ReadWriteWeb:
It's called a spoiler tactic. You take your competitor's biggest cash cow and offer a free alternative. Everybody from Linux to Google has used the tactic against Microsoft. So who can fault Microsoft when it uses it against Google's advertising cash cow? The guys who benefit from this tactic today are the good folks at Ope (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Time for this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review (Read More)
Mashable!:
Today the Bing team announced some new updates to Bing for mobile. Although m.bing.com has always offered a mobile-optimized way to do local searches and view maps, the updates integrate some of Bing’s killer features.Some of the new features include live NFL stats, flight status searches, and an optimized Bing for touch de (Read More)
Submitted by Kristathomas:
Welcome to The New York Times Linked Open Data Community. We've set up this community for interested members of the Semantic Technology Community to provide comments, questions and suggestions to The New York Times about our Linked Open Data Initiatives. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Not wanting to be left completely behind, Yahoo will soon launch their own real time search engine too. But unlike Microsoft and Google, they won’t be partnering with Twitter and Facebook directly for the data (perhaps memories of their ill-fated blog search engine from 2005 linger). Instead, we’ve heard, they’ll work with (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Nokia launches 6788 phone with China Mobile – The world’s largest handset maker meets the world’s largest wireless carrier in the world’s largest market. The 6788 is Nokia’s first phone for TD-SCDMA networks, China’s proprietary standard for its largest network. Engadget has the parts rundown:The handset itself brings a 2.8 (Read More)
Mashable!:
Almost exactly one year ago, AdaptiveBlue launched service/browser-add-on Glue, a way to find out what other people (including your Facebook and Twitter friends) think about movies, TV shows, musicians, albums and more, as you come across those items on the web.In the last year, Glue has evolved from a Firefox-only add-on t (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Adaptive Blue’s Glue is a nifty Firefox add-on that uses semantic technology to understand the subject of the page you are on and then shows you via a bar at the bottom of your browser whether your friends have commented or liked the item anywhere on the Web. Glue works for movies, books, games, restaurants, wines, stock c (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Once just a browser add-on that allowed users to surf smarter across several verticals, AdaptiveBlue's Glue is now a site-centric product that acts as both a hub and a spoke of the social web.Glue's synaptic web-esque technology is based on a user's browsing across common sites such as Amazon, Wikipedia, and YouTube, and th (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Check out the events on tap in this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google's dominance in the search engine market isn't likely to end anytime soon, but Microsoft's Bing managed to continue its slow but steady growth last month, even though the search engine market in general remained at seasonal lows. According to the latest data from Compete, Bing's market share only grew from 8.7% in Aug (Read More)
Mashable!:
If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career Success and How to Find a Job on (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook began as a place for college connections, secluded from the prying eyes of the outside world, but today that era is officially over. Major Facebook investor Microsoft announced this afternoon at the Web 2.0 Summit that it has closed deals to bring status messages from both Twitter and Facebook into the search resu (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Is today's news of major search engines' integration of Twitter posts in search results the herald of a mass extinction or a mass acquisition?According to tonight's conversations with key players in the space, the day's events and announcements could spell either or both. Every real-time search engine we spoke to has expres (Read More)
readwriteweb:
In the immediate wake of the announcement of Bing's indexing Twitter updates, Google has announced it will be doing the same.Taking the wind out of the sails of many a real-time search engine, Google's and Microsoft's announcements further put to rest a maelstrom of rumors swirling around the startup's possible acquisition (Read More)