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Developers, check out our new channel ReadWriteHack, sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. Tue Oct 19, 2010 ReadWriteWeb 2 Ways to Bring Activity Streams to Any App Well, almost any browser based app anyway. Socialcast announced today a new product called Socialcast Reach. Reach will bring Socialcast streams into SharePoint or any other application that supports HTML and JavaScript. Socialcast is trying to solve the problem of too many applications by bringing activity streams into the applications users... Continue Reading » What Did She Find in Her Happy Meal? A Facebook Scam We know. Joe and Christina "liked" it and they're both smart folks, so it's got to be real, right? Wrong. For the sake of all of our sanity and humanity in general, we took a peek behind the "like" scams making their way around Facebook and we can tell you right now - the American dude doesn't deserve to get stoned to death and all the little... Continue Reading » HP Reveals webOS 2.0, Arriving Friday on Palm Pre 2 HP today has officially introduced webOS 2.0, the biggest update to what was formerly Palm's mobile operating system, one of the assets gained by HP back in April when it acquired Palm, Inc for $1.2 billion. Now called HP webOS, the updated operating system will make its debut this Friday on the new Palm Pre 2 smartphone. The phone will be... Continue Reading » Why Facebook Should Pass Out Less, Not More, User Info Marshall Kirkpatrick makes a good point when he argues that Facebook should be giving out more, not less user info. And I have to say, the recent Wall Street Journal series about Internet privacy has been been more scare tactics than substance. My 67-year-old father, for example - avid Wall Street Journal fan and Internet noob - is thoroughly... Continue Reading » Why Facebook Should Pass Out More, Not Less, User Info The Internet, Congress and possibly your Mom are all freaking out this week about a Wall St. Journal article challenging Facebook's passing of some limited User ID numbers to 3rd party companies, including advertisers. Many people consider it a privacy violation. I challenged Facebook as vehemently as anyone on the Internet a year ago when the... Continue Reading » Apple Reports Q4 Earnings, and Guess What, It is Doing Really, Really Well Apple announced its earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year today, and in news that won't surprise those who either monitor the stock market or who own an iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Macbook (um, that would be me) revealed that the company's financial standing is strong - record-breaking strong, that is. Apple posted a... Continue Reading » Cool and Delicious Rails Rumble Hackathon Apps Every year since 2007, the Rails Rumble has thrown hundreds of starving Ruby devs into a Gladiator-style sand pit (called a "Hackathon") and forced them to compete with their bare hands for the amusement of cruel, power-drunk, code-mad judges. With only 48 hours to develop a Web app, teams are then covered in fire ants and allowed caffeine. The... Continue Reading » Ray Ozzie Steps Down From Key Role at Microsoft Microsoft announced today that Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is stepping down from his position. Although Microsoft does not intend to replace Ozzie, he will assist in transferring his responsibilities during a transition period before focusing on consumer entertainment projects at Microsoft. Ozzie has a long history in enterprise software,... Continue Reading » Automatic Facebook Group Creation? Wowd Can Do It The new Facebook Groups feature launched this month promises a lot of new functionality, but one thing it doesn't do is create new Groups of friends automatically. P2P real-time search company Wowd launched a new feature today that automatically bundles groups of Facebook friends who talk together and discuss the same things. It then allows you... Continue Reading » Twitter Gets to Use Your Photos, for Free? Twitter has been making a lot of changes lately, and photographers may want to re-read that fine print in the Terms of Service. Photo nerds at PhotoFocus did, and after consulting with their lawyers, they were alarmed to discover that every photo you share on Twitter can be sub-licensed by Twitter, or worse - all royalty-free. A close look at... Continue Reading » Wikileaks Founder: Media Reports of Iraq Document Release Based on "Tabloid" Blog Take a look this morning at Reuters, the BBC, CNN or any number of other media sources and you'll read that WikiLeaks, the controversial wiki-based site for whistle-blowers, is about to release nearly half a million records pertaining to the Iraq War. Wikileaks says that this news has been reported in more than 700 articles across the Web and... Continue Reading » Your Memories Will Be Rewritten: Mozilla's Raskin Says Product Placement is Coming Soon to Your Facebook Photos The human brain's predictable fallibility leaves us susceptible to the creation of false memories by brand marketers through retroactive product placement into our photos posted on Facebook and other social networks, Creative Lead for Firefox Aza Raskin said in a keynote speech at the University of Michigan School of Information posted online... 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 Survey: One Third of Small Businesses Use Social Media to Reach Customers The use of social media to connect with customers is growing among small businesses, according to the results of a semi-annual survey released last week by American Express OPEN, the small business arm of American Express. Approximately four out of ten small businesses said they used social networking sites to communicate with customers and market their products, according to the Small Business Monitor survey. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of those companies prefer Facebook to other major players liked Twitter and LinkedIn. This... Continue Reading » ReadWriteEnterprise Ray Ozzie Steps Down From Key Role at Microsoft Microsoft announced today that Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is stepping down from his position. Although Microsoft does not intend to replace Ozzie, he will assist in transferring his responsibilities during a transition period before focusing on consumer entertainment projects at Microsoft. Ozzie has a long history in enterprise software, having worked for Lotus, IBM, Groove Networks and eventually Microsoft. Ozzie joined Microsoft in 2005 when the company acquired Groove, which Ozzie co-founded, and turned it into SharePoint... Continue Reading » ReadWriteCloud Prepping for Big Data - RedMonk Gets into the Analytics Game RedMonk is not your standard technology analyst firm.The group are more than report writers. They are bloggers. They are active on the social Web. Their research is public. RedMonk analysts are respected as some of the keenest observers of the development community. Their whole focus is on developers. The formula works as you can see from the client list, which includes companies such as IBM, SAP and Hewlett-Packard. And so we took notice today when Redmonk's Stephn O'Grady wrote a blog post about the company's first product: RedMonk... Continue Reading » ReadWriteHack Google Search Appliance Aims to Be Your Site's Universal Search As I type this, it seems silly in a world dominated by Google. But "search" is hard, requiring a lot of resources. And yet, the ability to crawl, index, and retrieve data from sites - both internal and external, from behind the firewall and from the open internet - is crucial. But today Google has announced Cloud Connect for the Google Search Appliance, promising to bring about a more comprehensive search tool for on-premise and cloud-based content, all from within a single search box. loud Connect will display results from Google Docs and... Continue Reading » ReadWriteMobile Android Generates More Ad Revenue than iPhone (Or Does It?) Mobile ad company Millennial Media found that Android ad revenue has, for the first time ever, beaten iPhone ad revenue on the company's ad network. According to its September "Mobile Mix" report, Android is the second-largest device on its network, and has been since July 2010. Since that time, Android has increased its share of impressions 2% month-over-month and is now at 29%. In comparison, Apple's iOS platform, in the top spot, accounts for 46% of impressions. That makes the news that Android ads generated more revenue last month even... Continue Reading »

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