Image: via Guo Meimei’s microblog See Also: China’s Version of Weinergate Wen Jiabao: No We Can’t Things Might Get Ugly For Copper Meet Guo Meimei, the 20-year-old Chinese blogger who caused a major publicity crisis for China’s Red Cross after claiming to have a link to the organization and posting about her uber-luxurious lifestyle...
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Image: Matthew McVickar See Also: Awesome Ways To Get Your Car Online The Best Kinect Hacks We’ve Ever Seen What The Heck Is NFC, Anyway? Matthew McVickar lives and works in Hawaii, and in his spare time, he likes to conduct experiments with mail. For example, he built an awesome piece of “cameramail” that...
Please see update at the bottom of the post. When it comes to new mobile platforms, everyone keeps an eye on official app support. That is, people notice when big names bring their products to new mobile lines, as it indicates that there has been enough user demand to warrant the development costs required...
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone took some time to blog today a bit about his past. He goes back to Xanga, then Blogger/Google, then (though not directly mentioned) Odeo. He talks about how after they failed to sell Odeo, Evan Williams created Obvious, a parent company with the purpose of buying back Odeo from its...
Analysts at Wall Street’s major financial firms initiated wholesale coverage of LinkedIn on Tuesday, putting forth their opinions of the company’s future growth prospects and estimates for how the stock should perform. Their predictions for LinkedIn? In a word: Bullish. At its May 9 initial public offering, LinkedIn’s stock priced at $45 per share,...
Traditionally people have viewed Apple as hostile to any apps outside of the native App Store market. This has been proven wrong time and again, but the perception seems to persist. The open-source Webkit framework that Apple provides web developers has been significantly improved since Apple first started using it for Safari and now,...
When I sat down last week with Google’s Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz to get a tour of Google+, the new social project they rolled out today, my immediate reaction made them extremely happy. I told them that it looks great — Circles in particular — it was almost as if it wasn’t a...
Skype has quietly added XMPP support to the most recent beta version of its Windows client, according to a report from Skype Journal. Skype for Windows 5.5, which was released last week, added Facebook integration to the VOIP service. A look under the covers reveals that this is done through XMPP, the open standards...
How to Unlock the Mighty Eagle at Barnes Noble With GPS, when gamers play Angry Birds Magic in certain locations, “magic happens,” explained Ramine Darabiha, Product Manger for the game at ReadWriteWeb’s 2WAY Summit earlier this month. But not every location will be magic, he said, only those that “make sense” for the brand....