January 2010
35 posts
VeriFone’s Square Competitor Hits The App Store.... →
As we noted back in December, VeriFone wasn’t just going to sit back and let Square, the new startup by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, dominate the iPhone/iPod touch payment space….
How to Avoid Mediocre Co-Founders →
Just because your college roommate won the university’s engineering award in 1996, does not mean he’ll perform well in a VP role now. Early-stage startup teams come in many forms and while it’s…
CatwalkGenius: Crowd-Funded Fashion Lines →
This one isn’t exactly new, having launched at the end of 2008, but it’s certainly worth a mention as a business that combines passion with a funky business model.
Calkwalk…
★ The iPad Big Picture →
There was a meta-message in today’s Apple event, not about the iPad in particular, but rather about Apple as a whole. Jobs’s brief preamble included a bit of extra emphasis on the fact that the…
iPhone og iPad-blogg? →
Apple har fylt et tomrom i livet mitt jeg ikke visste eksisterte med sin nye iPad. Jeg tar gjerne med meg en sånn i sofakroken.
La meg først si at det er lite nytt å si om hva NetCom…
4 Tech Trends You Must Understand to be an... →
The days of SEO as the primary traffic driver to your website are over. Don’t get us wrong, organic search engine optimization isn’t about to disappear as a key traffic driver. And thankfully,…
HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and... →
For background on the free software angle on this story please check out Robert O’Callahan’s post on this topic. Also check out Mike Shaver’s shorter background post as well. This post differs…
How Fast Do Friendfeed Results Appear in Google... →
I just got my phone’s stop watch ready and posted the following sentence into Friendfeed (one of Google’s special partners): “This is a unique sentence with the number 321192301 that has never…
Coffee makes you dance around like a goat! →
Hence why I’m cutting down my intake these days I am actually cutting down a lot on my afternoon & evening caffeine and woe does it make a difference to the quality of sleep I get. I…
Top Topic Trackers (Updated List) →
Last week we listed and categorized some of the leading topic-tracking tools on the Web. As usual we got a great response in the comments, with additional information about the apps listed and…
Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL And Sells It... →
This looks really, really bad. An avid Facebook user named Harman Bajwa says that his Facebook vanity Url – Facebook.com/Harman – was unceremoniously revoked yesterday for violating Facebook’s…
GigaOM Video: Gowalla CEO Josh Williams on... →
Last week Josh Williams, chief executive officer and co-founder of Alamofire, a Austin, TX.-based company behind the location-based mobile application Gowalla, stopped by our office to…
You've Got Fresh Milk! Facebook Apps Can Now... →
Just in case you were thinking Mafia Wars or Farmville weren’t a big enough part of your daily life, Facebook has announced that it will now offer email notifications from applications….
Digg Beyond Digg With New Chrome And Firefox... →
One common complaint about Digg is that you have to visit the site to actually digg anything. Well, unless you use the Digg toolbar, which caused a bit of controversy when it launched…
Apple’s Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is... →
This is a guest post from Michael Robertson, a 12-year veteran of the digital music business. He is the founder and former CEO of digital music pioneer MP3.com. He is currently the CEO of…
The Facebook Privacy Debate: What You Need to Know →
Facebook changed the world by helping 350 million people publish their thoughts, feelings, comments, photos, videos and shared links much more easily than ever before. It’s the King of social…
ReKnit Sweaters Designed by Someone’s Mom →
Last year we featured Granny-sourced knitwear – this time it’s Mom’s turn.
Each month Haik Avanian’s mom will take an old sweater of yours (and $30), unravel it, knit it back…
Record Your Life with Momento, a “Unique Approach... →
Momento for iPhone by the UK based Milton Keynes development outfitd3i is a fantastic little app for keeping you’re thoughts, reminders and ideas to yourself on your own private journal…
With New “Via” Feature, Pages and Apps Should... →
While the “Share” action item in Facebook’s feed stories has never gotten that much attention, Facebook just increased the incentive for Pages and Apps to encourage their users to “reshare” feed…
5 Myths That Can Kill a Startup →
Enroll in an academic program, make friends with some of the other really smart students, drop out of school with them to create a company, work 80 hours a week and one day, ka-ching!…
Facebook Releases Their Version Of Retweets As... →
This evening Facebook began testing what appears to be their version of Twitter’s retweet feature: “via”. On any article shared by your friend, you can click on “Share” and when you post the…
20 Fashion Apps for the iPhone →
It’s well known that the iPhone is THE phone to have. I’ll admit that even though I’m still using RIM’s BlackBerry Curve 8320.
However, the iPhone apps make me very jealous. After reading a…
Fa.il: Bing’s URL Shortener Is Longer Than Bing’s... →
Everyone is getting into the URL shortening game these days. Google, YouTube, and Facebook are just a few joining the likes of the established players such as Bit.ly. And now Microsoft…
iPhone as RFID Tag & Reader: Coming Soon →
We began our Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things series yesterday with a look at barcode scanning. We wrote that smartphones are increasingly being deployed as readers for barcodes - in…
Death to Flash: 3 Great HTML 5 Demos →
This morning ReadWriteWeb accompanied The Great Wall Club (a group of Chinese mobile executives) to Google for a look at some of the company’s development tools. While Developer Relations…
Automatic Affiliate-Link Insertion Service Gets... →
Any web developer knows that it’s a lack of universal standards that can make designing and maintaining a web site unbearable. Startup venture VigLink says it’s here to handle at least one…
MyGengo Is Mechanical Turk For Translations →
Several ways to translate web sites, texts or documents online have emerged in the past few years, with Google Translate probably being the best-known tool. Google’s service is free and…
Will 2010 Finally be the Year of Location? →
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I…
The Best Google Street View Fails, Wins, And WTF’s →
Long Sunday afternoons were just made for relaxing and enjoying the aftershocks of technology. On Monday, we can all get back to inventing something new.
For today, let’s enjoy some Google Street…
Google's Near Me Now is Live & Good Enough... →
One month ago Google unveiled five big new technologies in one day - and then launched real-time search that afternoon. One of those five was something called Near Me Now, and it just went live moments ago
TwitAlbums: Private, Collaborative Content Sharing... →
Have you ever wanted to share a set of memories with some of your Twitter friends, keeping the content private while still allowing for collaboration between certain folks? It’s not anything we…
Facebook's 1st CTO Launches His Next Company... →
Adam D’Angelo was a programming genius who knew Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in high school, became the young company’s first CTO and has just begun to unveil his new startup company, …
ReelSurfer: A White Label Solution For Video... →
When you’re looking for a specific movie clip, it can often be hard to find exactly what you’re looking for on sites like YouTube, which don’t let you search for keywords generated from…