readwriteweb:
We're at the 6th annual Web 2.0 conference, currently known as the Web 2.0 Summit. John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly opened the conference. O'Reilly spoke about being at another transition point for the Web. They have termed this "web squared", a.k.a. "web meets world." O'Reilly said that in the current era "we're starting to (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google just announced some interesting enhancements to the Search Options side panel it introduced earlier this year. In total, Google is adding nine tools to the sidebar: past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer shopping sites, visited pages, not yet visited, books, blogs and news. Thanks to this, you can (Read More)
TechCrunch:
With the new Yahoo homepage that was previewed last July and is now rolling out more broadly as part of Yahoo’s new “It’s Y!ou” branding exercise, the main Yahoo homepage is taking on more of the personalization features on MyYahoo. There are all sorts of handy widgets in the left-hand column ranging from Facebook status u (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Yahoo unveiled a new branding campaign at a press conference in New York City, centered around personalization and connecting directly with consumers. The Web company’s new tagline is, “It’s Y!ou” (with the awkward Yahoo exclamation point in there). Yahoo wants to make the Web personal and it is emphasizing the various wa (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we announce our first event: The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit on October 15th in Mountain View, California. It's a 1-day event that will bring together some of the smartest minds doing real-time work for an industry-changing, f (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
A two-year old project by Google engineers working across departments to enable users to remove their data from Google services has been opened to the public in the form of a website with import and export instructions for Google services the team has helped "liberate". Called the Data Liberation Front, the project team sa (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. So far we've explored these trends: Structured Data, The Real-Time Web, Personalization. The fourth part of our series is on Mobile Web. We're including Augmented Reality in this category, as we think it's a key element of whe (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. Our first post was about Structured Data, our second about The Real-Time Web. The third part of our series is on Personalization. Personalization has long been a buzzword on the Internet. With the glut of information on the Web (Read More)
www.tmesolutions.co.uk - Ecommerce News:
LiveWire Mobile, a provider of mobile managed personalization services, announced that a new standards-based web service for ringback tones is now available. According to officials, the solution upgrades LiveWire Mobile's mobile personalization service. (Read More)
www.tmesolutions.co.uk - Ecommerce News:
LiveWire Mobile, Inc. (LVWR.PK), a leading provider of mobile managed personalization services, today announced that a new standards-based web service for ringback tones is now available. The solution upgrades LiveWire Mobile's mobile personalization. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Some of you may be reading our series on the Internet of Things and wondering: what use is this to me in my daily work? So one day my fridge will be able to tell me when the milk has run out, when I travel my luggage will have an RFID tag and not be lost, my home will be automated via Twitter. But none of this affects my jo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Just when you thought the Obama lovefest was dwindling, Photographer Rick Smolan released his latest book, The Obama Time Capsule. The book includes photography, maps and election results from President Obama's road to the White House. What makes this project unique is that Smolan offers readers a chance to upload their own (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we analyze the latest changes to Facebook's privacy controls, investigate trolling on FriendFeed, explore the impact of push notifications on the iPhone, review Firefox 3.5, check out Google's update to Blog Search, and more. We al (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google just announced a number of changes to its blog search engine, Google Blog Search, but none of them will knock your socks off. RSS feeds for search queries were added, something that no self-respecting search engine of dynamic content would be without. Hot search queries and recent posts from popular blogs round out (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's been nearly 4 years since news aggregation site Techmeme (or tech.memeorandum, as it was called back then) launched to the world. Since then it's grown to be the leading aggregator of tech news in the blogosphere. There have been no shortage of pretenders to the throne over the years, particularly from startups hoping (Read More)
: Based on your NAME? What if there's someone with the same name who shows up alongside you on every search, but with whom you have nothing in common, like, say, ME? Seems a primitive way to start, seems like it should start with your existing social media footprint.