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  Hack of the Day: Using Flot to Display a Graph

  8th September 2010 19:00

  Logging statistics is a two-stage process. First, you need to collect the information and store it. Next, you need to expose this information to end users. It's quite simple to display a table of stats for users to look at, and this is a good option if you need to provide a detailed breakdown. But for analysing large datasets or simply providing an overview of recent activity on a site, a graph may be a better approach. Sponsor Flot: a…

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  Three Quarters of U.S. Internet Users Fall Victim to Cybercrime

  8th September 2010 19:00

  Chances are, if you use the Internet, you are going to get hacked - it's that simple. The New York Times told us yesterday that even a strong password may not protect us and now, today, a study by security software maker Norton tells us that "cybercrime" is prevalent, with a majority of Internet users both worldwide and in the U.S. falling victim. Of course, Norton says that the obvious solution to this epidemic of crime is to use up-to-date…

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  5 Companies Thriving on the Rise of Shadow IT

  8th September 2010 18:00

  The Read/Write enterprise isn't just about using social media in the enterprise - increasingly, it's about employees actively choosing the technologies they use to get their jobs done, instead of relying on decrees from on high about what sorts of technology to use. The term "Shadow IT" refers to "IT systems and IT solutions built and used inside organizations without organizational approval." In the past few years, it's gone from being cosidered a problem to being consider something to be…

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  How the Internet of Things May be Used Against You

  8th September 2010 16:45

  Earlier today, ReadWriteWeb editor Richard MacManus examined the future of social objects - that is, the future of the Internet of Things. This slow-growing trend encompasses how real-world objects are connected to the Internet using various technologies, including RFID chips, barcodes, sensors, bots and, to some extent, even mobile applications like Glue, which attaches a social history of sorts to an object like a book or a bottle of wine, albeit somewhat virtually. While on the one hand, the idea…

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  Live Blog: Google Search Event

  8th September 2010 16:31

  Google is holding a big search event at the San Francisco MOMA this morning. The company has not released any specific information about the content of today's announcements, but the recent doodles on Google's homepage and various Twitter messages from the official Google accounts point towards a faster search experience, possibly with streaming, as-you-type search results. We assume that this will be the core of today's announcements, but there will surely be a few surprises as well. The event is…

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  ResearchGATE Offers Social Networking for Scholars and Scientists

  8th September 2010 16:30

  Despite the continued growth and popularity of Facebook, a number of alternate social networking sites are cropping up in order to the needs of groups in ways that Facebook can't. One such group is scientists and scholars, who want to have a platform for communication and collaboration, but one that focuses on research interest and reading lists, not just friends and family. And more and more - 2000 a day - are joining ResearchGATE, a startup that hopes to connect…

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  The Three Step Search Engine Optimisation Checklist

  8th September 2010 15:52

  Making sure your website ranks well on Google, and the other main search engines, is of paramount importance if you want to maximize it’s revenue generating potential. Use the three step search engine optimsation (SEO) strategy below to make sure your website works harder: read more

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  iPhone Apps Overtaking Songs in Terms of Total Downloads

  8th September 2010 15:45

  There's an interesting chart making its way around the net this morning comparing the number of iTunes app downloads to the total downloads of songs. The surprising reveal is that it shows apps are being downloaded much more rapidly than songs. In only 2.2 years, the iTunes App Store has reached the same total downloads as the iTunes Music Store did after 5 years. And before the year is out, the two curves on the chart will be around the…

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  Tips For Logging Your Own Statistics

  8th September 2010 15:30

  Google Analytics (GA) is a decent service for tracking activity on your site, however, there are times when it may be necessary to log some statistics yourself. By its nature, GA does not include any information that would allow you to identify who visited a page or clicked a link. Also, GA does not give immediate updates - you have to wait up to 24 hours to see the current day's stats. A site that provides recommendations to registered users…

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  Couchio Becomes CouchOne and Introduces Mobile App Development Platform

  8th September 2010 15:00

  Couchio, the corporate sponsor of CouchDB, announces today that it is changing its name to CouchOne and introducing CouchOne Mobile, a mobile app development platform based on CouchDB. As with many noSQL databases, there's been an explosion of interest and implementation in CouchDB, and we've written recently about a number of organizations and projects using CouchDB, including the large hadron collider scientists at CERN. Sponsor The benefits of CouchDB include not only the database's reliability and ease-of-use but its built-in…