Sep 04, 2008

ReadWriteWeb Here at ReadWriteWeb, we've talked about how the hot new trend of lifestreaming has been taking off lately. Now the social news service Socialmedian aims to capitalize on that trend by releasing an upgrade to their service that features something they're calling "news streaming." Like lifestreaming, news streaming lets user (Read More)

Sep 02, 2008

Submitted by Transitenator: Global survey shows 58% of people don’t know what social networking is, plus over one third of social networkers are losing interest. (Read More)

Sep 02, 2008

TechCrunch In the anticipated release of Google’s new and improved Picasa, the company will offer facial recognition technology to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them by-hand each time you see them.Launching at noon PDT today, Picasa’s facial recognition technology will a (Read More)

Sep 03, 2008

Submitted by Michaelfidler: I didn’t expect this. I fired up Google’s web browser, Chrome, expecting very little except a stripped down early beta with a plethora of bugs. After playing with it for a while, it’s too early to say that I’m blown away, but I must admit that I’ve stumbled onto some impressive feats which show that the team that built Chro (Read More)

Sep 02, 2008

Silicon Alley Insider Walt Mossberg has been playing with Google's "Chrome" browser for a week longer than you. What does he think? Chrome's not as good as IE8 but way better than Safari. And neither Chrome nor IE8 can hold a candle to Firefox 3 (or that's how we read his review, anyway):Chrome is a smart, innovative browser that, in many common (Read More)

Aug 07, 2008

MEDIAdeluge I wrote in June about early numbers from research being conducted at the University of Maimi that attempted to quatify the impact of a Walt Mossberg review on a company’s stock price:Initial data shows on average, “firms with bad product reviews saw stock losses of $200 million, while those with positive reviews saw gains o (Read More)

Aug 08, 2008

Submitted by Scbalazs: The web is an increasingly chatty place. Between following comment threads, checking in with friends on Twitter, reading a few blogs with RSS feeds, and conquering a mountain of e-mail, we have plenty of conversations to keep track of. Mozilla wants to help us on the conversational journey, which is why the company has laun (Read More)

Aug 01, 2008

Submitted by Onlinetreason: In this portion, we will answer the following questions: * What kind of pages do Stumblers like? * How do I get even more visitors from SU? * How can I convert a Stumbler into a regular visitor? * What are five big mistakes people make with StumbleUpon? * How does StumbleUpon make money? . (Read More)

Aug 04, 2008

GigaOM Sitting across from me in the lounge of a posh Half Moon Bay, Calif., resort recently, Kevin Lynch, chief technology officer of Adobe Systems, a software company based in nearby San Jose, outlined his vision of the technology world at large. In particular, Lynch, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Harry Porter (picture the (Read More)

Aug 06, 2008

Submitted by Jonathank: Google plans to aggressively add new applications and capabilities to its Web-hosted Apps software suite for businesses, and will likely leave the price unchanged as it builds out the service, a company official said Tuesday. (Read More)

Aug 03, 2008

Mashable! I lept right into social bookmarking early on. At first is was not only a place to store your bookmarks, but to tag them for easier searching. The old browser based bookmarks took time to organize and sort. Tagging was a natural progression to me. Assigning keywords to links I needed to save made perfect sense. The vis (Read More)

Jul 22, 2008

TechCrunch Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The acquisition price is in the $200 million range, says one source. (Read More)

Aug 05, 2008

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Aug 04, 2008

The Unofficial Apple Weblog Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, iTunes, Apple, iPhoneApple has released the 2.0.1 firmware update for the iPhone and iPod touch, and as you can see above, it brings the much-awaited "Bug fixes" feature to bear. We first heard about bug fixes way back at WWDC '07, and since then there's been much speculation on Ap (Read More)

Aug 04, 2008

Submitted by Scbalazs: Sized at an estimated $5.6 billion in 2007, Japan boasts one of the biggest online advertising markets in the world – a huge potential just waiting to be tapped by foreign social networks. The world’s two largest social networks, MySpace and Facebook, barely register in Japan. As the Google Trends for Websites chart above s (Read More)

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