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Facebook Publishes Guide to Social Marketing Best Practices

Wed, 11 May 2011 21:45:26 +0100

Facebook Publishes Guide to Social Marketing Best Practices:

Facebook recently published a PDF document giving businesses a guide to best practices for marketing on the massive social networking site.

The 14-page document, titled “Best Practice Guide:…

Google is thinking about killing the URL bar

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:42:44 +0000

Google is thinking about killing the URL bar:

Google, the unofficial overlord of the web is always trying to “do no evil,” but if an internal document bears any truth, the search giant might do lots of it by killing the URL address bar in…

Apple vs. Publishers: Why Apple Already Won

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:08:58 +0000

Apple vs. Publishers: Why Apple Already Won:

Apple this week announced a plan to levy a 30% fee on publishers who charge subscriptions through its App Store on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The…

All dumphones could get Facebook crammed inside of a SIM card

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:52:43 +0000

All dumphones could get Facebook crammed inside of a SIM card:

Still rocking a Motorola RAZR or a Nokia 3210 dumphone? Wish you could get Facebook access on your non-smartphone? You can, because Facebook will soon be built-in to standard GSM SIM cards.

Viewdle Brings Visual Recognition & Social Augmented Reality To Mobile Devices

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:17:02 +0000

Viewdle Brings Visual Recognition & Social Augmented Reality To Mobile Devices:

At this week’s Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, Silicon Valley mobile start-up, Viewdle, showed off it’s visual analysis technology linking facial recognition to social media.

Back to the future

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:22:27 +0000

Back to the future:

Back to the future by Irina Werning.”Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, i..(Read…)

I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough | Steve Coogan

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:13:51 +0000

I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough | Steve Coogan:

Comedy can’t always be safe, and sometimes entertainers need to challenge social orthodoxies. But ‘saying the unsayable’ is different from simply recycling offensive cliches about Mexicans

As…

Time Freeze Shootout

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:33:13 +0000

Time Freeze Shootout:

Freddie Wong calls a timeout as he’s being ambushed by bad guys while on vacation in New Mexico.

Stitched Illustrations

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:53:15 +0000

Stitched Illustrations:

Stitched Illustrations by Peter Crawley, it’s as simple as that.

found via CreativeApplications.Net

In Cambodia, The sight of someone talking on two phones at the same time isn't uncommon

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:32:54 +0000

In Cambodia, The sight of someone talking on two phones at the same time isn't uncommon: Urban Cambodia is so over-saturated with mobiles and telephone numbers that it’s often impossible to get anyone, anywhere on the line, according to the Global Post.

Rice farmers own…

Google Adds Browser-Based Code Editor to Project Hosting

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:38:20 +0000

Google Adds Browser-Based Code Editor to Project Hosting:

This week Google added a CodeMirror-powered code editor to Google Project Hosting. This enables developers to make quick changes to Google projects from within the browser without having…

Paranoia over legal status of WikiLeaks breeds new generation of scams

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 02:58:34 +0000

Paranoia over legal status of WikiLeaks breeds new generation of scams:

Americans targeted by fake phone message claiming reading leaked cables could lead to imprisonment or a hefty fine

The call, when it comes, is both unexpected and worrying to its American…

Three (Taken with Instagram at St Margarets Station)

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:33:17 +0000

Three (Taken with Instagram at St Margarets Station)

Mind (Taken with Instagram at Vauxhall Station)

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:07:48 +0000

Mind (Taken with Instagram at Vauxhall Station)

All your different credit cards can now live on the same card

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:57:38 +0000

All your different credit cards can now live on the same card:

If you’re carrying more than one credit card in your wallet, you’re now officially carrying too many. A company called Dynamics has come up with a single credit card that can reprogram itself…

Google building its own NFC-based payments system?

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:57:18 +0000

Google building its own NFC-based payments system?:

Can’t say we’re surprised to hear this at all, but Bloomberg BusinessWeek says Google’s working on its own NFC-based mobile payments system. That makes perfect sense, given that Eric…

Webpop

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:25:02 +0000

Webpop:

A cloud content management system that makes it easy to create custom designed websites that clients can keep up to date. URL: Webpop

How Twitter Uses NoSQL

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:00:03 +0000

How Twitter Uses NoSQL:

InfoQ has released a video of Twitter’s Kevin Weil speaking at Strange Loop earlier this year on how the company uses NoSQL. Weil is quick to point out that Twitter is heavily dependent…

Pogo Embarks On An Adventure To Remix The Real World

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:35:55 +0000

Pogo Embarks On An Adventure To Remix The Real World:

Remix artist Pogo has launched a Kickstarter project to raise funds to embark on an adventure to remix the real world.

World Remix is my idea for an upcoming album which would expand upon…

2011 Staff Predictions

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:17:47 +0000

2011 Staff Predictions:

Editor’s note: Every December the ReadWriteWeb team looks into the murky depths of the coming year and tries to predict the future. How did we do last year? Well, Facebook didn’t go public,…