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Update: We've been contacted by members of the OpenID community who argue that we've mischaracterized the controversy in this post. Additional complications not discussed here include the now-ceased process of whitelisting domains that could use Google OpenID. After we wrote about Google becoming... (original story)
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Straight out of Belgium comes a really interesting life streaming service, yes another one, but this one brings a few unique and much needed features to the market. The service is called Storytlr (a play on story teller) and it allows members to create their own lifestreaming service at their own U... (original story)
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It's hard to believe that it's been a year since Hulu - the joint online video venture between NBC Universal and News Corp. - began streaming content. Its initial reception, after months of anticipation and a good helping of ridicule, was less than warm. Old media companies trying to take on YouTube... (original story)
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Popular Firefox addon Read It Later has just introduced an updated version of their plugin which adds new functionality to Google Reader. With the new extension, which now works in both Firefox and IE, you can now get through your RSS feeds faster by checking off the items you want to read later in ... (original story)
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Last week LinkedIn announced an additional infusion of capital from strategic investors. The company has been around since 2003 and Bernard Lunn recently wrote an in-depth analysis of the LinkedIn business here on ReadWriteWeb. Most of us use LinkedIn a few times a week, yet almost no one is emotio... (original story)
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During the PC era, the technology stack was controlled by Microsoft Windows and Wintel - the "Wintel" era. We are now entering a new era, called variously 'Cloud' or 'SaaS' or 'Enterprise 2.0'. In this era everything is different - the stack, the players and the potential for value creation. Let's... (original story)
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Guess which US state has Flickr users most likely to post their photos with privacy restrictions turned on? Utah. Think you can guess relative emphasis put on privacy by Flickr users in South America vs. South East Asia? How about Hawaii vs. Alaska? (That one might surprise you!) digg_url = 'ht... (original story)
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Our friends at Gigaom are running the second annual NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on November 13, 2008. It's an event focused on the online video arena and we have one free ticket to giveaway. To be in to win, all you need to do is leave a comment here telling us what your current favor... (original story)
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This is turning out to be quite a good week for OpenID, an increasingly popular mechanism for creating and managing a single identity across the Internet. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it would give every Windows Live user an OpenID account, and today, Google announced a very similar plan. Goo... (original story)
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Last week, we highlighted Microsoft Research's URank, an experimental search engine interface that allows users to rearrange their search results from Live.com. Now, Garett Rogers reports that Google is slowly releasing a very similar product called SearchWiki, which will allow users to modify their... (original story)
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Congratulations! You made a big announcement and got great reviews, feedback and an influx of people to your website. Yesterday. Today, any number of other organizations and individuals are having the same experience and except for (hopefully) a long tail of residual late bloomers stumbling throug... (original story)
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One of our first posts on the new RWW Jobwire site was about the hiring of Kellie Parker as the new community manager for gaming company Sega. Jobwire guest editor Sam Whitmore chose Parker's story as our first Featured Hire because of its significance to her former employer, tech publisher IDG, an... (original story)
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If you have an iPod Touch, then you know the benefit of finding apps that work offline. But some iPhone owners, too, need offline access from time-to-time. Maybe you spend your commute in an underground subway or perhaps your office building has shoddy cell coverage, or maybe you just want to use y... (original story)
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Recently we noted that some large enterprise software companies were calling SaaS a fad that would soon pass away. We theorized that they were doing this not because they actually believed it, but because SaaS is a fundamental threat to the old way of doing business that they dominate. In this post ... (original story)
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In spite of - or perhaps due to - its ongoing trials and tribulations, Yahoo! has done an admirable job of remaining on track with plans to open its platform to the developer community - plans that could mean the survival of a company that is among the old guard of the Web as we now know it. Today ... (original story)