Facebook Gives Itself a Face Lift
Facebook has announced some major changes that have been called a response to the Twitter threat and just about everything else. Just like most things in this Web 2.0 social media whirlwind we live in the change is fast and furious and the opinions outpace the change by a considerable margin. Erick Shonfeld over at TechCrunch does a great job of ..read moreGoogle Docs "Power User" Appointed First US Gov CIO
Vivek Kundra, long expected to be appointed the first ever CTO of the US Federal Governement, will instead be appointed as the country’s first Chief Information Officer (CIO), according to reporting done by the Washington Post’s Kim Hart. Kundra became “web 2.0 famous” last Fall when as D.C. CTO he switched 38,000 District of Colombia government employees off of Microsoft Office ..read moreThe Other Decoupling Theory
A lifetime ago, before the market meltdown, when it was just an ordinary recession, there was a theory that the big emerging markets (BRIC: Brazil, Russia, India, China) were “decoupled” from the US economy. According to this theory, when America had problems due to subprime mortgages, these countries would only be affected marginally. Well, that theory has been totally discredited. ..read moreTwitter Track is Back Thanks to New Service from Particls
Particls, the one-time RSS feed organizer and alerting service, has today launched a new project they’re calling “Particls Fountain.” Although it’s hinted that the service will eventually do much more, today its goal is simple. Particls Fountain will function as a replacement for the long-gone Twitter Track feature that once allowed you to follow topics of interest by keyword. Sponsor Unlike its ..read moreWebstock 2009
Webstock, a conference for Web professionals, is happening in Wellington New Zealand this week. As usual it’s a classy lineup of speakers and a number of international webheads will be jetting in for the event. They include science fiction author Bruce Sterling, Flickr’s Heather Champ, Social Web designer Joshua Porter, Dopplr’s Matt Biddulph, Institute for the Future’s ..read moreWelcome, Sarah Lacy
Over the next few weeks, you will see a new byline on TechCrunch. We are fortunate to have tech journalist and blogger Sarah Lacy filling in as a guest writer here over the next few weeks while Michael takes some much-deserved time off. Sarah is the author of Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon ..read moreThe Death Of “Web 2.0″
I’m not going to discuss the economic meltdown and its devastating effect on technology companies and internet startups in this post, but rather something that crossed my mind earlier this morning: “Web 2.0″ seems to become more and more a void (and an avoided) term. Of course, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it is definitely apparent. So why do ..read moreWhy Wikipedia’s Policy to Blacklist Blogs is Outdated and Wrong
This week we received an email from a reader telling us that he’d tried to add a link to ReadWriteWeb onto a Wikipedia article, only to get the message: "The following link has triggered our spam protection filter: http://www.readwriteweb.com. Either that exact link, or a portion of it (typically the root domain name) is currently blacklisted." After a bit of ..read more
