It’s not a bad day for Instagram. First came the announcement that they were 2011 Crunchies Finalists. Shortly thereafter, they finally figured out how to push fullsize Instagrams to your Facebook Timeline. Capping off the day, automatic video slideshow service Animoto has launched full, built-in Instagram support. If you missed our previous Animoto coverage,...
The Internet is already heavily restricted in Iran, but authorities in the country are hatching further plans to crack down on cyberspace by introducing tighter monitoring of Internet users. The Guardian reports that the state will soon begin gathering an alarming amount of information relating to anyone who accesses the Internet from a cyber...
A Guy’s Guide To Pinterest Pinterest users are more likely to be female, but today ReadWriteWeb writer, Dave Copeland, decided to venture into the visually oriented social bookmarking site to give you a man’s point of view. From signing up to actually pinning some items, take a look at his first thoughts about the...
Among a handful of patents transferred last December 31 from IBM’s portfolio to that of Google, as first discovered by Bill Slawski of SEO By the Sea, is a system for processing text compiled by users of social networks, and ascertaining their common interests. We’ve already seen the rise of tools such as Radian6...
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. For several years, a company called Green Hat (not associated with...
Are you ready for CES? I know I am. The PR emails are flowing in and I’m going to respond every single one of them. I can’t wait to hear about Samsung’s social media stuff. And Vizio’s new thingy. I can’t wait to get my hands on that one thing made by those guys...
As the second-largest mobile ad network, and the top independent one, Millennial Media is the first to try to get an exit the old-fashioned way. It filed its S-1 documents today as the first step in going public, having nearly achieved profitability. According to the filing, its revenues grew to nearly $70 million in...
Did you know that almost half of the TV shows that are recorded are played back on the same day? How about that the average Netflix customer watches five TV shows and four movies a week? Or that (no real surprise here) visits to video streaming and sharing sites continue to climb? A new...
Image: HP Tom LaRocca jumps ship to help Oracle against HP See Also: Microsoft Is Being Forced To Love Its Enemy Dear HP Employees: Please Tell Us What You Think Of Meg Whitman So Far Linux Will Eat Oracle’s Lunch in 2012, Says Analyst Oracle just scored big in its efforts to steal away...
Associated Press See Also: Snoop Dogg Gives Away A Classic Lincoln Continental On ‘The Price Is Right’ Soon Your Roku Will Be The Size Of A USB Stick Google Ditches Intel For Next Generation Of Google TV Boxes Last month, I suggested that Google CEO Eric Schmidt was nuts when he said that Google...