ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest statistics about blogging, question if Oxford Dictionary should've chosen "unfriend" as its word of the (Read More)
New York Times:
Even as the British economy seems to be improving, some analysts worry that its underlying structural flaws could mean the country won’t be able to sustain its recovery.
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ReadWriteWeb:
The semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language processing (NLP) and structured data that is understandable by machines for interpretation.However, with (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by comparing it with last week's release of 500 million time-stamped Twitter messages for analysis."You take this data, mash it up wi (Read More)
New York Times:
A line for a Chicago food pantry formed across the street from a seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 6,000-square-foot home with a two-bedroom coach house.
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New York Times:
Google fields questions about its Power Meter, its market strategy and the privacy of consumer data at a smart grid conference in California. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
American Express just announced that it plans to acquire Revolution Money for $300 million. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval. Revolution Money, which was founded by AOL's co-founder Steve Case, launched in 2007. The company offers a number of services, including a payment and ATM card that offers discounts a (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even all that new. Instead, the list includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their (Read More)
New York Times:
The final details were minor compared with the substance of the financial cooperation deal between China and Taiwan, but carried significance of their own. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
When you launch a make or break initiative like Windows Azure, you better get it right.Well, from our vantage point, Microsoft got it right. How? In front of a sea of developers at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft trotted out a group of geek all-stars who showed how they are using Azure to do some pretty co (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Superfeedr, a service that transforms a wide variety of feeds into normalized XMPP or Pubsubhubbub format, announced a seed round of funding from some very high-profile backers this morning. Betaworks, backers of Twitter, Bit.ly, Tweetdeck, Twitterfeed, Tumblr and more, and Mark Cuban, have invested in Superfeedr's parent (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
After 18 months of negotiation, the Open Web Foundation, a group made up of 106 employees of Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, some small startups and their lawyers, today released a legal document template for licensing open web technology specifications. The result could be greatly accelerated time-to-market for new t (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Before there was an iPhone, Android and App Store, there was Yahoo! Go. Launched in 2006, Yahoo! Go was an application offered news, mail, weather, traffic, and Yahoo! search from a mobile device. Today, Yahoo is announcing that Yahoo! Go will be shutdown on January 21, 2010. The app seemed to be ahead of it’s time when it (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Most text excerpts that appear on search results pages aren't very useful. Imagine if instead your search engine showed a list of clear sentences summarizing the contents of each link on that search result page. That's what a new service called Factery Labs aims to provide for any service that utilizes the API it's launch (Read More)
New York Times:
Prominent banking analyst Meredith Whitney said Monday that the stock market run-up was not supported by fundamentals and that she expects a so-called double-dip recession, where the economy would slip again before fully recovering. (Read More)