ThinkUp, the social media management tool that matters most, hits version 1.0 today. It lets you store all your social activity from networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ in a database you control and search, sort and analyze it. If you have a Web server that can run a PHP...
Red Hat's PaaS, OpenShift, is getting an upgrade that will make Java developers happy. Starting today, OpenShift is adding in "Build-as-a-Service" to its features for Java. Developers write code wherever they like, then build software in OpenShift. Using JBoss Tools or another IDE, developers can push their Java code up...
A U.S. Federal Court in Virginia caused quite a stir among digital privacy advocates last week when it ordered Twitter to grant the Justice Department access to private data from the accounts of three suspected WikiLeaks supporters. That data includes IP addresses, session times and relationships between other Twitter users.Normally,...
One of the early promises of HTML5 was that it would become an enabler, giving smaller developers some of the power they needed to produce bigger tools on a broader platform. In recent months, however, it's become a common channel for driving developers and users towards native platforms. Whereas last...
For years, everyone was talking about the convergence of interfaces. The Web, and as a result, the browser, were "clearly" about to take over as the major platforms and cloud computing emerged. Then, in March 2008, Steve Jobs unleashed the iOS followed by the mobile apps revolution. What seems to...
Last week, the Google Reader team caused quite a stir among many users when it launched a redesigned version of the popular RSS feed reading service. The relaunch not only gave Google Reader a new design, but removed the service's content-sharing and social features in an attempt to streamline the...
I first saw a startup called Apture demonstrated in an off-the-record session at O'Reilly's by-invite-only FOO Camp several years ago. The room was packed and I had to stand on my toes outside the doorway to see Apture's Tristan Harris navigate around the Internet on a projected screen. He was...
AnchorFree, the company that makes the popular Hotspot Shield application that secures mobile browsing activity, is bringing the app to iOS. Hotspot shield gained some acclaim this year during the revolutions of the Arab Spring by allowing users to create a private connection to the Internet. Users were able to...
The Web is singing this morning. The coming death of Flash on mobile devices has made a lot of tech pundits and developers very happy. There is a big fat "I told you so" coming from all corners the of Internet while all Adobe can do is quietly sit back...
Somewhere along the line, Microsoft went from being the 800-pound gorilla in the browser market to begging users to switch back to Internet Explorer. Now, Microsoft is running a "where's the love?" campaign to offer "free stuff" for users who download IE9. After all these years, hasn't Microsoft learned yet...
If Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers were created brand-new today, in the age of the Internet, what would they look like? Ryan Budke has some ideas: "I will never forget the day I saw Sesame Street do a tour of a crayon factory - then I went to school, held...
Our social Web is a busy, data-intensive place. Twitter sees 1 billion tweets in a week, Facebook now has 800 million users, and those are just the big players, neither of which was around eight years ago. The social Web is still relatively young, and growing. Like the Web itself,...
For those of you that cut your teeth on graphical OSs and have never had to use a command-line terminal emulator, this article isn't for you. There is no Flash here, no OCD multi-tasking, cutting-and-pasting from one window to another. If the term "command line" reminds you more of the...
Scott Berkun is giving away his latest titleMindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds through November 3rd.All he wants in return? Your email address. More specifically, Berkun asks that folks sign up for his monthly mailing list. And you can unsubscribe if you don't like what he's sending, so there's little...
Way back in December of last year, Facebook released its connections map. FlowingData.com recently released an inverse of the Facebook friendship map, showing where in the world people don't use the social network. Facebook has not been able to adequately penetrate the non-Western markets of China, Russia, South Korea and...
The Nokia N9 64GB is now available from the Online retailer Handtec priced at £574.79 inc VAT. They do not currently have stock of the 16Gb version but are expecting it soon. Heres all the info with the link at the bottom of the page: Bold, all-screen design - Simply...
Yesterday Facebook announced two new forthcoming security updates that attempt to make you feel safer on the world's biggest social network. It also released a handy infographic that made its way around the world of tech news. From that infographic, one seemingly small number sticks out: 0.06% of all Facebook...
I want to tell you about one of my favorite things on the Internet. Storify is the best way to gather tweets, comments, snippets and images from all around the Web and put them into one post. It's a new way of blogging that lets all your Internet friends participate.Storify.com...
You could say that Shira Lazar lives by the sword and dies by the sword, but these days media mavens like Lazar can create safety nets by engaging internet audiences with the same tools that sometimes get them in trouble. When Lazar's show about Internet trends, called What's Trending, was...
Over several days, I visited three incubators in Nairobi devoted to startups in the social space. Given the emphasis in Kenya on mobile - as many as 60% of Kenyans pack mobile phones but as few as 5% have Internet connectivity via laptop or desktop computers - the development also...
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