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Developers, check out our new channel ReadWriteHack, sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. Mon Oct 18, 2010 ReadWriteWeb Wholesale Applications Community Adds 32 Members, Shaping Up as iTunes Threat The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of telecommunications firms working to create a common mobile application platform, just added 32 more members, including big names like Opera Software, Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent, Fujitsu, LG Electronics, China Unicom, Rogers Communications and others. The group's goal is to simplify the... Continue Reading » Twitter Can Be Used to Predict Stock Market, Say Researchers Researchers from Indiana University have devised a method for predicting changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average through the analysis of Twitter updates. Using two mood-recording algorithms, the Google-Profile of Mood States (GPOMS) and OpinionFinder, the team analyzed 9.7 million tweets posted between March and December 2008. They found that... Continue Reading » OpenStudy Teams Up With MIT OpenCourseWare to Help OCW Users Study Together As we wrote earlier this month, MIT OpenCourseWare is one of the most popular site for learners to freely access university course materials, with over 70 million visitors to the site from all over the world. Yet despite the increasing popularity (and push, by the likes of the Gates Foundation's new initiative) for opencourseware, one of the... Continue Reading » Leatherbound Helps You Compare eBook Prices and Availability Even as eBook sales soar, the experience of browsing and buying eBooks still leaves a lot to be desired. If you are more interested in a particular title than in your loyalty to a particular eReader, looking for the cheapest version - or even an available version - of a book can be pretty tedious. Is it even in the iBookstore? Is it cheaper... Continue Reading » Gene Simmons Threatens Anonymous, Responds to DDoS Attacks Against His Site "Some of you may have heard a few popcorn farts re: our sites being threatened by hackers," wrote KISS bassist Gene Simmons on his website yesterday, responding to a DDoS attack that took down GeneSimmons.com earlier this week. The attack was part of Operation Payback, a campaign that over the past few weeks has been targeting organizations who... Continue Reading » Cartoon: Analyze This... Repeatedly Google has just released a new feature for Analytics, replacing Site Overlay with In-Page Analytics. And I think I have a terrific pitch for the media outlets that like to run huge social-media-is-killing-us-all headlines. Here's how it goes: When you're playing Minesweeper, Solitaire or Angry Birds, it's a little difficult to convince yourself... Continue Reading » Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that's ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too. Once a week we introduce our sponsors to our readers and let them know a little more about who they are and what they do. You can say thanks to the companies that make ReadWriteWeb happen by tweeting them (see the link below each... Continue Reading » Lessons from Startup School from the Founders of Facebook, Groupon, GitHub and More Startup School is an annual event co-sponsored by Y Combinator and BASES, Stanford University's Business Association for Entrepreneurial Students. Today's Startup School, now in its sixth year, was a day full of speakers, imparting their knowledge to a packed auditorium of entrepreneurs. The topics at Startup School ranged from the history of... Continue Reading » Ron Conway Shares Anecdotes about Early Days with Google, Napster, and Facebook Founders "It's not lost on me that the future of innovation is in the minds of the people sitting in this room," said angel investor Ron Conway, addressing a crowd full of entrepreneurs at Startup School today. One of the 11 speakers at today's event, co-sponsored by Y Combinator and Stanford University's BASES. Known as the premier angel investor,... Continue Reading » Instagram Has Made Me an iPhone Photo Addict I have a new favorite iPhone app. And I'm not alone. After only a week in the iPhone App Store, the photo-sharing app Instagram has won not just the adoration of many in the tech media, but has netted well over 100,000 users. And according to co-founder Kevin Systrom, Instagram is now counting new user sign-ups by the minute and counting photo... Continue Reading » ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 16 Oct. 2010 Coming up this week: The International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ; Digital East 2010. We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us.... Continue Reading » Weekly Wrap-up: (Not) Free Public Wi-Fi, Windows Phone 7 Revealed, Jailbreak the iPhone 4, And More... You know those Wi-Fi networks called "Free Public WiFi"? Clearly that question has been bugging our readers, too, because they made our answer the top story of this week. In mobile news, TweetDeck arrived on Android. And as part of our continuing series on product innovation, we looked at how Instapaper was created and its plan to add social... Continue Reading » RWW SPONSORS ReadWriteStart Lessons from Startup School from the Founders of Facebook, Groupon, GitHub and More Startup School is an annual event co-sponsored by Y Combinator and BASES, Stanford University's Business Association for Entrepreneurial Students. Today's Startup School, now in its sixth year, was a day full of speakers, imparting their knowledge to a packed auditorium of entrepreneurs. The topics at Startup School ranged from the history of Silicon Valley innovation and the history (and future) of startup funding, to testing your hypothesis, pivoting, and optimizing for happiness. The speaker - 11 all told - gave presentations, followed by... Continue Reading » ReadWriteBiz This Week in SMB Tech: Twitter Ads, Klout for Facebook and Web Invoice Perks Keeping up with every RSS feed item, tweet and emailed link is hard enough for anybody, let alone someone who's trying to run a business. That's why each Friday, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small and medium-sized businesses. Twitter revealed the latest piece of its monetization puzzle Monday by announcing that it would be rolling out a self-service advertising platform for small businesses next year. This new model will supplement the revenue brought in by Twitter's "Promoted Tweets"... Continue Reading » ReadWriteEnterprise Poll: Is Your Organization Spending More or Less This Year on IT? Forrester also released today its US And Global IT Market Outlook: Q3 2010 report. Forrester has adjusted down its earlier projections regarding economic recovery and IT spending. However, the firm is still expecting IT market growth of 8.1% for 2010 (down less than 2% from its earlier prediction of 9.9%) , and 7.4% next year. Forrester analyst and report co-author Andrew Bartels shares some thoughts on the report here. What about your organization? Are you spending more this year? Sponsor Is your organization spending more or less on... Continue Reading » ReadWriteCloud Success Factors Buys YouCalc - a Gem in the SaaS Wilderness Success Factors is making a big play into the business intelligence market with its acquisition of YouCalc, a SaaS service out of Denmark for doing analytics across multiple applications, including Google Analytics, Mailchimp and Salesforce.com. The move heightens competitiveness in the fast growing market for SaaS analytics. And it highlights the marked improvements that have come in the past year, thanks in large part due to the innovations made by SaaS providers. YouCalc is a case in point. The company has developed an application that... Continue Reading » ReadWriteHack PHP Power Button: VMware vCloud SDK Developers have access to a growing number of options for spinning up virtual machines. With each new software release from virtualization titans such as VMware there are also developer community efforts such as VI Java API with a wide base of contributors. Just as the contributors expand so do the options for developers familiar with other languages. Let's take a look at how VMware is expanding options with a recent beta that targets the PHP developer community. Here Comes Beta The VMware vCloud SDK for PHP Beta is an example of... Continue Reading » ReadWriteMobile Weekly Poll: Does Android Have a "Dude" Problem? According to a recent survey of 78,835 mobile phone customers in the U.K., less than 5% of women would select an Android device as their next smartphone. The problem, explains Belinda Parmar, Founder of marketing agency Lady Geek which conducted the survey with YouGov Sixth Sense, is that "Android provides a perfect example of how not to market a platform to women." Few women know or care about what Android is or how it can benefit their lives, she explains. Parmar plans to detail the survey's findings in a presentation at Droidcon, a... Continue Reading »

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