If you’re a parent, it can be a challenge to convince kids to do their chores. (Or so I’m told.) It’s even harder to make them genuinely excited. But a startup called HighScore House says it has found a way. The company is part of the latest class of companies incubated by 500 Startups,...
Buy a hamburger and get rewarded with Facebook Credits to spend on a virtual cow. That’s the mouth-watering promise of startup Plink, which is launching a virtual currency loyalty rewards system for restaurants. You register a credit card with Plink, and then when you make purchases at Taco Bell, 7-Eleven, Dunkin Donuts, or one...
The Shift From Watching TV to Experiencing TV We often talk about the Internet of Things here at ReadWriteWeb. Over half of the devices at the recent CES were connected, and more than 60% of those were not traditional computers, but more mundane, typically unconnected devices like home appliances and vehicle accessories. Richard explores...
Update: Looks the tweets claiming responsibility were just a prank. And Facebook says the issues it experienced this evening were caused bya code push. Sorry about that. Is Facebook the next target for activist hacker group Anonymous? Depends on who you ask. The group went on the warpath last week following the takedown of...
When Apple announced that iOS 5 would launch with support for its own communication service iMessage, it seemed to be a clear cut stab at the heart of one of the carrier’s biggest money makers, text messaging. It was immediately obvious that this should have a huge impact on how carriers of the iPhone...
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. FireHost is expanding and offering European services, Dell is letting its...
Volpen is a new service that allows you to write full books with others by collaborating chapter by chapter. It’s an interesting idea that’s at least worth the experiment, as it breaks down the isolated and time-intensive writing process into something short and social. But why would writers want to collaborate to create a book? Volpen Co-Founder, Daniel...
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Noticed some Facebook downtime? We have. It’s intermittent, but Facebook has some trouble with uptime right now, and a Twitter account representing Anonymous claims responsibility (somewhat obliquely, in order to troll tech bloggers). In some kind of conflation of Facebook with the government, a puppet representing Anonymous threatened Facebook with an attack in retaliation...
Dave McClure has very quickly become a major force in Silicon Valley, by making investments in more than 250 companies since launching his 500 Startups fund. In Mountain View, Calif. Wednesday, 32 companies from the third class of the 500 Startups Accelerator program showed off what they’ve been working on to investors and press....
One of the companies that I’ve paid close attention to lately has been sneakpeeq. The social shopping site has layered in a new action to shopping that it calls “peeqing”, which mimics the same action that you’d take in a physical store. You see a cool item, then turn the price tag around. That...