The Next Web
On an increasing frequency, UK consumers are opening their evening newspapers or sitting down to their TV dinners to the news that more of their personal data has been lost, stolen or hacked.I’ve been taking a increasingly keen interest since my own personal information was stolen following the Guardian Jobs website being h (Read More)
CenterNetworks
Twitter COO Dick Costolo was intererviewed today and part of the discussion centered around how Twitter will (and does) generate revenue. Clearly they are earning revenue from Twitter’s deals with Bing and Google.More importantly, Costolo noted that Twitter will launch an advertising model “soon”. He went on to say that soo (Read More)
The Future Buzz
You should probably try it. There’s a reason you’re unsure. Perhaps you’re unsure because it involves taking a chance or you don’t think it’s perfect. Yet the ideas – especially the creative variety – that you’re unsure about are probably the most interesting. They’re also probably interesting because they are imperfect (Read More)
The Inquisitr
The PogoPlug is one of the best plug and play NAS solutions available on the market, it’s simple to use, offers a nice clean and sleek design and users have been flocking to the devices over the last several months. Now the team at PogoPlug have announced some nice new improvements to their gadget.The PogoPlug now comes wit (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed the introduction of paid-for business accounts at some point in the near future. In an interview with BBC, Stone confirms the rumours that floated around the web earlier this year; “Twitter will always be free to everyone whether it’s commercial or personal. But you’ll be able to (Read More)
Conversation Agent
There have been conversations recently about abandoning RSS readers, and specifically Google Reader in favor of using Twitter as a human filter for information. The idea is that if you follow smart people, they read good material and will pass that along to their network - you. Part of me says, maybe. Somehow I think that (Read More)
TechCrunch
Brizzly was first unveiled in private beta at our first CrunchUp event in July, so it’s only appropriate that today, the day of our next CrunchUp, it’s being opened to the public. Now, to be clear, the product is still technically in beta, but that’s only so the team at Thing Labs can keep experimenting with new ways to mak (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
It's the morning after the big Chrome OS event where Google executives and engineers revealed a myriad of details about the company's first attempt at creating their own operating system. The highly anticipated news conference was tracked all over the web, liveblogged by technology sites, and Twittered so much that it's sti (Read More)
: What do you mean "was"? It's not even out for a year. This doesn't make sense to me. It's a preview. They did you a favor by playing show and tell. Patience. Also note that Sarah freelances for Microsoft.
PR 2.0
Source: ShutterstockThe Future of the Social Web is here today and we’re learning that engagement is not a matter of if or when, but to what extent, how and what value can we deliver and derive from it. The Social Web is much more than a window into information and interaction, it is a completely transformative medium that (Read More)
Social Media Explorer
I’ve been pondering the value and validity of the term “friend” lately. Until a few years ago, we all probably had a couple hundred friends, give or take. Social networking not only incrementalized that number, but changed the definition of the word for many people.I have 1,300 or more “friends” on Facebook. I’ve probably m (Read More)
The Boy Genius Report
Looks like Virgin Mobile Canada is ready to break its iPhone hymen. Yesterday they announced that they will be offering both the iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS in retail stores in “the coming months.” Oh Sir Richard, how we love thee. We suppose you want details, but we don’t have any — the press release is a blistering 31 words (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
Johannes Ernst recently posted blog entry titled Why We Don’t Need an “Identity Selector”. Both the title and the content require a response.Johannes, you ignorant slut. Your post leads the reader to believe two things that make your position dead wrong. First is that you completely mislead the reader to believe that the se (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
Some days I look through old posts, reminding myself of posts that I’ve written that I like and that I should link to. Often, this process serves to let me procrastinate writing while pretending to be engaged in writing. If I were a body builder, this would be me looking in the mirror instead of lifting weights. Yesterday I (Read More)
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