker and roadside advertising have in common? It could be a new way to serve up "adaptive" advertising according to data gathered from nearby Blackberry...
Open data is all the rage these days, but is simply opening up aggregate public information for outside analysis enough to change the world for the better? A new article by Mike Gurstein, Editor of the influential Journal of Community Informatics, argues that open data may merely make the rich...
Are you ready to get buzzed by Tweets? Twitter confirmed last week that it is experimenting with and will soon roll out push notifications through its official iPhone app. What does that mean? It depends on how exactly the company lets users manage and receive their notifications, but it's not...
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