
If you've ever mistaken Parliament for Snoop or Lou Reed for A Tribe Called Quest, you wouldn't be entirely wrong. Musicians have been sampling from others for years and instead of arguing about where a sample originated, there's a new site that offers you the facts. UK-based software consultant ...
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Cliqset is a Florida-based technology startup that end-users have had a hard time understanding. The company just released a new product that developers should have no trouble with at all and that could send waves of innovation across the social web.Called Cliqset FeedProxy, the service consumes...
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Yesterday's official launch of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's new mobile payment system was greeted with a lot of enthusiasm. Not everybody agrees that Square's business model is viable, however. Today, we got a chance to talk to Andy Kleitsch, the CEO of Billing Revolution, who didn't hold bac...
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At Microsoft's San Francisco campus this morning, a room full of tech journalists were treated to their first glimpse of Bing Maps Beta. When Microsoft talked about it's efforts towards geospatial projects, many were skeptical but it looks like the search giant has delivered. SponsorBing Maps is ...
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The New York Times just launched a new way to read the paper's stories online. With Times Skimmer, which first launched as a prototype application earlier this year, the New York Times is trying to bring the feeling and serendipity of reading the physical newspaper to its online presence. Users c...
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MOG's $5 dollar all-you-can-eat streaming music subscription service has finally launched. Although we interviewed CEO David Hyman in mid October, the music industry has changed considerably in the last two months. Imeem sold to MySpace for a song and competitor Spotify is rumored to be delaying ...
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Later today, Digg will open up its rumored read/write API. Up until now, developers could only read data from Digg. With the new API, web and desktop apps will also be able to contribute data to Digg. This will allow developers to write desktop and web applications that enable users to interact w...
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In a late night post on Facebook's company blog, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a round of upcoming changes that will affect all users of the social network. Specifically, the changes focus on new privacy controls for information sharing. For those who have been following Facebook closely, the ann...
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2009 has seen a lot of Semantic Web and structured data activity. Much of it has been driven by Linked Data, a W3C project which gained momentum this year. According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, Linked Data is a sea change akin to the invention of the WWW itself. We've gone fr...
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Zoho is now offering full integration with Google Apps, allowing users to access Google Docs seamlessly from within the Zoho environment. It's another move by Zoho to compete in the big leagues with the giants of the business through integrations that allow for seamless interplay. Zoho has p...
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Some six months ago, we had a small conniption over an augmented reality application for Twitter on the iPhone.With the release of Twitter's geotagging API, however, users were bound to see more and better AR apps for the popular microblogging service. Twitter 360 has just come up on our radar, a...
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Through the bravery and efforts of people such as our good friend Drew Olanoff and the LIVESTRONG campaign, many social media users are much more aware of cancer and what this disease does to the body, mind, soul and community.Today, on World AIDS Day, we'd like to direct your attention to a few ...
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While startup companies are often asked about their monetization and member strategies, it's rare that they're asked how they plan on changing the world. At today's Supernova Conference in San Francisco, speakers attacked the subject of social chance and how it applies to business models, technol...
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December 1 marks World AIDS Day, and every major social site around the Internet has come together to spread awareness about the disease, its transmission and available treatments.Thanks to efforts from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, AIDS is a more visible topic today than perhaps...
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Dominic Pouzin is a worldly, smart guy. After doing school and internships in France, the UK, South Korea and India, he moved to Atlanta where he took a job in the NBC (Nuclear, Bacteriological, Chemical) protection field. "I designed statistical models, programmed robots, and implemented acces...
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In late October, after Bit.ly had firmly established itself as Twitter's service of choice, it looked like URL shortener service Cligs would close down. As of today, the company will see a new management team as social bookmarking service Mister Wong has agreed to acquire it for an undisclosed su...
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SAP is preparing the launch of an application that appears to be a potential rival to Google Wave. The application, code-named Constellation, is what SAP describes as a "virtual war room," where co-workers can collaborate in real-time with information that they can aggregate from different data ...
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I'm pleased to announce a new executive appointment to ReadWriteWeb, our new Chief Operating Officer Sean Ammirati. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Sean has been an occasional writer on ReadWriteWeb since March 2007 and hosted our podcast show ReadWriteTalk. Prior to becoming ReadWriteWeb's COO, Sean...
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Square, a new mobile phone payment system founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, just launched its private beta today. Square will give anybody the ability to accept payment cards (credit or debit) without having to go through a costly credit card processing service. Instead, Square will give...
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Every year at ReadWriteWeb, we look at hundreds of new web apps geared at everyday users. Occasionally, we come across a service that stands out from the pack because it offers a novel solution, disrupts the way incumbent market leaders do business or changes the way we experience the Web.He...
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Gartner has acquired AMR Research for $64 million. The acquisition further consolidates the analyst world in Gartner's favor. Gartner is the leading IT Research firm with annual sales of $1.28 billion.AMR Research is a long time research and advisory services that specializes in serving supply ch...
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As the year draws to an end, all the large search engines have now published their year-end roundups of the most popular search queries on their sites. On almost every service, these include Michael Jackson, Twitter, Lady Gaga and terms related to Twilight. Google also just released its annual Ze...
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When we first came across Faviki back in 2008, we were intrigued by the concept of a social bookmarking service built using semantic tagging capabilities. Instead of organizing bookmarks based on user-created tags, Faviki tags come from structured information extracted from Wikipedia. After Favik...
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After a long weekend, you may find you're all caught up on your favorite shows. If you're looking for a new source for entertainment, Berkeley-based community Redux is finally emerging from closed beta. ReadWriteWeb first covered Redux's Facebook and Twitter integration in early October. Since th...
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When you think of services offering to get you more fans, followers, and friends on social media sites, a few of words come to mind: spammy, scammy, and sad. Purchasing fans is taking the easy way out. Instead of building up a community of followers who actually appreciate what you (or your compa...
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Unified communications was a notable absent In Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2010. For years, the idea of a common platform for seemingly all communications seemed bewildering. Cisco CEO John Chambers said that even CIO's were unsure what unified communications really meant. But now...
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Our startup-minded readers may remember Mike Trotzke, our good friend who, with a little help from his good friends Marc Guyer and Brad Wisler, founded a startup incubator called SproutBox earlier this year.One of the latest sprouts to emerge from the box is Squad, Trotzke's gift to developers ev...
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Recently I was the keynote speaker at the Unlimited Potential W2W (Wellington to the World) event in Wellington, New Zealand. The topic of my presentation was running a virtual company. In the presentation, written by our Marketing Manager Elyssa Pallai, I spoke about the unique nature of ReadWr...
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It's official: Google is ditching its homegrown Gears offline web app API in favor of backing HTML5 for the win.Now that the Chrome browser is becoming available for Mac, and the Snow Leopard OS doesn't play nicely with Gears, Google has decided to trash the whole works and wait for HTML5, even t...
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Twitter's default URL shortening service Bit.ly announced steps today to stop phishing and malware attacks from being passed around online through its service. If effective, the effort should help a whole lot of people save face and prevent those moments of panic when you're afraid you may have ...
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