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In Silicon Valley, every startup fears than an established brand will one day acquire a rival or build a similar offering and instantly become the industry gorilla. When it comes to advertising, Google, which claims not only both the largest ad ne...

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When it comes to deploying databases — or any infrastructural pieces, really — at web scale, many large sites opt to “go cheap, go custom or go home.” Given their unique needs, this credo makes sense, but I wonder if the companies following it are...

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Ten years ago this week, online music pioneer Justin Frankel released a little application dubbed Gnutella that enabled file sharing through a distributed P2P network. Frankel, whose previous claim to fame was programming the then hugely-popula...

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In the world of technology, drama is a valuable commodity. Disruptive change may happen in the minutiae of software code or the gradual execution of a business plan, but we see its effects in the dramatic narratives of companies rising and falling...

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It wasn’t too long ago that the path to success for mobile carriers was a straight one: Simply offer compelling handsets at competitive prices and maintain a top-notch network and your customers would be happy. And for those that werent, manage a ...

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The Telx Group, a New York City-based data center operator, has filed for an initial public offering that could see it raise as much as $100 million from the public markets. The last major data center operator to go public was RackSpace, and that ...

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Google this week took another step toward getting its own Android-based handset, the Nexus One, on as many U.S. carriers as possible. Originally released on the T-Mobile network, the device was added to AT&T next, and then Verizon. Sprint sai...

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Current activities at the Electronic Information Privacy Center

When Marc Rotenberg founded the Electronic
Information Privacy Center in 1994, I doubt he realized how fast
their scope would swell as more and more of our lives became digitized
and networked. Now it seems like everything that happens in society
has an electronic component and a privacy component. I had the chance
to drop in to their office on Monday and heard about the
front-burner items they're working on.

Whole-body imaging in airports, a very hot issue right now. While
Americans push back agains...

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Trapping content on the iPad won't work, even if it's pretty

Wired is one of the few magazines I read cover to cover. It consistently exposes me to new ideas and topics. For that, I'm grateful (and a longtime subscriber).

But when it comes to the iPad, I really don't understand what the Wired crew is doing.

Design-wise, Wired's iPad demo looks beautiful. Take a look:

Yet, reading over this analysis piece by Reuters' Felix Salmon, I'm dismayed to see a return to the days of silos and closed content. Here's how Salmon puts it:

Wired doesnt want to allow simple li...

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Four short links: 19 March 2010

Tsung -- GPLed multi-protocol (HTTP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, WebDAV, SOAP, XMPP) load tester written in Erlang.
Myth of China's Manufacturing Prowess -- The latest data shows [...] that the United States is still the largest manufacturer in the world. In 2008, U.S. manufacturing output was $1.8 trillion, compared to $1.4 trillion in China (UN data. Chinas data do not separate manufacturing from mining and utilities. So the actual Chinese manufacturing number should be much smaller). Also contains pointers to a...

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Fabless Chipmaker MaxLinear Prepares for Next Week’s Modest IPO

IPO, Semiconductors, Broadband Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: Little did I know when I canceled an interview in September with MaxLinears CEO Kishore Seendripu that my journalistic window of opportunity would irrevocably closeand it probably wont...

Why I’ve Abandoned Quicken, But Not Intuit

wwwade, personal finance, Web 2.0 Wade Roush wrote: Somebody at Intuit must have seen the writing on the wall. Last September, the Mountain View, CA, software company, which has been selling PC-based personal finance programs since 1983 vi...

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When I think about the lowest common denominator of mobile communications, text messaging follows close behind voice. Obviously, every phone offers voice capability by definition, but texts are nearly as ubiquitous. Email is catching up as consume...

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Crashed web sites, stolen credit card info imagine seeing the damage caused by Internet viruses and worms unleashed on a fleet of vehicles. The results could include vehicle location data used with malicious intent, the prevention of a plug-in ve...

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The first time you walk into an Apple Store and pick up an iPad, you’ll understand the hype: Apple has managed to create a beautiful, thoughtfully designed, compelling product in a space where mediocrity was, until now, status quo. But odds are yo...

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Nuance is killing the SpinVox service, informing its users, which are located in the UK, via text that their accounts will expire within a week. The move which prompted an outcry on Twitter marks the end of a very popular voice-to-text service ...

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Given how bad most people are at driving, I have to wonder why car companies keep giving us tools of distraction ways to make phone calls when driving, to watch DVDs when driving, etc. Add to that list sharing your geo-location when driving. Aft...

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An interesting patent of Apple’s relating to a social networking app surfaced recently. Dubbed iGroups, the app aims to solve the pitfalls of traditional social networks, like Facebook, that require users be a member before being able to partici...

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Palm shares plunged in late trading Thursday after the company posted yet another dismal quarter and warned that revenue for the current one will fall far short of Wall Street expectations. The company will have to take substantial charges to help...

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The fact that many people love games isnt really that new. Retailers and even our own governments have used our love of games to sell us products and hook us on lotteries and whatever else they can think of to boost revenue. But the rise of onli...

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Plastic Jungle, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that runs a gift card exchange says it has raised $7.4 million in a round led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from previous investors, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Bay Part...

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With the release of court filings in the three-year old copyright infringement suit between Viacom and YouTube, weve seen the video share site argue that it is not liable for infringing videos uploaded to its site, as it claims protection under the safe harbor provision of the Digital Milennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

But in Viacoms filing for a partial summary judgment, it makes the case that the sites founders and later executives of acquirer Google turned a blind eye to copyrighted material in an effor...

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Music is moving into the cloud, right? Access is replacing ownership of albums and song files, online streams are replacing desktop playback and mobile access is renewing interest in on-demand music subscriptions. Older services such as Rhapsody a...

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Not so long ago, calling something Web 2.0 increased its value. It meant fresh, new, interactive, responsive. Now, if someone uses that term you know theyre woefully out of touch. For me, its been a trip to re-adopt my former web beat on GigaOM a...

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ReadWriteWeb

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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Olympics All The Buzz in February

February data is live and online Olympics coverage is everywhere! Of the top 15,000 fastest moving websites, domains related to NBC universal (the exclusive owner of media rights to 2010 Winter Olympics coverage), Vancouver, and the Olympics in general dominated the charts. Accounting for tens of millions of visitors, its safe to assume that NBCs [...]

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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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Launchpad SF Submissions Are Open Until 3/31

Startups! The Web 2.0 Expo is in two months. We want to highlight your work. Each year we put five of you onstage in a Launchpad session. The deadline for submitting your company is 3/31. The criteria is below. Entrants do not need to launch ...

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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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