Foursquare has an open position for a data scientist. Specifically, the company is looking for someone with "experience with prediction or recommender systems, search and ranking algorithms, and classification algorithms." In September, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley told the audience at Picnic that the company is building a recommendation engine. About...
For the first time ever, U.S. consumers report spending an equal amount of time using the Internet as they do watching TV. According to a report released by Forrester today, Gen Xers now claim to spend more time online than watching TV and Boomers now report spending an equal amount...
Almost two years after announcing Latitude, Google's entry into the location sharing market, Apple and Google have finally come together to offer an official native Latitude app on the iPhone. And it's a real let-down.Location technology is incredibly hot right now, innovation is happening fast and furious, the sky's the...
Ping, Apple's half-hearted attempt at its own music-focused social networking site, has finally received an update worth noting: Social Playlists. On Friday, the iTunes-only website Ping added a new feature which lets you create a playlist of your favorite songs. Those playlists can then be published for your Ping followers...
We started this week with a quote from EFF's co-founder: "The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops." It's a battle that has enthralled hundreds of thousands of our readers and made our coverage of WikiLeaks the top stories of the...
The smash-hit puzzle game Angry Birds made big headlines today with its parent company's announcement of its own sales system that will route around the Android Market and let consumers run up charges directly on the monthly bill sent to them by their telephone carrier. Called the Bad Piggy Bank,...
Cyborgs, part human and part machine: that seems like a reasonable way to understand the new group of mobile phone driving navigation apps that use your travel to build a collective real time map of roads, driving hazards and more. They are right in the middle of an important continuum...
This year proved to be a strong one for online employment, as more and more took to the Web to find work, where an increasing number of jobs are for employers in other geographic areas, according to a report released by Elance.Elance reported its one-millionth job listing, as an annually-growing...
The mobile social network Brightkite announced back in September that it would be focusing more on its group texting feature, but today the company announced that it will be officially dropping the check-in function altogether from its service. One of the earliest companies in the location-based social network trend, Brightkite...
"Technology is the equalizer," Fareed Zein told Fast Company. Zein has built the Sudan Vote Monitor as a platform people can use to monitor and cover next month's independence vote in that northeastern African country. To the south and east, another technological experiment has risen, that one to commemorate the...
This week, Google gave the world the first major update on Chrome OS since the project was announced last year. While Google's operating system in the cloud won't be ready for prime-time for six months, Google initiated a pilot program that includes a brand new test notebook with Chrome OS...
This week, RIM announced it has opened up its BlackBerry App World portal to developers wanting to submit apps for its upcoming tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook. To encourage submissions, the company is even running a contest where early submitters are eligible to win a PlayBook for themselves, too.Also this week,...
When Google revealed its newest version of the Android operating system this week, Android 2.3, code-named "Gingerbread," there was one slight disappointment: the highly anticipated NFC (near field communications) support was somewhat crippled. According to Google's own Android 2.3 User's Guide (PDF link), Gingerbread allows mobile phones with NFC chips...
Small local business patrons in Portland, Oregon (the greatest city in the United States and home to almost half of ReadWriteWeb's staff) will soon be able to tap their phones against the snazzy Google Places window stickers shown above. If they have Google's very latest mobile model, or presumably almost...
In this reemergence of the Internet-enabled TV (remember Web TV of the 90's?), there is a land battle over screen real estate. Web browsers are free to watch recent episodes of nearly any TV show on their computer, simply by going to a network's website. Can they go to these...
Since its launch in 2008, Evernote has been used primarily by consumers for recording and organizing notes and ideas. And while consumers continue to be the company's chief target, the application has many potential uses in business, a fact underscored by their announcement earlier today of sponsored accounts for schools...
Are you ready to learn a whole lot more about the world around you every time you launch a location-aware application? Countless apps are likely to get a lot of real-world data dumped into their databases thanks to two new data sources available for free as of today.SimpleGeo, the closely-watched...
Popularity isn't the best judge of quality, but it's not a bad place to start - especially in a pinch. Instapaper is a wonderful app that captures online articles and stores them for clean offline reading on your mobile device. InstapaperFeed is one of many apps built by independent developers...
In-app purchases, in-app billing, and virtual goods are emerging as new, and potentially more profitable, means of generating revenue for mobile application developers and publishers. A report from October, for instance, found that within social networking applications and games, in-app purchases have actually taken over as the leading source of...
It is the second day of Dreamforce, the annual conference for Salesforce.com users. Today the news is all about Heroku, which has been acquired by Salesforce.com for $212 million.We'll see what else is on tap as Marc Benioff takes the stage.9:10 Killing time. We're starting a bit late. Pete Coffee...
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