When Zynga announced Project Z at its “Unleashed” event earlier today in San Francisco, it became clear that the social gaming giant was ready to take some space away from its tightly knit relationship with Facebook. Project Z is a social network designed for games that also serves as a place where people can...
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. Google is turning up the heat with its cloud...
We’ve been watching with some interest – shall we say – as AOL attempts to secretly prepare for a MapQuest social network called mqVibe. It hasn’t been announced yet, but we’ve been able to connect enough dots to figure out that it’s a neighborhood social and business network, and it’s “coming soon.” Our intrepid...
It’s a little-known fact that the phrase “the children are our future” was actually originally uttered by a gaming company executive. A very forward-thinking person, indeed, seeing past both the gaming world’s early for-kids branding and the hardcore face it would wear during the early 2000s. He saw all the way to the point...
The promise of the ultra-cheap ultrabook hasn’t quite been fulfilled yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a few sexy machines before the new ones hit. Acer’s Aspire S3 dropped yesterday, and we’ll have a review up soon, but the new Asus Zenbooks, rumored and pictured earlier but only actually announced today, are...
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If you’re a blogger, then we’re sure you’ve been in a situation where you can’t login to WordPress or Tumblr, or you need to get something to the world fast via Twitter or Facebook. Instablogg lets you set up a blog post instantly and anonymously in seconds. Even if you’re not a blogger and...
This afternoon we wrote a short post about AJ Batac’s handy little bookmarklet for posting any link you’re visiting to Google Plus. People loved it – it’s so simple! Simple enough that I thought to myself, “What about Topsy’s new real-time search of Google Plus – couldn’t we wiggle that first bookmarklet around a...
You can all stop whining now, Facebook Page owners. Your page and post impressions may have gone down, but your comments and likes are way up — doesn’t that make you feel good? As it turns out, the decision to give Facebook Pages less visibility on the news feeds and Timelines may have been a...
Microsoft stuck its neck out when it released a very early build of Windows 8 to the world, likely knowing beforehand the level of complaint that it was going to receive from users who did not appreciate the changes implemented. But the company wanted to solicit early feedback to ensure that at launch, the...