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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:45:21 -0800

IBM Gets Webtop From eyeOS, Eyes Google Chrome OS
IBM is teaming up with eyeOS, the maker of an open-source, web-based operating system. We've had our (ahem) eye on eyeOS for...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:12:01 -0800

Lonely Planet Launches Augmented Reality Apps
Popular travel book publisher Lonely Planet has begun selling Augmented Reality apps for 10 US cities for $5 each in the...
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Raptr posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:43:23 -0800

One Paragraph Gaming News: Wednesday, December 16
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Panama Canal video. Assassin’s Creed 2 DLC detailed – looks like tons of new content!...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:00:00 -0800

Jay Rosen Interviews Demand Media: Are Content Farms "Demonic"?
I first became aware of Demand Media by reading this feature by Daniel Roth in the November 2009 issue of Wired [Ed:...
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Raptr posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:39:13 -0800

Raptr and GameSpot Partnership is Now Live!
This is an exciting day for us here at Raptr. We have some pretty awesome partners already: Activision, THQ, Sony Online...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:00:00 -0800

Best BigCo of 2009
In one of ReadWriteWeb's longest-running traditions, every year we review the top Internet companies and their impact over...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:47:34 -0800

Morgan Stanley: Mobile Internet Market Will Be Twice The Size of Desktop Internet
Morgan Stanley has released a couple of bulky documents about the mobile internet: 'The Mobile Internet Report,' a 424 page...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:33:24 -0800

YouTego: An Addictive App for Self-Visualization
If all your interests and skills were reduced to a scannable set of tags and thumbnails, what would your ego look...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:14:11 -0800

Did Dorsey & Square Cheat on Hardware Development?
It seems we've come across way too many stories lately about successful folks stealing good ideas from unknown underdogs. We...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:15:16 -0800

Why Do Small Business Services Sometimes Lack Sophistication?
Collaboration services targeted for the small business market often seem more like software suites than web-based services with...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:57:29 -0800

Future Interfaces: Gestures, Light and the BiDi Screen
In just a few days at the SIGGRAPH Asia Conference, MIT's Media Lab will present a revolutionary interface that allows users...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:10:29 -0800

Twitter's Top 10 Tech Trends of 2009
The Twitterati have spoken! Throughout 2009, a few tech topics got so much attention that they managed to make Twitter's...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:01:10 -0800

Facebook's Privacy Move Violates Contract With Users

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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:35:22 -0800

Google Adds Place Ranking System, Should Yelp Be Afraid?
A few months ago Google rolled out Place Pages with the lofty vision of creating a webpage for every place in the world. In...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:05:03 -0800

Mobile Web Apps Look Hot - Can They Challenge the iTunes App Store?
The delays and uncertainty in submitting an iPhone app to Apple for consideration is inspiring some developers to skip the...
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Raptr posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:30:10 -0800

One Paragraph Gaming News: Tuesday, December 15
Trials HD DLC trailer has tons of new stuff. Sony reveals Singstar song viewer for PS3. Nintendo’s first quarter game...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:30:00 -0800

How Google Can Combat Content Farms
In my recent post about the rise of content farms like Demand Media and the current incarnation of AOL, I posited that Google...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:20:34 -0800

Google Releases API for Cool Visualization of Data Mashups from Many Sources
A recently released Google Labs product called Fusion Tables allowed users to grab data from spreadsheets, text documents, PDFs...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:37:19 -0800

6 Climate Change Resources
Excuse the pun, but while climate change isn't usually a hot topic during the winter months, a number of companies have...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:27:00 -0800

Social ME-dia with Skyrock's CEO Pierre Bellanger
In the mid-eighties, Pierre Bellanger launched Skyrock pirate radio station as a continuation of his efforts with the French...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:50:00 -0800

Vote Now For Your Favorite Web Products of 2009
Over December we have published ten Top 10 lists for the best products of 2009, in categories ranging from Consumer Web Apps to...
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Raptr posted a blog entry

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:25:33 -0800

One Paragraph Gaming News: Monday, December 14
Halo: Reach gameplay premieres with multiple Spartans. Left 4 Dead 2 survivors to meet Left 4 Dead survivors in DLC....
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Richard posted a blog entry

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:25:14 -0800

Google, Twitter, WordPress & Facebook: Publish/Subscribe Matrix Could Explode Into Glass-Smooth Platform
A storm of news points to a future of frictionless publishing and subscription, across platforms. Google just announced that...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:00:00 -0800

ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 12 December 2009
Welcome to this week's events guide. As always, you can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:38:30 -0800

Harvard Medical School's Learning Technology Must Be Smart...Right?
Research from Harvard Medical School has resulted in a pretty sharp SaaS learning system. SpacedEd, as it is called, uses a...
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