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ReadWriteWeb is a blog that provides analysis of web products and trends. One of the world's top 20 blogs, ReadWriteWeb speaks to an intelligent audience of web enthusiasts, early adopters and innovators.
ReadWriteWeb was founded on April 20, 2003 by Richard MacManus and is now one of the most widely read and respected blogs in the world. It is written by a team of Web enthusiasts.
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New Voice Enhancements From Twilio and Angel.com
26th July 2011 14:00
One tried and true technology is seeing some new activity this summer, with two distinct efforts underway to voice-enable websites from Twilio and Angel.com. Both companies are trying to streamline the experience and make it easier to build voice add-ons. Sponsor Angel announced earlier this month the beta of Voice.com, a marketplace and platform for developing, deploying and marketing SaaS-based voice solutions. There are plenty of voice apps available for both Facebook and Twitter, including call-in hotlines for all sorts…
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Socialcast Adds External Collaboration and More
26th July 2011 13:00
We've always liked Socialcast here at ReadWriteWeb, but until it's been lacking a major feature: the ability to invite external collaborators. While some companies - such as Huddle, Simplybox and newcomer Podio - have made external collaboration a key point, many major vendors have lagged in this area. So we're glad to see external collaboration become a focus for Socialcast, which announced today a few new features. Sponsor Socialcast was recently acquired by VMware (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), and Socialcast founder…
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LogMeIn Announces New iOS Access Controls
26th July 2011 12:00
Add LogMeIn to the growing number of mobile access control products out there (Rover, MobilEcho, and Accellion, just to name a few of the ones we have covered recently.) The new service, which will be entering beta shortly, will pair access to particular apps and files initially on iOS devices to better manage these devices for enterprise use. Eventually, LogMeIn plans on offering desktop and Android support as well. Sponsor The controls are delivered through the company's Central management tools…
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YouSendIt and ShareFile Add New Features to Cloud Drives
26th July 2011 12:00
The lines among file sending, collaboration and cloud drive services is blurring with announcements in the past month from two providers, YouSendIt and ShareFile. While it is nice to have choices, it is getting harder to figure out when to use one kind of service or another for your storage and transportation needs. Sponsor Before the notion of the cloud was popular in computing circles, there were numerous services that would allow you to send files without having to clog…
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Top Trends of 2011: Group Messaging
26th July 2011 05:43
This week we're running a 5-part series of posts looking back on the significant trends of 2011. Today we're reviewing group messaging, the hot trend at this year's SXSW festival. Group messaging started out as a battle between several startups, but over the past few months it's turned into a fascinating Google vs. Facebook vs. Microsoft faceoff. Group messaging threatened to become a breakout activity at SXSW, as tweeting and 'checking in' had done at previous SXSW events. It didn't…
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OSCON Ignite Live!
26th July 2011 03:00
OSCON, O'Reilly's annual convention devoted to everything open source, kicked off in Portland, Oregon this morning. The day will finish with OSCON Ignite. Ignite is the event series, born and bred by geeks, where speakers are limited to five minutes and 20, auto-advancing slides. Tonight's session tites include The Bad Touch, Barehanded Music Making and The Diabolical Developer. Full lists of sessions is below along with the video stream. Sponsor The Bad Touch(1) - Damian Conway Cryptic Crosswords - Dan…
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Make Any Text Area Speech-Input Friendly (Chrome)
26th July 2011 02:08
Want to draft emails, blog comments and other little bits of writing online by speaking to your computer? I'm certainly intrigued by the idea and a newly posted userscript makes it easy to do for Google Chrome users. Userscripts are wonderful little bits of code that developers write to bring new functionality or interface elements into any webpage. One of the newest posted at Userscripts.org today is a speech-to-text script which I am using to write this blog post right…
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Alcatel-Lucent's New Collaboration Suite Goes Beyond Text
26th July 2011 01:30
Alcatel-Lucent is the latest company to throw its hat into the enterprise unified communications and collaboration ring with its announcement today of the Visual Collaboration suite. It features cross-platform video and virtual whiteboarding solutions. The video conferencing aspect will work on desktop PCs as well as dedicated video conferencing tools from vendors such as SMART Technologies, RADVISION and Lifesize. Sponsor The suite also includes a product called Interactive Whiteboard, which enables sharing of content between the Alcatel-Lucent My Teamwork application…
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Flipboard's New Ads Aren't Just for Magazines
26th July 2011 00:24
Flipboard, the social magazine app for iPad, has just launched its first advertising program in partnership with magazine publisher Condé Nast. This campaign displays ads alongside content from The New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit. Later this year, Flipboard plans to expand the progam to other publishers, including independent publishers. This ad program builds on Flipboard Pages, Flipboard's first step into content that's specific to the reading environment of its app. Instead of showing a Web view, Flipboard Pages display…
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Led by LinkedIn, Social Recruiting Continues to Grow [Infographic]
26th July 2011 00:00
As anyone who's hired or been hired for a job in the last few years knows, social media is now a standard fixture of the recruiting process. We're constantly seeing data come out showing that sites like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook play an increasingly common role in hiring, and the numbers are only getting bigger. About 89% of U.S. companies use social media for recruiting, according to new report and infograhic from JobVite, a company that makes social recruitment software.…
