ReadWriteWeb is thrilled to announce the first in a series of local RWW meetups. These meetups, made up of ReadWriteWeb readers like yourselves, should be an excellent way to have some great, thought-provoking discussions and meet other tech enthusiasts in your area. Our inaugural meetup will be held in the city with the highest...
Something cool is coming to your neighborhood. AOL appears to be preparing us for some kind of neighborhood-based social network built around MapQuest (remember them?). It has registered a bunch of domains this year that all point to a page that says something called “mqVibe” is coming soon. Earlier this month, we reported on...
Quora, the crowdsourced question-and-answer website, has come a long way in the 15 months since it launched to the public in mid-2010. What started out as a site largely centered around the tech industry has expanded its breadth dramatically. On Quora today, you can find in-depth information on everything from the Paleo diet, to...
What is below is a direct transcript with photos from Fetterman’s f8 presentation. A few things to note: Facebook mobile has its backbone in its mobile website. Everything that is built into the native applications actually comes from the mobile Web. Think of the way PhoneGap wraps a browser-based website and that is how...
ATT will make the Samsung Galaxy S II available Sunday, October 2 for $199 after contract, but there’s no need to wait until then to see it. I’ve been using a review unit of this Google Android smartphone for several days and have plenty of impressions to share. I’ll have a full written review...
There’s a whole world of opportunity for the things that are laying around in your house to get out and earn money for you. We’re perhaps past the age of asking your neighbor to loan you his hedge trimmers, and RentStuff understands this fact. RentStuff is a Nashville-based startup, a recent graduate of Nashville’s...
Ever since Angry Birds Rio was downloaded ten million times in only ten days after its release, we knew it: casual gaming and Latin America go together well. It’s not just about foreign companies like Rovio, as many cool apps are also developed in Latin America itself. Here is a list of seven mobile...
1Friday September 30, 2011, Matthew Panzarino Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/NYyEUNC3j3c/
There’s been a lot of attention paid recently to the new “social reading” apps that were launched by a number of publishers and content companies — including The Washington Post and The Guardian — at Facebook’s f8 developer conference. Some of that has focused on the “frictionless sharing” that these apps enable, where all of...
Sony, which provides many theaters with the projectors and hardware needed to display 3D cinema, has informed those theaters that starting this spring, it will no longer provide 3D glasses for free. From now on they’ll have to foot the cost themselves — and by “they” I mean “we,” because obviously the theaters aren’t...