This is a guest article by Stephen Ward. He writes for DailyBits.com, a blog focused on web development, software and online marketing. So you're interested in a career in web development. You already know a thing or two about HTML and CSS. Maybe you've created a few static websites. You're...
How do you navigate a nearly infinite world of digital data to find the best content for your tastes and needs? Our collective answer to this question is in its infancy, but Oregon based recommendation service MyStrands has now raised a whopping $55 million to build on the existing science...
Australian startup Fluc is an innovative new mobile advertising network that not only lets publishers monetize their content, but also lets mobile users opt-in to be paid to recieve targeted SMS-based advertisements.Users provide Fluc with a profile of their tastes and interests when they sign up for the service, and...
Amazon Web Services, a fascinating division of the company offering a collection of commodity computing services, data storage and more - all sold in the cloud - is about to conclude their Start-up Challenge contest. The contest will award one start-up that uses Amazon Web Services a $50k cash prize,...
Adobe, which celebrated its 25th birthday over the weekend, today announced the release of Flash Media Server 3, the delivery platform for its near ubiquitous Flash technology. Perhaps the most striking change to Flash Media Server is the drastically reduced price.Because in the past Flash Media Server has cost so...
A couple of amazing stats have been released about mobile phone use. Firstly industry analyst Informa Telecoms & Media revealed recently that worldwide mobile penetration will hit 50 per cent - or around 3.3 billion subscriptions. Informa estimated that mobile networks covered 90 per cent of the global population by...
In this post we will give you three reasons for that prediction, plus six specific predictions and one interesting dark horse. First, the three reasons why 2008 will be the year of Business Networking:1. The US consumer economy will slow (maybe into Recession). Specifically this will weaken business models based...
Controversial "word of mouth marketing" company PayPerPost, which we called "a sketchy operation" in a post in October, told users via email that they had reached 100,000 members (or, as it refers to them, "posties"). The company is also nearing 13,000 advertisers, sitting at a little over 12,500 right now.Negativity...
Nominations are now open for the first annual Crunchies, the competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. The Crunchies is a collaboration project between GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat and TechCrunch. It promises to be a great show!What I like...
Last week we wondered if maybe MoveOn was a bit premature in declaring victory when Facebook changed their Beacon advertising system to be explicitly opt-in. Was Facebook still gathering information on your purchasing behavior, even if you had opted out of the program? Computer Associates blogger Stefan Berteau, who reported...
Wikipedia is formulating a plan to pay contributors of selected illustrations, according to a report this morning in the NYT. It's a big move, in principle at least, away from the site's longstanding all-volunteer content creation. Backers of the plan, however, say it's a vital step that must be taken...
A new forecast from ZenithOptimedia predicts that the ad spending will jump 6.7% globally to $486 billion. For online ad spending, the news is especially good. Zenith expects Internet ad sales to hit $44.6 billion in 2008, and increase its total share of the market to 9.4% (up from 8.1%...
There is a myth floating around that contextual advertising is going to help Facebook justify its $15 billion valuation. The myth goes something like this: because Facebook knows everything about us, it will always be able to serve perfect ads. However, the reality is more like the following:Facebook does not...
A well linked to post over the weekend was Andrew Miller's notes on a Google Apps presentation. The main presenter was Scott Johnston, former VP of Product Development at JotSpot - one of my favorite Web Office apps that was acquired just over a year ago by Google, but has...
Back in August, we noted that most of the very big Facebook apps seem to be owned by Slide or RockYou!. At that point Slide had the most popular Facebook app (in terms of users), with Top Friends. However now RockYou!'s Super Wall app has overtaken Slide's similar FunWall app...
This is a guest post by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. We have been hearing about an upcoming new way to discover content on Digg for quite a while now. The new Digg 'recommendation engine' will purportedly look at...
Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.Web NewsThis week continued the recent theme of Google and Facebook dominating...
Wael Abbas, an award winning journalist who has posted videos documenting police brutality and torture in Egypt over the last 3 years, had his shut-down YouTube account restored by Google last night after a week of international pressure. The restored account, though, no longer contains any of Abbas's more than...
Earlier this month we wrote about the University of Oregon and Oregon Attorney General's resistance to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) legal demands for the names of students alleged to have illegally downloaded free music. Now the Oregon AG has taken a step further, taking the offensive and...
Yesterday I attended a “Chalk talk on Global Innovation and Collaboration” in New York, hosted by BSG Alliance. I went because it was led by Don Tapscott who wrote one of my favorite business books - Wikinomics, How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. That book ranks up in my Top 10...
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