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Social Media and Shopping: A Growing Trend 
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Social media is evolving. What began as a way to "hang out" with friends online has morphed into an entirely new platform for communication, information sharing, and marketing. Businesses are quickly discovering that if they want to reach the youngest demographic, Generation Y (born after 1979), they had best get online. But maintaining
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Does New Media “Journalism” Have Standards?
Sarah Perez via sarahintampa on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
Opinion: I butted my way into a Twitter exchange today between two respected journalists, Mathew Ingram and Kara Swisher. Apparently Ms. Swisher didn’t think Mathew should have spread the tweet gossip about
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Steve Jobs Had No Heart Attack...And Citizen Journalism Just Failed
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
What could possibly be bigger news than the supposed heart attack suffered by Apple CEO Steve Jobs? The fact that it's simply not true. The rumor which spread like wildfire across the internet this morning was based on a report from CNN's citizen journalism site, iReport. According to citizen repo
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Mobile Marketing: Better For Reaching Democrats
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
In this heated U.S. election season, both presidential campaigns have been using multichannel marketing techniques that have included everything from wikis to
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Nokia Reveals iPhone Competitor And Prepares To Do Battle With iTunes
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
At an analyst and media event in London today, Nokia plans to unveil their company's first touch-screen phone, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, otherwise known as the Nokia "Tube," a device designed to compete directly with Apple's iPhone.
Along with the phone, Nokia will also deta
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Five Big Data Center Trends For 2008
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
The technology landscape is shifting. With the rise of cloud computing, there has been a renewed focus on what's happening in the datacenter. But it's not just consumer-grade web apps that are driving this shift - enterprises, too, are looking to virtualize their services and move applications off the desktop in order to better manage
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Blogorlando Wrap-Up
Sarah Perez via sarahintampa on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
I had an amazing time at Blogorlando this weekend. Having never
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Groupswim Adds Wikis, APIs, and More
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
GroupSwim is a company whose SaaS collaboration solution uses semantic technology to automatically tag and rate content including discussions, emails, documents, wikis, and more. As an Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad
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E Wants To Be The Future of Networking
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 29 Sep. 2008
In this web-enabled world of ours, you have to wonder why business cards are still so popular. Shouldn't there be a better way? A number of startups have attempted to address this problem with ingenious solutions that range from
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Will Habari Be The Next WordPress?
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 29 Sep. 2008
WordPress may be one of the best blogging platforms around today, but that hasn't stopped a worldwide community of developers from thinking they can do better. Desiring a more open environment where individuals can contribute and extend the project with their own work, they designed a platform c
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The Scannable World, Part 3: Barcode Scanning In The Real World
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
This is the third part in a multi-part series about integrating the internet with the real world through barcode scanning technology.
In the first
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The Scannable World, Part 2: Scanning Your Web Printouts
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 25 Sep. 2008
This is the second post in a multi-part series about integrating the internet with the real world.
In "The Scannable World: Mobile Phones As Barcode Scanners," we introduced the concept of
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RWW Interviews David Tosh of Elgg, The Open Source Social Networking Platform
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 25 Sep. 2008
When we first introduced you to Elgg two years ago, it was a new social networking platform whose focus was on e-learning. Since that time, the software has been rewritten and it has moved away from being strictly for educational use only. T
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Stop Searching The Web - Let Yotify Do It For You
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
A new personal web scout called Yotify just launched into public beta today. This service lets you track anything on the internet and only reports back when it has results for you to review. Your Yotify "scouts," as the searches are called, can be shared with others via email,
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The Scannable World: Mobile Phones As Barcode Scanners
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
Part 1: Will Barcodes Bridge The Gap Between Reality And The Net?
One of the promises of the mobile web was the possibility of being able to integrate the internet with the real world. One of the ways to accomplish this task is through the use of barcodes. The idea is that you take a picture of b
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T-Mobile To Me: No HTC Dream, Sorry, Never Heard Of It
Sarah Perez via sarahintampa on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
Just for fun, I emailed T-Mobile several days ago and told them I had heard they will soon be off
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Google Phone Unveiled, Can it Beat the iPhone?
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
Today, Google, T-Mobile, and HTC came together to introduce the first phone running the Google mobile OS, Android, at a press conference held this morning in New York City. The overall message today was one that focused on openness. Will the future of the mobile internet be driven by open platforms? That's what Google is b
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Building For Android and iPhone? New Analytics Tool From Medialets Lets You Track Apps On Both
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
From Medialets, the company that was first to launch with an ad platform that was like "doubeclick for iPhone apps," has just announced a new version of their analytics tool for mobil
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LongJump Extends Itself With New Developer Suite
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 22 Sep. 2008
New Dev Suite Lets LongJump Work With Other Apps
When LongJump first launched, the PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) model was only just taking off. Since then, we've
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Socialmedian Now More Twitter-esque With "Replize"
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 22 Sep. 2008
Today, socialmedian, the social news web site which we've described as a "less noisy FriendFeed" launched a new set of features called "Replize." Now socialmedian users can track conversations on the
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