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General Motors Wants To Augment Your Windshield

Last week we told you about how Chevrolet, a division of General Motors, was bringing an augmented reality (AR) marketing promotion to SXSW in Austin. Now General Motors is kicking it up a notch with some experimental technology that will bring th...

Twitter Search Is About Popularity

For many people, Twitter offers a larger, more diverse stream of constantly flowing data than they've ever had to deal with before in their life. Depending on how many people you follow and how much they tweet, the information can become unmanagea...

Formspring.me: Another Startup Packing Its Bags for Silicon Valley

News broke yesterday that popular online Q&A; startup Formspring.me had raised some $2.5 million in venture funding and would be relocating to Silicon Valley from Indianapolis. As a user and fan of the service, I am happy to see the company rewarded for its success, and I am excited to see how they can improve their already great product. However, as a follower of the national and global startup culture, it is a little disappointing to see the company leave their home and head west to the Valley.

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Travelers Love the Mobile Web - But Most Don't Use Travel Apps Yet

Once upon a time, you had to bring travel guides, maps and paper tickets on every trip. Today, you can just take your smartphone and get access to all of this information without having to lug a couple of books and magazines around with you. Today, according to a new study by analytics firm Compete, 38% of smartphone users conduct travel research on their devices and 28% use their phones to book at least some of their trips and travel activities.

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Compete found that the most popular travel-related a...

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If You Tell Them On Facebook, They Will Come...Again and Again

In continuing to look at the way that Facebook has become a driving force behind online news consumption, Heather Hopkins of Hitwise has dove into the numbers again, this time examing how Facebook users compare with others in return visits.

According to Hopkins' article, Facebook not only drives a high amount of traffic, higher than Google News, but its users are far more loyal, as well.

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Hopkins took a look at the data earlier this month, noting that Facebook drives three times as much traffic to...

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Novell Gets Ready To Release Pulse and Federation with Google Wave

Novell is providing the first glimpse of Pulse, its new real-time collaboration service. The new service will eventually fully integrate with Google Wave. This version does not include Google Wave as part of its service. But there is an expectati...

Three iPhone Apps To Save Yourself & The World

We saw a cartoon recently that shows the attendees of a "Climate Summit", with a single naysayer yelling out from the back of the crowd "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?" Well, in the spirit of creating a better ...

OneRiot Brings Its Real-Time Ads to the Web

Until now, anybody who wanted to implement real-time ads from OneRiot's RiotWise network had to get these ads through OneRiot's API and create a customized user interface around these ads. This severely limited OneRiot's appeal for website owner who wanted to experiment with real-time ads on their sites and services but were looking for a plug and play solution. Today, OneRiot is launching a new set of real-time ads that website owners can just plug into their sites. These dynamic ads will refresh automatic...

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Weekend Fun: New Apps for Your iPhone

As one of ReadWriteWeb's iPhone users, I'm always looking for new applications to try out. Some get downloaded for a day and then deleted right away, others slowly inch their way closer to my homescreen. Even rarer are the ones that become activel...

The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter

A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence. To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the Twitter...

Will Windows Phone 7 Series Be A Smartphone for the Enterprise?

We're seeing a few glimpses from Mix10 of what Windows Phone 7 Series will look like for the enterprise. Perhaps most compelling is the continued emphasis on creating an experience more so than an enterprise "phone." It appears that Microsoft ha...

5 Old-School Businesses That Rely On User-Generated Content

You think the idea of user-generated content as a business model was invented in the Aughts? No way. Media outlets have been drawing on material created by amateurs, consumers and customers for generations and repackaging it for your entertainment...

8 Ways to Better Understand the Internet of Things

The world's second Internet of Things Conference is scheduled to take place at the end of November in Tokyo. The deadline for papers was just extended to June 1 - which gave us an idea. Conference planners have put together a list of suggested top...

Got Budget? Virtualization as Poster Child for Less Meetings

McKesson is a global health care leader that has 26 operating companies. The centrial IT group had the vision to automate "the last mile" of IT planning, the budget approval process. We think of it as the budget approval dance, and when containi...

The Oracle Effect: Sun's Best and Brightest Move On to New Places

What is the effect of the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems on cloud computing? Well, there have been quite a few if you look at where Sun's best and brightest have moved on to in the past few months.

Tim Bray is the latest Sun star to move on. You may know Bray as the co-founder of XML. Eve Maler is also a co-founder of XML. She had worked with Bray for many years until her departure from Sun last Spring to join PayPal. Eve as many of you many know, is one of the leaders in developing identity stand...

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Google Will Soon Allow You to Opt Out of Google Analytics Tracking

Google Analytics offers site owners an easy and free way to gather highly detailed analytics about their websites' visitors. A lot of people, however, don't feel comfortable with the idea that Google can track their every move on the Internet. After all, even if you don't use any Google product yourself, you will still send personal data about yourself to Google through programs like Google Analytics. According to an announcement the Google Analytics team just posted on its blog, you will soon have the opti...

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If youre of the camp that believes your iPhone or iPod touchs screen needs some kind of additional protective layer to prevent it from getting damaged, you may want to head to the Apple store soonish to stock up on said accessories. In the very ...

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Im one of those people who has a tough time trying to schedule meetings. Whats worse is that times change, mostly because of the ever-shifting deadlines that come with blogging. Thats one of the main reasons my calendar constantly descends into ch...

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Formspring.me, the fascinatingly simple and popular personal Q&A site, has raised $2.5 million from a top-shelf list of angel investors: Baseline Ventures, Freestyle Capital, SV Angels, Maples Investments, Chris Sacca, Dave Morin and Kevin Ros...

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In whats looking like a standard operating procedure, Google just released its free Gesture Search software for Android 1.6 devices and expanded availability outside of the U.S. The application launched two weeks ago on Android 2.x devices. With i...

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Having gone toe-to-toe with Macmillan Publishing over e-book prices last month, only to retreat in the face of a consumer backlash, Amazon is once again talking tough with publishers. This time, however, the stakes are even higher for the Kindle-m...

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Deep discounts are helping to push smartphones beyond early adopters and hardcore business users and into the hands of mainstream U.S. consumers, according to figures released this morning from The NPD Group. But those lower prices are stalling re...

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For years, network operators happily called all the shots when it came to developers, effectively saying, You want to be on our network? Then jump through all these hoops to get approved, and be happy with whatever margins we pay you.

You cant get away treating people like that for too long. Indeed, these days, developers are calling the shots, requiring more open development platforms and a 70-30 split with mobile providers. Carriers such as O2 (Litmus) and SK Telecom have both agreed to the new arrangeme...

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I had the chance to sit down with Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark recently at his favorite breakfast spot in San Francisco, just a block or two from the house where Craigslist was launched 15 years ago this month. We talked about a number of hi...

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The location wars between rival mobile check-in services, the unmet expectations of the Twitter keynote and the hordes of newbies crowding out regulars (as they do every year) were some of the leading threads at SXSW this year. And rightfully so ...

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Chris Hughes, who co-founded what became one of the worlds largest social networks and then just a few years later orchestrated a social-media campaign that helped put Barack Obama to the White House, has launched a new, non-profit startup that ...

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Worldwide shipments of GPS-enabled GSM/WCDMA handsets increased 92 percent in 2009, according to figures released this morning by Berg Insight, as the technology has become a standard feature in smartphones and mid-range feature phones. But GPS is...

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Marrying location with marketing message has always been viewed as the holy grail of local advertising. Google has started taking strong steps towards this future, starting today in Australia. The company has started to put ads on Google Maps in A...

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Google has partnered with Sony, Intel and Logitech to develop a yet-unannounced product called Google TV, according to an article by New York Times technology writer Nick Bilton. Google TV will be based on Android, according to Bilton, and could come in the form of a dedicated set-top box or a software platform that could be deployed on Internet-connected TVs and similar devices, directly competing with solutions from Vudu, DivX and Boxee.

Details about Google TV are still scarce, as Bilton dindt get a...

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The Federal Communications Commission issued the long-awaited National Broadband Plan this week, a 376-page document that makes clear the agency accepts the reality of the current wireline duopoly and as such, has decided to put the burden of com...

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Reuters Begins Selling New Customized Financial Data, Graphics Service To Newspapers

As major newspaper publishers have seen profits return ad declines slow a bit, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) is hoping that the time is right to sell a new product designed to enhance understaffed busine...

Long-Serving Yahoo Ash Patel Prepares To Exit

After 14 years with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Ash Patel is finally ready to call it quits this week, we have confirmed. Yahoo observers have often speculated about when Patel would depart. He started...

More Details Leak Out About Google's Plans For The Set-Top Box

More details are coming in about what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may have in store for the set-top box. Just a week after the WSJ reported that Google was working with Dish Network on a new Android-ba...

Deep Discounts On Smartphones Drive U.S. Adoption Rates To Nearly A Third

Special offers on many of the popular smartphones in the fourth quarter drove penetration to nearly a third in the U.S., according to The NPD Group, a wireless market research. The report fou...

Hyperlocal Newswire Fwix To Provide Content To NYTCo Properties

The NYTCos local content efforts are getting a quick boost from hyperlocal newswire Fwix. In a sense, the deal with Fwix can buttress the NYTimes.coms New York metro area blogs program, The Loc...

What Drove Yahoo's Purchase Of Citizen Sports

To buy or to build? Thats the question that drove Yahoos decision to buy social sports startup Citizen Sports, which owns a series of sports-related apps on the iPhone and on Facebook, accordin...

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The mayor of Sarasota, Fla., went swimming with the sharks today yes, literally in an extreme effort to woo Google and land that sweet fiber network the company plans to dole out to some lucky town. And hes not alone. Cities across the country ...

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There’s a battle looming in California over smart meters and energy prices. Google says the state should require its big utilities to give near real-time pricing information to every smart meter-enabled customer by the end of next year. California...

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I don’t trust Yelp any more. And thats not a conscious decision. Ive largely ignored the well-publicized allegations of how the ad side manipulated ratings and reviews to drive sales, instead continuing to turn to the site for recommendations on ...

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Sequoia Capital partner Mark Kvamme, citing examples from campaigns run on Funny or Die and AdMob, told an audience of marketers at OMMA Global in San Francisco today, If you can harness social media marketing, you dont have to pay for advertising...

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If youve been cooking up a great business idea for how to use IT to fight climate change, you need to enter our Green:Net 2010 Launchpad! Were only accepting submissions until 5 p.m. PT on Friday, so make sure you and your colleagues enter soon. Y...

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Communications networks are eating up a lot of power and with the proliferation of online video and data-rich mobile applications, such consumption is set to climb even further. According to the Smart 2020 report, information and communication technology services are currently responsible for a full 2 percent of the total carbon footprint; communications networks alone account for a third of that consumption. And the report estimates that given user demand and production, those numbers are going to double ...

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Music subscription services promise unlimited access to enormous libraries of songs, typically on the order of 6-10 million tracks. And while a few superstar artists are famously absent from streaming services as well as Apple’s iTunes -– the Beat...

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Googles content comprises between 6 and 10 percent of global Internet traffic, making its internal network one of the top three ISPs in the world, according to Arbor Networks. The maker of deep packet inspection equipment, which runs a survey of i...

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After having seen tremendous success with its geo-local app, Where, the Boston-based uLocate Communications today rebranded itself as Where. The company also launched a new web site that allows mobile users to sync information in the app between t...

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Qualcomm plans to bid for a chunk of spectrum in Indias upcoming 3G auction, the chipmaker said today. Qualcomm is taking a page out of Googles playbook the search engine giant bid for spectrum in the U.S. but never had any plans to become a netw...

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FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has spoken to a YouTube team about the National Broadband Plan and tried to respond to questions from Internet users across the country. The answers were, to put it politely, nuanced at best. Regular reader Brent Gl...

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The mobile application economy will be worth $17.5 billion by 2012, according to a report released this morning from analyst Chetan Sharma surpassing that of the worldwide market for CDs. But while all eyes here in the West are focused on the iPh...

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Less than 0.2 percent of people who use Twitter wind up going to news and media sites from the social-networking site, according to a recent analysis by traffic-measurement firm Hitwise (although Hitwise just looked at traffic coming from the we...

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After I participated in a rousing SXSW panel about content recommendations, Emmanuel Marchal, general manager of London-based LikeCube approached me in the hall to tell me about his company. I thought it was pretty cool, so I captured a video interview with him right there.

LikeCube was co-founded by a semantic web technologist and an anthropologist four years ago, and funded by the UKs National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts. It combines metadata, user activity and personalization to help c...

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If I were to describe the attributes of a smartphone platform to you, could you guess which platform it is? Lets try it and see. Heres your first clue: Applications for it can only be installed through one specific app store. Since everyone has an...

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Earlier this morning during a keynote at SxSW, Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams announced the availability of Twitters @Anywhere platform. It is an identity system and is widely viewed as an answer to Facebook Connect. It allows Twitter su...

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Quick, picture a tech startup founder: Are they male, maybe around 27 years old, a resident of Silicon Valley? Apparently thats what it takes to build a tech startup for a seed incubation program, at least according to the explicit and implicit wi...

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Nielsen Taps eXalate As Behavioral Targeting Ally

Nielsens latest bid to stay ahead of the audience measurement competition involves striking an alliance with behavioral targeter eXalate. The companies tell the WSJ that eXelate has agreed to p...

Pew: Online News Users Don't Want To Pay—Or Look At Ads

The latest report on online news economics from Pews Project for Excellence in Journalism is one of those studies that will bolster just about any view people have about paying for news online....

Roundbox Buys IP Of 'TV Companion' Dashboard Startup Jacked

Heavily-funded mobile broadcast software firm Roundbox is buying the technology and IP of Jacked, a startup which provides a web-based dashboard that aggregates info related to a live TV broadc...

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Boulder, Part 2

Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and fueled by leaders and social hubs such as Micah Baldwin, Tech Stars mentor, #followfriday creator and now chief community caretaker at Graphic.ly of Digital X, and Robert Reich, the founder of B...

ReadWriteStart Weekly Wrapup

It has been quite busy this week on the Web as loads of announcements leading up to SXSW have hit the newswires. This weekend's festivities in Austin look to top last year's Twitter invasion with a location-based show down between Foursquare and G...

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TechStars, a seed stage investment program which has outposts in Boulder (Colorado), Boston and Seattle, recently decided to graded itself. So far, the group is not doing to badly. Out of the total 39 companies to come out of TechStars, 29 are sti...

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Google, to its credit, is rolling with the punches thrown in response to its Buzz launch from last month, making changes to the product to address user concerns, and staying committed to it despite a messy launch. Members of the Buzz product team ...

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@ SXSWi: Ronen And Cuban Go Live With Pay TV-Internet Debate

Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen met in person for the first time just before their Pay TV vs. Internet debate here at South by Southwest Interactiveabout 20 minutes before their session was interrupted by a fire alarm. But they argue like a married couple thats been together for 20 years, complete with sharp barbs. Thats because the debate isnt new: they started that drill online a year ago and neither has budged as best I can tellif anything, their attitudes are more entrenched. HD Net founder Cuban believes in...

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8-K Watch: Apple's Tim Cook Earns $22 Million As Part Of Jobs' Stand-In Role

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) COO Tim Cook was handed a $5 million bonus just for taking over Steve Jobs responsibilities during the six-months the CEO was on medical leave that ended in June, according t...

Putting The iPad Pre-Order Numbers In Some Context

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) was selling pre-orders for the iPad at a rate of about 25,000 an hour this morning, according to a Forbes piece. The methodology is very unscientific; its based on difference...

paidContent Quick Hits 03.12.2010

Why Marc Andreessens idea that mainstream media companies should abandon their traditional businesses in favor of new media is just plain nutty. [Reflections of a Newsosaur] Form...

Nokia Predicts 10 Percent Growth For Mobile Phones In 2010

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has improved the way it measures the global device market, including coming up with a better way to calculate the number of unlicensed and counterfeit products being sold in t...

Battery Ventures Closes New $750 Million Fund

Battery Ventures has closed a new $750 million, giving it nearly $4 billion under managementand providing another sign for soothsayers looking for proof of recovery in venture capital action. T...

Is Google Finally Ready To Make Its China Move?

China has now reiterated its position in its stand-off with Google (NSDQ: GOOG)and it looks like all that remains is for Google to finally make its move. China says it wont let Google operate a...

SEC Watch: Top NYTCo Execs' Wages Soar

While the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) struggled under the weight of economic pressures and debt last year, top execs personally did pretty well, even as the company reduced its newsroom by 100 staffers. ...

Interview: ABC News' Slavin: Paywall Strategy Coming Down By June

ABC News Digital execs are currently putting together a formal paywall strategy with expectations of having some concrete ideas for ways to charge consumers by the summer, said Paul Slavin, the...

Sonos Gets $25 Million For Wireless Music System

Sonos, which sells a digital music system that can be used to play music throughout a home, has raised $25 million in a third round of funding from Index Ventures. The funding was first reporte...

Free Maps From Google and Nokia Drive Vodafone To Shut Down Wayfinder

The first victim of the free navigation wars: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is shutting down Wayfinder, the Swedish mapmaker it purchased for $30 million in late 2008. It was the carriers goal to use ...

Cool-Seeking Newspapers Dream Of iPad

Print publishers cant wait for iPad to hit the streets next month, perhaps so they can once again start producing info in a similar-looking format to their core products of yesteryear. NYTs fl...

Plastic Logic Can't Deliver On Que; Delays E-Reader Shipments By Months

Another e-reader company is finding it more difficult than expected to deliver devices. Pre-order customers for the Plastic Logic Que proReader are getting an e-mail from CEO Richard Archuleta ...

Hearst's App Strategy: Adding More Needles To A Growing Haystack

Hearst has about 70 apps under its LMK banner in the iTunes App Store right now and it just plans to keep adding more and more. Most of the LMK apps sell for about $1.99, while a handful cost $...

Beet.tv Roundtable: Economist Chief Says E-Readers Can Save Long-Form Journalism

On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at The Guardians Kings Place HQ. In this video, Andy he...

HootSuite Buys Android Developer Swift App

Twitter client HootSuite, which recently raised $1.9 million in funding, has now made an acquisition, buying up Android app developer Swift App. HootSuite says that Swift App was behind the dev...

Video @ paidContent2010: A Hard Look At The Subscription Model

Local newspapers may actually have an easier time charging for content than national and international news brands like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). And whats the biggest threat to paid music? Well, probably not piracy. These were among the assertions by panelists on paidContent2010s The Truth About Subscriptions, who included Steve Brill, co-founder of Journalism Online, David Hyman, CEO of MOG, and Jeff Price, president and publisher of The Sporting News. Price also offered some details on his new subs...

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Nokia Aims Upcoming Smartphones At U.S.

Its long been known that Nokias had a hard time selling its popular devices in the U.S. But its latest smartphones coming have a series of enhancements that it hopes will make it more competit...

Industry Moves: Tremor Media; TVGuide.com; NYTCo; AP; And Cablevision

Tremor Media: Mark Pinney has been promoted to COO from CFO. He joined Tremor Media two years ago, having come from AOLs Platform-A (NYSE: AOL). Earlier, he was CFO and chief privacy officer for Tacoda, also an AOL property.

TVGuide.com: Christy Tanner has been appointed GM, responsible for the companys strategy and day-to-day leadership. She previously was SVP of marketing and editor-in-chief for TVGuide.com. Prior to joining the company, Tanner was director of business development and marketing for Newsw...

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Let The iPad Sales Begin

Early adopters take note: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is taking pre-orders for the iPad at 5:30 a.m. Pacific on Friday. Last week, Apple announced that March 12 was the magical day for per-orders, but...

Six Apart's Berkowitz Joins WolframAlpha

A big name addition to WolframAlphas executive team. Barak Berkowitz, who headed blogging firm Six Apart until he left two-and-a-half years ago, is joining the search startup as managing direct...

FCC Releases Apps To Independently Test The Speed Of Wireless Networks

Looking for real-time data of its own, the FCC (yes, the regulatory body in Washington, D.C.) has released a mobile app for iPhone and Android. Dont worry, the feds arent interested in listenin...

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Rupert Murdoch, the legendary founder of News Corp., has always had a love-hate relationship with the digital world. Sometimes (read: during the bubbles) he loves it. Sometimes (read: during advertising recessions) he hates it. His recent moves ...

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Ohai has grand ambitions of jumpstarting an industry for social massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. Think World of Warcraft crossed with FarmVille engaging and rich, but also easy to use and social. The San Francisco-based company has a gre...

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Health Clouds Forming: California's Health Internet Exchange

Today, the California Health and Human Services convened a summit with an expected three hundred people in the interest of a state HIE (Health Information Exchange). This project has been tasked by volunteers and state groups and led by Jonah Fro...

What Do Social Media Marketers Know About Tech? SURVEY RESULTS

First, we'd like to thank all 596 survey respondents and the many Open Thread commenters who gave such interesting and valuable feedback in our recent post "Should Social Media Experts Be Required to Know Their Tech?" Over the past couple days, w...

'Enemies of the Internet': Not Just For Dictators Anymore

Reporters Without Borders released its annual report [PDF] on online access today. They call it Enemies of the Internet, and it shows a world where online censorship, intimidation and worse is increasing. It's not surprising that as access to the...

6 Thoughts About Location Madness

Location based social networks - are you over it already? It feels like location is all we ever hear about anymore, especially this week leading up to SXSW. We're excited about location too; see our enthusiastic write-ups What Twitter's Geolocat...

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