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Three Great Light Blogging Tools Compared
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Fri, Nov 20
By Dana Oshiro Posterous: Posterous is the original email publishing microblog. Users can email posts, publish them via the web editor or upload them from the PicPosterous iPhone app. The service allows users to set up auto posting to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, Blogge...
How To: Recurring Billing, Subscription Billing, Web 2.0 and SaaS Billing - Chargify
Original at chargify.com
• Fri, Nov 20
Chargify simplifies recurring billing for Web 2.0 and SaaS companies. Build innovative web applications without worrying how to bill your customers.
50 Cent Symbolizes the Impending Live Video Explosion
Original at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 20
By Adam Ostrow Some of the recent numbers being put up by live video events on the Web are giving TV a run for its money. Take for example the New Moon Premiere, which attracted 3 million viewers in total, a U2 concert on YouTube that reached 10 million, and the red carpet event for This Is It, which saw 1.8 milli...
Memento: Protocol-Based Time Travel for the Web
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Fri, Nov 20
By Frederic Lardinois While it is relatively easy for browsers to ask for an older version of a web page, content owners would have to store these older versions of their sites on their servers as well. With static sites, this is easy to do, but today's highly dynamic web doesn't make it easy to create an archival ve...
Fill In The Blank With Wikipedia Quiz
Original at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Fri, Nov 20
By Adam DuVander The quiz runs on Google App Engine (our Google App Engine API profile) and was created with the Google Web Toolkit. There's no doubt that Wikipedia is a giant store of information. And yes, they have an API, but the data isn't exactly structured. But that didn't stop Jim Blackler, who created Q...
HOW TO: Prepare a Thanksgiving Feast With Help From the Web
Original at Mashable!
• Fri, Nov 20
By Amanda MacArthur And for all of those who couldn’t make it to your (totally tech savvy) Thanksgiving feast, you can just go ahead and tweet a few good TwitPics, or upload a new Flickr set and over-tagged Facebook album showing them all the fun they missed!
#openwebawards: The Full List of Finalists
Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Pete Cashmore Social Media Ad Campaign Social Media Agency Social Media Gadget Facebook Specific Best Facebook App Best Facebook Fan Page Best Facebook Game Twitter Google Maps Best Social Network iPhone App Facebook YouTube Video of the Year Twitter Specific Best Twitter App
Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Bings the Web [LIVE VIDEO]Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Nov 19
By Ben Parr Here’s the live video (it begins at 6:30 ET) if you are interested: Reviews: Bing Tags: live video, livestream, Victoria's Secret Here’s the live video (it begins at 6:30 ET) if you are interested: Tags: live video, livestream, Victoria's Secret
MindTouch’s Open-source Collaboration Platform Sits on the Cloud
Original at GigaOM
• Thu, Nov 19
By Sebastian Rupley MindTouch, an open-source provider of enterprise collaboration software, announced today that its platform is now available in the cloud. You can find a video on how the platform, dubbed MindTouch Cloud, creates “a federated collaboration network” here. MindTouch competes with Mic...
New Open Web Foundation Licensing Used by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Facebook to Open Source Standards
Original at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Thu, Nov 19
By Andres Ferrate MashSSL Open 1.2.0 (SafeMashUps)Media RSS 1.5.0 (Yahoo!)OAuth Core 1.0 Revision A (Facebook, Google, Yahoo!)OAuth WRAP 0.9 (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo)OpenService Format Specification version 0.8 (Microsoft)PubSubHubbub (Google) Salmon Protocol (Google)Simple W...
How To: Three Tips for Making the Most of Microsoft Office
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• Tue, Nov 17
It's becoming a Web 2.0 world, but Microsoft Office still owns the enterprise and Microsoft has the power not to compromise on licenses. Here are three tips from research firm Firrester on how to get ...
O'Reilly: The Web is at war, and it's making me sad
Original at CNET News.com
• Tue, Nov 17
In his keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly sets off the punditocracy by insisting that the "war of the Web" is heating up again. Did it ever cool off?
Tim Berners-Lee in Africa: Web Foundation Announces 2 New ProjectsOriginal at Read/WriteWeb
• Mon, Nov 16
By Richard MacManus The Web Foundation was founded in 2008 by Tim Berners-Lee, with the aim of studying the Web and expanding access to the billions of people worldwide who aren't currently online. Today, the Web Foundation launched a fundraising campaign and announced two partnerships.
Who’s Your Favorite Twitter User of 2009? #openwebawards
Original at Mashable!
• Tue, Nov 10
By Stan Schroeder Reviews: Brizzly, Digsby, Echofon, Facebook, Firefox, Gmail, MySpace, Power Twitter, Seesmic, TweetDeck, Twitpic, Twitter, tweetie Tags: open web awards, owa, twitter, twitter apps, twitter users Twitter User of the Year Best Twitter App Power Twitter Twitter Karma
Docs Faceoff: Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs
Original at Mashable!
• Mon, Nov 9
By Ben Parr Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome Twitter vs. Facebook Reviews: Chrome, Facebook, Firefox, Google Chrome, Google Docs, Mashable, Mozilla Firefox, Pandora, Posterous, Seesmic Desktop, Tumblr, TweetDeck, Twitter, TypePad, WordPress
The Age of Mega Content Sites - Answers.com and Demand Media
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Thu, Nov 5
By Richard MacManus Low-Cost Content Production On A Massive Scale There are two interesting aspects to the success of Answers.com. Firstly, it has a huge number of pages on the Web now: 38 million as of today. Much of that is user-generated content, so very low cost.
Opinion: Weekly Wrapup: The Web in 5 Years, Hulu's Plans, Google Wave Use Cases, And More...Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Sat, Oct 31
By Richard MacManus Facebook Announces Roadmap for Developers Web Products Google Wave Use Cases: Education Google Launches Music Search: Partners with MySpace, Lala, Gracenote and Others Brizzly Adds Facebook - Aims to be The Blogger.com of Social Media
Opinion: UX Pros on Bing/Twitter: It's a Start, But Awkward
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Wed, Oct 21
By Marshall Kirkpatrick Bing now has real-time access to the full fire hose of Twitter data, that's a really valuable flow of data. It's clear that Twitter can provide some real opportunity for Bing, but what can Bing do for Twitter? Would Twitter users be better off just using Twitter search?
Opinion: The Web of Services: Machine-Accessible Services
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Fri, Oct 16
By Alexander Korth The services sector has become the world's biggest business sector, accounting for 64% of the worldwide gross domestic product. The sector has pressure on it to make its services easier and more widely accessible, as well as to quickly adapt to ever faster changes in the market environme...
Opinion: Filter Geeks Try to Solve Info Overload at the Real-Time Web Summit
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Thu, Oct 15
By Jolie O'Dell Overall, having the author, location, time, sentiment, and keywords automatically applied to user-generated data could lead to much richer streams with built-in filtering opportunities, both filtering content out as well as discovering new content and sources.
Opinion: The Human/Machine Continuum of the Real-Time Web (Chart)
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Tue, Oct 13
By Marshall Kirkpatrick On the far left we've got services that facilitate human-to-human communication, like Twitter itself, Instant Messaging and a new service called Olark (our review). Olark integrates with your existing instant messenger client to facilitate real-time chat with visitors to a particu...
Opinion: From SMCEDU: 5 Steps to Make the Social Web Work for Higher Ed
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Mon, Oct 12
By Jolie O'Dell A new offshoot of Social Media Club, the Social Media Club Education Connection (SMCEDU) is a Chris Heuer-led organization intended to promote social media in higher education curricula. Sponsor 1) Use Twitter to find your network. 3) Build your website. 4) Create content.
Weekly Wrapup: Countdown to The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Fri, Oct 9
By Richard MacManus See also Part 3: Business Models of The Internet of Things - An Analysis of Pachube's Open Source Platform Uncovering Connections on Twitter Could Become Big Business Facebook Now Tracking Gross National Happiness; Continues Hoarding Data
Tweet a "Thank You" to the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Sun, Sep 20
Aplus.net Aplus.net offers a variety of services relating to Web hosting, including shared hosting, dedicated server, managed hosting, Web design, marketing and online advertising services, search engine optimization, e-commerce solutions, and domain registration.
How To: The Power of Educational Technology
Original at edtechpower (Blogspot)
• Sat, Aug 1
Instructions on how to use Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom
Sharing on Facebook Now More Popular than Sharing by Email
Original at Mashable!
• Mon, Jul 20
By Adam Ostrow According to AddToAny, Facebook now dominates sharing, with 24 percent of shares from the widget consisting of users posting items to the social network. That handily beats out email (11.1 percent) and Twitter (10.8 percent), making the world’s most popular social network also the most p...
Opinion: Marshall’s Top Tech Trends for ALA Annual, Summer 2009
Original at LITA
• Sun, Jul 12
By Marshall Breeding Library Thing for Libraries and ChiliFresh have become popular add-ins to help existing library catalogs and discovery interfaces add a measure of user-generated content. I anticipate that social networking components will increasingly become embedded into the inner fabric of lib...
Where 2.0 Preview - Pelago's Jeff Holden on Creating Stories Out of Your Life
Original at O'Reilly Radar
• Fri, Apr 10
• 3 related articles
By James Turner JH: Right. Right. Well, luckily, I mean the way we think about the different sort of anchors of the social networking world: Twitter and Facebook and MySpace and these guys, we embrace them as opposed to trying to compete with them. So one of the things you can do in Whrrl, which a lot of people do...
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Podcast: Evernote Has Been Busy!
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Wed, Mar 25
By Sarah Perez Clip to Evernote Bookmarklet: the Clip to Evernote bookmarklet was updated to allow you to clip either part of a web page or the whole thing. Plus, you can create a simple quick note without launching Evernote.Safari Clipper: Evernote added a Safari version of the Web Clipper which, in addi...
How To: Why is web 2.0 marketing important for your business?Original at YouTube
• Mon, Feb 23
By rss@youtube.com (7714samuel) http://www.behappyworkless.com Cash gifting program- Web 2.0 marketing is a FREE way to generate leads for your cash gifting program. Watch our video on cash gifting and visit our website and you will learn how to be effective in marketing your cash gifting site. Viral cash abundance is the g...
Opinion: Do We Need Another Web Survey Tool? Survs May Have You Checking "Yes" (Invites)
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Fri, Jan 30
By Rick Turoczy Survs is currently in private beta. But, they have given ReadWriteWeb readers an access code to register for the service. Simply visit the registration page and enter the code F6W6HGOD. The offer is limited to the first 500 people, first come, first served. Discuss
Podcast: Weekly Wrapup: Obama Inauguration on the Web
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Sat, Jan 24
By Richard MacManus Web Products Facebook and CNN: The Power of the Social Web Revealed Is Twitter Strangling its Famous API? Email us if you're interested in writing for ReadWriteWeb's Enterprise Channel. SEE MORE ENTERPRISE COVERAGE IN OUR ENTERPRISE CHANNEL
How To: Web2 0 Viral MarketingOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Jan 20
By rss@youtube.com (abuhakim1977) Author: abuhakim1977 Keywords: web 2.0 viral marketing viral marketing web 2.0 squidoo squidoo lens squidoo lenses digg twitter twitterer social networking social bookmarking how to social bookmark how to social network what is viral marketing Added: January 20, 2009
How To: A Case for Simple Services - PART 3 (of 3)Original at YouTube
• Tue, Jan 6
By rss@youtube.com (simpleservices) A presentation on RSSBus Simple Services™ - Learn how to unify heterogeneous data, and create loosely coupled highly flexible service architectures. Author: simpleservices Keywords: RSSBus "Web Services" SOAP JSON Mashup Mashable RSS SOA "Web 2.0" Ajax WSDL RIA ESB ATOM
Podcast: Requiem for Ficlets.com
Original at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
• Sat, Jan 3
By Chris Meadows It doesn’t seem like a content management system that allows people to write content chains in 1024-byte chunks should be that hard to assemble. Might there be a light at the end of the tunnel for all the dedicated ficleteers who are still, even now, frantically posting their stories to the...
YouTube Live! (But Dead on Arrival)Original at Mashable!
• Sat, Nov 22
By Paul Glazowski Mandolin Player Sues YouTube The Daily Poll: Live Video – Who Will Win? Live Video Startups Rejoice: YouTube is Sitting this One Out YouTube South Korea to Come This Year? Live Video is Coming to YouTube in 2008 YouTube, Vodafone Hook Up YouTube Mobile Site Launches
How To: Web 2.0 Cool 3d Logo
Original at Tutorialized.com
• Sat, Oct 25
• 2 related articles
Create cool 3d logo with Web 2.0 style, with gradients and shading, step by step.
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How To: Design a Glossy Photoshop Web 2.0 Logo - Orb Style!
Original at Tutorialized.com
• Fri, Sep 26
Adding a web 2.0 style logo added into your website template is a brilliant idea! Here, in this tutorial you will learn how to make a juicy web 2.0 style logo. Creating this logo does not require any ...
Patch: Oracle Demos E-Biz Update, Releases Web 2.0 Dev Tools
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• Tue, Sep 23
Oracle has previewed the next release of its E-Business Suite at OpenWorld 2008 in San Franciso, and released a new JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework tool. The firm showed off version 12.1 of E-Business Suite, ...
Podcast: One-Stop Shop for Corporate Social Media: KickApps Insights
Original at PodTech.net
• Mon, Sep 15
By Jennifer Jones Figuring out what is a best social media strategy for a corporation is now easier with KickApps. The company provides on-demand social media, online video and widgets applications to grow online audiences. Marketing Voices talked to Michael Chin, Senior VP of Marketing for KickApps and...
Podcast: Episode 9, Our First Remote
Original at miningthestore (WordPress)
• Sat, Aug 2
By mlbuckley Episode 9 Our First Remote Welcome to Mining the Store, the podcast for small business owners who want to mine more gold from their businesses. This is Episode 9.There's no "I" in podcast, so your comments are very important. You can leave a comment here on the show notes page. Or, you can ema...
Patch: Is Web 2.0 Breaking the Internet - DNS in the Wild - As Reported ...
Original at Furrier.org
• Wed, Jul 23
By John Furrier While some have speculated whether or not the vulnerability is old news, Mike Fratto had recently delivered a stern warning to patch all DNS servers in his InformationWeek blog:. “Since the CERT announcement yesterday about the new ...
Podcast: Preparing for the Unexpected - Business Continuity Solutions from Verizon Business
Original at PodTech.net
• Tue, Jun 24
By Michael Johnson Tags: business continuity, Verizon Business, Jonathan Nguyen-Duy Experts estimate that four in 10 businesses do not have a business continuity plan. To address this critical business requirement in today’s hyper-connected global economy, Verizon Business offers a comprehensive...
Podcast: Exploiting end-user trends to create value with sticky services - The “Me” network for the “We” experience
Original at PodTech.net
• Tue, May 13
By Michael Johnson Tags: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Service Delivery Environment, SDE, John Giere, Alcatel-Lucent The communications industry is experiencing the explosion of the “Me-We” phenomenon! Customers want “Me” services that are personalized, easy to use and focused on their needs. At the...
How To: Ajax: The Definitive Guide
Original at KnowFree v1.0
• Mon, Apr 14
By -cosmos- This book demonstrates not only how tried-and-true web standards make Ajax possible, but how these older technologies allow you to give sites a decidedly modern Web 2.0 feel. Ajax: The Definitive Guide explains how to use standards like ...
Podcast: Is TV the New TV?Original at PodTech.net
• Sat, Feb 16
By Jason Lopez What would your response be to this scenario: you're watching television and you forget that it's being distributed to you on the Internet. Who won? TV or the Web? James McQuivey covers television and media technologies for Forrester Research. He spoke with PodTech's Jason Lopez about th...
Australia: Podcast - social networks and web 2.0
Original at silkcharm (Blogspot)
• Wed, Jan 2
By Laurel Papworth drum roll* PRREEEEEEsenting *ta da* Laurel Papworth (me), Duncan Riley (TechCrunch), Bronwen Clune (Norg Media) and Cameron Reilly (The Podcast Network or TPN) 2Web Crew #11 - 2007 wrap-up Facebook also gets a mention, as does Flock, Gmail and Seesmic.
How To: Developing applications with Project Zero: Get started with Project Zero and PHP
Original at ibm.com
• Mon, Aug 20
Project Zero provides an environment for the rapid development of interactive Web applications based on popular Web technologies such as PHP. This tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to get started with Project Zero, from installing the development tools to constructing an Ajax Web 2....
On Mozilla and The Evolution of the Browser
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Thu, May 10
By Richard MacManus There were other design options presented (e.g. in the toolbar, or little icons in the main content area), but the above design fits in well with the current Firefox 2 design. So just as Firefox 2 currently automatically recognizes a webpage with an RSS feed on it, in the URL bar, so to will Fire...
Opinion: Web 2.0's Real Secret Sauce: Network Effects
Original at Web 2.0
• Sat, Jul 15
I wrote recently about the trend of Web 2.0 reductionism that is helping us get to Web 2.0 fundamentals and helping us understand why it's such a game changer. If you're not really sure about all of this, however, you have only to look at the example of MySpace. MySpace is as pure a Web 2.0 play as y...