This guest post was written by Joe Green, the Founder and President of Causes. Causes is the largest online platform for activism and one of the original Facebook Applications. Green’s approach to building online tools is rooted in his offline experience as a grassroots political organizer for federal, state, and local campaigns. Disclosure: Green was an...
I first mentioned SocialGuide 1 month ago when describing how influential MTV’s Jersey Shore is across the social networking ecosystem. The New York-based social entertainment guide bills itself as “The smarter, social way to discover what’s buzzing on TV”, and as of this recent launch, at the Movies as well. Previously, SocialGuide only scored...
This is getting really complicated. Image: Frederick MD Publicity via Flickr See Also: These Big-Wig Googlers Are No Longer Using Google+ Google+ Is Back, Baby! Here Are The Best Brand New Features Google Is Adding +1 Buttons To Display Ads Google has drawn Facebook into a battle that it can’t win. Over the last...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware deliver unprecedented reliability in the face of RAM errors. Is your IT department stuck in the past? Well,...
Lee had the audience’s attention from the start – not by accident. But he didn’t explain, right away, why he was sporting a slightly unusual outfit for a developer conference. Instead he started with some golden rules for application (and product) development: Technology is first and foremost a people problem. You can’t force people,...
TablesReady is a new company that realizes a restaurants biggest struggle is competing with larger restaurants, especially when it comes to seating people in a timely manner. If you’re TGIF’s, you can use OpenTable. OpenTable provides online reservation systems, table maps, payroll management and more. However, it charges restaurants a monthly fee to use...
Facebook estimated global ad revenues will jump to $3.8 billion, more than double the social networking giant’s 2010 total. Ad revenue for the site, which has over 750 million registered users, will miss the expected $4.05 billion mark, according to analysts, but the slowdown in growth is explained as a diversification into other revenue...
One of the unending qualities of the human being is the obsession with making lists. We care passionately about the rank our sports teams achieve, even if it means nothing. We chatter about magazine power lists as if they have an impact on reality. The writer Nick Hornby even elevated the top 10 list...
Image: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Last month, Google stepped up to defend Android coders against notorious patent troll Lodsys. Apple fought the company a few months earlier on behalf of iOS developers. Patent reform is a hot topic right now, especially after President Obama just signed legislation that means the U.S. is shifting...
After many twists and turns, DIY social network Ning has finally found a home. Glam Media is buying the network of social networks. A final price is not being disclosed. It is likely more than the $35 million News Corp fetched for MySpace from Specific Media and Justin Timberlake, but less than the $100M+...