Posts Tagged with ‘news’

In this hyper-connected world that we now live in news and everything related to news gets tons of attention from just about everywhere: we still have not found any perfect way to consume news from dozens and hundreds or even thousands (for some) sources of information even despite of the fact that there are various [...]

I know that for many of my online friends socialmedian has already become THE place to share and discover news and various thought-provoking articles. I can’t say that I myself am particularly active on the service yet I like what I see every time I visit. But what I enjoy the most about socialmedian is [...]

I missed an embargo lifting this morning.
It's happened on occasion when life has overtaken my planned schedule for testing and writing, or we've missed an email due to the enormous amount of spam that often comes into the address for pitches, but I would much rather miss being "one of the first" to review a [...]

As some of you may have noticed, yesterday Profy was down for more than 20 hours. Now that we have everything back up and running and our authors are back to the normal writing process, I would like to explain the situation. The reason for this problem is private switch network outage at our hosting [...]

CNN bought into the citizen journalism movement 18 months ago with iReport, but most user-created submissions have never made it to the site. Later this week, however, CNN will launch iReport.com, a site that will contain solely user-created content, from videos to photos to stories.
Unlike the iReport feature, however, the content on iReport.com will [...]

Magnify just announced that they are going to offer open source graphics development to online channel builders. Magnify is one of the most promising video curation services of Web 2.0 and their updates continue to add value to an already great innovation. This new Graphic Share Library (GSL) allows users of the Magnify.net [...]

Fifth Generation Systems announced today that the have just completed a series B financing round in the amount of $5.3 million. 5G is best know for creating the social computing platform Zude , which I covered both here and on ReadWriteWeb back in September of 2007. Back then I called Zude "An [...]

DEMOFall 07 introduced us to some fascinating and potentially industry changing startups and technology. One of my favorites was MyQuire , a very effective but simplified project management tool I reviewed in September. MyQuire has been chugging right along since then and has just released their latest upgrade derived from user feedback. I [...]

I finally decided to jump on the Vista “hate” bandwagon, so here goes: “I freaking hate Vista!” I know I am not alone in the world because I hear everyone complaining about the same things I do. We complain about incompatibility, graphic intensiveness, complicated, too different and on and on. How could so many [...]