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Democratic Convention Web Site Gets 3.2 Million Visits 
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
Just as the Republican National Convention is about to wrap up tonight, the Democratic National Convention Committee released some interesting numbers about its web presence during the Democratic convention last week. During the convention week, the
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Tumbltape Mashes Up Muxtape and Tumblr
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
The demise of Muxtape, the popular mixtape service, clearly left a void on the Internet that a number of new companies are now trying to fill. Most clones, from 8tracks to the self-hosted O
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Chrome: 1% Market Share In Less Than a Day
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
While the early release of the Chrome comic might have changed the way Google went about launching its new browser, it definitely did not hurt Chrome's early success. According
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Chrome To Get Extensions - Just Not Yet
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
Even though we have quickly come to enjoy using Google Chrome after its launch yesterday, we still miss a couple of things from Firefox that Google's browser just doesn't offer ye
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Goodbye Fail Whale: Twitter Dramatically Increases Reliability
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
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Meanwhile, IM and Track are nowhere to be found. Shenanigans. Next time a service gets bad press for failing, just disable half your features and everything will be alright.
For a while, Twitter's reliabi
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Finding Interesting Feeds Just Got Easier: Toluu Adds Tags
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
The OPML sharing and matching service Toluu provides a great way to find and share interesting RSS feeds. One feature that had been missing so far, however, was tagging. In its latest update, which was released
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Serious Security Flaw in Google Chrome
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
Google Chrome has quickly become one of our favorite browsers here at RWW, but, as Ryan Narraine, a security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, reports, Chrome has also inherited a potentially serious security f
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Picasa Web Albums Get Face Recognition
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
According to a report on CNet, the next version of Google's Picasa Web Albums will go live at noon PST today. The central new feature of this version will be automated face recognition and tagging
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Google Implements Social Graph API and hCard in Profiles
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 29 Aug. 2008
this February, Google released its Social Graph API, which allows developers to give users the option to easily find data on their social connec
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Skype Turns Five
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 29 Aug. 2008
While it can sometimes seem like Skype has been around forever, today only marks the 5th anniversary of the popular VOIP client. When it was first released, Skype marked a huge improvement in voice quality over any other VOIP client at the time. Just a few days after its
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Comcast Wants to Cap Downloads: Puts a Damper on Innovation
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 29 Aug. 2008
Today, Comcast announced that it will amend its Acceptable Use Policy and add a clause to it that will establish a "monthly data use threshold" of 250 GB per month. This effectively puts a cap on the amount a Comcast user can download pe
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Online Dating: SpeedDate.com Raises $6 Million
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
If you think regular online dating is still too slow and inconvenient, SpeedDate.com might just be the thing for you. The San Mateo based online dating service just raised $6 million in a Series B round from Menlo Ventures after raising a Series A round for the same amoun
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Sweetcron: Your Lifestream on Your Server
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
We were pretty excited when we first heard about Sweetcron, a self-hosted lifestreaming application developed by Yongfook. Today, after a bit of a delay, Sweetcron has finally released its software and we immediately downl
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Zeep Mobile: Free SMS Gateway For Developers
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
While SMS has already become one of the most important forms of communication in many parts of the world, the U.S. is only catching up to this trend slowly. Part of the reason for this is the high cost of using SMS, not just for users, but also for developers who want to use SMS for their applications. I
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A Bad Day for Apple: Banned iPhone Ads, Embarrassing Security Hole, and a Censored Comic
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
For most companies, having to deal with one piece of bad publicity in a day is already bad enough. Apple, however, has to deal with three pieces of bad publicity today. In England, the Advertising Standards Authority, moved to
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Back to School: 10 Great Web Apps for College Students
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
For a lot of college students, the new semester is just around the corner. Last year, we created a long list of great Web 2.0 tools that we thought would be helpful for college students, but given how fast
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Reddit Now Fully Customizable: Bring Your Own Design and Domain
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
The social news and bookmarking site reddit today announced that it will allow its users to completely modify the CSS for their custom reddits, as well as pointing those sub-reddits to any domain
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Opentape: Host Your Own Muxtape Clone
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
We were big fans of Muxtape here at ReadWriteWeb, but when the the virtual mixtape service shut its doors last week because of
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Keep Your Friends Organized: FriendFeed Launches Beta of New Interface
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
FriendFeed, one of our favorite lifestreaming applications, launched the beta version of its new user interface today. The new version adds features
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Digg Crowdsources Convention Interviews
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
Just in time for the first day of the Democratic Convention in the U.S., Kevin Rose today announced a new feature on Digg: Digg Dialogg. The idea here is to allow the Digg community to
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