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10 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. How one services provider provides...
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Sync and Manage Google Docs with Memeo Connect 2.0
Memeo Connect, an app for managing and sycing Google Docs across multiple devices, got a significant upgrade earlier this week. The app is targeted at small and medium-sized businesses as a means to...
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Philadelphia Wants $300 Business License From Bloggers Who Make No Money
By Adrianne Jeffries WordPress.comThe city of Philadelphia is demanding money from bloggers who were honest enough to report the meagerest - $11, $50 - of revenue from ads or donations. According to...
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How to Plan Mobile Enterprise Development Using Forrester’s POST Strategy
According to a new report from Forrester, mobile development has gone from being a separate silo to being mainstream. As more and more IT departments will be called upon to create mobile applications,...
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Business Plans Are Dead, Long Live Business Plans
Let's face it - the traditional business plan as we know it (or as we knew it) is slowly slowly going away. Or is it? Startups and small businesses move at such lightning pace these days that a static...
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Blogging the Holy Land: Crying in the Wilderness, Chatting in Cafes
The journalistic promise of social media was to connect directly with the people who live the news that others only report. That is, the teachers, cops, soldiers, mothers, philologists, farmers and...
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How Technology Made Us Humans
By Curt Hopkins artape.jpgIn his book, "The Artificial Ape," anthropologist and archaeologist Timothy Taylor makes the startling claim that we did not make tools, tools made us. He reminds us that the...
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Oxford English Dictionary May Never Be Published Again
The definitive dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may well never see the light of day again, only the light of a monitor. Nigel Portwood, chief executive of Oxford...
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The Most Popular Payment Solutions for Freelancers (Charts)
What's the best way to do one-time or recurring billing for your online business? That's an important question for the growing legion of independent service providers transitioning countless business...
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Skype Doubles Down with 10-Person Video Chat
By Mike Melanson Skype announced today that the latest beta version of Skype 5.0 would up the ante in terms of group video chat, as well as introduce a more stable and sleeker experience for its...
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5 Plugins for Outlook Users with Gmail Envy
The announcement of Google's Gmail Priority Inbox likely made more than a few enterprise knowledge workers stuck with Microsoft Outlook and drowning in e-mail quite envious of Gmail. That is, if they...
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IBM at the US Open – Analyzing Every Volley, Serve and Overhead Smash
At the U.S. Open, IBM has deployed sensors to the radar guns, the umpire chairs and throughout the tennis grounds to collect data that can be analyzed and visualized. It has partnered with the U.S....
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Remote Work: Pitfalls and How to Avoid them
One big theme to emerge out of our conversation last week about the future of the workplace was remote working. I thought it would be beneficial to start this week off by thinking about the...
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How Open Data is Used Against the Poor
As well, this is not to argue against 'open data' which in fact is a very significant advance and support to broad-based democratic action and empowerment but rather to argue that in the absence of...
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Google CEO Schmidt: “People Aren’t Ready for the Technology Revolution”
Eric Schmidt spoke at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe today and dropped some serious rhetorical bombs. "There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through...
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Google CEO: The Next Great Stage of Search is Automatic
That sounds pretty interesting, as long as you can turn it off and exercise some control over what's being sent. "What's that ping notification you just received," your mother in law might ask as you...
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TweetDeck Adds Posterous Pics, T.co Support & More
Multi-column, multi-platform social network client TweetDeck has issued an update that fixes a few bugs and adds "some small, but important, new features". We're talking support for Twitter's t.co URL...
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Google Losing Ground As Users Spend More Time on Facebook and Yahoo
However, Google may be feeling some heat with these new numbers. ComScore tracks traffic for Google sites, not just Google.com, which includes YouTube - and Facebook is now the third largest video...
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Girl Develop IT Takes Off With Low-Cost, Women-Only Programming Classes
Sarah Chipps, self-styled "Girl Developer," is a freelance coder based in the New York City area and Mashable recently named her one of 15 Developer/Hacker Women to Follow on Twitter. Chipps thinks the...
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How The Nielsen Company Uses Idea Management Software to Drive Innovation
We've heard a lot about how idea management works in theory - but how does it work in practice? Ann Marie Dumais, Senior Vice President of New Product Introductions at The Nielsen Company, was kind...
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Courtesy and Tact Can Go a Long Way for Startups
How To Cancel a Meeting "You better not be the person who was asking for the meeting. You should grovel. You should call personally to state your sincerest apologies." - Mark Suster Back in May of this...
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Facebook Unveils Recommended Subscriptions
What do you get when you combine the biggest collection of personal taste data in history with the world's easiest method of subscribing to syndicated content? In theory, one of the most potent...
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http://readwriteweb.com | Te lo compilo 8 OCT
Developer Discussion: What Do You Use For AJAX in PHP? By Ben Barden / A quick question with a potentially longer discussion. What do you use for AJAX in PHP, and why? XAJAX is a simple way to do it,...
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Mobile Marketing Association to Address Smartphone Privacy Issue
This post is part of our ReadWriteMobile channel, which is dedicated to helping its community understand the strategic business and technical implications of developing mobile applications. This...
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A Periodic Table Guide to Google’s APIs [Infographic]
Whenever I see "Periodic table of," I remember of this blog post by Rob Pike: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2010/08/know-your-science.... "Another sort of abuse is comedy periodic tables: periodic...
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New Test Results: Google Rewires Search with Personal Touches
For some, it is a question about whether Google serves "the same Web" for the millions of users who rely on Google as their principal portal. For others, it is a matter of relevance, and whether the...
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Community Manager Appreciation Day 2012
Characteristics of a Community Manager A well rounded community manager makes everyone feel welcome. He doesn't judge a user based on his ability to communicate (or to type). She always gives warnings...
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5 Signs of a Great User Experience
If you've used the mobile social network Path recently, it's likely that you enjoyed the experience. Path has a sophisticated design, yet it's easy to use. It sports an attractive red color scheme and...
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Everybody is Lying to Me and I Don’t Care
For instance, the most recent blow up is that Google and three other advertising networks were violating Apple's Safari guidelines for third party cookies. Google issued a statement to Ars...
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Sorry, RIM: The Playbook Still Sucks
You have non-threaded conversations for each account. This means that you see separate messages in your thread, which is something that Gmail had oh, six years ago. And if you want to group delete...
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Firefox Data Visualization Shows You How Dumb Your Passwords Are
Do you reuse passwords across multiple websites? The habit is alarmingly common, despite being a well-known security risk. You know how the warning goes: If you use the same password across a number of...
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Why People Should Chill Out About Targeted Advertising
The other day, I was reading a news article when a skyscraper banner ad to the right of the story caught my eye. It was for a particular bass guitar, which was for sale on Amazon. I happen to be in the...
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[Infographic]: International Cloud Computing Policies
Small businesses are learning how to leverage the power of cloud computing, and loving it. With the decreasing costs of cloud computing, and its rising capabilities, it's no wonder business owners are...
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[Infographic] How the App Stores “Really” Stack Up
If you liken app stores to race horses, Apple is the biggest, baddest thoroughbred in town. Google Play is a fine specimen with some distinct qualities but has a lot of work to do in the practice yard...
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Twitter Can’t Beat Facebook
See on Scoop.it – human being in – perfección Hardcore Twitter users, I know you’re a loyal bunch (in fact, I consider myself one of you). So don’t take this personally. This article is about Facebook...
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Why Mobile Business Apps are Attractive to Venture Capitalists
The barriers for B2B mobile health care apps remain high. A doctor once told me, "my staff told me that if we go completely digital, they would all quit." And that was in a Web-based world. Imagine...
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The Evolving Definition of Television
readwriteweb.com What is television? Historically, its definition was more or less set in stone. A television set was a very particular type of device, which served as the hub of audio-visual...
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Tablets Want To Kill Your Laptop
By Antone Gonsalves | readwriteweb.com Laptops are doomed. In the next five years, tablets will displace notebook-style computers to become the dominant personal computing platform. And the transition...
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The Android Nexus 7 Tablet (and Jelly Bean) Explained
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ReadWriteWeb.com | Week in Review
TOP STORY BY MARK HACHMAN How Is Windows 8 Going To Do? Microsoft Doesn’t Want To Talk About It How well does Microsoft expect Windows 8 to do? Oddly enough, the company doesn’t want to talk about it....
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