Tag: READWRITEWEB

An article recently popped up on ReadWriteWeb covering Mark Zuckerberg's interview at the Crunchies. Unfortunately it starts on entirely the wrong foot: it puts words straight into the Facebook CEO's mouth. Words that he never says. He doesn't say the age of privacy is over, damnit, so how can you claim that he does? That's what they call sensationalism, ReadWriteWeb. Looking at the number of ...

Yesterday might have been a US holiday, but the Twittering and blogging masses were awakened (by quacking claxons, I'm sure) to the inadvertent leak of Google Chrome, the oft-rumored browser from the search giant. Naturally, everyone wants a piece of the action. Here are a few of the stories we're digesting: TechCrunch has some juicy first pics of the browser. They snagged a few blurry YouTube ...

Read/WriteWeb has a great article up that claims that JavaScript and - more to the point: all of the widgets that JavaScript powers - are ruining the web by slowing down websites to a crawl. The surprising information here is that JavaScript is a single-threaded language, meaning that in most cases nothing can happen on a website while a given piece of JavaScript code is being run. While this ...

Over at Read/WriteWeb Ebrahim Ezzy has written an interesting article called Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search, which inspects some of the next-generation search technologies that are showing up. Ezzy calls Search 2.0 the third generation of search engines (go figure)--whereas first-generation search (e.g. AltaVista) ranked by content and second-generation search (e.g. Google) ranked by link ...

Just counting all the feed readers out there would be a daunting task, much less actually choosing one. Fortunately we have people like Ryan Stewart and Richard MacManus, who've written a round-up of their picks for best-of-breed RSS readers over at Read/WriteWeb. Stewart and MacManus split the task into three categories: Web-based, desktop, and "rich internet application." The latter category is ...

WAMPAD's tagline is "Your Internet Speed Dial." Essentially it's a home page for your mobile browser, giving you quick access to a number of different sites and services from one place. Rather than "widgets" WAMPAD's different services, like Flickr, del.icio.us, MySpace, Wikipedia, movies, horoscopes, etc., are displayed with a single search box and a drop-down menu to choose what service you want ...

Back in February we reported on stirrings related to a brand new design for Yahoo!'s home page, and today Yahoo! is officially showing it off. For me the new design shows up when I go to yahoo.com, but if it doesn't show up for you, try going to yahoo.com/preview. Read/WriteWeb's Richard MacManus has a nice overview of all of the new Yahoo!'s biggest features, but here are the highlights: A ...

AOL's much-talked-about social networking site AIM Pages launched today in beta form at AIMPages.com. Logging in with your AIM screen name takes you to the profile editor, which has a neat drag-and-drop Ajax interface. By default your AIM Pages profile has a few "modules" like the obligatory photo and "About Me" box, and you can add other modules like RSS feeds, photo tickers from Flickr or AOL, ...