If you've ever sat around in a room of geeks with smartphones watching television, then you know how big a part Twitter can play in that activity. Whether it's trash talking the Sunday game or gasping about plot twists, Twitter is the virtual watercooler of the TV geek set.Today, Twitter...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking to the audience at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco this week, said that his company expects mobile to dominate search at some point in the future. "Eventually, we think mobile will be the majority of the searches and the majority of the revenue,"...
Jimi Heselden: made nerds super-cool and lighting-fast. Before the gyroscopic personal transport rucked the entryway runners of every tech HQ in Silicon Valley, it was a wildly over-hyped cipher. Time magazine reported Steve Jobs calling it "as big a deal as the PC" and investor John Doerr claiming it was...
Yesterday we looked at the evolution of GetGlue, a service that allows you to "check in" to TV shows, movies, music, and more.One of the striking things about GetGlue is how it has used cutting edge web technologies (recommendations, Semantic Web) to build a future-proof foundation. And how it has...
If you were thinking of getting your iPhone 4 from China to avoid signing onto a two-year contract or being locked into using AT&T as your carrier, you might want to reconsider. According to geopolitical blog Ogle Earth, the new iPhone being sold in China comes with a Maps app,...
Have you ever wanted to determine geographical information about an IP address? There are a growing number of services to accomplish this goal that are a mix of on-demand and offline bulk database services.Let's take a look at the Quova API using Ruby.Hello Visitor From {City}, {State}So-called IP intelligence and...
While blogging was still a major topic of discussion just a few years ago, things have been rather quiet around it in recent times. Even in the so-called blogosphere, we don't talk a lot about the actual activity of blogging anymore these days. According to a new report from research...
The clouds are aligning so to speak. Apps are everywhere. The variety of mobile devices connecting to the networks is unprecedented. In the process, identity management is becoming a major issue.According to a Gartner survey earlier this year, enterprise managers see identity management as a top business priority. That would...
The Federal Communications Commission, which regulates communication technology including the Internet, was once credited with having the worst website in federal government. But the agency is committed to upgrading its technology under the leadership of Microsoft veteran Steven VanRoekel. The FCC has been beefing up its developer offerings and it...
Last month, Wired magazine set off a furious debate with a feature titled: "The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet." The crux of the argument was that people are spending less time on the open Web and more time using apps.It's undeniable that apps are in vogue. But does...
Computer scientists at the University of California's School of Engineering have launched an Android app called Visibility, which crowd-sources the task of analyzing and measuring air pollution. Using the phone's camera, Android users simply point their phone at the sky and snap a photo. The app then taps into the...
Foursquare has quietly added a new feature to its website this afternoon that you won't want to miss: a new "add to my foursquare" button that can be embedded on any website. If you own a business or publish a web page about any real-world location, this very simple button...
Today we're starting a new interview series on ReadWriteWeb, focused on product innovation on the Web. I'll be interviewing a number of startup founders over the coming weeks, all of whom have created ground-breaking Internet businesses. I hope that this series will give insight into both product innovation and what...
I thought the affair was long over - I'd thrown everything away and I'd changed all of my habits. I'd moved on with my life and everything was going along just fine and then, out of nowhere, it happened. For the first time in nearly a decade, I went and...
Craigslist told the House Judiciary Committee today that it had closed its sex ads section forever. William Clinton Powell, Customer Relations Director of the online ad site, said the suspension on September 4 has been made permanent. At that time, Craigslist put a "censored" banner where the link to the...
Adult cell phone users who use apps are younger, more educated and more affluent than other adults. Over the last few weeks, the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been looking at how adults use technology, and a new report released today focuses on app usage among this age...
Google unveiled a new way to display its search results this morning, called Instant Search. Instant brings search results to your browser, as you type. Letter by letter - it's amazing. The feature will be rolled out to all users over the coming hours and days but is available to...
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...
Typing a search query into Google.com is such old news. Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a much-hyped keynote talk at Berlin's IFA home electronics event today and said that his vision for the future of search looks very, very different.Schmidt says he believes that in the future, your mobile phone...
The Internet was in flames last week as popular social news curation site Digg.com launched the latest iteration of its platform, unleashing a groundswell of outrage and protest from a majority of the site's loyal users. A week later, Digg has begun to respond to its passionate community, making rapid...
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