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Developers, check out our new channel ReadWriteHack, sponsored by the Intel Atom Developer Program. Mon Sep 27, 2010 ReadWriteWeb Hungry? The State of Food Recommendation Engines Where should we eat lunch? What should we have for dinner tonight? Recommendation engines try to match our tastes to music, movies and books - why not help us answer these other eternal questions? Here are a few sites that try to do just that, whether it's through personalized recommendations restaurant reviews, aggregating restaurant reviews or... Continue Reading » "Buy No Evil" App Assists in Israeli Settlment Boycotts A new mobile application helps would-be boycotters target, or avoid, goods and services that come solely from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Buy No Evil is a free Android app built by the two Israeli bloggers Noam Rotem and Itamar Sha'altiel, in conjunction with the open source project Activismos, whose tagline is "Activism is an... Continue Reading » Picking the Most Important Features & APIs for Your Mobile App Earlier this summer, we posed the question of whether or not native mobile applications would eventually be made obsolete by the mobile Web. Many agreed that the power of the mobile Web and cloud over native apps may be an inevitability, but according to a survey released today, four out of five app developers say their customers prefer a native... Continue Reading » Censored Maps Hard-Wired on Chinese iPhone 4 If you were thinking of getting your iPhone 4 from China to avoid signing onto a two-year contract or being locked into using AT&T as your carrier, you might want to reconsider. According to geopolitical blog Ogle Earth, the new iPhone being sold in China comes with a Maps app, which is powered by Google Maps, that is "hard-wired to Google Maps'... Continue Reading » Twitter to Start Selling Followers Advertisers will be allowed to purchase placement in lists of "who to follow" recommendations targeted to users with particular interests on Twitter, according to the latest report by Peter Kafka on the Wall St. Journal's AllThingsD. Kafka reports that the new ad model will be unveiled at the IAB conference in New York City tomorrow. It's... Continue Reading » Virus Targets Industrial OS, Reaches Iran's Nuclear Plant Several weeks ago, when the Stuxnet virus first struck, the thing that stuck out was how it targeted the computer systems found in factories, called supervisory control and data acquisition systems, or SCADA. My first thought was a hacker had picked a unique target in order to show off his or her chops. My second thought was how this type of... Continue Reading » Microsoft to Close Its Blogging Platform - Migrates Users to WordPress.com Microsoft and WordPress just announced that WordPress.com will become the default blogging platform for Windows Live. Live Spaces' 30 million users will have six months to migrate their blogs over to WordPress.com and the two companies will offer a number of tools that should make this migration very easy. This announcement, which was made at... Continue Reading » The Social Web Needs Smart Mute Buttons Mozilla announced today a new add-on to its email program Thunderbird, a button called Mute Thread. It's a simple way to say "I'm not interested in this right now, but I might come back to it later." It's an alternative to unsubscribing forever and it's a very smart idea. If everything had a button like that, people would feel comfortable... Continue Reading » Facebook Continues To Expand Instant Personalization, Adds Scribd Facebook is continuing to expand its instant personalization feature today, with the addition of social reading and publishing site Scribd. Just over a week ago, Facebook added Rotten Tomatoes to the list of sites where its users would be automatically opted-in to sharing content with each other - the first addition since the introduction of the... Continue Reading » The Social Media Words & Phrases Most Retweeted Positive language about learning new things and serving the self-interest of readers is the most common characteristic of blog post titles that get shared the most on Twitter, according to new analysis posted on the blog Smart Data Collective. An analysis of 3,000 titles concluded that the words increase, socialize, automate and manage appear... Continue Reading » Microsoft Brings Travel Search and Improved Maps to Bing iPhone App Given that Google is Apple's default search and mapping engine, Microsoft's Bing is fighting an uphill battle on Apple's iOS platforms. Microsoft has launched an avalanche of iPhone apps that are "powered by Bing," but the company's main offering on the iPhone remains the Bing app that offers access to search engine's core features.... Continue Reading » ReadWriteMobile: New Channel, Authored by @sarahintampa Today we're launching our sixth channel, ReadWriteMobile. Sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent, ReadWriteMobile is dedicated to helping its community understand the strategic business and technical implications of developing mobile applications. ReadWriteMobile will be authored by Sarah Perez, who you all know as a feature writer for ReadWriteWeb. Sarah... Continue Reading » RWW SPONSORS ReadWriteStart Picking the Most Important Features & APIs for Your Mobile App Earlier this summer, we posed the question of whether or not native mobile applications would eventually be made obsolete by the mobile Web. Many agreed that the power of the mobile Web and cloud over native apps may be an inevitability, but according to a survey released today, four out of five app developers say their customers prefer a native experience. With this demand from customers, which features are they looking for most in a mobile experience? Here are some results from the survey that may surprise you. The survey, conducted by... Continue Reading » ReadWriteBiz This Week in Review: Must-Know Tech News For SMBs Keeping up with all of the important technology news in a given week is a challenge for anyone, let alone busy professionals and people trying to run businesses. While there's not yet a known cure, ReadWriteBiz can help alleviate your information overload by bringing you a rundown of some of the most important tech news and product reviews for small to medium-sized businesses. In an excellent post published early in the week, Mashable writer Jolie O'Dell discussed how SMBs can take advantage of Facebook Places, and walked us through... Continue Reading » ReadWriteEnterprise What Can IT Do To Stimulate the Job Market? Last week I revisited some concerns about cloud computing putting IT staff out of work. This week I want to look at the broader issue of technology displacing workers - and whether IT can do anything about it. On his blog, Gartner VP and fellow Tom Austin asks where the new jobs are for those displaced by automation, where the improved work-life balance is for those that run the machines, and "How are all the IT and communications firms helping repair the social fabric that has been ripped to shreds during the last 30 to 40... Continue Reading » ReadWriteCloud Office Web Apps Update: The Balance of the Cloud Connected Desktop Here's something you don't hear that often from Microsoft. A number of new releases out on the three-month anniversary of its newest software offering. More usual is the two-year gap as is the case with most software companies that have been in the business for any period of time. But this past week, Principal Lead Program Manager Jason Moore penned a blog post that said more than 20 million people have used Office Web Apps since its launch in June. By any measure, that's a lot of people. Sponsor So, we have to consider this: "Holy... Continue Reading » ReadWriteHack Error Messages: Help Users to Understand What Went Wrong Error messages. Not the critical ones that require admin intervention, but those informative bits of text telling you that you missed a field on a form. Chances are, you won't see a 100% success rate when people fill in a form on your site. The more complex the form, the more likely it is that people won't reach the end. Forms should be easy to follow, and easy to recover from in the event of missing or invalid data. Here are some tips to help users understand what went wrong, and not just leave them hanging. Give the Expected Format If... Continue Reading »

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