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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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Flipboard Finally Comes (Unofficially) to the Android Masses
9th May 2012 15:01
Some things just cannot stay hidden. One of the most popular iOS apps of all time is now unofficially available for Android: Flipboard, the personalized magazine app that had been exclusively available only on the iPhone and iPad, has made its way to Android smartphones through an enterprising hack by a developer at XDA Forums. The greatest part? It is incredibly easy to install. Flipboard originally was an iPad-only app. In fact, it was one of the first and best…
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Tablets Want To Kill Your Laptop
9th May 2012 14:31
Photo courtesy of Shutterstock. Laptops are doomed. In the next five years, tablets will displace notebook-style computers to become the dominant personal computing platform. And the transition from laptop to tablet has already begun. That’s the key finding of a new Forrester Research report that predicts the end of the laptop’s 15-year reign. The trend is already well under way among people born between 1980 and 2000, known to demographers as the millennial generation. In the U.S., 30% of tablet…
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The Web vs. the Cloud: Which Metaphor Survives?
9th May 2012 14:03
Ask yourself this: Would you install ReadWriteWeb as an app? You might, if you were convinced that it did something useful for you, and if you didn't have to pay much (or anything) for it. You may already have installed Dropbox, and services like Pinterest and LinkedIn are now smartphone apps. Can you foresee a time when you won't need a browser to do the things you do online? And if so, would you miss it much? Metaphors are fickle…
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Kindle Sales Plummet, And That Sucks
9th May 2012 13:00
Paulo Santos (who is short AMZN) has a great post on Seeking Alpha about the nasty secret hidden in Amazon's otherwise-strong Q1 earnings. The reason Amazon's razor-thin margins look just the teensiest bit better is that sales of the break-even Kindle have fallen off a cliff. Is e-ink doomed? We sure hope not. Amazon never, ever talks about how many Kindles it sells. That's what lots of tech companies do when their devices aren't selling. So Santos did the sensible thing and looked…
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BeyondTrust acquires eEye to Create Security Powerhouse
9th May 2012 13:00
Virtualization security vendor BeyondTrust is acquiring eEye Digital Security for undisclosed terms. The two companies have leading technology in somewhat different but complementary security market spaces. BeyondTrust plans to integrate eEye’s Retina CS Vulnerability Management and Analytics solutions with its PowerBroker family of virtualization security products. The company claims that this will be the market’s first truly context-driven security and compliance solution. The deal is an example of how the security world is moving to integrate the physical and virtual…
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Twitter Power Users: "Discover Page Changes Aren't For Us"
9th May 2012 12:30
Twitter always risks ticking off long-term loyalists of the microblogging site when it makes any sort of overhaul. In the past six months alone, it has gotten a lukewarm reaction for a previous redesign and taken heat for changes it made to TweetDeck. So when Twitter started May by announcing the first in a series of improvements to its Discover page, we asked those loyalists (and a handful of social media experts) to give us their initial impressions of the service.…
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What's Next in TV: Machinima, The No.1 Entertainment Network on YouTube
9th May 2012 12:00
Video content is one of the fastest growing categories online. Television networks are scrambling to keep up, because the success stories so far have been smaller entities creating highly targeted and Web native content. The most successful video content producer right now is a company called Machinima, currently in the middle of an investment round that will include money from YouTube parent company Google. Machinima (its name is a combination of the words 'machine' and 'cinema') is a "video entertainment…
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The World is Not Quite Ready for Mobile Payments, According to MasterCard
8th May 2012 23:00
Is the world ready for mobile payments? Not quite, according to a global survey released by MasterCard yesterday. There are a variety of factors that lead will lead to mobile payments adoption across the planet, from infrastructure deployment to consumer willingness to make payments with a mobile device. The mobile payments revolution hasn't arrived just yet, but if MasterCard can be believed, we are not far away. MasterCard released the “MasterCard Mobile Payments Readiness Index" (MPRI) to gauge the readiness…
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How To Turn a Bookmarklet Into a Nice Firefox Button
8th May 2012 22:30
If you use Pinterest or Instapaper, you probably click on their bookmarklets fairly often. Lots of popular browser-based applications have full-blown extensions with their own buttons, but some only have the bookmark option. Would you like to get those out of your bookmarks bar and onto your toolbar? Here's a neat trick for Firefox users. 1. Install the Custom Buttons add-on 2. Add a new button from the View menu There will now be an 'Add new button...' choice in…
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8 Hard-Earned Insights Into Raising Startup Capital
8th May 2012 22:08
Approaching investors for the first time is a daunting exercise for any startup. Regardless of whether you’re raising venture capital, approaching angels or still trying to figure out where to get started, it’s critical to stay level-headed about what you’re really pitching - and what it’s actually worth. The best way to do that is to leverage the hard-won experience of real-world startup. So we asked a panel of eight successful young entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) about…
