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January 5, 2009
What iPhone Apps are Hot in Japan?
Have you ever wondered what iPhone apps are hot in Japan? If you’re attending this year’s MacWorld conference in San Francisco, you’ll have a chance to find out. There, Nobuyuki Hayashi, a Japanese Mac and iPhone tech journalist and blogger, is hosting an event called “Japan iPhone Apps: State of the Market,” which will be held on Wednesday, Jan 7th. If you can’t make the event… Continue reading
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January 5, 2009
Kakuteru: A Blogging and Lifestreaming Mashup (+Invites)
What do you get when you combine blogging and lifestreaming? You get Kakuteru, a semantic blogging mashup with funny name. The service imports your activity streams from FriendFeed and combines them with longer articles you write yourself. After you set up your Kakuteru site, its URL can then be hidden behind a domain name of your choosing so it appears as if it’s your own blog. … Continue reading
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January 5, 2009
The Brave New World: More Digital, Less Physical
Yesterday, I was with my wife in the L’Occitane store. The shelves were filled with fragrances, soaps, lotions: all sorts of handcrafted beauty products. It occured to me while looking at the labels that I have no idea how these products were made. I am reasonably versed in chemistry, but the process of manufacturing perfume is not something I know anything about.
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January 5, 2009
Soonr Lets You View All Your Documents on the iPhone
We are still hoping to see a full office suite on the iPhone, but while there are already some apps that allow you to edit documents on the phone, the device’s size currently makes it more useful for reading documents than actually creating them. Today, Soonr launched an application in the App Store (iTunes link) that allows you to sync files from your… Continue reading
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January 5, 2009
RWW Live: Running a Startup in a Down Economy
In the first RWW Live of 2009, we tackle an issue that is of vital importance to all startups right now - how to navigate through the choppy waters of the current economy. Join the ReadWriteWeb authors and special guests on our live podcast show. Our guests are entrepreneurs from BrightKite and Zoho, two startups that were recognized by ReadWriteWeb in our annual
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January 5, 2009
Hype Machine Zeitgeist: Listen in Full to the 50 Most Blogged Albums of 2008, For Free
Music mashup site shows how User Experience is done.
MP3 blog aggregator Hype Machine launched a new microsite today called the Music Blog Zeitgeist. There you can listen, for free, to entire albums from the most blogged-about musicians of 2008. Bringing together a whole host of different technologies to create one experience, the site is beautiful and a lot of fun to navigate.… Continue reading
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January 5, 2009
Report: Intranets Increased Collaboration Support in 2008
Every year old-school web design guru Jakob Nielsen releases a survey of the world’s top Intranets. This year’s report has some interesting comments on the use of ‘web 2.0′ techniques in company intranets. However Nielsen continues to take petty shots at the latest social web technologies. We were critical of this last year, but frankly it’s just tiresome now. Thankfully his report has some very useful… Continue reading
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January 5, 2009
Will More iPhone Apps go Open Source?
Ever since Apple finally lifted the NDA covering the iPhone SDK, a small number of developers have started to open source their native iPhone apps. Today, Freshbooks, a popular online time-tracking and invoicing service, joined this group by open sourcing its native iPhone application. Other open source iPhone apps include Wordpress, the applications from Apps Amuck’s 31 Days of iPhone Apps, and… Continue reading
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January 5, 2009
Amazon’s Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for Free
In March 2008, Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails released the first part of Ghosts I-IV via BitTorrent, and released all four albums under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Even though fans could easily get free versions of the album, Ghosts actually went on to become the best-selling album of 2008 on Amazon’s MP3 store.
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January 5, 2009
Updated: Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked
Days after a wave of phishing attacks fooled thousands of Twitter users, it appears that another security hole has been found by…someone. Obama’s account, unused since election day, sent out an affiliate link to a survey with a gas card prize, Fox News said that “Bill O’Reily is gay” (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and Britney Spears’ made a lewd post about her anatomy… Continue reading
