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- How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Startups - ReadWrite
Nice overview of the startup activity happening here in the Twin Cities. The number of tech businesses in Minnesota has grown exponentially since 2010, adding more than 500…
- Why Are Dead People Liking Stuff On Facebook?
A Facebook spokesman says the likes from dead people can happen if an account doesnt get memorialized (meaning someone informs Facebook that the account-holder has died). If…
- Hadoop Needs Better Bridges to Fulfill the Big Data Promise
Pervasive Software is a recent entrant to the Hadoop space, but not to the field of data integration: The Pervasive Data Integrator is no stranger to those who move in data…
- What Facebook and Apple Will Gain by Teaming Up for iOS 6
If the latest reports are to be believed, we'll soon be doing a lot more "liking" from our iDevices. That's because Apple is expected to roll out Facebook integration in iOS 6,…
- Mary Meeker Re-Imagines Nearly Everything
- Latest Neo4j NoSQL Release Takes Oracle Head-on
- Google Hands Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data to U.S. Government
- Application Store Appia Partners With Zedge to Broaden Reach
Third-party open application storefront Appia has been trying hard in the last several months to gain more consumer mind share. The company took a step towards that goal today,…
- Wikipedia's Big Mobile Plans Have Begun
Exciting. Hope the mobile view becomes a core part of MediaWiki too, not just Wikipedia.
- Linux Kernel Host Kernel.org Breached
Sigh... this stuff is so annoying.
- Short Amazon Web Services Outage Takes Down Netflix, Others
Yep, saw this first hand. :-/
- Will a Commercial nginx Shake Up the Web Server Market?
The nginx Web server and reverse proxy server has already posted impressive numbers in the Web server market as a small open source project. Now the project's creator, Igor…
- R.I.P. OpenID: Janrain Raises Millions to Do Just the Opposite
- Groupon Changes Privacy Policy, Starts Tracking User Location
The biggest change that Groupon made to its privacy statement was in how it tracks and uses the mobile location data it collects when consumers are using Groupon Now, a function…
- Facebook Launches Graph API Explorer
In an attempt to make its Graph API more accessible Facebook today launched a new service called the Graph API Explorer. The Explorer helps you sign-up for an access token,…
- A New Way to Track Amazon Cloud Costs
Smart service offering.
- Run Linux on... JavaScript?
Crazy cool.
- Your Content, Your Copyright: TwitPic Updates Terms Of Service
Twitter photo-sharing service TwitPic has updated its terms of service to clear up any misunderstanding of who owns the pictures uploaded to the service. There have been…
- 4 Ways to Roll Your Own Dropbox Alternative
SparkleShare looks perfect. I want a DIY Dropbox replacement. Will have to keep an eye on this project.
- Rackspace Shutting Down Slicehost
This makes me sad, I've been a Slicehost customer for a while and don't want to be a Rackspace customer (at home). I've already provisioned two VPS at Prgmr.com, this will get me…
- Happy Birthday - the Wiki Celebrates its Sweet 16
The wiki turns 16 today. How far it has come since that day 16 years ago when Ward Cunningham created a Web page that anyone could edit.
- MySQL Fork Drizzle Finally Releases First General Availability Version
Drizzle, a lightweight fork of MySQL, released its first general availability version today. Drizzle is designed for multicore environments and cloud applications. Unlike NoSQL…
- Four New Types of CIO for the Future
The global recession, the consumerization of IT, the great cloud migration and other factors are changing the role of the CIO. Past failures of enterprise technology to live up to…
- Dear Twitter: You're a Utility - Get Off The Fence And Start Acting Like One
On Friday Twitter suspended UberMedia's UberTwitter, Twidroyd and UberCurrent apps for "violating Twitter policies and trademarks." Twitter continued: "We've had conversations…
- How to Build a WordPress Plugin in 10 Minutes
PHP Heaven is running a tutorial on building WordPress plugins. The tutorial is aimed at developers with a solid understanding of PHP and some familiarity with WordPress. I…
- Ex-Googler Helps Users Disconnect From the Social Web
- Why Teens Don't And Won't Tweet
- Why a Day of Tumblr Down Time Matters to the Entire Web & World
Good post. I even left a comment: RT @davewiner: Why a Day of Tumblr Down Time Matters to the Entire Web and World.
- NoSQL: Comparing the Different Solutions
Adrian Cockcroft, a cloud architect at Netflix, is running a series of posts looking at how different NoSQL databases handle common cloud computing tasks. All the usual…
- Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac Arrives... But Where's Facebook?
- How Instapaper Was Created & its Plan to Add Social Features
- Amazon Launches Facebook e-Commerce Store
Amazon has just launched a Facebook e-commerce store, but sadly it's not a Facebook-enabled version of Amazon.com. Instead, the new store is integrated into Procter & Gamble's…
- How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made
- Major Newspaper Chain Goes Open Source
The argument over the utility of open source has one more voter in the yes camp. This time, it's the Journal Register Company, a U.S. newspaper chain with 170 publications.…
- Urban Photo Data Uncovers Local Hot Spots
- Google App Engine is Down - Backup Data Center Having Problems
Google App Engine is down and there are problems with a backup data center. The problem is affecting untold number of customers. Google App Engine is a service for application…
- Delicious' New Flavors: Refined Search, Interactive Graphs, & Much More
On the Delicious blog today, the social bookmarking site has announced a slew of enhancements in addition to the usual bug fixes for their most recent release. From their…
- Google Chrome Injects Itself Into Internet Explorer With Chrome Frame
Google just announced the launch of Chrome Frame, a new open-source project that will allow Chrome's rendering engine to run within Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6,7, and 8. This…
- Lazyfeed Implements RSSCloud/PubSubHubBub for “Real Real Time”
In an email today, Lazyfeed cofounder and CEO Ethan Gahng informed us that the RSS reader is now supporting both RSSCloud and PubSubHubBub protocols, allowing for real-time…
- On Twitter: What's Valuation Got to Do With Revenue?
While it's unlikely that Twitter CEO Evan Williams was wearing a Dr. Evil costume when he delivered the news, he had the pleasure of announcing his company's $1 billion dollar…
- LazyFeed: 1st Independent RSS Aggregator Declares Support for RSSCloud
- Google Maps Gets Smarter: Crowdsources Live Traffic Data
Google today announced that Google Maps can now display live traffic data for more roads. Until now, Google only showed data from major highways. That data came directly from…
- Facebook Snags Open Web Community Leader Recordon
David Recordon, an outspoken young advocate for Open Source and Open Web technologies, is leaving blog software company SixApart to join Facebook. He confirmed to us that he'll be…
- Wikimedia Celebrates Hewlett Grant
The Wikimedia Foundation just emailed ReadWriteWeb to announce receipt of $500,000 in grant funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The grant is a part of a $100…
- Postling: Etsy Founders Do Social Media for Small Business
Half of the team that founded Etsy, along with a former Etsy and Amazon.com product manager, have quietly launched a new startup. Postling is a centralized platform for small…
- Nambu: A Better Twitter Client Than Tweetdeck?
If you are looking for a desktop client for Twitter these days, you will most likely be overwhelmed by the amount of choices, but according to TwitStat, the most popular desktop…
- The Sorry State of the Newspaper Industry: Advertising Income Fell 16.6% in 2008
- Feed.Informer Relaunches Its All-in-one RSS Toolbox
- GPhone? Just a Rumor - The Real Story Is The Android Developer Revolt
- Swurl: Your Lifestream, Made Beautiful
RSS is magic and the things we do online are often beautiful - so why are all the interfaces for displaying the feeds of our activities so ugly? Enter Swurl, a visually stunning…
- Amazon's Bezos Invests in Twitter
Twitter just announced yet another sum of funding, this including money from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezo's fund Bezos Expeditions. The company says the money will be spent on…
- 72Photos Offers a New, Sleek Alternative to Flickr
For those that are hedging their bets by setting up shop elsewhere, the photo sharing web site called 72Photos is hoping to attract their interest by creating the next gen flickr.…
- Super Hot: Muxtape With Coverflow
MP3 "mix tape" site Muxtape has been my preferred source of new music for the last few weeks now, in large part because the simple interface is such a joy to use. Now, internet…
- MyOpenID for Your Domain - The Easiest Way to Use Your URL as an OpenID
OpenID, a technology that allows users to sign in to new supporting websites through a single trusted ID provider of their choice, is notoriously hard for non-developers to…
- FriendFeed Launches API - This Should be Interesting
- On Alltop and RSS For The Masses
Today Alltop, an aggregator of RSS feeds, launched. It's a very similar product to one of my daily refreshes, OriginalSignal. Only Alltop covers a much broader range of topics, 40…
- Wordpress + Flickr + Creative Commons = Awesome New Plugin for Bloggers
Adding photos to your blog is one of the best ways to enhance your content and attract attention to your writings. The only problem is that finding quality photos to use can be…
- Web as Platform Mash-Ups
There have been a lot of excellent posts and articles this week about APIs, the Web as Platform, web sites as software companies, and so forth.