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| May 16, 2022 | How Corporate Takeovers Are Fundamentally Changing Podcasting | One of the recent shifts in podcasting has been the introduction of paywalls and exclusive content. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images |
| Feb 3, 2020 | A Look Back At Ten Years Of Microsoft Azure | When Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s former Chief Software Architect announced Windows Azure at PDC 2008, no one could assess the impact that this software platform would have on the company and the industry. |
| Feb 22, 2017 | Don’t blame Google and Facebook for media industry’s problems | As media outlets struggle to replace the rapidly disappearing revenue they used to get from traditional advertising, they see Google and Facebook taking the lion’s share of what has come along to replace it. And now some argue that those te... |
| Feb 22, 2017 | Don’t blame Google and Facebook for media industry’s problems | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jan 11, 2017 | Aaron Swartz and me, over a loosely intertwined decade | Aaron Swartz at the Creative Commons Salon, San Francisco, in 2006.
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| Feb 3, 2016 | Tesla Canceled a VC’s Model X Order Because He Was ‘Super Rude’ | If you’re awaiting to receive a Tesla car, you may want to hold back any public complaints, or at least until you receive it.
Stewart Alsop, a Silicon Valley investor and self-proclaimed Tesla (TSLA) enthusiast, wrote in a blog post on Mond... |
| Nov 23, 2014 | Uber Über Alles | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Oct 17, 2014 | Innovation Works Better, Faster With Openness, Not Lock-In | Dave Winer has a short, but important post discussing how a new round of entrepreneurs (and VCs) are too focused on locking in users, rather than making use of open standards. |
| Aug 29, 2014 | Reblog: The Future Of Media | I wrote this post almost nine years ago, before our investments in Twitter, Tumblr, Wattpad, SoundCloud, Kickstarter, and a host of other bottoms up media businesses.
I can remember the moment. I was in my home office in our old home at 11 ... |
| Aug 13, 2014 | 10 years of podcasting: Code, comedy, and patent lawsuits | Zoomar reader comments 52 with 34 posters participating, including story author
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| Jun 8, 2014 | Now Anyone Can Tweet Up A Storm With Dave Winer’s ‘Little Pork Chop’ | Tweetstorms. Everyone hates ’em… and yet, they don’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.
Ever since entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist Marc Andreessen joined Twitter and began sharing his thoughts in long, multi-Tweet segments, we’v... |
| Apr 11, 2014 | Heartbleed—What’s Next? Check Your Clients, Routers, Virtual Machines And VPNs | What we thought was secure—Web servers, routers, virtual machines, virtual private networks, and even client software—isn’t so safe, after all.
See also: What You Need To Know About Heartbleed, A Really Major Bug That Short-Circuits Web Sec... |
| Sep 18, 2013 | How Did Newspapers Blow It? Not Enough Engineers, NYT Publisher Says | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It would be hard to single out just one mistake from the news industry’s fumbled transition to the Internet era. But the most important newspaper publisher in America—Arthur S... |
| Oct 23, 2012 | Dylan's Desk: It's do or die time for Microsoft | This week is an epic one for tech news.
I’m not talking about Apple. Sure, the iPad Mini that Apple just confirmed is a long-awaited addition to the company’s tablet line, and it’s one that Apple is virtually required to make — assuming it ... |
| Oct 23, 2012 | Dylan's Desk: It's do or die time for Microsoft | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This week is an epic one for tech news.
I’m not talking about Apple. Sure, the iPad Mini that Apple just confirmed is a long-awaited ad... |
| Aug 14, 2012 | Open Protocols | My partner Albert wrote a great post yesterday that I'd like to highlight. His going in assertion is:
It would a huge benefit to society if we can get with social networking to where we are with email today: it is fundamentally decentralize... |
| Aug 13, 2012 | Understanding App.net: It’s Microblogging As a Service | App.net has so far raised nearly $800,000 in membership fees with the promise that it will be a non-commercial, user and developer-friendly version of Twitter. It’s off to a good start, with early adopters enthusiastically kicking the tires... |
| Aug 3, 2012 | The Federated Web Should Be Easier Than It Sounds | Twitter’s suspension of journalist Guy Adams’ account earlier this week should further discussions that have been bubbling over the past couple weeks about the need for a more open alternative to Twitter. Although Twitter reinstated Adams’ ... |
| Jul 27, 2012 | The Twitter Rebellion: App.net Offers a Hacker’s Alternative | Twitter is looking into making TV shows. That direction would have been unimaginable four years ago. But the Flock has made its nest. Twitter is a media goose that wants to lay a golden egg. And entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell doesn’t believe ... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Land Grab! Google & Amazon Stake Claims to .blog, .search, .book | Amazon, Google, L’Oréal and Gucci have applied for basic Internet domain names like .blog, .book, .music and .beauty. In some cases, they don’t intend to share. Unless you use Google’s Blogger service, for instance, you won’t be able to get... |
| Jun 7, 2012 | The Facebook Phone: Why Facebook Has to Try, and Why It Will Probably Fail | Facebook views itself as more than a social network. It aspires to be an operating system for the Web, or a platform in the mold of those built by Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft. So as the computing world shifts toward mobile, Facebook... |
| May 24, 2012 | Crowdfunder Closes $400K Seed Round, Launches Public Beta | Crowdfunder, the Los Angeles-based startup creating an online platform for the “crowdfunding” of startups and small businesses, has launched the first public beta version of its site this week. The launch comes on the heels of Crowdfunder c... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Wavii Launches In Public Beta, Aiming To Be Your Big Data News Aggregator Of Choice | After years, yes years, in various states of stealth mode, Seattle-based personalized news aggregation startup Wavii is finally launching to wide scale public consumption. Backed with a list of angel investors that reads like a who’s who of... |
| Mar 5, 2012 | The Privacy Problem: We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us | This morning I was ready to bust some heads. I got a text message at about 8:39 from Highlight, the hot new social network thing that will disappear once everyone digests the last of their brisket on the plane ride home from SXSW. The SMS w... |
| Feb 8, 2012 | Path-ological: In 2010, founder Dave Morin said Path never stored user data | Above: Dave Morin circa 2010
It’s the privacy snafu that will not die. A day after a developer discovered that mobile social network Path was storing users’ entire address books on its servers, the startup seemed to have defused the inciden... |
| Feb 8, 2012 | Path-ological: In 2010, founder Dave Morin said Path never stored user data | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Above: Dave Morin circa 2010
It’s the privacy snafu that will not die. A day after a developer discovered that mobile social network Pa... |
| Dec 29, 2011 | Issues for 2012 #4: What Should the Browser Become? | It was NCSA Mosaic that introduced the world to the Web. Since that time, the browser has become the principal software-based element in all the world’s digital communications and transactions. It is the harbinger of a very powerful new cla... |
| Dec 28, 2011 | Crazy “Spam” Email About Print Cancellation *Is* Actually From The New York Times | If you’re a New York Times subscriber — or even if you’re not — you may have received that following email this morning, implying that you have cancelled your subscription. Many many people did, it’s all over the tweets.
Even though the ema... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Dylan’s Desk: Is it time to occupy Silicon Valley? | NOTE: Subscribe to my newsletter and you can read these columns a whole day before they appear on our website.
In the past four weeks, “Occupy” protests have spread from Wall Street to San Francisco to nearly every major city in the U.S. an... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Facebook's New Privacy Bust: Users Log In but They Can't Log Out [Update] | The biggest news at the f8 Facebook developer's conference last week was the open graph announcement. The company wants to expand its network of interconnections with other sites so people can see every more about what their Facebook friend... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | This is how Facebook tracks you | On September 25, Nik Cubrilovic posted a terrific analysis looking at how Facebook uses cookies to track users even when they have signed out of the service. His findings about Facebook cookie tracking raises yet more red flags about subscr... |
| Sep 26, 2011 | Can Facebook track you even when logged out? | One software developer claims Facebook can track users' web activity, even when logged out.
As the world prepares for the impending rollout of Facebook's new updates, including the re-design of home profiles called "Timeline," one... |
| Sep 12, 2011 | How Can Diaspora Help Us in a Facebook and Google Plus World? | Last week, Diaspora, the open-source, privacy-aware social network of our nerdy dreams, posted its first public response to the launch of Google Plus and the recent efforts around privacy and selective sharing at Facebook. For a reaction to... |
| Jul 26, 2011 | Rumors & Acquisitions: Skills And a Gawker-TechCrunch Blog Fight | PIVOTS AND PYRES. Pivots are in vogue, and recently-pivoted SkillSlate is taking full advantage of the hype with a self-branded Pivot Party. The start-up began as a directory-like site for local businesses and entrepreneurs to build a perso... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Twitter Curation Grows Up: Storify Becomes Blog & SEO Friendly | Thirteen years ago this spring, Dave Winer’s UserLand Software launched a technical protocol that made it easy to publish content from one Web page onto another. (Winer was the inspiration for ReadWriteWeb and countless other blogs.) A simi... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Who Needs to Worry About Google+? LinkedIn, Not Facebook | Last week, I thought that Google (GOOG) displayed naked fear in its social network wannabe, Google+. Now, on some reflection after actually being able try the system for myself, I still think that Google is scared of Facebook. But maybe it ... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Google+ -- a Sign Google Is Running Scared | There must have been a time when executives at Coca-Cola were sure that New Coke would be a hit. When those at Ford expected the Edsel to become the car of its times. On Tuesday, Google (GOOG) rolled out Google+: the company's latest panick... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Google goes social with Google+ — Will Facebook flinch? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
After months of waiting, Google finally unveiled ... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Google goes social with Google+ — Will Facebook flinch? | After months of waiting, Google finally unveiled on Tuesday its new social project, Google+. It’s an ambitious gambit that aims to turn all of Google’s services into one giant social platform, and in the process steal some thunder from Face... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | Twitter Tells Developers to Stop Building Twitter Clients | Now Friends With Charlie Sheen, Twitter Tells Its Nerdy Old Pals to Drop Dead
Twitter’s platform/API leader Ryan Sarver issued an official statement to the Twitter developer world today that’s sure to send a shudder down the backs of many p... |
| Jan 21, 2011 | Google Reader Gets a Demotion | Google has quietly moved the link to access Google Reader, its online RSS reader service, below the top level navigation fold for Gmail users. Some Google Reader users are complaining about the move as an inconvenience, but the biggest loss... |
| Jan 15, 2011 | The Block Album | Every few eons we get another RSS is dead swarm of stories, usually involving Dave Winer versus the rest of the universe. Sub-themes include dead calling is stupid, I found this post on RSS, and get off your porch grandpa. Typically Dave us... |
| Jan 4, 2011 | RSS War! (As Fought On Twitter, Naturally) | For 99 percent of you, the following will be way too insidery. But that’s part of what makes TechCrunch great, posting about fights about basically nothing. It’s sort of like Seinfeld, it’s just about the characters. We’ve gotten too far aw... |
| Jan 4, 2011 | Facebook Versus Twitter Is Really Business Model Versus Technology | To understand the Goldman Sachs (GS) $500 million investment in Facebook, a completely different discussion can offer some unintentional illumination.
The blogosphere just saw one of its periodic sword crossings over the comparison of Twitt... |
| Dec 29, 2010 | Just Weeks After Cutting Off Wikileaks, Amazon Brags About How US Federal Gov't Is One Of Its Biggest AWS Customers? | While Senator Joe Lieberman took credit for pressuring Amazon to stop hosting Wikileaks content via its Amazon Web Services infrastructure, Amazon insisted that government pressure had nothing to do with it. Still, it seems rather odd that ... |
| Dec 13, 2010 | Three Hackers Arrested in Wake of DDOS Attacks | One of the more cringe-worthy stories to come out of the Wikileaks-Anonymous-DDOS plotline in the last few weeks is the lack of security practiced by just about everyone involved. Authorities found the name of a designer named Alex Tapanari... |
| Dec 13, 2010 | Top 10 Cloud Computing Services for 2010 | We chose our top 10 services based upon what trends bubbled in 2010 and the companies and organizations that responded or even set the tone for the overall market.
We looked at the entire landscape but with a particular focus on platforms.
... |
| Nov 30, 2010 | The AVC Network | Disqus (a portfolio company of USV) has rolled out a really sweet analytics service as part of its "add ons" that were released a few weeks ago. You get the analytics as part of every add on package, including the $19/month Plus s... |
| Nov 7, 2010 | Twitter Places Is Nothing New, But The Ability To Claim Venues Is Being Tested | Okay everyone, let’s calm down. Currently making the rounds on the Internet is that Twitter is about to launch a Foursquare-killer, Twitter Places. The only problem? They actually launched it about five months ago. They wrote about it, we c... |
| Oct 25, 2010 | Five Years Later, Ray Ozzie Pens Another Great Memo: "Dawn Of A New Day" | Ray Ozzie, who famously took over the reins as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft when Bill Gates formally retired from the company (his last full-time day was June 27, 2008), stepped down from that position last week and will leave the ... |
| Oct 25, 2010 | Ray Ozzie Has Seen The Future, And It Looks A Lot Like Google | Just as Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie is preparing to step down, he’s leaving the software giant with a farewell memo outlining where the “Post-PC” world is headed. Titled “Dawn of a New Day,” it comes across as a dire warnin... |
| Oct 8, 2010 | The RSS Connection: New Search, Big Data and the Web App Movement | One thing the recession has done is fuel innovation by imposing financial constraints. The constraints have led to some dramatic market changes, in particular related to the rise of Lucene/Solr, the open-source search technology.
As a resul... |
| Sep 13, 2010 | Saying "RSS Is Dead" Is Dead, Saying "RSS Is Not Dead" Is Not — Today. | Of all the tech echo-chamber arguments, one of my favorites has to be the “RSS is dead” one. Sure, perhaps I’m a bit partial because Steve Gillmor set the discussion in motion in May of 2009 for TechCrunchIT. But it’s still interesting to w... |
| Aug 14, 2010 | Long Tweet Is Long: Bug Let You Go Way Over 140 | Late last night Japanese Twitter user @sskhybrid tweeted out the following 2,135 character tweet, which was inevitably retweeted by more than 100 people. Translated it seems to be a jumbled version of his experiences using Twitter.
User @es... |
| Jun 22, 2010 | Weekly Poll: Is Salesforce.com Chatter Really That Unique? Does it Matter? | It all sounds good when Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff is on stage like he was today, stirring the faithful with his rousing presence. If you ever get the chance, go see Benioff present. He has a style that’s part P.T. Barnum, part passion... |
| Apr 23, 2010 | Facebook Open Graph: The Definitive Guide For Publishers, Users and Competitors | Facebook just shook the tech world by announcing several major initiatives that collectively constitute an aggressive move to weave the social net on top of the existing Web.The rumors were that the leading social network would launch a “Li... |
| Apr 8, 2010 | Three Ways the iPad Breaks Apple's Brand | Reactions to the Apple (APPL) iPad have been fascinating. On Monday, I mentioned how the device was emblematic of a cultural divide over the concept of central control. Now as I look at additional takes -- from the likes of Ars Technica and... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Facebook Granted Patent on the News Feed – This Could Be Very Big | Facebook has been granted a patent on the Newsfeed, “displaying a news feed in a social network environment.” Nick O’Neill at AllFacebook found the patent first and says it could be “one of the most significant social web patents” in a deca... |
| Jan 29, 2010 | Left Out | Fear of iPad is now beginning to circulate with increasing velocity. It seems folks are realizing that regardless of how many things were left off the machine, it still will be bought by virtually everybody on the planet who cares about tec... |
| Jan 5, 2010 | 5 Reasons Why RSS Readers Still Rock | Recently I wrote about the decline of RSS Readers as a way for people to keep up with news. I noted that while many people still use RSS Readers, usage has decreased due to the emergence of real-time and social flows of information via Twit... |
| 2010 | Gillmor Gang: Realtime in 3D | Over the holidays I had the great pleasure of watching the Seinfeld reunion story arc on the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It’s about to disappear from Comcast OnDemand, presumably to traipse off to the increasingly less-profitabl... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | Open APIs and Open Standards | As Dave Winer has been pointing out in recent weeks, there is something quite interesting happening in the blogging/microblogging world.
First WordPress allowed posting and reading wordpress blogs via the Twitter API.
Then yesterday our por... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Introduction to The Real-Time Web and its Future | “Recommended.”
-HP Official News
“Very thorough. Exceeded my expectations. Nice work.”
-Henry “Hank” Nothhaft, Jr.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence at SRI
“The report is excellent — a great synthesis of why the real time web is different, what cha... |
| Nov 15, 2009 | Twitter Definitely Ditching “Suggested Users List” | Last month, Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams stated that he “desperately” wanted to retire the company’s suggested user list – the list of Twitter accounts shown to new users of the service to help them find interesting people to fo... |
| Oct 19, 2009 | 5 O’Clock Roundup: Perp walk for Raj, breakthroughs at Microsoft, still no jobs | Intel CEO Paul Otellini says he had no idea one of his employees was being investigated for fraud — At least that’s what he told the Wall Street Journal. “It is not clear whether these people were just bragging or whether they were in it fo... |
| Oct 17, 2009 | Blog Stars | We had a discussion about "blog stars" in the comments to my post yesterday. Kid Mercury has been saying for as long I recall that niche communities are the future of the Internet. And he believes that niche communities are led by... |
| Sep 17, 2009 | Google Invented Reading Lists? | Well-known podcaster and RSS pioneer Dave Winer is critical about Google’s reading list patent. In a recent blog post, Winer explains how Google filed a patent laying claim to “a method of subscribing to a collection of feeds”. Winer’s own ... |
| Sep 7, 2009 | WordPress adds 7.5 million blogs to real-time search frenzy | There aren’t any screenshots to show you yet, but blog posts are about to become as instantly findable as Twitter and Facebook updates. Blog-hosting site WordPress.com turned on a new feature today that makes it possible to search its custo... |
| Sep 7, 2009 | WordPress.com Enables RSSCloud In Post Feeds | RSSCloud is a new format specification for feeds that solves polling and notification issues. It works by adding a cloud element to a feed which describes the path to a cloud server that should be notified when a feed is updated. The cloud ... |
| Sep 7, 2009 | WordPress adds 7.5 million blogs to real-time search frenzy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There aren’t any screenshots to show you yet, but... |
| Sep 3, 2009 | RSS isn’t Dead (Just Ask Executives) | It’s become fashionable among a certain set to declare that RSS is no longer the foremost pipeline for news and information on the Web. Steve Gillmor and innumerable others have said they’ve abandoned their RSS readers in favor of Twitter. ... |
| Aug 10, 2009 | Roundup: Facebook-meets-FriendFeed photos, Verizon’s bad deals, Scoble is leaving Facebook … now? | Facebook meets FriendFeed — Much of today’s massive coverage of Facebook’s planned acquisition of social network aggregation service FriendFeed seems to presume that readers know what FriendFeed is. My Slate article from last August is stil... |
| Aug 9, 2009 | 10 Ways to Archive Your Tweets | Did you know that your tweets have an expiration date on them? While they never really disappear from your own Twitter stream, they become unsearchable in only a matter of days. At first, Twitter held onto your tweets for around a month, bu... |
| Jul 29, 2009 | Company Receives Patent for Podcasting | VoloMedia, a podcast analytics, advertising, and distribution company, just received a patent for “providing episodic media,” including podcasts. According to the company, which filed for the patent in November 2003, U.S. Patent 7,568,213 c... |
| Jun 22, 2009 | Twitter Isn't A Public Service | Twitter has emerged as one of the most important communications tools of our time, but that doesn't mean we get to tell its owners what to do.
Ever since Twitter started showing phenomenal usage growth, there's been a disconcerting trend am... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | Dear Wanna-bes, Your Twitter Stardom is Coming to an End | One of the most controversial practices widely used to build up influence on Twitter is now cause for account suspension, according to a message on the Twitter developers email list from a company support team member.
Using third party soft... |
| Jun 5, 2009 | How Twitter’s Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It Could Cause Problems) | Twitter has captured peoples’ imaginations like nothing else on the web in years. It’s growing fast, gets talked about all the time in other media, has fostered a huge developer community and gets used in more ways than anyone could have th... |
| Apr 25, 2009 | How the OAuth Security Battle Was Won, Open Web Style | Last Friday was a hot day in Sebastopol, California. Eran Hammer-Lahav rolled into town hours after finding out that there was a security hole in his pet project for the last few months, a new way to use Twitter to log in to third party sit... |
| Mar 31, 2009 | Microsoft Kills Off Two Products Bill Gates Thought Would Be Enhanced By The Internet | Dave Winer points to an email Bill Gates sent him nearly fifteen years ago, where Gates insisted that the internet would enhance, rather than harm, the market for two specific Microsoft products: |
| Mar 28, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Ghost Twittering, Last.fm Charges, Future of Firefox, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we discuss web apps that have stood the ’30 day test’ for our writers, analyze the past, present and future uses of the Twitter platform, look int... |
| Mar 15, 2009 | WeFollow: A Top Twitters List | Kevin Rose, founder of Digg and the man who two years ago removed the Top Diggers List after deciding it could be problematic for his site and its most popular users, yesterday launched WeFollow; a user powered Twitter directory, the idea o... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | The Rules Apply To Everyone | The Elliot Spitzer phenomenon is part of being human. For whatever reason, people who obtain power can convince themselves that the very rules they create and enforce don’t apply to them. Elliot Spitzer and his prostitutes. Al Gore flying c... |
| Mar 12, 2009 | How Much Is A Suggested Slot On Twitter Worth? Jason Calacanis Offers $250,000. | When newbies sign up to Twitter now, they are presented with a list of 100 suggested users to start following. Simply being on that list can boost your followers well above 100,000. Several people and organizations on the list (such as Al G... |
| Feb 12, 2009 | The Blogroll I Want For AVC | Way back when I started this blog (2003), I created a blogroll. Back then it was pretty easy. There were a dozen or so blogs I read religiously. Blogs like Seth Godin, Dave Winer, VentureBlog.
Over time the blogroll grew. Then I started usi... |
| Jan 24, 2009 | Video: Steve Jobs Giving His First Big Demo | Twenty five years ago today, on January 24, 1984, Steve Jobs gave the first on-stage demonstration of the Macintosh computer to a packed auditorium. The technology was much different then, but it was the same Steve Jobs: a masterful showman... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Why We’re Desperately Awaiting Feedsqueezer | When the RSS management company Feedburner was acquired by the internet goliath Google back in May of 2007, some people were excited, others were concerned. On the one side, there was hope that putting Google’s weight behind the struggling ... |
| Jan 14, 2009 | Identi.ca gets fresh aid in quest to out-message Twitter | How many ways can you send 140-character messages to the people you care about? Tiny Twitter rival Identi.ca is trying to find out, and it’s raised a small angel round from Montreal Start Up to help it in that pursuit. While Twitter has bee... |
| Jan 13, 2009 | 70,000% Increase In Beta Testing For Upcoming Microsoft Exchange Release | A little over three years ago, Ray Ozzie wrote his famous memo re-focusing Microsoft from software to services. We started seeing results of that memo last October, when Microsoft announced Windows Azure.
The SaaS emphasis is also hitting m... |
| Dec 27, 2008 | Bloggers Lose The Plot Over Twitter Search | Wow. Loic Le Meur asks for a simple feature on Twitter search – the ability to filter results by the number of followers that a user has to make sense of thousands of messages – and the blogosphere calls for his head.
For the record, I agre... |
| Dec 23, 2008 | FeedBurner Quits Blogging, Gets Eaten by AdSense | RSS and podcast publishing service FeedBurner has been a great friend to bloggers over the years but this morning announced that it will shut down its own blog Burning Questions. Readers will now be referred to a new blog, AdSense for Feeds... |
| Sep 14, 2008 | Of Course You'll Keep Developing For The iPhone | Developers like Frasier Speirs and Dave Winer are protesting Apple’s rejection of some iPhone applications, and saying they will no longer develop on the platform (let’s leave aside the fact that as far as I know Winer never developed for t... |
| Sep 11, 2008 | Dude, Where’s My App? 10 Web Apps We Wish Hadn’t Disappeared | We track hundreds of web apps here on ReadWriteWeb. Some, like YouTube and last.fm, become our favorites and prosper. But others sadly close down, or whither away due to not many people using them, or suddenly stop working for one reason or... |
| Jul 5, 2008 | Get Great Tech Product Coverage With Tech NewsJunk | There’s a new aggregator in town folks. If you’re a fan of Dave Winer’s political NewsJunk aggregation site, Techmeme, or FriendFeed, then you’re going to love Winer’s counterpart to the political NewsJunk site, Tech NewsJunk. Created becau... |
| Jul 3, 2008 | Bill Gurley Is Blogging Again | If you asked me who my inspirations were when I started to blog, they would have been:
Seth Godin – because his blog was my favorite read at the time (and still is in my top 10)
Dave Winer – because Scripting News was the first blog I ever ... |
| Jun 28, 2008 | Sales Guy vs. Web Dude | I saw this on Dave Winer’s Friendfeed stream yesterday. Its just too good not to post, even though its staged. Some adult language in there, and one NSFW image at the end.
The website for this show is usually at www.thewebsiteisdown.com, wh... |
| Jun 18, 2008 | Learning from Flickr’s Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo | In June 2005 Yahoo! acquired upstart Canadian photosharing web site Flickr and the web hasn’t been the same since. Yahoo, on the other hand, didn’t change nearly as much as everyone expected it to. Pre-CEO Jerry Yang told then-Business 2.0 ... |
| Jun 10, 2008 | I Am A Member Of The Cult Of iPhone | I’ve been to enough Steve Jobs keynotes now to know that the man is able to take a crowd and bend it to his will. Every time, I’ve been a willing subject – sometimes (but not every time) to find myself in a hangover-like state a day later w... |
| Jun 9, 2008 | Twitter Partners With Summize to Cover Apple News | For those of you who just can’t wait to hear the latest Apple news this morning as it breaks (our live on the scene coverage begins at 8 am PST): Twitter is partnering with Summize to show all twitters that contain the words “wwdc,” “apple,... |
| May 20, 2008 | Next Gen Apps Won’t Be Pushed Around By the Browser | The invention of the browser was a huge boon to the internet and a substantial amount of computing now goes on through that interface we’ve grown to love. The internet is not a place where innovation takes a break, though, and a new generat... |
