What is fascination with Britney Spears? Maybe its a train-wreck kind of thing. Once again she tops Yahoos list of overall searches for 2008, just like she did last year. In fact, the entire list hardly
Trutap, a leading UK mobile startup which made the TechCrunch 40 list in 2007, is letting go almost 80% of its 30 staff after failing to hit its window for a second round of funding. A
When I was in Europe two weeks ago I fell in love with Moleskin notebooks. I know I am neither a college-age girl or a pretentious artist but these things are great. The paper is soft and
When I was in Europe two weeks ago I fell in love with Moleskin notebooks. I know I am neither a college-age girl or a pretentious artist but these things are great. The paper is soft and
When Crunchbase, our free database of startup and people information, released an API we started to observe some really interesting applications being built on it. But one of the most interesting could just be Crunchvision which puts
Scobleizer and our own Scott Merrill are both in Barcelona this week to see the latest from Nokia in the upcoming year. The promise, according to Scoble, is a device that will be a game changer for Nokia.
We already knew The Huffington Post was looking for capital, but it turns out to be a little more than the projected $15 million. Kara Swisher says the political uber-blog network has raised $25 million from Oak
Next summer, you and all your so-called friends from Facebook and MySpace will be able to finally meet in a giant arena, where you ill be able to play dating games, compete against each other in Guitar Hero or Lacrosse,
Theres a new version of Songbeat, a simple but powerful desktop application for discovering music online, and I like it. When it was first released earlier this year, the client only enabled you to search for music
According to Hitwise, U.S. visit numbers across all tracked retail categories declined for Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday 2008, with the exception of online-only shopping websites. Among the top 500 Retail sites, Walmart was the top visited
Chances are you use at least two major social networks - 49 million people, for example, visited both MySpace and Facebook in October 2008 (Comscore, worldwide). Nearly 7 million people in the UK use both Bebo
We were doubtful last night when the story first broke. There were just too many oddities to The Times tale about a complicated Yahoo/Microsoft search arrangement that would guarantee billions to Yahoo in exchange for a
Todays the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad overview of Connect as well
Im with you on this one Jason. Randall Stross article (its really an editorial, but not marked as such) rips into Tesla as not much more than a functioning concept car and suggests it would be
Love it or hate it, Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book reader is selling well -- in fact, even at $359 there currently aren’t any in stock. So Amazon certainly doesn’t need
The company behind MyQuire, a simple but pretty powerful online application that lets individuals and team members work on projects in a social network-like environment, has been recently acquired.Thats about all we know. We got in touch
Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so much energy nurturing our delicate egos against naysayers and self-doubt that we can hardly admit mistakes. This is especially true
Surveillance cameras can sometimes give you a creepy feeling (especially the ones you cant directly see) but the nation of cute- and friendliness, Japan, now offers two solutions for that problem.One example of a friendly CCTV camera is
Last year Amazon had trouble filling orders of the then-new Kindle, so eBay took over and prices rocketed to $1,500. This year, same problem. Amazon says orders for Kindles will take 11-13 weeks to fulfill (which is,
The UKs Times Online is reporting that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion. The report is filled with lots of juicy, specific details that lend it credence, but dont make
The Web has been huge for unsigned musicians. Many artists have leveraged social networking tools and music discovery services to find record deals, while others have built large online fan bases. Looking to capitalize on this trend, MSN has added
A historic Presidential election, an economic crisis, and even Hannah Montana were unable to capture the #1 spot in Yahoo’s yearly rankings of popular search terms. Instead, for the 7th time in 8 years, that title goes to Britney Spears.
The Huffington Post has raised 25 million dollars in funding from Oak Investment Partners, claims AllThingsD. According to AllThingsD, this puts the valuation for The Huffington Post at 100 million dollars. It’s a big valuation, and the 25 million dollar
Brightstorm makes me feel old. The recently launched website to help teens with schoolwork is introducing SAT prep courses via online video, and is offering 1,000 free courses to Mashable readers (details below). Back in my day, preparing for the
The New York Times has an extensive story about Facebook Connect and its imminent expansion to new services: Digg, Hulu, Discovery, CBS and several others. However, looking back at the initial announcement of Facebook Connect, there’s really nothing new here;
There aren’t many sites with 5 million users that we haven’t heard of, but Power.com is just that, and it’s a name you might be hearing a lot more of after it launches in the US today. Previously available in
Tonight is the final night to thank your favorite websites by putting forth your vote in the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services. This voting round closes at midnight PST, November 30th (4
Not too long ago, Twitter was constantly lambasted for its lack of reliability. Now, at least one developer is confident enough in the microblogging tool to launch a simple service that notifies users of website uptime/downtime via Twitter replies. Ding
This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.…by winning the Open Web Awards, Dating and Relationships category. First, however, we need to narrow down the field to the top
This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.It’s pretty simple, really. If you’d like to cast your vote for the best How To site online, simply:1. Choose your favorite
How fun do you imagine it would be to see your design wrapped around paper packets of tea leaves and herbal blends? No, really, how fun?Because that’s what UK-based Lancashire Tea is looking to strike interest in. The tea packager
The Google brand is ubiquitous. You’d have to make a concerted effort to avoid all the Googley things that Google has Googled. But what if some of the most useful Google iPhone apps…weren’t made by Google at all?We think that
This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.Is fashion your passion? Think the web is the new black? Then we want your vote in the fashion category of the
This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.Do you want PerezHilton.com to be crowned the top celebrity gossip site of 2008? If not, you need to vote for one
We’re all iPhone and Blackberry addicts at Mashable HQ, and yet Nokia’s latest launch is so slick that it makes our handsets feel a little impersonal.Nokia has debuted, in beta, a Flash application called Nokia Build. The pitch: remix your
The holiday season is upon us, and with it comes plenty of wrapped packages, sloppy kisses, and even some fulfilled wishes. And so there are those relatives and friends of ours who send ordinary greetings by email and snail mail.But
This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.Do you ever shop online with your friends? Do you refer to reviews online before you decide to take the purchasing plunge?
Or was your Black Friday a bit of a washout? Did you pick up a bargain, or stay online and shop there instead? Or did you resist consumerism completely this year, and stay in with the family? Inquiring minds want
So claims the group RealInFaz, which has posted its logo with the message “Hacked by HeuRisTiC” at the top of the Twitter API wiki. (Thanks to the Mashable reader who spotted this.)Digging into this story, however, we found reports of
Since its debut in 2007, iPhone owners have been capable of consuming video in two ways: via iPod software as well as a YouTube application. And these options presumably remain the exclusive utilities employed for viewing clips.But they are other
Songbeat is an interesting little desktop music application that lets you stream and download songs from SeeqPod, Project Playlist, Spool.fm, and iASK. Songbeat also gives you the option to record music from your last.fm stations. To
It seems were approaching a new age here on the Internet. Instead being anonymous, faceless IP addresses, social computing and changing technologies have allowed the lines between the real world and the virtual world to blur. Web 2.0
Do we really need another shopping holiday? Some marketing firms and major retailers think we do. To follow up on the success of Black Friday, the start of holiday shopping season for American consumers, and Cyber Monday, the
Im very pleased to announce that Bernard Lunn has joined ReadWriteWeb full-time as our Chief Operating Officer. Starting today, Bernard will assume responsibility for most of the non-editorial functions of our business - sales, business development
While the majority of our day-to-day searches are easily handled by our favorite search engine, there are always those intensive searches that have you jumping from site to site - or opening a series
If the initial development race of Web 2.0 centered around building a better social network then the next phase will certainly focus on extending the reach of existing social networks beyond their current
The race to find a single sign-on and synchronization service has been on since social networking sites hit global acceptance several years ago. Today, after working under the radar for the past year, and
://URLFAN is an indexing service which ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions. Its been around for a while, but we think its reached the point now where its a very useful tool to measure influence
Gladinet is a free Windows application that runs on your desktop and offers easy access to files stored online or across remote PCs. The companys goal is to provide a single platform from where
The word on the street this month is speech. (Which makes it the spoken word on the street.) Speech-based iPhone apps are just a throat-clearing for the stream of oratory that IBM says we can expect from computer users within
Yet another report has surfaced that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo!. Not only is a different number being reported - $20 billion - but there is a new twist: Microsoft only wants
How can your mobile phone help you live a greener life? Quite easily, it turns out - if you have a G1.Ecorio is a carbon footprint calculator developed by five guys from Ontario, and
According to the Pyjamas website, many people, when discovering Google Web Toolkit wonder why they cant use Python instead of Java. With Pyjamas, this is now possible.SponsorSimilar to GWT,
Several months ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created the Mobile Web Project in an attempt to provide up-to-date university information for its faculty, students and visitors over mobile devices. Early next year, Information
Its time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we gave you an overview of health 2.0 and followed up with a RWW Live podcast on the topic. We
Youve probably seen lots of services that put pop up windows on top of links in web pages - usually for advertising and often in unhelpful places on the page. Could something like that
Today marks the second annual Blue Beanie Day, an international online event in support of web design standards and accessibility. Participants post photos of themselves wearing blue beanies, or stocking caps, to their various online
Apple has always been very protective over their proprietary software. The company doesnt want anything but iTunes to control an iPod - and for good reason, too. digg_url = http://digg.com/apple/EFF_To_Apple_Free_Speech_Isn_t_a_DMCA_Violation;digg_bgcolor = #ffffff;digg_skin = normal;The iTunes Store is a
The transfer of human intelligence to the machine is something the internet makes easy to do. With reCAPTCHA, we keep spammers at bay while helping digitize old books, Amazons Mechanical Turk lets us crowdsource small tasks to a
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to address the issue of creating a nationwide, filtered broadband network at its Dec. 18 meeting, giving that meeting the potential to be as controversial as the one held last month on election day.
The sales of cable modems declined 32 percent in the third quarter of 2008 to $246 million, according to research firm Infonetics Research. In comparison, $360 million worth of cable modems were sold in the second quarter of 2008. One
Inventor and tech-philosopher Dave Winer Twittered tonight that federation is the hot thing, pointing to a New York Times article about Facebook Connect. And just like that he touched upon the third rail of our increasingly social web. The big
The bad news for mobile VoIP startups keeps coming. EQO, which had cut nearly 65 percent of its workforce about two months ago, might have finally hit the deck and be down for the count, according to Canadian technology news
Last month I had the chance to chat with a top U.S. Nintendo exec and suggest how, with a few savvy improvements to the Wii system, the company could turn it into the living room Net appliance of choice. But
The Sunday Times of UK reports (more like speculates) that Microsoft is going to buy Yahoo’s search business for $20 billion in a very complex transaction. The Sunday Times claims that Jonathan Miller, formerly chief executive of AOL, and Ross
Google shares recently fell as much as 67 percent from an all-time high in November of 2007. But while there is plenty of reason for concern in the short term, there are also signs that Google is growing slowly more
Update: Few online events have ended as horrifically as the Lori Drew case. Befriended by a boy on MySpace who later began bullying her, a teenager named Megan Meier hung herself, and her online friend later turned out to be
It’s far from certain — it’s even a fairly remote possibility — but the possibility of an economic depression is being discussed more and more these days. As is to be expected, the discussion tends to be centered around how
I have been saying for some time that the launch of the 3G iPhone was going to jump-start the demand for wireless broadband. The subsequent release of additional web-friendly mobile phones (we like to call them superphones ) — the
Carl Icahn, a hedge fund investor and corporate rabble-rouser, has bought 7 million shares of Yahoo for $67 million. That works out to about $9.92 a share. With that, his stake in Yahoo is now 75.6 million shares, or nearly
Since Wednesday afternoon I have been glued to my computer screen in search of updates on the situation in India. Despite the tremendous volume of information — and its immediacy — coming from Mumbai via Twitter, getting context about the
Black Friday –- the day after Thanksgiving, and one of the busiest shopping days of the year — might be a bit darker this year. Consumer spending is expected to drop slightly with 128 million shoppers planning to head to
Regardless of however you spin it, if you are firing 20 percent of your work force and have no real business model to speak of, you are in trouble. That certainly is true of Fring, an Israeli Mobile VoIP startup,
That’s my personal struggle, but you could insert many all-consuming tasks — such as starting up a company, or training for the Olympics — for blogging and still get to the heart of my question. Most people believe good blogging
Looks like for once I am in agreement with The New York Times gadget columnist David Pogue, who eviscerated the new Blackberry Storm device in his review published earlier today.“But I’ve got a better name for it: the BlackBerry Dud.The
As the world moves to fourth generation wireless networks, lawyers for chip firms, handset makers and other technology firms are moving into their bargaining positions on patents related to the technology that enables the WiMAX
Some two years ago, it started to become clear: The web was going to change the way we consume video. So in December 2006, in order to closely track and monitor the growth
Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo said today that it has acquired 26 percent of Tata Teleservices for $2.7 billion, which is actually higher than the valuation of the largest CDMA carrier in India, Reliance Communications. The premium is a
Ta-da List just moved to three exciting platforms: Rails 2.2, Phusion Passenger, Amazon EC2.This is an important milestone for 37signals. As proponents of simplicity, we really felt the difference the latter two technologies madefor server provisioning and deployment. As we
I have the usual gripes with cable/satellite/telecom company customer service like most people. However, I recently had an experience with DirecTV that left me feeling good about doing business with them.Upon
Browsers try their best to protect users from the evils of the internet, but some times their eager kills good use cases all the same. The “mixed content warning” that IE and Firefox throws when you reference a non-SSL asset
When you’re hiring, seek out people who are managers of one.What’s that mean? A manager of one is someone who comes up with their own goals and executes them. They don’t need heavy direction. They don’t need daily check-ins. They
Recently we asked commenters here how they would describe 37signals to average civilians in 20 seconds or less. A quick recap below:A lot of people turned to analogy. Some things 37signals is like…“Just like you can use Gmail for email
We recently conducted a survey of our Backpack customers. We got some great feedback — including that 97% of our customers would recommend Backpack to a colleague, friend, or family member. Thank you!!We also included some open ended questions and
Is anyone else annoyed by the “just speak your choice” automation in so many telephone menus? I feel like an idiot mumbling “YES!” or “CHECK BALANCE!” into my phone. Maybe it’s the misanthrope in me coming to the front, but
The new Criterion Collection website features a cool introductory video in the upper-right corner. A pair of anonymous hands draw on white paper with a sharpie as a narrator introduces the site.Turns out the hands and voice
The proposed bailout of GM, Ford, and Chrysler overlooks an important fact. The US has one of the most vibrant, dynamic, and efficient automobile industries in the world. It produces several million cars, trucks, and SUVs per year, employing (in
Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:Backpack New in Backpack: Email replies to Newsroom MessagesWe introduced email-reply to messages and comments in Basecamp a few months ago. It’s been a huge hit. Today we’re excited to be able to
I’ve recently recognized a nasty coding habit I seem to be developing. It’s been developing for a few months now, and while I kick myself every time I discover myself doing it, the habit itself is remarkably hard to kick.I’ve
Pizza pie charts from The Economist’s “Get a World View” campaign. Philly pizzerias distributed the boxes which display pie charts with statistics related to world food distribution, emphasizing those used in pizza production (e.g.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning
Etymology is fascinating to me. Most recently I was reading about the history of the word “one”. Have you ever wondered why it’s pronounced wun instead of rhyming with own? According to the sources I’ve read (including the awesome Online
To access the RAM slots in a unibody MacBook you must first remove the back plate—a thin piece of aluminum attached by eight tiny screws. Half of the screws are hidden beneath the battery cover, and each one is surrounded
So maybe a recession is a good time to start a startup. It’s hard to say whether advantages like lack of competition outweigh disadvantages like reluctant investors. But it doesn’t matter much either way. It’s the people that matter. And
Two services that track the iPhone App Store - AppShopper and 148Apps, announced on Saturday that there have been over 10,000 iPhone applications released on the US App Store. The number of currently available applications is just shy of 10,000
James Hamilton is one of the smartest and most accomplished engineers I know. He now leads Microsofts Data Center Futures Team, and has been pushing the opportunities in data center efficiency and internet scale services both inside & outside Microsoft.
If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what Im paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of OReilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and
Last week, the New York Times wrote about Changes at change.gov: The policy section of the transition site was removed without notice just days after Change.gov went live shortly after the election. At the time a spokesman for the Obama-Biden
The other day Jesse posted a call for participation for the next Velocity Web Operations Conference. My background is in the enterprise space, so, despite Velocitys web focus, I wondered if there might not be interest in a bit of
Thats a real question, not a rhetorical one. In a Radar post I wrote last week about whether Twitters user base was hitting a critical inflection point, the first comment was, How does Twitter make money? Although the post wasnt
Kevin Kelly doesn’t need much in the way of introduction to Radar readers. He is a big thinker looking at the intersection of biology, technology and culture. Kevin gave a great High Order Bit at the Web 2.0 Summit and
Just a reminder that the good folks at One Laptop Per Child are running the Get One Give One program again, in association with Amazon. Buy an OLPC XO for $399 and youll be providing one to a child in
Like a lot of people, I was feeling a bit of post-partum letdown after the election. Those of us who were really engaged, following the polls, making calls to undecided voters, arguing out the merits of the candidates, experienced a
With all the news on Friday about Apples release of iPhone OS 2.2, there was another iPhone news item that got less attention than it deserved. Two young iPhone developers, Danielle Cassley and Jason Citron, released the sequel to their
Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be President, declared Arianna Huffington from the stage at Web 2.0 Summit, the day after the election. In The Web and Politics session, moderator John Heileman explores the new world
My mind is buzzing right now, full of ideas that are all demanding my attention, begging to be written up. I dont have time right now, but I thought Id write down the headlines, both as a kind of to
Belated congratulations to the Newcastle team who won a gold medal the 2008 iGEM contest with a cheap biosensor for pathogens that used a biological implementation of an artificial neural network (life imitating art imitating life?), modelling the regulatory networks
Last years Velocity conference was an incredible success. We expected around 400 people and we ended up maxing out the facility with over 600. This year were moving the conference to a bigger
Yesterday I gave a talk to the Privacy Forum in Auckland, New Zealand, titled Web Meets World: Privacy and the Future of the Cloud. The talk was intended as a scene setter for a discussion with the audience, about 70
Steve Rubel bookmarked a page on deliciousMIT Mobile Web6 hours ago -Comment -LikeBill Sanders, MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage), Ben Hedrington and Jim Cahill liked thisSuper example of mobile done
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“I am 39 years old and I STILL want the Hess truck every year. Man, I hope I never get old.”5 hours ago -Comment -LikeIgor
Steve Rubel bookmarked a page on deliciousThe Cool Factor - Never Let Them See You Sweat - NYTimes.com5 hours ago -Comment -LikeBill Sanders and Jay liked thisCalmness:
Steve Rubel shared an item on Google ReaderThe Two Okinawan Diet Rules (or How I’m Getting Leaner During the Holidays)5 hours ago -Comment -LikeBEX and Jay liked this
Steve Rubel bookmarked a page on deliciousDrilling Down - Maybe Canadians Have More Friends - NYTimes.com5 hours ago -Comment -LikeCanadian Internet users are far more likely than Americans to use a
Steve Rubel bookmarked a page on deliciousSmartBrief on Social Media | Sign Up6 hours ago -Comment -LikeFree email newsletter on all things social media. I subscribe to a bunch of these
Steve Rubel bookmarked a page on deliciousMediaPost Publications - Blogs And Mainstream Media Intersect - 11/26/20086 hours ago -Comment -LikeGreat roundup of existing stats, including this one: 95% of the top
Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter“Watching my Jetsies battle the Broncos and the rain”8 hours ago -Comment -LikeAbby Martin liked thisIts a miserable, cold wet day
Steve Rubel posted a linkLate for work? You can get a note for your boss from NYC Transit.9 hours ago -Comment -LikeSutee Dee, andrei_c, upsofloatingmanybellsdown and 6 other people liked this
Steve Rubel shared an item on Google ReaderCommentary: Many Older Adults Remain Offline in an Online World14 hours ago -Comment -LikeTimothy B. Taylor and Judy Jones liked this
Steve Rubel bookmarked a page on deliciousWhats Your News Story Idea - BusinessWeekyesterday at 4:59 pm -Comment -LikeWhat’s Your Story Idea? gives you the chance to have a direct impact on
Search engines Yahoo and AOL have released their "2008 top searches" lists today. Check out the Yahoo and AOL year in review websites to view the full lists of all types of
This weekend Samsung alerted me that my cell phone was ready for an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.1 which apparently also set the GPS receiver to "on". This morning I
Each Saturday here at CenterNetworks we like to highlight a NYC Web-related blog. This week we have something for the gamers out there. The NYC Game Industry site is
Here are the Web tech events in NYC for the week of November 30. Please submit other events to add to the list below. Check out Garys Guide and NYTechEvents
A quick reminder that if you plan to run for the New York Tech Meetup organizer position, you must do so by midnight on December 2. Current organizer Scott Heiferman explains how
Early this morning I saw a report on the local NYC news that workers were trampled at the Valley Stream Walmart store this morning. Weve all seen these reports before. Some lunatic
From what I can tell, if you purchased a turkey in Silicon Valley over the past month, you were provided a free packet of "Twitter Kool-Aid" with purchase. It seems you cant
Ive been using the Zipcar service for about 18 months. Zipcar is a shared car rental service where you can rent cars for an hour or more at locations that are
You would think that the Blogger King would rest on a national holiday, but you would be wrong. He stopped by to tape a very important message which Ive embedded below. Before I get to his message, I wanted to
Twitter has announced that as of their post time, there will be no more outbound SMS messages delivered to Twitter users in the country of Canada. This follows similar shutdowns in the
India-based Rediff has announced the launch of a new service this week named "web-in-mail". Rediff positions the service as perfect for those who have their Internet web browsing blocked in some way
Power.com is an ambitious social utility that brings together all the networks you have on social network sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Orkut , as well on instant-messaging networks like AIM, Yahoo
Facebook Connect--the service launched last spring that lets members log onto other Web sites using their Facebook profile--appears to be entering a new phase.The New York Times, in a big-picture story Sunday about the social networks plans to extend its
How many iPhone apps does it take to make 10,000? It all depends on how you do the counting.(Credit: 148Apps) Apple watchers this weekend have been ruminating on the overall tally and on
People with a good looking custom Twitter background have been the envy of ordinary Twitter users, without the Photoshop skills to make their own. TwitBacks is looking to make those same rich profiles
Men in Black playing on Joost's new iPhone app.If ever there was a Web service that experienced a rapid fall from grace, it was online video start-up Joost. What started out as a
When people talk about economic slowdown, I am pretty sure this is not what they mean: So many buyers flocked to popular online retail sites on Black Friday that many sites slowed to unpleasant levels under the crush. Keynote Systems
That's me with new hair, and glasses using HairTry.(Credit: CNET Networks)Baldness is serious business--to the tune of millions of dollars every year spent on surgeries, special sprays, and hair pieces. Aderans, the Japanese
The Food Network announced Friday that it has launched a new mobile application through its Web site that will offer visitors a listing of seasonal recipes, videos from its hosts, and cooking tips.Dubbed
If youve got several Gmail accounts and are frequently having to juggle signatures for each of them, worth downloading is Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures. This experimental Firefox extension will drop in one of
EarthCam, a company that allows users to search for Webcam content across the world, announced Wednesday that it will stream Thursdays 82nd Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade in real-time on its site.Seven EarthCam cameras
Geezeo, an online financial management service, announced Wednesday that it has expanded its Marketplace to include ratings of online brokerage firms.According to the company, visitors can now evaluate brokerage firms based on the
Oh, no! They can't get Twitter SMS updates anymore!(Credit: Second City Television)This cant be good. Just a few months after restricting its U.K.-based text-messaging number due to cost issues, Twitter has done the
(Credit: Criterion.com)Highbrow film company The Criterion Collection has launched Criterion.com, an online cinematheque for people who want to watch movies, delve into some editorial content, and socialize with other fans.Perhaps the most notable
Delivers compelling marketing and creative content such as video, audio, branding, graphic design and more from a diverse and talented community of over 5000 creative artists.
A new server-based search box for Firefox. Users can choose from hundreds of search engines instantly. New search engines can be added to a personal profile on-the-fly using the browsers context menu. Then, they can be shared at lookpicking.com.
A hosted, interactive collaboration tool for your mockups. Upload your mockups to a central location, give your clients a URL to view and review all of the mockups for any particular project.
Easy management for multiple Twitter accounts and brand monitoring. Splitweet allows the Twitter users to compose a list of accounts and distribute their tweets, choosing their release in one or more of their accounts. You can also follow your following
A mashup aggregator specifically geared to crisis and emergency information. CrisisWire released on November 13th, which just happened to coincide with the Santa Barbara fires (currently happening as of 1am PST 11/13/2008) and was used to find and relay information
Feeling Polaroid nostalgia? Poladroid is a free Mac application (Windows version is in the works) that will turn any photo into a Polaroid-like image that develops on your desktop. Currently in beta.
A personal shouting place that lets you stay in touch with your friends via short, quick messages. It works the other way too. And all you have to do is tell your friends (and the world) what are you doing
A content recommendation service that separates the signal from the noise and delivering the most valuable information from your most trusted sources. My6sense is more than a smart feed reader, its your digital intuition.
A home page/start page that aims to speed up your internet experience. It acts as a meta-search, gathering results from Google, Wikipedia, and Youtube instantly as you type.
A new way to browse topics on the web. We do this by linguistically analyzing web content to learn how people, places and things are connected to each other. Users browse those connections, see related articles, pictures and videos found
A worldwide community for creative talent and a fair and fun way of connecting those who have ideas with those who need ideas. Think of it as a new type of job board.
A social fitness network for detailed tracking, online accountability, and motivation. Whether you are trying to lose weight or get fit, its time to start taking your fitness seriously. Track your workouts, monitor your diet, meet new friends, and reach
A free online notebook or online organizer that helps you manage your life. Use your springpad to keep track of notes, photos, maps, to-do’s, contacts and appointments. In all seriousness its a pretty good idea to have a tool that
The first true musical instrument created for the iPhone. Ocarina is sensitive to your breath, touch and movements, making it even more versatile than the original . Unlike other musical applications, there are no pre-compiled riffs so musicians will find
A mobile phone group messaging and photo sharing tool. Users can post private messages to their friends or completely public. Storyz functions like threaded group MMS across web and mobile. The service converts photos and videos across handsets and web,
FileRideFileRide is a hyper social desktop, globally connecting people through common interests such as business documents, multimedia files and links. As you drag files, links and YouTube videos into FileRide, your social network is expanded with people
AddictionaryThe Addictionary is a site for word lovers and those who like to see our beloved English language grow in serious or humorous ways.Addictionary.org – A Dictionary Like No Other
Hosted Public Data Sets(you need to submit a request to have a data set hosted)AWS Hosted Public Data Sets provide a convenient way to share, access, and use public data within your Amazon EC2 environment. Select public
BloggerInsighta dynamic research community providing personalized, independent advice on the Chinese internet.BloggerInsight provides intelligent Chinese crowd sourcing
Filterbita free service where you can upload files for scanning, analysis and identification by multiple antivirus engines.FilterBit – Detecta Troyanos y Malware Online
Yahoo! has announced the rollout of some limited tests for OpenIDs Simple Registration specification. If youre not familiar with OpenID, its an innovative way for handling user authentication that provides a free and easy
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) provides the San Francisco, CA region with one of the most innovative public transportation services in the United States. Now BART offers developers the BART API. The BART API provides real-time
ReadWriteWebs Rick Turoczy recently reported in Dark Side of the Cloud the recent incident that resulted in a loss of data for ylastic, a company that facilitates management of Amazons AWS environments
Every now and then a sharp developer uncovers a clue that leads to discovery of an undocumented, but quite real, web API. A case in point is the folks over at SEO services company Index
Yieldex, the online ad inventory forecasting and optimization start-up, has won the second annual Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge. As grand prize winner, Yieldex receives US $50,000 in cash and $50,000 in AWS service credits, along with
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Hoovers, the business information company, has released their own Hoovers API, aka HAPI. This new API enables developers to create applications that utilize Hoovers database of 27 million companies and 34 million business executives (details at
Earlier this week Intuit announced the release of a new web application that allows QuickBooks users to visualize customer data on a map mashup. The Customer Explorer, developed by SpatialKey, is provided as a free
Microsoft has released a significantly enhanced version of their Live Search API. Live Search API 2.0 offers increased flexibility in terms of API protocols (REST/XML and JSON are now offered, in addition to the original SOAP
Elsevier, the worlds leading publisher of science and health information, has announced the Article 2.0 Contest, which invites developers to create innovative applications related to scientific journals and articles using the Elsevier Article 2.0 API. The
Amazon is using the Thanksgiving break to quietly release some bad news - theyre shutting down one of its web services - Alexa Web Search. The service, which we first covered way back in 2006, is already closed to new
The newspaper industry in the U.S. continues to shrink at an alarming rate. According to the Newspaper Association of America,, total industry advertising (both print and online) in the third quarter was $8.9 billion, down 18 percent from the year
While Black Friday has been around for years, not everyone enjoys fighting the crowds at insane-oclock in the freezing cold. Luckily, the Monday after Thanksgiving theres Cyber Monday, supposedly the biggest online shopping day of the year.
Some 84 percent of online retailers will be holding major promotions on the Monday after Thanksgiving this year. Here are tips on how and where to find the best deals.
With economic recession in the air and layoffs everywhere, the outlook for online retail sales looks grim this holiday season. So far in November, online sales are 4 percent less than last year. Online retailers Amazon and eBay will be
New Page! this is a round up of the Best 5 deals from each category or each store. (See Top)Categories includes: Apparel, Automotive, Bed/Bath, Camcorders, CDs and DVDs, CD/DCD Discs, Computer Accessories, Desktops, Camera, DVD Player, Electronics, Laptops, and more.Does
MySpace named MTV executive Courtney Holt as president of MySpace Music, concluding a months-long search for a candidate to run the social networks joint venture with the worlds largest music companies.
Google has given Street View a major new look.One big change: to activate the Google Maps feature, you drag the Pegman character off the top of the zoom slider and drop him where you want to see. Its a lot
Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apples iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious charge.
Searching Amazon and eBay sometimes feels a bit archaic the look and feel hasnt changed all that much over the years, and the search results can be cumbersome. PicClick is a new visual search tool that looks to improve
Seventy-two vehicles earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safetys Top Safety Pick award for 2009. This is more than double the number of 2008 recipients and more than 3 times the number of 2007 winners. Top Safety Pick recognizes vehicles
In-flight entertainments about to take off in a new direction.Virgin America this week flipped the switch on a Wi-Fi service it will offer on all its planes by the middle of next year, letting passengers surf the Internet, email and
Sling Media, the company behind the popular Slingbox TV-streaming hardware devices, has opened the gates to its video portal Sling.com. The site pits Sling directly against Joost and Hulu (though Hulu is a Sling partner), allowing users to stream a
I recently wrote a beginners guide to social news websites and this article follows up on that by offering a list of the social news websites you can use to get information and web traffic.There are a great deal of
American consumers may be curbing their discretionary spending, but toy manufacturers are hoping that thrifty shoppers will bargain-hunt and discover that there are affordable holiday gift options available.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, rose the most in a month in Nasdaq trading after Barclays Capital said spending on ads is increasing.
Google is in the process of paring back a contractor workforce that numbers about 10,000, the company confirmed Monday. The news, though, isnt as fresh as it might appear at first blush.The contractor cut story made the rounds Monday after
Adam and Josh sat down with Kevin Marks from Google. We chatted about Microformats, Open Social, The social graph api, etc.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Adam and I visited the posh South Park Engine Yard office to talk with Ezra Zygmuntowicz. We covered hosting, managing open source, and even a bit about writing a book.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Adam and Josh sat down with Tom Preston-Werner and Chris Wanswrath. They are two of the three guys behind the genius that is github. They also talk a bit about previous projects like FamSpam and Gravatar.Click here for show notes.Download
Adam and Josh sat down with Blaine in Miami to pick his brain about scaling twitter, among many other topics. *Note: Blaine was workng for twitter at the time still.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Josh and Adam sat down with Kathy Sierra to talk about creating passionate users, building web apps, and Tasty Planner.This edition of The Web 2.0 Show is brought to you by the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, with special
DIGG THIS!! Josh and I interview Kevin Rose and Gary Vaynerchuk at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami, FL.Make sure you follow Kevin and Gary on Twitter. You might as well follow us too while you’re at it:
Josh and Chris interview Founder and CEO of (http://www.google.com/search?q=Aaron+Patzer “Aaron Patzer – Google Search”). Aaron is the visionary and technical mind behind Mint.com.Mint is a free personal finance web application that takes about two minutes to setup that links directly
Chris and I sat down and talked about the new website and how we built it. We also talked about our rails rumble app. Go "vote ":http://vote.railsrumble.com for all the apps!Click here for show
Chris and I sit down and talk to Jeff from YikeSite. Our apologies on the delay as we have been working on the new website. Come take a gander :)Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Chris rejoined the cast to chat with David Wadler from Twistage, a roll your own YouTube like video distribution service. After an initial recording snafu, we get rolling and discuss the online video distribution, content distribution networks, pirating media, and
Jon Maddox and I sit down to chat with part of the rails core and prototype core peeps to talk about their new company and their upcoming software directed at developers.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Chris and I sat down to talk with John O’Halloran from Trailfire. Listen to us chat about the fall of the USSR, the original intent of the web, and other interesting topics.Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
We finally have the long lost episode we have promised forever! Chris and I sat down to chat about a ton of differnt things, then I followed up with an interview of Bill Nguyen from Lala. Bill and I chatted
Hey guys, we have finally posted the latest show! Chris and I chatted with Kevin Burton of TailRank. Chris swears he will update this post with shows notes…Click here for show notes.Download Podcast
Sorry about the delay, loyal listeners. I deliver to you a show recorded while at the Future of Web Apps Conference. Chris and I were able to sit down with a fascinating gentleman named Kristopher Tate. The podcast details some
Amazon.com Tries User-Generated Public Relations - Bits Blog - NYTimes.comA Web 1.0 pioneer which continues to get the good 2.0 stuff. Crowdsourcing is almost always cheaper and more scalable than traditional methods of production, just harder to seen.zemblyA "Wikipedia for
The hidden cost of Google Apps - Nov. 19, 2008A decent overview of what the pros and cons are of moving to office productivity apps in the cloud. We use Google Apps for most of what we do now unless
Netbook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNow we are seeing a wave of personal computer devices designed specifically for cloud computing. The Asus EEE and Dell Mini 9 and others are selling extremely well and are often out of stock. They
Daring Fireball: Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIsFascinating analysis of how the new Google Mobile voice command uses undocumented iPhone APIs. It seems like unfair advantage and Google is getting special treatment on the platform. Definitely makes Android seem friendlier
Dont Buy Into These 10 Social Media Myths | SocialComputingMagazine.comSocial media can produce numerous benefits for you and your brand. Of course, as the bandwagon for social media has filled up, many myths have been spread. This list of 10
Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront - All Things DistributedWerner Vogels looks at Amazon's new cloud offering: A content distribution network based on S3 that is 'dead simple.' And inexpensive.10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later - ReadWriteWebAfter years
FT.com / Companies / Media - Rival forecast to catch YouTubeSome very useful strategic datapoints on online video and the race for financial success. YouTube wins hands down in traffic and will for the foreseeable future but Hulu is expected
Two of the big themes clearly evident at this week's Web 2.0 Summit is 1) how to effect change successfully today and 2) how to deliver genuine, meaningful value in today's marketplace. The current economic climate combined with this week's
Over the last year I've worked with organizations around the world that are attempting to grapple with Web 2.0 and the growing external marketplace pressure being exerted for the change and transformation of their businesses. Along the way, I've been
The Web has an interesting property that those building Web applications and online businesses usually encounter soon after they first launch: It has its own unique and unforgiving rules for success and failure. Appreciating them requires a certain level of
A few days ago Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr released a graph (Figure 1 below) showing the growth of the bandwidth used by their global Web sites versus the bandwidth being consumed by their Web services. It's eye opening
It's beginning to look like 2008 might be the year of the social aggregator as users begin to employ these emerging new tools to better manage and track their various online relationships, both personal and professional. The introduction of these
One of the hottest topics in the online world in the last couple of years has been the growth of social networking services such as Facebook and MySpace, as well as the addition of a social element to existing user
It's the first work day of the new year and I thought I'd take some time to offer up my predictions for what will happen on the leading edge of the Internet this year. 2007 saw Web 2.0 -- defined
I've spent the last few days keeping track of the seemingly endless stream of news and blog coverage about Google's new OpenSocial model for social networking applications. OpenSocial has been described by some as Google's industry "chess move" to outmaneuver
It's the second day of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference here at the Boston waterfront. Yesterday was the workshop day for the event as well as the much-ballyhooed showdown between Andrew McAfee and Tom Davenport, the original point of disagreement around
Kathy Sierra says we’re all marketers:“In this new open-source/cluetrain world, I am a marketer. And so are you. If you’re interested in creating passionate users, or keeping your job, or breathing life into a startup, or getting others to contribute
If there is one book you should read next, it’s “Letting Go of the Words” by Ginny RedishThe other morning I changed my about section here on Bokardo to this: “Bokardo is a blog about interface design for social web
We’re building tools to watch the world change…Doc Searls has a wonderful post on his long-time meme: The Live Web. What I like about Doc is that he knows words matter. So when he talks about the Web he uses
Here are the slides from the talk I gave at d.Construct in Brighton a few weeks ago. Leveraging Cognitive Bias in Social DesignView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: dconstruct08 interface-design)
Is the future of design activity-centered?Quite some time back I argued that Information Architecture was the wrong frame in which to approach design. My post got a lot of push-back from the established IA crowd, who claimed that I was
You can now check out a free chapter of of my book Designing for the Social Web on the publisher’s web site: Design for Sign-Up: How to Motivate People To Sign Up For Your Web AppThere is also a one-page
I’ve submitted two talks to SXSW 2009:Designing for Sign-UpThis talk is for anybody who has ever had the problem of getting people to sign up for their web application. I got frustrated trying to find good resources on how to
Robert Scoble has a nice piece on “passionates”, people who are early adopters of technology. He says that companies need to focus on passionates in order to drive their business forward, as non-passionates just don’t care enough to share and
In On the Internet, people know if you’re a dog, my friend John Eckman details an interesting situation which underscores the importance of identity and revealing who you are in appropriate places on the Internet. John wrote a great post
Yesterday I wrote an unthoughtful post about an email I received from Slideshare. I analyzed the email as an interface and ended up calling it evil, pointing out that I wanted to find out more about something but had to
Update #2: Jon from Slideshare responds in the comments with excellent help. And in reflecting on this post…I realized it’s silly to call the design (or Slideshare) evil. This isn’t evil…it’s an interface. Update #1: There is indeed a group
This Thursday we’re holding the next North Shore Web Geeks Meetup, our monthly meeting for web geeks who live up in the Northeastern Mass/Southern New Hampshire area.This month we’re changing to a new format. So far we’ve been completely unformatted…everyone
Boston.com has a nice story on the growing trend of companies keeping real-time tabs on what their customers say on the Web: Hurry up, the customer has a complaintBy using services like Twitter and Google blogsearch, companies can quickly respond
I heard a term the other day that I really liked: co-evolve. It was said in the context of humans and technology…humans and technology co-evolve together. In other words, we change technology by creating it, and then it changes us
This is just too juicy to not share with everyone. Here’s a 2003 email from Bill Gates in which he vents his frustration with the Windows interface…in quite excruciating detail. Epic Bill Gates email rantThroughout the email Gates continually voices
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