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Submitted by Martinrstone from Google Reader: Posted on 16/11/2009 by martinrstone. google latitude for iPhone: Image by [Dicky] via Flickr. Well WordPress has beaten Twitter to it. You can now Geotag your blog and your posts – see a Blog Near You ... (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

Tech Blog Working from home on Friday, I noted 17 cars, 10 people and a squirrel come and go in our small cul-de-sac. Not that I spent most of the time looking out of the window - I was just trying out new motion-detecting webcam software from Vitamin D, inspired by the way humans recognise patterns. It has [...]. (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Mashable! One of the hottest trends right now is the rise of location-based services (LBS), which helps friends network and find each other based on their location. Foursquare and Loopt are prime examples of these growing networks.Google has its own LBS service as well: Google Latitude. Today, the search giant announced some major (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Mashable! Sony Ericsson’s first two smartphones from the Xperia series, although packing some powerful hardware, were not what we’ve hoped they will be, and I dare say it’s due to one reason only: they were based on Windows Mobile OS. Third time’s the charm, they say, and it just might be the case with the latest device from the seri (Read More)

Sep 18, 2009

Submitted by Martinrstone from Google Reader: Extracting meaning from the Web is huge project that is very difficult to do at large scale. Keyword search only skims the surface of meaning locked in Web pages. Various semantic search technologies try to go deeper by adding structured data to web pages so that the Web can be treated more like a database. But adding se (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Factual, a new open data project founded by Gilad Elbaz, just launched its public beta today. Elbaz's last company, Applied Semantics, was acquired by Google in 2003 and became one of the core component of the search giant's AdSense contextual advertising product. Factual, which is mostly geared towards developers, is somew (Read More)

Sep 30, 2009

Media | guardian.co.uk Radical redesign of BBC news and other sites planned for March, according to sourcesThe BBC is planning a radical relaunch of its website to include more social media.BBC sources have told MediaGuardian that the new-look site will launch by March.As soon as this weekend the BBC could add social media applications to its Str (Read More)

Sep 24, 2009

Mashable! Traditional web analytics tools like Google Analytics are a great for both small and large bloggers and publishers. However, traffic data can only tell you so much. As conversations surrounding blog posts start to take in place other places (Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, etc.) and people use tumble blogs like Tumblr and Po (Read More)

Sep 23, 2009

TechCrunch I find myself relying on traditional feed readers less and less these days (stream readers like TweetDeck and Seesmic have replaced them as an hourly habit). But when I do look at my feeds, I like to look at them through Feedly, which presents the stories in a visually appealing, magazine-like layout. Feedly is a Firefox (Read More)

Sep 24, 2009

mashable Yelp has built a social media empire by becoming the top destination for finding information and reviews on local businesses and restaurants. Now Google wants in on the action in a big way.Just moments ago, Google announced that they are adding information on businesses, restaurants, points of interest, neighborhoods, and (Read More)

Sep 22, 2009

Guardian Unlimited: Technology Voice over IP companies are working hard to make phone calls available on social platformsFrom tomorrow, Twitter users will be able to make direct phone calls to each other for the first time. Well, at least if they live in the US. But Jajah.com, an internet telephony company, that allows you to make voice over IP calls usi (Read More)

Sep 20, 2009

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Sep 19, 2009

mashable Back in March, Hulu took some initial steps into what we like to call “social TV” by adding some basic social networking components to the site. Today, they took another step in that direction with the launch of the Hulu: Watch Now Fall Premieres apps for Facebook.The new app works much like CNN’s integration with Facebook (Read More)

Sep 18, 2009

ReadWriteWeb There are those old-fashioned folks who still prefer to talk by phone, believing that "synchronous audio communication" is sometimes better than email or even - gasp - Twitter. The problem is cost, particularly for those not tethered to a land line or a laptop with Skype. Paying for 1,000 cell phone minutes per month is not (Read More)

Sep 13, 2009

readwriteweb Our mission at ReadWriteWeb is to explore the latest Web technology products and trends. We're fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So, once a week, we write a post about them; about who they are, what they do, and what they've been up to lately. Pay them a visit or tweet them a "Thank you" (se (Read More)

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