Long ago, signing up for Facebook required a university email address and many users shared openly with everyone in their school’s network. In an effort to revive the feeling of safe sharing within an exclusive community, Facebook has begun testing a new “Groups At ” feature. It allows users to create Groups that are...
My friend Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, is often seen wearing a T-shirt with a slogan: “Code is poetry.” (He has a sticker that broadcasts the same mantra from the back of his laptop.) It came to mind last night as I was sitting down and thinking about my current trip and my desire to...
My friend Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, is often seen wearing a T-shirt with a slogan: “Code is poetry.” (He has a sticker that broadcasts the same mantra from the back of his laptop.) It came to mind last night as I was sitting down and thinking about my current trip and my desire to...
Critics have called out the Kindle Fire for some of its hardware and software shortcomings, which is not unexpected for a new device but hasn’t seemed to slow sales. But a bigger concern is emerging for parents who are thinking of buying the Kindle Fire: it has almost no restrictions to prevent children from...
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It’s common knowledge that Google is one of the most desired employers in the world. Yet, a startup project made the Brazilian MIT student Isabel Pesce Mattos drop out of both Google and MIT. And it seems it wasn’t such a bad idea. The startup she joined is called Lemon, and reportedly raised no...
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It’s that time of year again. The holiday season is officially in full gear, and practically everyone, including your ReadWriteWeb truly, is working on those lovely 2011 year in review and top trends type posts. Twitter’s doing it, too. For every day in December, Twitter releases a list of tweets curated around a specific...
File this post in the ‘even the analysts were too pessimistic’ category. According to Microsoft, quoting the NPD group, some 1.7 million Xbox 360 in the US alone, in November. Prior analyst estimates had pegged the company as selling some 1.44 units, which was still a record. In short, the Xbox 360 has more...
Brad Hunstable shows off Ustream’s Honeycomb app Updated. So now we know why Ustream has been busy raising new funding from Korea Telecom and existing investors DCM and Softbank, and possibly why former CEO John Ham recently stepped down: The company collected less than half of the $75 million funding round it announced in...