| See the Page Behind the Search Result with Google Instant Preview Google announced this morning that it has moved beyond instant search results to instant previews. Now, if you head over to Google.com and type in your search phrase, not only will your results appear as you type, but if you mouse over the results, you'll see an "image-based snapshot" that the company is calling "a new kind of... Continue Reading »    Magitti: The Future of Location Apps From PARC? On a trip to Silicon Valley last month, I had the pleasure of visiting the famous PARC campus (Palo Alto Research Center, formally Xerox PARC). One of the people I spoke to was Bo Begole, Principal Scientist and Manager of PARC's Ubiquitous Computing Area. Begole showed me an app that brings the concept of 'ubicomp' to a commercial reality.... Continue Reading » Broadband Subscriptions Are Up, But "Digital Divide" Persists in the U.S. Data from the latest U.S. Census reveals that even though the number of households with broadband has increased sevenfold since 2001, the "digital divide" continues, with low-income, rural and minority groups less likely to have broadband access at home. And even when controlling for socio-economic factors, some of these gaps persist, with... Continue Reading » No More Hand Holding: Why Consultants Need to Build Apps Dachis Group is a consulting firm. RedMonk is an analyst firm. Both are in the services world, which is dominated by companies that hire lots of people to be account executives, project managers and fill a host of other roles. What makes these companies a bit different? Both are developing or collaborating on applications with developers and... Continue Reading » ChubbyBrain Looks at the Demographics of ReadWriteWeb Readers' Startups Last week, we looked at some of the statistics gleaned from ChubbyBrain's new Funding Recommendation Engine. To recap, the recommendation engine helps entrepreneurs find the rest investor match, based on the latter's previous patterns. And ChubbyBrain released the demographics from early enrollees in the program, revealing some interesting... Continue Reading » Social Media Gains Ground on Travel Experts Peer recommendations have overtaken specialist knowledge as a make-or-break point for online purchases. A new study shows the same process is taking place in travel, and even within the online sphere peer-to-peer reviews have more heft than the authority of travel experts. The study, by World Travel Market, in advance of this month's conference... Continue Reading » Hacker's Fifth of November Prank Interrupts Classes at Washington State University Students at Washington State University will likely remember the Fifth of November this year, as on Friday, a hacker going by the alias "V" infiltrated the school's Academic Media Services system to interrupt classes with a video broadcast message. The message greeted students in over two dozen classrooms on campus. The video imitates a scene... Continue Reading » Companies to Watch at Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara: The Launchpad Four At each Enterprise 2.0 conference, participants select one of four new or upcoming applications as the Launchpad winner of the event. Baydin, a quirky e-mail-centric startup, won at the Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston last summer (see our coverage) and enterprise collaboration suite CubeTree won at the event before that. Read on for our take on... Continue Reading » Scotland Trailblazes the Use of HTML5 in Museums The National Museums of Scotland have become the first major museum organization in the world to fully implement HTML5. Museum digital media tech manager Simon Madine explained in a blog post that the implementation across the five allied sites was married to an overall redesign. That redesign saw the site gain color and shoulder-room and... Continue Reading » Egyptian Blogger Kareem Amer is Being Processed for Release from Jail (UPDATED) Nasser Weddady, a Mauritanian blogger living in the U.S., has reported his sources saying Kareem is currently being processed for release from jail in Egypt. "(T)he last report I got 3 hours ago is that he was being processed out of jail." This has yet to be confirmed with other sources by ReadWriteWeb. Update: Latest Tweet says: "At state... Continue Reading » Interest in Robotics Booming as Robotics Open Source Turns 3 [Video] To the litany of reasons why you should support open source, make sure you add this: robots. Today marks the third anniversary of ROS, Robotics Open Source. The robotics software project initially began as a collaboration between the STAIR project at Stanford and the Personal Robots Program at Willow Garage, and there are now over 50 public... Continue Reading » Google Launches Its Own Windows Phone 7 Search App By default, Windows Phone 7 uses Bing as its search engine and Microsoft doesn't currently give users the option to switch to another search provider. Just like Bing launched multiple iPhone apps, though, Google is also bringing its own mobile apps to Windows Phone 7. Just in time for the U.S. launch of Windows Phone 7, you can now download Google... Continue Reading » | 
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