The Internet Will Get a Peer Review Layer Next Year
A project lead by some of the most-respected leaders of the Internet has secured $240,000 in funding to build a prototype system for both expert and peer review of all the content on the web, sentence...
View ArticleEducation-Specific HTML to Be Submitted to Search Engines Soon
Students, educators and others interested in finding the best published content, events and experts for learning new things will be heartened to learn that a new metadata markup standard is in the...
View ArticleGoogle X? These Nine Products From the Future Are Real Right Now
Last week the New York Times broke news of a top secret lab where secret Googlers are tinkering on more than 100 fantasy projects that may or may not ever come to market. It's called Google X Lab and...
View Article3 Reasons Why Startups Should Care About the Facebook IPO
The Wall St. Journal's report today that Facebook will make an initial public offering on the stock market next year has been met with plenty of press comment on the expected size of the offering...
View ArticleDIY Electronics Hacking: Bigger, Better & Smarter Than Ever
Arduino, the open source electronics platform with the adorable name, announced the beta availability of its version 1.0 today, 6 years since it was forked from the nearly 10 year old Wiring platform....
View ArticleIt's Carrier IQ's World, We Just Live in It
Somewhere along the complex supply chain of the mobile world's chips, antennas, touchscreens, operating systems and inter-linked celular networks traveling around the globe - someone has been caught...
View ArticleEye Tracking Could be the Next Natural User Interface
You've seen those eye tracking heat maps that show where most people look first when they land on a web page - why not turn eye tracking technology like that into a replacement for your mouse or your...
View ArticleData.gov to be Open Sourced for World-Wide Deployment
Ambitious but largely defunded open government data platform Data.gov is now working with counterparts at India's National Informatics Centre to offer an open source body of code known as the Open...
View ArticleThe New York Times Paywalls Its Beautiful Mobile Contribution to Democracy in...
The New York Times released a new iPhone app this afternoon and it looks great - if you're a Times subscriber at $15 per month. Will a large number of people pay that much to access high quality...
View ArticleGoogle Currents is to Social Media as Justin Bieber is to the Beatles
Google Currents is a new tablet app that launched today. It makes reading of syndicated web content easier, faster and more enjoyable than almost any other interface you can imagine. It's like...
View ArticleEasy-to-Use Mashup Tool ifttt Gets Betaworks Backing
Point and click web mashup startup ifttt ("if this then that") has raised financing from cutting-edge tech incubator Betaworks. News of the funding came to us via NeuVC's bot watching the firm's...
View ArticleEngag.io: A Tool to Track All Your Conversations Online in One Place
Social media is supposed to be all about engagement and authenticity, but sometimes it can feel so distributed and overwhelming that conversations get lost. A new web app called Engag.io has tackled...
View ArticleSummly: New App Helps You Read All Your Bookmarked Links in Minutes
If you had a button that you could press to pause time, make flying birds freeze in mid air, etc. what would you do with that opportunity? Some of us would catch up on all the links we've bookmarked...
View ArticleAfter Years of Missteps, Facebook's Timeline is an Epic Win
Facebook's new Timeline profile feature is great, even if it is a little strange. It's narcissistic, but that's a big part of the fun of it, and I'm not sure that other peoples' timelines are nearly...
View ArticleTop 10 Feed & RSS Technologies of 2011
News and activity feeds are more alive today than ever before, even as engagement with their simplest format, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), appears to be waning. What were the Top 10 Most Awesome...
View ArticleThe Steve Jobs Statue & the Four-Dimensional Visionaries of BIM
The world's first statue of Steve Jobs was unveiled today, but it wasn't in Apple's headquarters city of Cupertino, California. No, it was erected in Budapest, Hungary - and with good reason. In...
View ArticleMaking You More Awesome: The Red-Hot World of Online Learning Services
The joy of learning is among the most valuable ways to find meaning in life. Combine that with the substantial imbalance between supply and demand of skilled labor in the United States, and a period...
View ArticleNew Wikipedia Layer on Geoloqi Gives You Vision Beyond the Greek Gods
Last night I rode my wife's bike through North East Portland, Oregon and my new favorite iPhone app purred in my pocket with push notifications each time I passed through a new little neighborhood....
View ArticleRedux June 2011: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles
Final update: Three months after ReadWriteWeb first described these plans in detail, Google announces Google Circles as part of a larger social initiative. It is as we reported it.We believe that...
View ArticleHow CloudFlare Aims to Save the Future of the Internet, With an Amazon-Style...
Baby trashes bar in Las PalmasOne year ago a distributed DNS and content delivery network startup called CloudFlare launched at a TechCrunch event. It didn't win. ReadWriteWeb's Frederic Lardinois...
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