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 stat (Read More)
mashable:
We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series. Last week Microsoft Office bested Google Docs in a head to head race (Read More)
Mashable!:
Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked for your favorite news reader.Is your (Read More)
Mashable!:
In the month or so since Twitter started rolling out its Twitter Lists feature, a number of web and Adobe AIR based clients have added support for it.However, we haven’t seen any native Twitter apps support Lists. Today Realm (Read More)
Mashable!:
Brizzly is a web-based Twitter and Facebook client that has been gaining some momentum and buzz over the past couple months. It has some slick features like being able to view photos and videos in-line in your Twitter stream (Read More)
New York Times:
Jonathan Safran Foer uses his literary gifts to give the reader some very visceral, very gruesome descriptions of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.
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Crunch Gear:
The Entourage eDGe, the world’s first “dualbook” is a dual-screen laptop / e-book reader hybrid thingie. The laptop portion is pretty straightforward, but what about the e-book? In the already crowded e-book space, how can th (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s becoming more and more clear that Google is breathing down the neck of Microsoft when it comes to office and document-building software. Microsoft’s flagship Office software defeated Google Docs in our reader vote last (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
I’m in charge of writing the e-book gift guide, but it’s sorta hard to recommend items that haven’t been released yet. That IREX reader, the nook, and the Sony Daily Edition Reader are all missing in action. Thanks, guys. Tod (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
A backlash against anonymous commenters and trolls seems to be underway. Only last month, a court case was settled where anonymous commenters ended up having to pay big fines to the women who they defiled using vulgar, deroga (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
An anonymous tipster send us in this image of an e-reader running Android OS and explained that it came from a company that has never been in the tablet/e-reader business. Interesting…I suspect this is some sort of music devi (Read More)
New York Times:
Sony will begin taking orders on Wednesday for its new wireless e-reader device. But it says some buyers may not get it until January. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In late August Br.st was nothing more than a URL shortener service with link stats and malware filters. While the company allowed users to cross post to social networks like Twitter, Myspace and Digg, it was simply too late t (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 (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
You guys use them newfangled corn star machines? Oh, Coinstar – that make more sense. I know I do, and I know longtime CrunchGear reader Johnal does because he sent in this tip.When you dump in more than $40 worth of change b (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Reader engagement with blogs has changed dramatically over the last three years, primarily because of the rise of online social networks, according to new numbers released by analytics firm Postrank today. Postrank publishe (Read More)