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Social Media Information- DocVerse: Syncing Makes Better CollaborationIn Google Docs, you can collaborate with other people when you are working online. Making edits to a document while offline can be an issue as the syncing capabilities get a bit tricky when you reconnect. The DocVerse team knows the challenges of working on deeply collaborative technologies. The founders came from Microsoft where they worked on Sharepoint an […]Alex Williams
- Google Looks to Dominate iPhone and Android Advertising With AdMob AcquisitionGoogle announced this morning that it has acquired 3-year old mobile display ad serving platform AdMob for $750 million, half the price it paid for YouTube in 2006. Why did Google make this move? Two reasons stand out. First, AdMob is a very strong company in a sector (mobile advertising) that everyone expects to become much more important in the future. Sec […]Marshall Kirkpatrick
- Shazam Now Doing Recommendations with Newly Launched AppShazam, the music discovery iPhone application which gained widespread adoption thanks to its appearance in an iPhone TV commercial, is now getting a ton of new features thanks to the launch of a premium application called Shazam Encore. This new application adds music recommendations, trend charts, music searches and more to its core set of features already […]Sarah Perez
- New iPhone Worm: How Worried Should We Be?Numerous reports have surfaced over the weekend regarding the first iPhone worm spotted in the wild. The worm, known as iKee, only affects modified handsets also known as "jailbroken" devices. These devices have been hacked by their owners to allow for the installation of unapproved, third-party programs that aren't allowed in the iTunes App S […]Sarah Perez
- 5 Years On: ReadWriteWeb's 2004 Interview With Tim O'ReillyFive years ago I interviewed tech publisher Tim O'Reilly about a new term that his company had just coined: Web 2.0. The first Web 2.0 conference had been held the previous month, October 2004, and O'Reilly had graciously agreed to give an interview to yours truly - "an unknown blogger from New Zealand," as I put it back then. tweetmeme_u […]Richard MacManus
- Did Google Steal Sidewiki From a Startup?Web annotation is a sexy and increasingly crowded space in the market. As in any such pool, the amount of elbow-rubbing between individuals and similarity between products can lead to suspicion of theft. Annotation startup Reframe It, a 14-person team, claims that Google's hot new product Sidewiki crosses the line between competitive innovation and IP i […]Jolie O'Dell
- Life360 Protects Your Family & Property Via Web, Mobile, & MoreLife360 is often described as an "OnStar for life," providing its users with tools to track and protect people and things through a variety of interfaces. The company offers IRL services such as child identification paraphernalia, medical IDs, and credit and identity protection; but they also have a cool suite of features that revolve around Intern […]Jolie O'Dell
- Noticings: Geotagging Photo Game Powered by Flickr APIWe recently told you about the Flickr App garden and gave a list of five interesting apps we found using this new section of the site. One app we didn't find - and one that brilliantly appropriates the Flickr API in a delightful, infectious user experience - is Noticings. Part game, part geotagging app, part photoblog, Noticings asks users to upload geo […]Jolie O'Dell
- Cartoon: Flag for ModerationThose of us who manage online communities have learned to crowdsource a big chunk of our work: identifying user contributions that deserve a higher profile - and those that deserve to be dropped in a deep, dark hole. But there has to be something more nuanced than just thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. And so... Sponsor More Noise to Signal. Discuss […]Rob Cottingham
- Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb PossibleOur mission at ReadWriteWeb is to explore the latest Web technology products and trends. We're fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So, once a week, we write a post about them; about who they are, what they do, and what they've been up to lately. Pay them a visit and show your appreciation of their sponsorship of this […]Admin
- DocVerse: Syncing Makes Better Collaboration
