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.
TwitLinks:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we report on Google's announcement of a new communications and collaboration platform called Google Wave, look at Microsoft's latest challenger in the search market with Bing, analyze the current trends we're seeing on the Web, loo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Last week we discussed some of the new trends we're seeing on the Web in 2009: open data, structured data, apps that filter content effectively, real-time, personalization, mobile (especially location-based), Internet of Things (the Web in real-world objects). We asked for your thoughts on these trends, along with your (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Suggesting queries is becoming a pretty standard practice on search engines these days. You know, those drop-down menus that are populated as you type with things you likely mean. They’re useful, but Google just made them more useful.Previously, when you types a query into Google’s search box, the menu would drop down givin (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
I've been following a fascinating 3-part series of posts this week by Greg Boutin, founder of Growthroute Ventures. The series aimed to tie together 3 big trends, all based around structured data: 1) the still nascent "Web 3.0" concept, 2) the relatively new kid on the structured Web block, Linked Data, and 3) the long-runn (Read More)
: Decent high-level overview of semantic web tech. Goes to show how little actual "semantics" is really in the semantic web though - it's really more just about data standards.
ReadWriteWeb:
Earlier today we wrote about the new version of the Times Reader desktop app, notable for swapping from Microsoft's Silverlight technology to Adobe's AIR platform - a significant win for Adobe over its RIA (Rich Internet Apps) rival. The New York Times has followed up with another new for people to read its news online. Thi (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
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ReadWriteWeb:
Last month, you may remember having heard about a special iPhone ad from Dockers. Its claim to fame was that it was the world's first "shakable" ad. Called "Shakedown to Get Down," the ad prompted users to shake the phone in order to set the on-screen freestyle dancer into motion. The dancer, of course, wore Dockers. It was (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
A website (whether a URL, domain, brand, etc.) is a place where the owner, individual visitor, and broader web community come together for a shared purpose. At first, the web adopted a feudal model of "place": owners held all the authority; they depended on the serfs (visitors) to extract value but allowed them no participa (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In the coming years, we will see a revolution in the ability of machines to access, process, and apply information. This revolution will emerge from three distinct areas of activity connected to the Semantic Web: the Web of Data, the Web of Services, and the Web of Identity providers. These webs aim to make semantic knowled (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
On Thursday at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Yahoo's Marc Davis spoke about the mobile internet and the future of the mobile industry. As the mobile web evolves, he said, it's no longer good enough to simply port the PC experience to the phone's small screen - it's time to start building "mobile-first" products instead (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
People have been whispering about a new web application in development called Hunch. Today, Flickr co-founder and Hunch head honcho Caterina Fake divulged some more details about the new project on her blog. The new project aims to become a site that can help anyone make a decision about anything. The way it will do this is (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Netflix, the popular online DVD rental service, just announced a number of new features that will allow users to personalize their Netflix homepage to a greater extend than currently possible. Netflix users can now also create their own genres by mixing and matching different categories, and a number of new taste preferenc (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this latest instalment in our series on recommendation engines, we look at ATG - an e-commerce services vendor which, among other things, provides recommendations technology to retailers such as Tommy Hilfiger and BetterWorldBooks. ATG has a similar "blended" approach to recommendations as richrelevance, whom we profiled (Read More)