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At a recent press event, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckberberg famously said "iPad isn't mobile," in response to a question about the possibility of a Facebook iPad application. "It's a computer, sorry," he added. Now it looks like Google agrees. A few weeks after Google announced that its Google Docs service was mobile and iPad-compatible, the company...
You don't have to be United State government to recognize risks of having lax data security practices in place these days. And while larger organizations have robust IT departments, small companies often don't have the luxury of a huge budget. Fortunately, there are a number of very simple ways in which small businesses can secure their data...
The open database service Factual announced yesterday that it has secured $25 million in financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, whose last company Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003, becoming one of the core components of AdSense. Investor Ben Horowitz describes Factual...
Facebook has announced its 2011 Hacker Cup, a competition in the search of a world champion hacker. For those that are already weary of the narrative we've been hearing the last week-and-a-half - that hackers are suddenly posing this grave threat to national security, national pride, holiday shopping, what have you - maybe this will prove a...
The rise of Facebook as a truly mainstream social network was a big story this year. An interesting question is, how much of Facebook's success was directly related to its loosening of privacy controls at the end of 2009? That move created both a backlash and a huge bump in users as 2010 unfolded. The issue of privacy has come to the fore again...
Nonviolent direct action is a staple in the American diet. Our everyday freedoms depend on the work of activists who have put their bodies on the line to fight for the rights we enjoy. Despite that, many forms of protest are reviled in the present, as people are often more willing to condemn the actions of a few committed individuals as violent or...
ChromeOS notebooks arrived by FedEx today for testers around the country and I'm writing this blog post on one right now. This isn't Windows and it's not a Mac - it's a little notebook consisting of nothing but a Chrome browser! There are some good things about it and there are some bad things. On balance? It's ok, but for one very big...
Small local business patrons in Portland, Oregon (the greatest city in the United States and home to almost half of ReadWriteWeb's staff) will soon be able to tap their phones against the snazzy Google Places window stickers shown above. If they have Google's very latest mobile model, or presumably almost any smart phone in the future ("cutting...
Hacker vigilante group Anonymous may have followed up its distributed denial of service attacks against Mastercard and Visa with a threat to do the same to...the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The group, allied with 4chan, prosecuted "Operation Payback" to harm the credit card companies allegedly for suspending WikiLeaks' payments. The threat...
It's that time of year once again for the litany of year-end reviews. We're writing our own here at ReadWriteWeb, of course. But today both Google and Twitter announced their versions - the year in search and the year in Tweets. Google's Zeitgeist 2010 is based on an aggregation of the searches billions of searches from across the world. Top...
During this week's roundtable we had a group of entrepreneurs from the Pune Open Coffee Club gather at the offices of Persistent Systems to participate in the roundtable together. It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week,...
As we mentioned before, "Wikileaks was not a story, but an ongoing continuum of stories... It's a story that is destined to keep on giving." In that short time since that post, it has indeed done just that. WikiLeaks -- its actions and the reactions to them, the implications of what has happened around the whistle-blowing site -- has given birth...
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The open database service Factual announced yesterday that it has secured $25 million in financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, whose last company Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003, becoming one of the core components of AdSense. Investor Ben Horowitz describes Factual as "a key player in the emerging data-as-a-service market, with the potential to fundamentally impact how people and businesses use data to make decisions." Factual is an open platform for developers...
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Since its launch in 2008, Evernote has been used primarily by consumers for recording and organizing notes and ideas. And while consumers continue to be the company's chief target, the application has many potential uses in business, a fact underscored by their announcement earlier today of sponsored accounts for schools and businesses. Evernote's new sponsored accounts are simply a way for companies and other organizations to purchase premium accounts for their employees. From there, there are a number of ways people can use the...
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Zendesk announced this week that it has secured $19 million in Series C funding. The company, which powers the help desks for companies like RackSpace and Twitter, has now raised over $25 million. Also, Zendesk just launched new features for its Salesforce.com integration that will bring improved analytics capabilities to its users. I caught up with Maksim Ovsyannikov, vice president of product management at Zendesk, at Dreamforce and talked with him about what the company is going to do with the money, and how its deeper integration with...
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The Heroku acquisition is about the next decade for Salesforce.com and its transformation into a platform company, said co-founder Parker Harris at a media lunch yesterday. For the rest of the world, there is a different view about the news. There are plenty of congratulations but the acquisition is not overwhelmingly supported. James Lindenbaum, co-founder of Heroku said they were convinced that Salesforce.com would be the right partner as its focus is on being a platform company. Lindenbaum acknowledges that developers may have...
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Developer Matt Biddulph recently released code for calculating the social influence developers in Github based on their location. Marak Squires took the code and lists of the most influential developers in different regions. He notes there are some issues that skew the results, but offers some suggestions on how to improve them. First of all, if a user lists their location as "NYC" or "Brooklyn" instead of "New York City," that user won't show up in a list of the most influential Github users in New York City. Also, many users who follow a...
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This week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) made it possible for developers to build AWS applications on mobile devices, including the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch as well as on phones running Google's Android mobile operating system. With the launch of two new SDKs (software development kits), code running on a mobile device can now make direct calls to Amazon's host of "cloud" services. Previously, developers wanting to integrate mobile applications with Amazon's web services had to write their own libraries to handle the HTTP connection and...
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