A blog post from the coders at BrightTag this week is instructive in how they responded to a “shark week.” No, it wasn’t giving all the developers time off to watch the popular Discovery Channel series (that doesn’t mean I can’t borrow their icon), but an opportunity to improve the performance of their code....
Hello, ReadWriteWeb readers! As Richard noted earlier, I am joining ReadWriteWeb as its new Editor-at-Large, and I am very excited about it. I’ll start writing for the site in January, but in the meantime, I have some planning to do. And I’d love your help. First, a brief introduction: For the past six years,...
Wajam, a social search extension for browsers, has just added Wajam Videos, which shows you what videos your friends have recommended through search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. Wajam also added social search to YouTube, enabling users to see what videos their friends are sharing. Now if you’re searching for a keyword...
Image: AP Employee review site Glassdoor has put together its year-end list of the most loved and hated CEOs in tech. We’ve gather the 15 most hated here, listing their approval rating. If you’re an employee, and think your boss shouldn’t be on the list, drop a note in the comments or email us...
Now that Android Ice Cream Sandwich has been released to developers, manufacturers are working to get the new OS skinned and ready to ship on all those Android phones still running Gingerbread. Thanks to the folks at SamMobile, we finally got a sneak peek at one manufacturer’s plans for ICS. SamMobile got their hands...
Facebook has released a list of the most popular US political news stories among its users over the past year. It’s a pretty depressing read if you’re idealistic like me, and wish that more people would listen to the other side more often because we’re all a bunch of dumb humans, anyway. But yeah,...
Question: How do you acquire your biggest rival if you don’t have the cash? Answer: Partner with a private equity firm. SurveyMonkey has done just that, buying MarketTools’ products Zoomerang, ZoomPanel, and TrueSample through a partnership with TPG Capital. The deal gives MarketTools’ other businesses and a minority stake in SurveyMonkey to TPG, while SurveyMonkey gets the 3...
Image: Glassdoor See Also: WATCH OUT, MICROSOFT: Google Says It’s Getting Some Huge Wins For Google Apps Microsoft’s Secret Plan For Office 365 Domination May Pass Through Parallels So far, the Facebook platform has been mostly about consumers. Game providers like Zynga, music providers like Spotify, publishers like the Wall Street Journal — all...
In the fast-changing digital music streaming space, it’s hard to know which service is best for you. Spotify gets the most hype, but lots of people love Rdio, which has solid backing and a huge library of music. There are also beloved underdogs like MOG and Grooveshark. When it comes to choosing which option...
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 helped virtualize 12 business critical database applications. With the definition of “application” in the enterprise changing very rapidly...