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Sweetcron: Your Lifestream on Your Server 
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
We were pretty excited when we first heard about Sweetcron, a self-hosted lifestreaming application developed by Yongfook. Today, after a bit of a delay, Sweetcron has finally released its software and we immediately downl
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Sweetcron: Your Lifestream on Your Server
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
We were pretty excited when we first heard about Sweetcron, a self-hosted lifestreaming application developed by Yongfook. Today, after a bit of a delay, Sweetcron has finally released its software and we immediately downl
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Google Moves to Mainstream RSS With A Simple Name Change
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
For all its supposed simplicity, Really Simple Syndication or RSS has continued to confuse and intimidate millions of people online years after its introduction. What can be done to make RSS more mainstream? Google plans to roll out a small but simple featur
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Google Moves to Mainstream RSS With A Simple Name Change
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
For all its supposed simplicity, Really Simple Syndication or RSS has continued to confuse and intimidate millions of people online years after its introduction. What can be done to make RSS more mainstream? Google plans to roll out a small but simple featur
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"Facebook Helped Me Win," Claims Politician
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
In Tampa, Florida, one of the cities that comprises the megalopolis known as the Tampa Bay area, home to Busch Gardens, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and only minutes from beautiful beaches on the Gulf Coast of Florida (oh, and this author's stomping grounds, too), a local politician is
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Jaiku Returns With Unlimited Invites
Sarah Perez via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
When Google acquired the microblogging service Jaiku in October of last year, many people had high hopes for Jaiku's future. Would a Google-flavored Twitter soon show up everywhere from iGoogle to the upcoming Android handset, we wondered? Instead, news from
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Zeep Mobile: Free SMS Gateway For Developers
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
While SMS has already become one of the most important forms of communication in many parts of the world, the U.S. is only catching up to this trend slowly. Part of the reason for this is the high cost of using SMS, not just for users, but also for developers who want to use SMS for their applications. I
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The Case for an Apple iNetwork: Welcome to the Social
Muhammad Saleem via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
There has been a lot of speculation recently about an impending update to iTunes. Version 8.0, among other things, is supposed to finally bring a recommendation engine to the digital media player application. While that's interesting from a music disco
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Speed Up RSS? FriendFeed's Going to Try
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
RSS is the backbone for most things Web 2.0 but these days, it's not always fast enough. Politeness limits ping times to every 15 minutes at best in most cases, string a couple of applications together and information will sometimes not arrive where you're waiting for it for up to an hour.
A number of people are trying to
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A Bad Day for Apple: Banned iPhone Ads, Embarrassing Security Hole, and a Censored Comic
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
For most companies, having to deal with one piece of bad publicity in a day is already bad enough. Apple, however, has to deal with three pieces of bad publicity today. In England, the Advertising Standards Authority, moved to
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Back to School: 10 Great Web Apps for College Students
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
For a lot of college students, the new semester is just around the corner. Last year, we created a long list of great Web 2.0 tools that we thought would be helpful for college students, but given how fast
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Everything You Thought You Knew About the Business of YouTube Was Wrong
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Have you turned up your nose at YouTube for being born from low quality, financially unsustainable, pirated content? If you've made that argument in conversation before (and we now many people do) - new claims from YouTube itself now indicate that you'd be wrong.
The official
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Has Yahoo! Buzz Lived Up to the Buzz?
Muhammad Saleem via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Since our initial review of Yahoo! Buzz earlier this year, not much has changed about the service. At the same time, however, the perception, acceptance, and impact of the service has changed drastically. The service has shown that it
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Future of Online Music - Industry Players Discuss
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
In yesterday's episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, our topic was online music and we had 3 very special guests on the show: Dalton Caldwell, founder a
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It's Official: Mashup Privacy Protocol OAuth Is Fair Game
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
OAuth, the open authorization protocol standard that will let users give limited access to their data to third party websites without giving away their passwords, crossed an important threshold tonight.
All parties involved in building the spec
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SocialU: One of the Most Obnoxious Apps We've Seen in a While (Invites)
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Social networking overload - it's a common problem and one that it seems like it could be easy to solve. Thus there are countless attempts being made to build services that tie it all together. Some of those attempts are awful and one of those is a service we tested today called
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Reddit Now Fully Customizable: Bring Your Own Design and Domain
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
The social news and bookmarking site reddit today announced that it will allow its users to completely modify the CSS for their custom reddits, as well as pointing those sub-reddits to any domain
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Adobe To Launch Mobile Storage Service
Corvida via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Adobe Photoshop is a top of the line design software. We've written extensively in the past about the many ways Adobe is branching off of Photoshop to cater to a broader audience from the release of new featur
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Opentape: Host Your Own Muxtape Clone
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
We were big fans of Muxtape here at ReadWriteWeb, but when the the virtual mixtape service shut its doors last week because of
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Adium Releases Major Upgrade to Popular IM Service
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Adium, the popular Mac IM client that lets users chat across multiple services at once, issued a major new release last night that is sure to please users old an
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