| How the Internet of Things May be Used Against You Earlier today, ReadWriteWeb editor Richard MacManus examined the future of social objects - that is, the future of the Internet of Things. This slow-growing trend encompasses how real-world objects are connected to the Internet using various technologies, including RFID chips, barcodes, sensors, bots and, to some extent, even mobile applications... Continue Reading »    ResearchGATE Offers Social Networking for Scholars and Scientists Despite the continued growth and popularity of Facebook, a number of alternate social networking sites are cropping up in order to the needs of groups in ways that Facebook can't. One such group is scientists and scholars, who want to have a platform for communication and collaboration, but one that focuses on research interest and reading lists,... Continue Reading » iPhone Apps Overtaking Songs in Terms of Total Downloads There's an interesting chart making its way around the net this morning comparing the number of iTunes app downloads to the total downloads of songs. The surprising reveal is that it shows apps are being downloaded much more rapidly than songs. In only 2.2 years, the iTunes App Store has reached the same total downloads as the iTunes Music Store... Continue Reading » The Future of Social Objects The Internet of Things, when real world objects are connected to the Internet, has been slow to attract the attention of budding entrepreneurs. However, there has been some startup action in so-called "social objects." We've covered two companies in this domain in recent times, StickyBits and TalesOfThings. The New York Times profiled a third... Continue Reading » Enterprise Mobility Heats Up as Salesforce.com Announces Chatter Mobile Forrester analyst Tim Sheedy writes in a new report that "The Internet and the mobile Internet have effectively combined." Facebook users who access the social networking site through a mobile device are twice as active as users who don't. It's no surprise then to see the announcement of Salesforce.com's Chatter Mobile, a mobile client for the... Continue Reading » SpeakerText Builds the Missing Text Layer for Online Video [Invites] The Internet is a series of tubes - man, that joke just doesn't get old. Or rather, the Internet is a series of text documents. That isn't so funny if you're trying to optimize your search engine rankings for video content on your website. Other than the title and description, videos don't provide the text that robots from Google and others use... Continue Reading » Gmail's Priority Inbox Refreshingly Difficult to Game Google rolled out a new inbox last week that, in theory, separates your important emails from your unimportant emails and lets you speed through work faster. Most of the initial reaction reflected users' concerns as email recipients - excitement about reading email faster, worry about missing something urgent because Google didn't think it was... Continue Reading » | 
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