In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we analyze the Real Time Web, interview the founder of a venture tech firm, report on a new and larger version of Amazon's Kindle eBook reader, look at a cloud computing product for the...
In the old days, somebody running a business had a cadre of middle managers who aggregated data about the performance of different parts of the business. They would typically write monthly reports highlighting trends, issues, and exceptions. In a modern, web-enabled, web-centric business, this role is served by the online...
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"I Tried YQL Execute and All I Got Was an Authenticated Javascript API Processing Layer in the Cloud"There's a great amount of data available on the Web in APIs or even straight HTML. It's all there for the parsing - and parsed data from social media in particular is held...
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at how and why Google is making public data searchable, provide a succinct update on the state of the Web, review Facebook's latest efforts to open some of its data, question why...
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at the state of the smartphone industry, study new stats showing Facebook's international market penetration, review 'The Oprah Effect' on Twitter, check out a new product called Google Me, analyze the closure...
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at the latest in social media monitoring tools, investigate how cloud computing is being used in scientific research projects, review some future Firefox concepts, check out the latest iPhone app usage stats,...
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at the future of mobile phones in light of Google's Android OS, examine the future of journalism, discuss how sensors are becoming more a feature of social networks, advise you when not...
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter where the top stories of the week are summarized, we present highlights from our coverage of the Web 2.0 Expo (held this week in San Francisco), review the new Skype app for iPhone, discuss the local / mobile Web with a...
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we discuss web apps that have stood the '30 day test' for our writers, analyze the past, present and future uses of the Twitter platform, look into the phenomenon of "ghost twittering", review the...
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In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we cover the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement, review the highlights from Microsoft's MIX event, look at Facebook's new privacy controls, check out some cutting edge web-based books, analyze the latest social media and Twitter...
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In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look into Facebook's homepages, check out Yahoo's answer to Facebook Connect, review the new iPhone version of Amazon's eReader Kindle, analyze the 'Smarter Web' trend that came out of the DEMO conference this...
Howard Lindzon, a hedge fund trader who created the high-profile short video show Wallstrip and then sold it to CBS, today launched a new fund to invest in social applications. The eight-person group is called Social Leverage, LLC and will presumably compete with a handful of other small funds to...
Next month Austin, Texas will fill to the brim with geeks from all around the world gathered to attend the South by Southwest Interactive festival. While smaller than the Music part of SXSW, Interactive is very big and very fun. One part of the event that always goes over our...
Twitter may have signed a term sheet with Institutional Venture Partners according to a recent report on TechCrunch; a deal that will place the valuation of the rapidly growing microblogging service at $250 million.At first glance the deal seems to contradict co-founder and CEO Evan Williams assertion last month that...
Marketing firm HubSpot will publish a report tomorrow on the state of Twitter at the end of 2008, based on user data the company harvested from its controversial app TwitterGrader. Though the report's methodology is not discussed, the numbers it includes are quite interesting. We draw our own conclusions based...
It is quite a remarkable feeling to watch as the pieces fall into place and the picture, anticipated for so long, is finally revealed in all its splendour. As with any jigsaw that lacked a guiding picture on the box, the final result is that inevitable mix of vindication and...
It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, we continued our Best Products 2008 series with two more lists: Best Consumer Web Apps and Best RSS/Syndication Products. We also reported on Google's Chrome browser coming out of beta and MySpace's answer...
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