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So Long, Farewell, auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Sat, 21 Jun. 2008
So, yesterday was officially my last day at ReadWriteWeb. I know what you're all thinking: "Uh, so why are you posting today? Just get outta here already!" Okay, okay, you got me. But this is my 747th post at ReadWrite readmore
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Facebook Improves Messaging: Adds Search
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 20 Jun. 2008
Facebook announced last night that it was adding search to the Inbox feature of its site. According to Facebook engineer Prashant Malik, Inbox search was something the company knew they needed for a long time, readmore
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Ameritocracy: Crowdsourced Campaign Clarity - 100 Invites
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 20 Jun. 2008
Ameritocracy, which just launched into invite-only public beta, is a new political site that helps people cut through the noise and rate and review political information for credibility and relevance. The site helps users to sort through the sea of i readmore
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Hakia Announces Semantic API
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 19 Jun. 2008
Semantic search engine Hakia today announced a set of APIs that opens up their natural language processing and search platform to developers. Hakia's Syndication Web Services really comes in two parts: search queries, whi readmore
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Vint Cerf: High Oil Prices Could Help the Web
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 19 Jun. 2008
While some of our European readers may snicker if I were to complain about having to pay $4.10/gallon to fill up my car's gas tank, the fact is that across the world many people are feeling pressure at the pump. There are some who argue that the environmental benefits of high gas prices, which are c readmore
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China Web Boom: .CN Now More Popular than .Net
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 19 Jun. 2008
China's top-level domain has now surpassed .net as the web's third most popular top-level and second most popular country-specific domain, according to a study by VeriSign says the Associated Press. VeriSign said readmore
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Firefox 3 Sets Download 'Record' - Are You Using It?
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 18 Jun. 2008
Firefox has already surpassed the 5 million download mark it set out to meet in its first 24 hours. As I write this, the browser just passed the 7 million download mark for its version 3.0 software, and with over 6800 downloads per minute (and rising) is on track to do 8 million or more by 1pm readmore
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Build Your Own Reddit With Reddit
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 18 Jun. 2008
Social news site Reddit's secret announcement -- which people have been speculating about for the past 24 hours -- is out of the bag: Reddit is open sourcing their code. "We've always strived to readmore
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Software Company Ditches AdWords for... Kiva?
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 18 Jun. 2008
Two months ago, Portland, Oregon-based Jama Software -- the makers of a web-based project management app called Contour -- began a program called "You try. We give." The idea was simple, for everyone who signed up for a free trial of Contour, the company wo readmore
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Long Tail Ad Network Makes Sense for Technorati
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 17 Jun. 2008
Last week, when we heard that Technorati had raised another $7.5 million, bringing their total raised to $30 million, we asked you what blog search engine you use. 41% of you answered Technorati, but it was cle readmore
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Social Media Used to Keep Flood Victims Informed (18)
Josh Catone via RSSmeme on Tue, 17 Jun. 2008
Shared 18 times Tagged real world (0) Getting information out to victims and their families during a disaster is a major issue for any relief or readmore
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Social Media Used to Keep Flood Victims Informed
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 17 Jun. 2008
Getting information out to victims and their families during a disaster is a major issue for any relief organization. So while the Central United States recovers from a spate of storms that has ravaged towns with tornadoes and flooding, the American Red Cross is relying on a number of web 2.0 technologies t readmore
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Quillpill: Cell Phone Novels Escape Japan
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 16 Jun. 2008
For better or for worse the concept of the cell phone novel is making a splash in Western countries via a Twitter-like app called Quillpill. Quillpill handles all the heavy lifting -- i.e., aggregating each post and displaying them in the correct order. Es readmore
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Study: More People are Turning to the Web for Political Info
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 16 Jun. 2008
A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project reveals that 46% of Americans have used the Internet, email, or text messaging to get or share election information this year. 35% have watched online political vide readmore
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eBay Launches Dev Platform - Too Little, Too Late?
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 16 Jun. 2008
Online ecommerce giant eBay today announced "Project Echo" at the eBay developers conference, which will allow developers to create applications for sellers that will run inside the eBay Selling Manager. Previously, third party applications built for eBay via the si readmore
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Poll: Which Blog Search Engine Do You Use?
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 13 Jun. 2008
paidContent is reporting that Technorati has raised $7.5 million of planned $10 million fourth round of funding. That would bring the total amo readmore
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Is eBay Artificially Inflating Listing Numbers?
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 13 Jun. 2008
We've been taking a look recently into the troubles at online auction and ecommerce giant eBay. Ten days ago we took a look at reasons why many sellers are leaving eBay, and yesterday we covered readmore
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Do Regular People Really Read Blogs?
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 13 Jun. 2008
Andrew Romano over at Newsweek wrote earlier this week that US presidential hopeful John McCain's new blog, written by former Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb, is an entertaining read compared to readmore
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What's Next for Microsoft and Yahoo!
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 12 Jun. 2008
The clumsy $44 billion mating dance that began in February between Microsoft and Yahoo! officially came to an end today. Yahoo! and Microsoft ea readmore
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Australia Rules Against eBay and PayPal
Josh Catone via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 12 Jun. 2008
In April, eBay filed a notification with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) seeking permission to circumvent section 47 of the Australian Trade Practices Act of 1974, which disallows businesses from creating exclusive deals that have the purpose or effect of lessening competitio readmore
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