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Developers, check out our new channel ReadWriteHack, sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. Wed Nov 10, 2010 ReadWriteWeb Google Warns Facebook Users of "Trap" Before Data Export If you hadn't yet heard, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle this past week over your data by two Internet giants - Facebook and Google. It started when Google began blocking other services from importing its data without reciprocity, a move aimed directly at Facebook. Since then, the ball has been hit back and forth, with Facebook making an end-run... Continue Reading » Jimmy Wales to Announce Wiki 2.0 Wikia, the for-profit venture of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is announcing what it is calling the "next generation of collaborative publishing", or put shortly, "Wiki 2.0". This next generation of wikis will include a social layer that brings game mechanics, real-time streams, social sharing and more to the previously... Continue Reading » Mobile Users Want Branded Apps that Are Useful, Not Just Marketing Branded mobile apps - that is apps from companies like Starbucks, eBay or Nike - are now a standard fixture in mobile app stores, but a new survey that user interface design and app development agency EffectiveUI commissioned from Harris Interactive found that 38% of users today are not satisfied with these branded apps. That alone would be bad,... Continue Reading » Tips for Getting (Follow-Up) Press Coverage for Your Startup When it's time to launch your startup, you probably know to have the press release ready to go out to the various publications you hope will give you coverage. But after you launch, how (and when and where) do you go about securing follow-up coverage? The obvious answer is to simply continue the PR push. Keep trying. Although you might feel as... Continue Reading » Why Software is More Important Than Sensors in the Internet of Things As the Internet of Things slowly becomes a commercial reality, led by industries such as food and logistics, the underlying technologies (RFID, sensors, QR codes and more) become less important than what is done with the data. As Bo Begole, Principal Scientist and Manager of Ubiquitous Computing at PARC, put it to me recently: "the algorithms... Continue Reading » 5 App Stores for the Enterprise Now that Apple's iPhone Enterprise Developer Program is available for organizations of all sizes, all enterprises can take advantage of the ability to bypass the App Store and create and share internal apps. But how do you distribute and manage those applications? Business Week recently covered how companies like IBM are creating internal app... Continue Reading » Can the Kno Tablet Make the E-Textbook Grade? Educational tablet maker Kno announced the pricing today for its soon-to-be-released device. As promised, the cost will be "under $1000" - ranging from $599 for the 16 GB single-screen to $999 for the 32 GB dual-screen versions. Kno is taking orders now, with the device set to be available by December 20, just in time to be a last-minute gift... Continue Reading » The UN to Open Source Global Crises in Real-Time Global Pulse, the UN agency devoted to monitoring "the impact of compound crises on vulnerable populations" is turning to real-time data and open-source development to stay on top of challenges. At a recent briefing of the United Nations General Assembly, Global Pulse's director, Robert Kirkpatrick, outlined the turn his agency was making, away... Continue Reading » New Dashboard Shows Cool Twitter Tools Your Friends Have Discovered Twitter app directory OneForty is experimenting with a new dashboard view that displays the new Twitter apps your friends have begun using in a newsfeed format. You can access the dashboard via this link. It's a fun way to discover new tools and see which ones are becoming popular among people you know. OneForty founder Laura Fitton says the... Continue Reading » Just In Time to Protect You from Unwanted Fruitcake, Amazon Patents a "Gift Converter" System Already dreading the presents you'll receive this holiday? Or maybe you dread being the person who's always giving the wrong gift. Either way, Amazon has received a patent today for a "system and method for converting gifts" that looks to help the online retailer preempt, or at least rectify, those unfortunate purchases. The system will allow... Continue Reading » Free Speech on Facebook an Employee Right, Federal Agency Says In an epoch of global privacy intrusion and free speech limitations, a court case by a U.S. federal agency borders on miraculous. The National Labor Relations Board has filed a federal complaint on behalf of a worker who was fired after criticizing her supervisor on Facebook. Dawnmarie Souza, an emergency medical technician for American Medical... Continue Reading » Fable 7" Tablet Targets the Children E-Reader Market While the e-book market is skyrocketing, with predictions that sales will top $1 billion this year, arguably much of the emphasis has been on capturing the adult reader market. But many e-readers, particularly those with black-and-white screens, are not suited for children's illustrated books. With that in mind, mobile device maker Isabella... Continue Reading » RWW SPONSORS ReadWriteStart Tips for Getting (Follow-Up) Press Coverage for Your Startup When it's time to launch your startup, you probably know to have the press release ready to go out to the various publications you hope will give you coverage. But after you launch, how (and when and where) do you go about securing follow-up coverage? The obvious answer is to simply continue the PR push. Keep trying. Although you might feel as though you are filling reporters' inboxes with email (and yes, yes you are), we are always looking for stories. So even though we might not write about you every time you send us an update, that... Continue Reading » ReadWriteBiz How Real-Time Analytics Can Help Small Businesses Thrive For nearly as long as we've had the ability to publish to the Web, tools have existed to help us measure traffic on our sites. In the early days, there were log file-based systems that gave us a general idea of the number of "hits" we were getting each week. In time, more accurate and sophisticated methods emerged, often using a combination of JavaScript and cookies to track human activity and filter out the bots. Hits turned into unique visits and page views. As advanced and detailed as tools like Google Analytics and others are, they... Continue Reading » ReadWriteEnterprise 5 App Stores for the Enterprise Now that Apple's iPhone Enterprise Developer Program is available for organizations of all sizes, all enterprises can take advantage of the ability to bypass the App Store and create and share internal apps. But how do you distribute and manage those applications? Business Week recently covered how companies like IBM are creating internal app stores for employees to find and share mobile apps. Although IBM built its own store, there are now at least five products on the market that help organizations easily build their own app... Continue Reading » ReadWriteCloud The Rise of Bloggers, Practitioners and a Generation of Enterprise Irregulars We get a bit surprised at times to the continued resistance to SaaS platforms and in particular, social technologies in the enterprise. It's a bit ironic as the richest, organic development is undoubtedly in the SaaS space. It's such a gigantic force that to downplay it seems self-destructive. And at the core of social technologies is undoubtedly the cloud. But the changing forces in the market is giving rise to new a generation of smart thinkers who understand the forces at play and why they are so important. Constellation Research is a... Continue Reading » ReadWriteHack Learning JavaScript Visually with Diagrams "One of the secrets to being a super effective JavaScript developer is to truly understand the semantics of the language," writes developer Tim Caswell. That's why he's created a series of JavaScript lessons based on diagrams, each one illustrating a piece of example code. Caswell's lessons aren't geared towards new programmers. Those with no experience would be better served looking towards an introductory book on programming (or at least this tutorial) to learn the terminology and basic concepts. However, those wanting a deeper understanding... Continue Reading » ReadWriteMobile Open Mobile Summit: The Challenges of Building Sustainable App Businesses There are a number of ways developers and publishers of mobile applications can earn revenue, including everything from ads and subscriptions to virtual goods and advertising. But which models work? And can you make "real" money using these methods? Leading application developers and content players from the industry shared their experiences on the topic on a panel this afternoon at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco. Disclosure: ReadWriteWeb is a media partner with the Open Mobile Summit. Discussing the changing business models in... Continue Reading »

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