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pimg alt="google-scribe-logo.JPG" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/google-scribe-logo.JPG" width="150" height="40" class="mt-image-none" style="" /Google has a href="http://scribe.googlelabs.com/static/help.html"unveiled/a the latest addition to a href="http://googlelabs.com"Google Labs/a, its text autocompletion tool a href="http://scribe.googlelabs.com/"Google Scribe/a. Scribe takes a look at the text you've already entered and tries to predict the next word or phrase, offering a drop down list of suggestions for you to chose from./p pThe most obvious application for Google Scribe is as a keystroke saver for Google's mobile platform, Android, and as an Internet-wide form of a href="http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=106230"Google Suggest/a, the tool that suggests search terms as you type. In the meantime, it will likely offer up some entertainment and a bit of procrastination./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21691amp;cb=21691' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21691amp;n=21691' border='0' alt='' //a/p pThe first thing we tried, after seeing if Scribe could tell us exactly how many sheets to the wind a drunk person might be, was to see what the tool suggested if we let it get behind the wheel. We started hitting "space" and then "enter" and wound up with this:/p centerimg alt="google-scribe-blank-suggestion.JPG" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/google-scribe-blank-suggestion.JPG" width="425" height="340" class="mt-image-none" style="" //center pAnother user noted in the a href="http://www.googlelabs.com/show_details?app_key=agtnbGFiczIwLXd3d3IVCxIMTGFic0FwcE1vZGVsGIvu5QEM"reviews/a on Google Labs that they had found a similar phenomenon, wherein "If you let it autocomplete everything but the first word it ends up looping on itself, but not before running into 'Ima let you finish but Beyonce had one of the best...'". /p pGoogle-centric blog a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-scribe.html"Google Operating System/a noted similar instances, which it explains comes from Google using "data extracted from web pages". It offers the example of "choose IngentaConnect" as a suggestion for after typing the word "why", which is offered because that phrase is used repeatedly on IngentaConnect's site./p pFor now, the tool is only available in English, though the presence of a language drop-down box strongly suggests others will soon be available. Users can also chose between constant word and phrase suggestions or having suggestions appear only when they hit the "tab" key. /p pA bookmarklet is also available, which shows which text fields on any page will allow Scribe to provide suggestions, meaning suggestions similar to those you would get in Google Search can now be offered up across the Web. In terms of functionality off the mobile platform, this might be the biggest - the power of a href="http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=106230 "Google Suggest/a anywhere you like. Perhaps this will be a feature we soon see added to Google Chrome? We'll see./p pThe real advantage, we think, will be to Google's mobile users, who don't have access to a full keyboard, but rather a touch screen. It could also be a big hit on Google TV, which will allow users to use their Android phones as controls.br / /p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_scribe_offers_mad_libs-esque_suggestions_ac.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FSWyAoCMR7egSb3qKJ2L9ZJcYt0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FSWyAoCMR7egSb3qKJ2L9ZJcYt0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FSWyAoCMR7egSb3qKJ2L9ZJcYt0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FSWyAoCMR7egSb3qKJ2L9ZJcYt0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=iTfp9Bw51XY:zPGQhkSLbx8:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=iTfp9Bw51XY:zPGQhkSLbx8:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=iTfp9Bw51XY:zPGQhkSLbx8:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=iTfp9Bw51XY:zPGQhkSLbx8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=iTfp9Bw51XY:zPGQhkSLbx8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=iTfp9Bw51XY:zPGQhkSLbx8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=iTfp9Bw51XY:zPGQhkSLbx8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=iTfp9Bw51XY:zPGQhkSLbx8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=iTfp9Bw51XY:zPGQhkSLbx8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=iTfp9Bw51XY:zPGQhkSLbx8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=iTfp9Bw51XY:zPGQhkSLbx8:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/iTfp9Bw51XY" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="abdulemam.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/abdulemam.jpg" width="146" height="220" /Bad economies always drag repression in their wake and social media is no exception to this rule. One of the worst instances is the recent arrest of a href="http://abdulemam.blogspot.com//"Ali Abdulemam/a, a blogger and the editor of the long-running forum a href="http://www.bahrainonline.org/"Bahrainonline.org/a (now shut down). /p pAbdulemam was arrested for the same a href="http://dekhnstan.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/free-ali-abdulemam/"reason/a before - he had acted as a midwife to discussion on democracy among other things. This time, he was a href="http://jilliancyork.com/2010/09/05/free-ali-abdulemam/"arrested/a on September 5 for "publishing false news." Soon came speculation that he'd been a href="http://en.rsf.org/bahrain-arrests-torture-and-website-07-09-2010,38298.html"tortured/a. /p pA group I was involved with, the a href="http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org"Committee to Protect Bloggers/a, was one of emmany /emgroups agitating for his release in 2005 during his first arrest. It worked. He was freed. Let's join together and make sure the same thing happens this time. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21683amp;cb=21683' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21683amp;n=21683' border='0' alt='' //a/p pAli's a reasonable, engaged person, a reporter for a href="http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/author/abdulemam/"Global Voices/a, a father and businessman. He seems to have made friends in half the countries on earth. No one deserves illegitimate imprisonment and torture. /p pimg alt="freeali3mo.gif" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/freeali3mo.gif" width="480" height="80" class="alignright" /ReadWriteWeb is not a partisan outfit. There's plenty of discussion and disagreement (on our own time) about political issues. (One of us even has the temerity to be from New Zealand, if you can believe it.) But some issues are human more than political and this is one of them. Although on a practical level, if everyone like Ali gets sent up the river, who will we write for? /p pWhoever you are reading this, Ali's one of you. So here's what you can do if you want to try to help. Please keep in mind, no matter what you do and who you connect with, don't be a tool. Ali's safety is the issue here, not your outrage. /p ulliTweet Bahrain's foreign minister, a href="http://twitter.com/khalidalkhalifa"Khalid Alkhalifa/a/liliWrite the a href="http://bh.embassyinformation.com/"Bahraini ambassador/a in your country/liliWrite one of the Bahraini officials listed a href="http://www.anasqtiesh.com/2010/09/freedom-for-ali-abdulemam/"here/a/liliJoin the a href="http://freeabdulemam.wordpress.com/"Free Ali/a campaign./lili"Like" the a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=136711109706635#"Free Ali Facebook/a page/liliUse your social media accounts to talk about it/liliPost a link to your own discussion of Ali on the a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=136711109706635#"Free Ali Facebook/a page/liliLeave a comment of support below. /li /ul pimg alt="bhol.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/bhol.jpg" width="600" height="310" //p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bahraini_blogger_arrested_probably_tortured.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sgapSSAs1lgVYyQME_ZTjQif-hE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sgapSSAs1lgVYyQME_ZTjQif-hE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sgapSSAs1lgVYyQME_ZTjQif-hE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sgapSSAs1lgVYyQME_ZTjQif-hE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=PRRqe20gBec:wYHNXOrU2q4:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=PRRqe20gBec:wYHNXOrU2q4:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=PRRqe20gBec:wYHNXOrU2q4:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=PRRqe20gBec:wYHNXOrU2q4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=PRRqe20gBec:wYHNXOrU2q4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=PRRqe20gBec:wYHNXOrU2q4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=PRRqe20gBec:wYHNXOrU2q4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=PRRqe20gBec:wYHNXOrU2q4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=PRRqe20gBec:wYHNXOrU2q4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=PRRqe20gBec:wYHNXOrU2q4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=PRRqe20gBec:wYHNXOrU2q4:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/PRRqe20gBec" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="royalmail_sep10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/royalmail_sep10.jpg" width="150" height="97" /Last week, a href="http://royalmail.com/"The Royal Mail/a (the national postal service of the United Kingdom) introduced what it called an a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11172864""intelligent stamp"/a that displays a video using augmented reality when it is scanned with a smartphone. Stamps are a heartwarming, sentimental collectors item that often memorialize historic people, things and events. This campaign - part of the Royal Mail's "Great British Railways" series - is no different. While it is certainly an interesting big-name marketing adoption of augmented reality, the experience feels lack-luster, and could have potentially been far more interesting with further development./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21689amp;cb=21689' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21689amp;n=21689' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2What It Does/h2 pimg alt="gbrail_sep10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/gbrail_sep10.jpg" width="299" height="176" class="alignright" /If you're the lucky recipient of a letter with a stamp from this series, you can use the a href="http://junaio.com/"junaio/a application on your iPhone or Android device to launch the "experience." After pointing your camera at the stamp, a 4-minute video of Bernard Cribbins - an 81-year-old British character actor - reading W.H. Auden's 1935 poem "The Night Mail" (whilst aboard a train, no less) automatically begins playing./p p"Royal Mail's special stamps mark key events and anniversaries in the UK's heritage through a programme which aims to be both educational and informative," says Royal Mail's Phillip Parker. I watched the video. It's fun in its own quaint, antique sort of way, but if the Royal Mail really wanted to bring its stamps "firmly into the 21st Century," they could have done so much more with this experiment./p pobject width="610" height="300"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UTHp53VM72E?fs=1amp;hl=en_US"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UTHp53VM72E?fs=1amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="610" height="300"/embed/object/p h2What It Could Do/h2 pAugmented reality could use more interactivity. Many experiences are one-way flows of data to the end-user. Why not let people contribute to a two-way exchange? I have nothing against the nostalgic video the Royal Mail created to play from this special set of train stamps, but perhaps they could continue to innovate using the medium in the future./p pIt would be great to see the Royal Mail (or any postal service) develop a special stamp with some small unique identifier that could be used to send personal messages along with letters. How cool would it be to get a letter from a friend, family member or loved one, scan the stamp and view or hear a recorded message from the sender? It would be like a href="http://www.stickybits.com/"stickybits/a, but without the obtrusive barcodes./p h2The Maturation of Augmented Reality/h2 pimg alt="whauden_sep10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/whauden_sep10.jpg" width="300" height="180" class="alignright" /Augmented reality needs to move on to the next step. It seems whenever a new brand discovers augmented reality, they discover it in its simplest state. "I can point my phone at a stamp and watch a video," is how the Royal Mail sees augmented reality, when in fact, they could do so much more with the technology./p pI would love to see some brands really take a chance on the technology and get the most out of it early on. Many branded AR experiences (though not all) are very basic, or gimmicky, and the really cool innovative stuff is being tested in labs at universities. For the technology to continue to mature, vendors need to encourage the brands that come to them to take it a step farther./p pIf 2010 was the year for big brands to experiment with augmented reality, 2011 needs to be the year they start innovating and creating more practical experiences./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/intelligent_stamps_and_the_maturation_of_augmented_reality.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9ZLzR2aEaF9A-XvxhozaGkHSJe8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9ZLzR2aEaF9A-XvxhozaGkHSJe8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9ZLzR2aEaF9A-XvxhozaGkHSJe8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9ZLzR2aEaF9A-XvxhozaGkHSJe8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5rXz2m1-gaU:On6PQKdwE_c:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5rXz2m1-gaU:On6PQKdwE_c:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5rXz2m1-gaU:On6PQKdwE_c:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5rXz2m1-gaU:On6PQKdwE_c:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5rXz2m1-gaU:On6PQKdwE_c:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=5rXz2m1-gaU:On6PQKdwE_c:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5rXz2m1-gaU:On6PQKdwE_c:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=5rXz2m1-gaU:On6PQKdwE_c:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5rXz2m1-gaU:On6PQKdwE_c:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=5rXz2m1-gaU:On6PQKdwE_c:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5rXz2m1-gaU:On6PQKdwE_c:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/5rXz2m1-gaU" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="empty_lecture_hall.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/empty_lecture_hall.jpg" width="150" height="100" class="mt-image-none" style="" /Students are starting to return to college campuses, but according to a report commissioned by conferencing company a href="http://www.intercall.com/"Intercall/a, that doesn't mean they're heading back into the classroom./p pThe survey asked over 500 college students nationwide about their experiences with viewing course content over video streamed online. And 78% reported that their professors have used web streaming - either a live feed or videotaped lectures - with nearly a third saying that their professors use web streaming frequently. 21% of students reported that over half their course learning is done by viewing video content online./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21688amp;cb=21688' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21688amp;n=21688' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2Skipping School, Except on Exam Days/h2 pMany students admitted that they only show up to class for the exams, and instead borrow notes and tapes from others in their class. 32% say they've asked a friend or classmate to record a class for them so they didn't have to attend in person. /p pThe top benefits college students associate with having their lectures and college courses available via video online are "being able to 'attend' classes even though they are really out of town" (63%) and "being able to attend class when they want, not when the university has it scheduled" (58%). 47% reported that online content made it easier for them to work more hours at their jobs. And 43% touted the benefit of not having to get dressed for class. Only 15% listed "being able to attend more parties" as the main benefit of having their courses available online./p h2Video Streaming Makes Them Better Students?/h2 pStudents also said that being able to access course content online gave them the flexibility to learn at their own pace. 64% said that viewing classes via online video lets them fast forward through the parts they do not find useful. More than half also said that online video helps them to spend more time studying by themselves. In addition, many reported that they felt more comfortable asking questions to professors online because they don't have to speak up in front of the class./p pimg alt="videostream_ss1-1.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/videostream_ss1-1.jpg" width="350" height="278" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" /Three-quarters of those responding said that having their professors post video online or live stream their lectures would help them be better prepared for exams. And over half said that they think they can learn more effectively when they can watch videos via live streaming than when they sit in a classroom, with 54% saying they've seen their grades improve because of access to video lectures./p pA third of those responding admitted that their parents would be upset to hear about the frequency with which they skip class or about their preference for finding alternative ways to access course material. (Only a third?!)/p pBut whether or not parents understand, the results of this study seem to confirm what many already see as higher education's future: it's going to be online. Many students already prefer it that way./p piPhoto credits: Flickr user a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sprochello/3036729806/"Sholeh/a/i/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/college_students_head_back_to_the_classroom_-_exce.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iwu9jyEa9eWyC3JWEzKe6AqLk0c/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iwu9jyEa9eWyC3JWEzKe6AqLk0c/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iwu9jyEa9eWyC3JWEzKe6AqLk0c/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iwu9jyEa9eWyC3JWEzKe6AqLk0c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=cMmjjb8iJIM:wywNZBGwy9M:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=cMmjjb8iJIM:wywNZBGwy9M:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=cMmjjb8iJIM:wywNZBGwy9M:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=cMmjjb8iJIM:wywNZBGwy9M:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=cMmjjb8iJIM:wywNZBGwy9M:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=cMmjjb8iJIM:wywNZBGwy9M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=cMmjjb8iJIM:wywNZBGwy9M:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=cMmjjb8iJIM:wywNZBGwy9M:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=cMmjjb8iJIM:wywNZBGwy9M:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=cMmjjb8iJIM:wywNZBGwy9M:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=cMmjjb8iJIM:wywNZBGwy9M:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/cMmjjb8iJIM" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="openid-logo.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/openid-logo.jpg" width="150" height="60" class="mt-image-none" style="" /Google has a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/simpler-sign-ups-for-yahoo-users-with.html"announced/a that Yahoo users will now be able to quickly and easily sign up for Google products using their Yahoo email address. The feature, according to some in the industry, will be a boon for Google and a href="http://openid.net"OpenID/a, the Internet standard behind the feature. But what benefit does this provide for Yahoo?/p pWill making it easier for Yahoo users to sign in to Google - a direct competitor - draw users away from the portal, search and mail provider, or will it help create an overall better user experience? According to Yahoo, making a process that users were already engaged in simpler will provide a better user experience and keep them interested in one of its most solid products - Yahoo Mail./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21685amp;cb=21685' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21685amp;n=21685' border='0' alt='' //a/p pAccording to Kaliya Hamlin of a href="http://www.identitywoman.net"IdentityWoman.net/a, the step is a big one for OpenID./p p"People have been asking FOREVER when are the big web portals actually going to accept other people's OpenIDs. This a significant step by Google to become a relying party," Hamlin told us today./p p!--start:nonyt--div class="pullquote"Yahoo is not in the business of locking users to only use its services, especially when the Web is getting so much more distributed and social. - Eran Hammer-Lahav, Open Web advocate for Yahoo/div!--end:nonyt--/p pScott Kveton, co-founder of the a href="http://openid.net/foundation/"OpenID Foundation/a, agreed that it was "a big step forward for making OpenID that much easier to use"./p p"Making it easier to have Google and Yahoo work together is great for Google," said Kveton, but he questioned the advantage for Yahoo. He noted that "making it easier to on-board users into Google via their email accounts means being able to suck in the social graph."/p pWe asked Eran Hammer-Lahav, an Open Web advocate for Yahoo, about the feature, and he told us that it had been in some form of discussion for over two years and would provide a better user experience for Yahoo's users./p p"We don't try to lock our users in any way," said Hammer-Lahav. "We want them to have a better Web experience no matter what site they are on, just by being a Yahoo user. Yahoo is not in the business of locking users to only use its services, especially when the Web is getting so much more distributed and social."/p pHammer-Lahav told us that Yahoo believes its mail product is strong enough to keep users happy (and loyal), as evidenced by when Yahoo was one of the first email providers to a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_releases_address_book_api.php"provide address book mobility/a. When we asked if Yahoo would be offering the same sort of feature, he explained that there weren't many Yahoo products that required email sign-ins, but the company is adding OpenID support for activities like adding comments, which do require full account sign-ins. In this case, Google added this functionality, he explained, because Yahoo email account holders make up a large percentage of the email market and those trying to create Google accounts. /p pIn the end, that may be just it - the simple fact that users will be drawn to Google's growing arsenal of Web tools, from a href="http://docs.google.com"Google Docs/a to a href="http://google.com/voice/"Voice/a to a href="http://google.com/adwords"AdWords/a, and it's better to keep what business you can rather than have your users abandon your product completely. /p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_looks_to_poach_yahoo_users_with_openid_sign.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fwTDdRFhmGw1vkLEvQuiu6iSobU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fwTDdRFhmGw1vkLEvQuiu6iSobU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fwTDdRFhmGw1vkLEvQuiu6iSobU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fwTDdRFhmGw1vkLEvQuiu6iSobU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=bfa72jBlnNk:DjcaSCFTIWw:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=bfa72jBlnNk:DjcaSCFTIWw:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=bfa72jBlnNk:DjcaSCFTIWw:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=bfa72jBlnNk:DjcaSCFTIWw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=bfa72jBlnNk:DjcaSCFTIWw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=bfa72jBlnNk:DjcaSCFTIWw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=bfa72jBlnNk:DjcaSCFTIWw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=bfa72jBlnNk:DjcaSCFTIWw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=bfa72jBlnNk:DjcaSCFTIWw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=bfa72jBlnNk:DjcaSCFTIWw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=bfa72jBlnNk:DjcaSCFTIWw:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/bfa72jBlnNk" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="Cyberduck.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/Cyberduck.jpg" width="150" height="156" class="mt-image-none" style="" /Often appearing on lists of "must have" Mac software, the open source FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV client a href="http://cyberduck.ch/"Cyberduck/a announced a new version yesterday that gives the tool even more file management features, including support for Google Storage and file versioning in Amazon S3./p pNew features include integration of Access Control List editing for Amazon S3 and Google Storage so that permissions can be granted to different users. Using Cyberduck alongside Google Storage, for example, one can limit access to files based on whether a user is logged in to a Google Account and authenticated against the ACL./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21682amp;cb=21682' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21682amp;n=21682' border='0' alt='' //a/p pimg alt="Cyberduck_ss.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/Cyberduck_ss.jpg" width="326" height="288" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" /File versioning support for S3 is also available in this version. You can show hidden files to display all revisions to a file, which allows you to revert back to a previous version. Versioning can be enabled per bucket, as can S3 Multi-Factor Authentication Delete, which secures files from deletion by requesting a one-time passcode./p pAlthough Cyberduck is currently only available for Mac, a a href="http://sudo.ch/2010/08/25/cyberduck-for-windows-is-coming/"Windows version/a is now in private beta. A Windows version will bring Cyberduck into competition with a href="http://cloudberrylab.com/"CloudBerry/a, which offers many of the same features but does not currently support Google Storage, Google Docs or Rackspace Cloud files (but does support Windows Azure)./p pAs tools like Cyberduck and CloudBerry move to support different cloud providers, interoperability is proving to be a major selling point - and a crucial feature./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/09/latest-cyberduck-version-provi.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gxher2KvNAI0AUmG8AnqDkqJ8Yo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gxher2KvNAI0AUmG8AnqDkqJ8Yo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gxher2KvNAI0AUmG8AnqDkqJ8Yo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gxher2KvNAI0AUmG8AnqDkqJ8Yo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Og8615Wthfc:Ge7HTvt5BZo:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Og8615Wthfc:Ge7HTvt5BZo:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Og8615Wthfc:Ge7HTvt5BZo:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Og8615Wthfc:Ge7HTvt5BZo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Og8615Wthfc:Ge7HTvt5BZo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Og8615Wthfc:Ge7HTvt5BZo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Og8615Wthfc:Ge7HTvt5BZo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Og8615Wthfc:Ge7HTvt5BZo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Og8615Wthfc:Ge7HTvt5BZo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Og8615Wthfc:Ge7HTvt5BZo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Og8615Wthfc:Ge7HTvt5BZo:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/Og8615Wthfc" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://readwriteweb.com/images/eyefilogo-20100907-123424.jpg" alt="eyefilogo"/a href="http://www.eye.fi/"Eye-fi/a, the creator of camera memory cards that automatically upload photos and videos to your computer or favorite website, has a href="http://www.eye.fi/press-releases/eye-fi-launches-developer-program-to-celebrate-five-years-of-innovation-in-connected-imaging"announced/a that it will launch a software development kit and community this Fall. /p pThat means that any approved application will be able to pull media automatically from your camera into your account online when you walk past an accessible wifi signal. Will the company be generous in approving use of its developer platform? Startups around the world hope so./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21686amp;cb=21686' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21686amp;n=21686' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2How it Works/h2 pEye-fi has offered its basic service for 5 years and sells its newest 4GB card with "endless memory mode" (stored media is automatically deleted once safely on your computer) for $49.99. Eye-fi bundles the cost of connectivity into the cost of the device, similar to how the Kindle does 3G, but in this case it's data writing not reading./p pTo date, users have been able to upload media automatically to 45 different sites, from Flickr to Facebook to YouTube to Costco.com. Online reviews of the service are generally very positive. Now any approved application developer will be able include this feature in their apps./p h2Market Strategy/h2 pIt's a smart move by Eye-fi. An ecosystem of app developers adds a compelling feature and then every new customer those apps acquire is a potential new customer for the memory card manufacturer./p p"Eye-Fi's wireless data card is without a doubt revolutionary in the way it enables real time publishing of photos over WiFi directly from the camera," says Marcus Mac Innes, founder of Irish photo sharing service a href="http://Pix.ie"Pix.ie/a. br / blockquote"The out of the box publishing destinations however were limited and many Pix.ie users complained about not having a direct upload facility from Eye-Fi to Pix.ie.br / br / "With the release of a developer API, Eye-Fi seems to be responding to the growing demand for openness which ultimately provides their customers with more choice with regard to publishing destinations.br / br / "So long as Eye-Fi don't discriminate when it comes to commercial use of the new APIs, this move will be a win win for all concerned."/blockquote/p pEye-fi offers an iPhone app and last holiday season the company partnered with Google to offer a free card to anyone who upgraded to a paid Picasa account. 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pimg alt="ooshirts_sep10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/images/ooshirts_sep10.jpg" width="150" height="48" /There is a fascinating article online this morning from the San Francisco Chronicle's Tom Abate in which he a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/06/BUKQ1F7CM4.DTL"profiles Raymond Lei/a, a 19-year-old Berkeley student and entrepreneur. While still in high school Lei founded a href="http://ooshirts.com/"ooShirts.com/a with just a computer and an idea. A few years and just a couple thousand dollars in capital later, Lei runs a successful 2.5 person team set to earn over $700,000 in 2010. Abate dubs ooShirts an "ultralight startup," but is Lei's bedroom business any different from a lean startup?/p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21677amp;cb=21677' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21677amp;n=21677' border='0' alt='' //a/p pIn recent years, lean startups have a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/01/turn-your-startup-into-a-lean.php"become a popular sector/a of Internet businesses that look to push a product at "low burn." A lot of what makes a lean startup lean, according the man who coined the term, Eric Ries, is when the company strives to create value for customers. "Every activity that does not contribute to learning about customers" should be defined as "waste," Ries says./p pimg alt="paperairplane_sep10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/images/paperairplane_sep10.jpg" width="300" height="222" class="alignright" /But Lei's company seems leaner than lean, with almost no "burn" whatsoever. According to the ooShirts.com homepage, less than 0.5% of the company's revenue goes to advertising. Instead the company relies on referrals and repeat customers to help spread the word. By working with over a dozen suppliers, ooShirts keeps its shipping costs low - savings it passes on to its customers in order to undercut competition./p pooShirts is part of a unique subset of Internet companies. While many startups one might categorize as "lean" are developing applications and tools for the Web, ooShirts is playing in the a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/03/is-america-on-the-verge-of-a-co-creation-invasion.php"co-creation and mass customization space/a. These companies serve as intermediaries between customers and manufacturers who can create customized products, and thus can afford to run at a "low burn."/p pBecause of this business relationship, mass customization companies may need to be set aside from lean startups, which by nature are highly iterative product companies. But perhaps there is some intersection between lean startups and the low burning mass customization companies. Or maybe Abate's term "ultralight" is a new class of startups? Either way, running thin is certainly a growing trend among startups, and ooShirts is a fine example of how the Internet is enabling the success of these businesses./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/09/leaner-than-lean-is-ultralight-a-new-class-of-startups.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cYVqxmTjuyhnui_8_uuhzvBPevM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cYVqxmTjuyhnui_8_uuhzvBPevM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cYVqxmTjuyhnui_8_uuhzvBPevM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cYVqxmTjuyhnui_8_uuhzvBPevM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=uFPOeQcN6WQ:GHM_qi8YNF8:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=uFPOeQcN6WQ:GHM_qi8YNF8:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=uFPOeQcN6WQ:GHM_qi8YNF8:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=uFPOeQcN6WQ:GHM_qi8YNF8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=uFPOeQcN6WQ:GHM_qi8YNF8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=uFPOeQcN6WQ:GHM_qi8YNF8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=uFPOeQcN6WQ:GHM_qi8YNF8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=uFPOeQcN6WQ:GHM_qi8YNF8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=uFPOeQcN6WQ:GHM_qi8YNF8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=uFPOeQcN6WQ:GHM_qi8YNF8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=uFPOeQcN6WQ:GHM_qi8YNF8:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/uFPOeQcN6WQ" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/blackberry2.jpg"a href="http://www.rim.com"RIM/a, the company behind Blackberry smartphones, is getting into the smart billboard business, according to a href="http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PG01p=1u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htmlr=1f=Gl=50s1=%2220100223112%22.PGNR.OS=DN/20100223112RS=DN/20100223112"two/a a href="http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PG01p=1u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htmlr=1f=Gl=50s1=%2220100219973%22.PGNR.OS=DN/20100219973RS=DN/20100219973"patent/a applications it filed recently. But what would a smartphone maker and roadside advertising have in common? It could be a new way to serve up "adaptive" advertising according to data gathered from nearby Blackberry users./p pAccording to mobile-focused blog a href="http://www.unwiredview.com/2010/09/07/why-the-heck-is-rim-trying-to-patent-improvements-to-roadside-billboards/"Unwired View/a, the innovation comes in the form of using nearby phones to measure traffic speed and density and then adapting a billboard's content accordingly./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21681amp;cb=21681' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21681amp;n=21681' border='0' alt='' //a/p centerimg alt="RIM-Billboard.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/RIM-Billboard.jpg" width="379" height="356" class="mt-image-none" style="" //center blockquoteWhen traffic is moving fast and drivers have no time to pay attention to billboards, or there's a dense crowd on the street so you are distracted and less likely to pay attention, the billboard may just blast a huge logo and slogan of the advertiser at you, to catch any peripheral attention it can get. When traffic slows down in a jam, and you are sitting bored at the wheel waiting for a car in front to move the next few meters, grateful for any distraction, the same billboard will give you a detailed information about the service, prices, benefits and stuff./blockquote pThe two separate patents are for "Adaptive roadside billboard system and related methods" and "Adaptive pedestrian billboard system and related methods" and both are described as having a storage system that could retain a number of different messages for different speeds and traffic densities. Beyond the level of detail involved, such a system could also be used to offer interaction opportunities when density is high and speed is low (such as in a traffic jam)./p pThe next step, of course, is for billboards to begin collecting more personal information than simply crowd-aggregated data, such as the types of cars being driven, to cater advertising more specifically to the people present. That same next step, however, treads on thinner ground in regards to privacy than simply the density and speed of traffic, which is already used by systems such as a href="http://maps.google.com"Google Maps/a to provide traffic analysis./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/detailed_ads_for_traffic_jams_rim_patents_adaptive.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HsiAxGdfyptelt2s8RdnGkCYXow/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HsiAxGdfyptelt2s8RdnGkCYXow/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HsiAxGdfyptelt2s8RdnGkCYXow/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HsiAxGdfyptelt2s8RdnGkCYXow/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=zmREVb1gxiw:9GsukWgE4Pg:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=zmREVb1gxiw:9GsukWgE4Pg:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=zmREVb1gxiw:9GsukWgE4Pg:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=zmREVb1gxiw:9GsukWgE4Pg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=zmREVb1gxiw:9GsukWgE4Pg:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=zmREVb1gxiw:9GsukWgE4Pg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=zmREVb1gxiw:9GsukWgE4Pg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=zmREVb1gxiw:9GsukWgE4Pg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=zmREVb1gxiw:9GsukWgE4Pg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=zmREVb1gxiw:9GsukWgE4Pg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=zmREVb1gxiw:9GsukWgE4Pg:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/zmREVb1gxiw" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="sociallayer-150px-thumbnail.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/assets_c/2010/09/sociallayer-150px-thumbnail-thumb-150x156-21616.png" width="150" height="156"/We are once again pleased to announce a new premium report: a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.readwriteweb.com%2Freports%2Fsocial-layer%2Fsa=Dsntz=1usg=AFQjCNH8t3PXRTlWUTXht8xjg13hMa8VFg"The Social Layer: How the Rise of Web-Oriented Architecture is Changing Enterprise IT/a. Thanks to a href="http://socialtext.com"Socialtext/a for sponsoring the report and making it available as a free download./p pThe Web 2.0 era gave rise to social applications such as Twitter and Facebook. These services made it easier to share information and connect with family, friends and experts. The enterprise has followed this movement by creating its own social applications that fit within a secure environment./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21678amp;cb=21678' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21678amp;n=21678' border='0' alt='' //a/p pThe report explores how social technologies in the enterprise is now evolving into a new "social layer," that allows people to access information from a variety of enterprise applications and colleagues across organizational silos. It discusses how microblogging, wiikis and other social technologies are used by employees to serve customers better and drive new business opportunities./p pThe report further explores the role of the open Web and the importance of Web services and applications to talk with one other easily and securely. The open Web has allowed services like Facebook to flourish by simply adhering to the HTTP protocol.The report demonstrates how enterprises can embrace a similar architecture to build their own social layer./p pIt also explores:/p ul liThe rise of scripting languages, open frameworks and the "view source" culture./li liThe rise of REST APIs in the Enterprise./li liThe move to the cloud and a Web-Oriented Architecture./li liBuilding the social layer in the enterprise architecture./li /ul pWe think you'll find our report about the new social layer (embedded below) to be essential reading for the new technology enterprise. 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pimg alt="rfc793.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/rfc793.png" width="244" height="153" class="mt-image-none" style="" /You've probably read about Facebook and Google providing internally developed tools to the open source world. Often you'll see references to such tools during conferences or presentations during developer meetups./p pOne such tool you may not have heard of isn't from Google and it isn't from Facebook -- it's from Yahoo. Back in May, Yahoo released the Yconalyzer tool via the a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2010/05/tcp_traffic_analyzer.html" target="_blank"Yahoo Developer Network/a. Let's take a closer look at this tool and how you can start using it immediately for your own needs.br / /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21308amp;cb=21308' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21308amp;n=21308' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2Yconalyzer and You/h2 pFrom the Yconalyzer sourceforce page:/p blockquote emYconalyzer is a low-overhead pcap utility that provides stronga bird's eye view of traffic/strong on a particular TCP port, displaying a distribution of duration, volume and throughput over all connections while being able to narrow down to a connection as well./em/blockquote p(emphasis added)/p pAt this point you might be saying to yourself "oh, it's like a href="http://www.tcpdump.org/" target="_blank"tcpdump/a". While tcpdump is a valuable tool, you should still take a look at Yconalyzer./p pSo who uses Yconalyzer? You can see Yconalyzer referenced in presentations from very high profile groups like the a href="http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/44/In%20the%20Belly%20of%20the%20Whale_%20Operations%20at%20Twitter%20Presentation.pdf" target="_blank"Twitter web engineering team [PDF]/a./p pSome of the metrics you can gather from using Yconalyzer include:/p ul liHow many client connections are taking too long?/li liWhat specific client IP addresses had connections that lasted too long?/li /ul pHow can you use Yconalyzer? Here are some examples of use cases:/p ul liReview connections where clients are sending less than a specific number of bytes/li liReview connections where the server is sending more than a specific number of bytes/li /ul pThe initial release of Yconalyzer has been updated to accommodate more environments and ease the process of getting started. Specifically, additions include fixes for Ubuntu environments (gcc-4.4.1) as well as GNU auto-build and configure utilities. For those running RPM as their package manager of choice there is even a spec file included./p pTo get started simply a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/yconalyzer/" target="_blank"download the Yconalyzer source code from sourceforge/a and follow the README and INSTALL files. You should expect to see output such as that shown in the example below for a CentOS 5.5 build environment./p pscript src="http://gist.github.com/568314.js?file=yconalyzer.sh"/script/p pNext, let's verify we can capture traffic for a few seconds./p pscript src="http://gist.github.com/568371.js?file=yconalyzer-5sec.sh"/script/p pWhile this simple example is for web traffic you'll find Yconalyzer useful for any TCP performance metric gathering. /p pWill you be using Yconalyzer to test your own environments? 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pimg alt="ie9_logo_sep10.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/ie9_logo_sep10.png" width="150" height="45" class="mt-image-none" style="" /Microsoft plans to a href="http://www.beautyoftheweb.com"unveil/a the design of Internet Explorer 9 next week, but thanks to a new leak, we now have a pretty good idea of what the next generation of Microsoft's browser will look like. Currently, Microsoft only offers "a href="http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/"developer preview/a" versions of the browser that do not feature the new user interface. The enterprising Internet Explorer 9 fans at a href="http://IEBest.com"IEBest.com/a, however, managed to get an early copy of the browser and captured the new interface on video./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21680amp;cb=21680' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21680amp;n=21680' border='0' alt='' //a/p pobject width="609" height="368"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g4QPxbubSug?fs=1amp;hl=en_USamp;rel=0"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/g4QPxbubSug?fs=1amp;hl=en_USamp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="609" height="368"/embed/object/p pThe first a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/will_microsoft_join_the_future_with_internet_explo.php"images of Internet Explorer 9/a leaked last month and today's video confirms that Microsoft will likely use the stripped down, minimalist interface we saw in these leaked screenshots. As we noted last month, it looks like Microsoft has done away with the menu buttons and freed up even more space by combining the URL bar and tab bar into a single toolbar. While this frees up more space for displaying websites, it remains to be seen how effective this new layout will be when more than four or five tabs are open at the same time./p pAccording to this new video, Internet Explorer 9 now also scores 95 out of 100 possible points on the a href="http://acid3.acidtests.org/"Acid3 test/a, which measures how well the browser conforms to a specific set of web standards./p pAfter looking at this video, do you think you will give Internet Explorer another try? /p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/internet_explorer_9_makes_a_video_appearance.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pO-X8GJAo28ElZkQiyKGyqpp8U0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pO-X8GJAo28ElZkQiyKGyqpp8U0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pO-X8GJAo28ElZkQiyKGyqpp8U0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pO-X8GJAo28ElZkQiyKGyqpp8U0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=-wPMZpjyRBY:KZpEkBUZAP8:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=-wPMZpjyRBY:KZpEkBUZAP8:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=-wPMZpjyRBY:KZpEkBUZAP8:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=-wPMZpjyRBY:KZpEkBUZAP8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=-wPMZpjyRBY:KZpEkBUZAP8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=-wPMZpjyRBY:KZpEkBUZAP8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=-wPMZpjyRBY:KZpEkBUZAP8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=-wPMZpjyRBY:KZpEkBUZAP8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=-wPMZpjyRBY:KZpEkBUZAP8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=-wPMZpjyRBY:KZpEkBUZAP8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=-wPMZpjyRBY:KZpEkBUZAP8:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/-wPMZpjyRBY" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/pachube_logo.jpg" a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_5_web_trends_of_2009_internet_of_things.php"The Internet of Things/a took a step closer to mainstream adoption today with the announcement of a href="http://pachube.com"Pachube/a's first enterprise offering. Pachube (pronounced "patch bay") shares real-time sensor data and enables users to analyze data or a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pachube_adds_real-time_notifications.php"trigger actions/a in a variety of ways through its SaaS. For example, temperature sensors could trigger an alarm if a temperature gets too high or low in your server room. See our coverage of a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/applications_from_the_internet_of_things_pachube.php"Pachube's applications/a for more use cases./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21675amp;cb=21675' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21675amp;n=21675' border='0' alt='' //a/p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/pachube_diagram.jpg"/p pPachube Professional will give enterprises a choice of packages with varying datastreams, higher API rates, and more. Pachube also offers a free product with only five datastrems, 10 API calls per minute and a month's worth of history - but all the data is made public. The paid packages not only scale-up access to Pachube's services, but also add privacy options./p pa href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/08/securing-the-internet-of-thing.php"According/a to a href="http://cisco.com"Cisco/a: "In just a few years, every door lock, card reader, video camera, vehicle, power meter, and light switch will have an IP address." In the meantime, Pachube and other IoT platforms have been mostly experimental developer tools, though some companies such as a href="http://www.currentcost.com/"Current Cost/a have already been using Pachube in production. Pachube Professional brings these tools out of the lab and into the real world./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/09/how-to-make-objects-come-alive.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Km1FHLKzh4utInuFhQcVQNa2Ueo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Km1FHLKzh4utInuFhQcVQNa2Ueo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Km1FHLKzh4utInuFhQcVQNa2Ueo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Km1FHLKzh4utInuFhQcVQNa2Ueo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5i-Alu_Bq4E:7WwDm4GhR5U:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5i-Alu_Bq4E:7WwDm4GhR5U:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5i-Alu_Bq4E:7WwDm4GhR5U:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5i-Alu_Bq4E:7WwDm4GhR5U:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5i-Alu_Bq4E:7WwDm4GhR5U:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=5i-Alu_Bq4E:7WwDm4GhR5U:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5i-Alu_Bq4E:7WwDm4GhR5U:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=5i-Alu_Bq4E:7WwDm4GhR5U:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5i-Alu_Bq4E:7WwDm4GhR5U:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=5i-Alu_Bq4E:7WwDm4GhR5U:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=5i-Alu_Bq4E:7WwDm4GhR5U:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/5i-Alu_Bq4E" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/google_logo.gif"Typing a search query into Google.com is such old news. Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a much-hyped keynote talk at Berlin's a href="http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/Internet/Internet/www.ifa-berlin/englisch/index.html"IFA home electronics event/a today and said that his vision for the future of search looks very, very different./p pSchmidt says he believes that in the future, your mobile phone will quickly and automatically deliver personalized information to you based on your physical location and interests. "Since you are in location X right now, and have interest Y, Google thinks you'd like to know information Z," the search giant will effectively say to your phone./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21679amp;cb=21679' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21679amp;n=21679' border='0' alt='' //a/p pHere's the key quote, as captured by a href="http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-googles-schmidt-autonomous-fast-search-is-our-new-definition/"PaidContent/a, a leading news site covering economics of digital content:br / img src="http://readwriteweb.com/images/shmidtpic-20100907-101442.jpg" alt="shmidtpic" align="right"/blockquote"Ultimately, search is not just the web but literally all of your information - your email, the things you care about, with your permission - this is personal search, for you and only for you./p p"The next step of search is doing this automatically. When I walk down the street, I want my smartphone to be doing searches constantly - 'did you know?', 'did you know?', 'did you know?', 'did you know?'./p pThis notion of autonomous search - to tell me things I didn't know but am probably interested in, is the next great stage - in my view - of search."/blockquote/p pThat 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 travel through town together. "Oh nothing," you might reply, "just Google telling me there is a business establishment nearby related to some of my recent search queries."/p pSeriously though, my long-term mobile search dream is this: dear phone, please tell me about the history, ownership, news coverage and other information about the building I am looking at in front of me. Make that automatic and ambient and I'm going to be one happy Google Mobile Search user. /p pMany industry-watchers have separated search and recommendation, saying that recommendation could in fact be bigger than search: it's the search you didn't even know you wanted to perform yet./p pPaidContent's a href="http://twitter.com/robertandrews/"Robert Andrews/a raises two very interesting points in his coverage: "1) Android is already a considerable power hog without searches being performed at every footstep; 2) if Google can increase searches to this incredible frequency, can it also ramp up search advertising in lockstep?"/p pVery related: a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_ceo_schmidt_people_arent_ready_for_the_tech.php"Google CEO Schmidt: "People Aren't Ready for the Technology Revolution"/a/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_ceo_next_great_stage_of_search_is_automatic.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ptA0VyXUJeN36OakOBFQ4kvhsNE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ptA0VyXUJeN36OakOBFQ4kvhsNE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ptA0VyXUJeN36OakOBFQ4kvhsNE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ptA0VyXUJeN36OakOBFQ4kvhsNE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Mf8d4krsrOY:2VLZxmSCylI:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Mf8d4krsrOY:2VLZxmSCylI:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Mf8d4krsrOY:2VLZxmSCylI:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Mf8d4krsrOY:2VLZxmSCylI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Mf8d4krsrOY:2VLZxmSCylI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Mf8d4krsrOY:2VLZxmSCylI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Mf8d4krsrOY:2VLZxmSCylI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Mf8d4krsrOY:2VLZxmSCylI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Mf8d4krsrOY:2VLZxmSCylI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=Mf8d4krsrOY:2VLZxmSCylI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=Mf8d4krsrOY:2VLZxmSCylI:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/Mf8d4krsrOY" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="big_picture_ipad_logo.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/big_picture_ipad_logo.jpg" width="150" height="149" /Over the course of this summer, we have witnessed the launch of a number of visually stunning applications for the iPad, including a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pulse-news-reader/id371088673?mt=8"Pulse/a, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_flipboard_is_already_one_of_the_best_ipad_apps.php"Flipboard/a, a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fotopedia-heritage/id383327395?mt=8"Fotopedia Heritage/a and a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/discover_by_cooliris_beautiful_wikipedia_ipad_app.php"Discover/a. Now, one of the best and most popular photojournalism blogs, Boston.com's ema href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/"The Big Picture/a/em, is joining the fray with the launch of a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-big-picture-from-boston/id370709214?mt=8"its own iPad app/a. About three times per week, the Big Picture features a new set of photos around a specific topic or news event. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21676amp;cb=21676' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21676amp;n=21676' border='0' alt='' //a/p pThanks to the iPad's great screen and the editorial team's skill in choosing the best images, scrolling through these collections makes for a great visual experience. Most of these sets include somewhere between 35 and 50 captioned images from a wide variety of sources. /p img alt="big_picture_example_2.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/big_picture_example_2.jpg" width="610" height="458" class="mt-image-none" style="" / pThis is, of course, not the first iPad app that highlights great photojournalism. The a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/ipad"Guardian/a, for example, was among the first news organizations to launch an a href="http://www.itunes.com/apps/theguardianeyewitness"iPad app/a that focused solely on displaying interesting news photos. a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reuters-galleries/id364189459?mt=8"Reuters/a, too, offers a similar application. These apps, however, tend to focus on one picture per day, while Boston.com's app doesn't update daily, but focuses on displaying a larger set of images./p pThe only real complaint we have about the app is that it doesn't pre-cache images. On a fast connection, the resulting delay is negligible, but on 3G or a slow broadband connection, the delays are often very noticeable and distract from the overall user experience./p pThe Big Picture iPad app (which is also compatible with the iPhone), is now a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-big-picture-from-boston/id370709214?mt=8"available/a for $2.99./p img alt="big_picture_example_1.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/big_picture_example_1.jpg" width="610" height="458" class="mt-image-none" style="" / stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_big_picture_ipad_app.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Bzud7p_YbUaQt8EfF-kQHJYTQ8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Bzud7p_YbUaQt8EfF-kQHJYTQ8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Bzud7p_YbUaQt8EfF-kQHJYTQ8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2Bzud7p_YbUaQt8EfF-kQHJYTQ8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=9T9OS6yvCO8:ZYpoGdaGOks:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=9T9OS6yvCO8:ZYpoGdaGOks:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=9T9OS6yvCO8:ZYpoGdaGOks:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=9T9OS6yvCO8:ZYpoGdaGOks:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=9T9OS6yvCO8:ZYpoGdaGOks:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=9T9OS6yvCO8:ZYpoGdaGOks:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=9T9OS6yvCO8:ZYpoGdaGOks:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=9T9OS6yvCO8:ZYpoGdaGOks:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=9T9OS6yvCO8:ZYpoGdaGOks:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=9T9OS6yvCO8:ZYpoGdaGOks:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=9T9OS6yvCO8:ZYpoGdaGOks:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/9T9OS6yvCO8" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="yearonelabs.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/yearonelabs.jpg" width="150" height="111" class="mt-image-none" style="" /When ReadWriteWeb profiled a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/08/never-mind-the-valley-montreal.php"Montreal/a last month as part of our "Never Mind the Valley" series, it was clear that the city had a thriving entrepreneurial community. And today the Montreal startup scene gets stronger with the announcement of the launch of a href="http://www.yearonelabs.com"Year One Labs/a, a startup accelerator program./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21674amp;cb=21674' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21674amp;n=21674' border='0' alt='' //a/p pThe program is founded by four entrepreneurs - Raymond Luk, Ben Yoskovitz, Ian Rae, and Alistair Croll - who describe themselves as "operators, not armchair quarterbacks. We've been in the trenches." The program will utilize the "lean startup" methodology and be focused on a "rigorous process of customer development and iterative adjustment."/p pYear One Labs' founders say the program will take a hands-on approach, offering $50,000 issued in tranches, a network of mentors, access to investors, and office space at the Year One Labs space. In exchange, the program will take a minority stake - between 10-20% - in the participating startups. Mentors include a href="http://www.flowtown.com/"Flowtown/a co-founder Dan Martell and a href="http://www.shopify.com"Shopify/a creator Tobias Lutke./p pAccording to a blog post at a href="http://www.flowventures.com/blog/index.php/2010/09/07/build-your-lean-startup-with-year-one-labs/"Flow Ventures/a, of which Luk is the founder, "The best way to 'pitch' Y1L is to sit down with us face to face and talk about the problem you're going to solve."/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/09/year-one-labs-launches-startup.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/e_iZ-eefjH8d1LMEMUvf-oex_tY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/e_iZ-eefjH8d1LMEMUvf-oex_tY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/e_iZ-eefjH8d1LMEMUvf-oex_tY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/e_iZ-eefjH8d1LMEMUvf-oex_tY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=fdxi4LwWGqI:3yx0I8tS5Hs:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=fdxi4LwWGqI:3yx0I8tS5Hs:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=fdxi4LwWGqI:3yx0I8tS5Hs:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=fdxi4LwWGqI:3yx0I8tS5Hs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=fdxi4LwWGqI:3yx0I8tS5Hs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=fdxi4LwWGqI:3yx0I8tS5Hs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=fdxi4LwWGqI:3yx0I8tS5Hs:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=fdxi4LwWGqI:3yx0I8tS5Hs:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=fdxi4LwWGqI:3yx0I8tS5Hs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=fdxi4LwWGqI:3yx0I8tS5Hs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=fdxi4LwWGqI:3yx0I8tS5Hs:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/fdxi4LwWGqI" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/android_aug10.jpg"Do you want to be notified of Android notifications like calls, text messages, low battery alerts and more when you're on your computer? An open source mobile application called "a href="http://code.google.com/p/android-notifier/"Android Notifier/a" does this by connecting your mobile phone's notification system to the notification system on your computer. The desktop application currently works on Mac only, via the popular notification app, a href="http://growl.info/"Growl/a. The project's developer says the Linux port will arrive "soon" and he's looking for volunteers who will connect the app to Windows systems as well./p pBut he needn't bother. We came across another application called the "a href="http://code.google.com/p/android-notifier-desktop/"Android-Notifier-Desktop/a" which offers a multi-platform desktop client for the above mobile app to the overlooked Linux and Windows users. /p pBelow is the complete installation guide to using both of these apps on your computer.#160; /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21673amp;cb=21673' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21673amp;n=21673' border='0' alt='' //a/p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/android_notifier_setup.png" align="right"According to the project homepage, a href="http://code.google.com/p/android-notifier/"hosted here on Google Code/a, the "Android-Notifier" mobile application is useful for people who wear noise-cancelling headphones, keep their cell phone in their bags or don't want to be interrupted to look at vibrating phone while in a meeting. /p pThe mobile app sends notifications to the computer it's connected to, including things like new text messages (both SMS and MMS), the phone number of the incoming call, battery status notifications, new voicemails and more. /p pThe desktop app connects to the phone over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or, in the future, USB. The Bluetooth method is only supported on Android 2.0, however, due to restrictions in older Android versions. (To determine what version of Android you use now, go to Settings -gt; About Phone -gt; Firmware version.) /p h2How to Install and Use the Notifier App/h2 pTo get started with this app, do the following: /p pstronguBluetooth Method/u/strong/p ol liInstall and run the Android app from the Android Market. (You can scan a href="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qramp;chs=350x350amp;chl=market%3A%2F%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dpname%3Aorg.damazio.notifieramp;nonsense=something_that_ends_with.png"this barcode/a to find it). /li liInstall and run the Desktop app for your OS from the a href="http://code.google.com/p/android-notifier/downloads/list"Downloads/a section./li liEnsure your Android device is paired with your desktop (Settings gt; Wifi and networks gt; Bluetooth settings on Android) /li liEnable the Bluetooth notification method on the Android app's settings (enabled by default) /li liOpen Bluetooth options in the Android app's settings:/li ul listrongDevice pairing/strong - select this to open Android's system bluetooth options, where you can pair your target device /li listrongTarget device/strong - once your device is paired, select this option to send notifications to a specific device. If this is set to quot;Any devicequot; (the default), the notifications will be sent to the first computer device found /li listrongAuto-enable bluetooth/strong - if enabled, notifications can be sent over bluetooth even if you keep it disabled - every time the app needs to send a notification, it enables it, sends the notification, then disables it again. The downside of this option is that it can take multiple seconds for the notification to actually be sent./li /ul liEnable the Bluetooth notification method on the desktop app's settings (enabled by default) /li liThe desktop app will listen to and start displaying events from the Android app.#160; /li liYou can now exit the Android app - the notifications service will be running in the background by default. /li /ol pstronguWi-Fi Method/u/strong/p ol liInstall and run the Android app from the Android Market. (You can scan a href="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qramp;chs=350x350amp;chl=market%3A%2F%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dpname%3Aorg.damazio.notifieramp;nonsense=something_that_ends_with.png"this barcode/a to find it). /li liInstall and run the Desktop app for your OS from the a href="http://code.google.com/p/android-notifier/downloads/list"Downloads/a section./li liEnsure both the desktop and the device are on the same network./li liIf you have a firewall on your desktop, ensure it will allow incoming UDP packets on port 10600 /li liEnable the Wi-Fi notification method on the Android app's settings (enabled by default) /li liOpen the Wi-Fi options in the Android app's settings/li ul listrongTarget IP address/strong - this is the IP address notifications will be sent to. While the default (global broadcast) is sufficient for most cases, you may want one of the following options instead: ul listrongiGlobal broadcast/i/strong - sends notifications to 255.255.255.255 (should work on most networks); /li listrongiDHCP broadcast/i/strong - detects the DHCP configuration of your current Wi-Fi network and uses its broadcast address for sending notifications. If no DHCP information is set (e.g. you're using a static IP), the notifications won't be sent; /li listrongiCustom address/i/strong - allows you to type in a specific IP address to send notifications to (doesn't need to be a broadcast address). This is useful if your network doesn't allow broadcast packets, or you want to prevent others in the network from receiving your notifications./li /ul /li listrongWi-Fi sleep policy/strong - this is a system setting from Android which controls when the Wi-Fi will be turned off. By default, it's turned off whenever the screen is turned off - if you want to get notifications when the screen is off, you probably want to change this default to either quot;never when pluggedquot; or quot;neverquot; - these options will consume a little more battery, but will ensure notifications are always delivered /li listrongAuto-enable Wi-Fi/strong - if you do not wish to keep your Wi-Fi on all the time with the above option, and can tolerate notifications being delayed by a few seconds, then this option will make Wi-Fi be turned on whenever a notification needs to be sent, and then turned off again after it's been sent. The extra delay introduced is the time it takes for your phone to join a network./li /ul liEnable the Wi-Fi notification method on the desktop app's settings (enabled by default) /li liThe desktop app will listen to and start displaying events from the Android app./li liYou can now exit the Android app - the notifications service will be running in the background by default./li /ol h2Windows, Linux Users: Get This App Too/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/android_notifier.jpg" align="left"Because of the popularity of the original application, many users wanted Linux or Windows support. Unfortunately, the original project was not offering these options - it was Mac-only. Another developer released a second program that enables multi-platform support for not only Mac, but also Linux and Windows users (XP and up). It even has 32 and 64-bit options available for each of the supported operating systems. /p pTo install this desktop app instead, head over to the a href="http://code.google.com/p/android-notifier-desktop/downloads/list"downloads section/a and choose the appropriate version for your OS. a href="http://java.com/"Java 6/a is also required. /p h2Another Option for Windows Users/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/notifier_popup_windows.png" align="right"Another option for Windows users is a bit of hack. A third developer created a href="http://www.archaicbinary.net/general/android-notifier.html"a simple Windows application here/a that uses the Microsoft Winsock component. You just place a href="http://www.archaicbinary.net/wp-content/uploads/MSWINSCK.zip"this MSWINSCK.OCX file/a in your C:\Widnows\System 32 folder in order to use it. On your Android phone, you'll need to connect to your wireless network, choose a custom IP and key in the IP of the machine using the program. The program supports PING (testing connection packets), SMS and RING (calls) only. /p pDo you know of any other programs that do the same? 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pimg alt="twitter-logo_sept10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/twitter-logo_sept10.jpg" width="150" height="55" class="mt-image-none" style="" /Although the number of registered Twitter users has grown to over 145 million, a report released yesterday by investment research firm a href="http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/pure-play-twitter-startups-attract-50-less-venture-capital-and-angel-investment-than-last-year"CB Insights/a notes that that popularity hasn't translated into investment in the Twitter ecosystem. According to its research, investment by venture capitalists and angel investors into pure play Twitter startups has dropped over 50% from June 2009 to May 2010. /p p"Pure play" startups are those whose product is predicated wholly on the Twitter platform./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21672amp;cb=21672' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21672amp;n=21672' border='0' alt='' //a/p pFrom June 2008 to May 2009, CB Insights tracked $21.6 million in investment into pure-play Twitter startups. But over the last 12 month period, that investment figure is down to $10.4 million. While the dollar amount is down dramatically, the number of investment rounds has stayed nearly the same: 11 last year versus 10 this year./p pimg alt="10-0811-pureplay-twitter-startup-funding-received-from-venture-capitalist-and-angel-investors.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/10-0811-pureplay-twitter-startup-funding-received-from-venture-capitalist-and-angel-investors.png" width="590" height="263" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" //p pDespite the growing popularity of Twitter, investors (and developers) appear to be uncertain about both the stability and the direction of Twitter. When a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_acquires_tweetie_offers_free_as_twitter_fo.php"Twitter purchased Tweetie/a back in April and a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_acquires_smallthought_systems.php"acquired Smallthought Systems/a in June, it signalled to many that the company would be "filling the holes" in its platform itself, rather than leaving them for third-party developers to address./p pWhile investment in and development of the Twitter ecosystem as a whole will continue, it seems unlikely that investment in pure play Twitter startups will rebound to meet the levels cited in another CB Insights report: the one that tracked a a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/08/investor-funding-for-ipad-and.php"220% increase/a in pure play iPhone and iPad app startups. /p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/09/investment-in-3rd-party-twitte.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IGcgPRdvz1xDnqPFSwwoKWlDoVY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IGcgPRdvz1xDnqPFSwwoKWlDoVY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IGcgPRdvz1xDnqPFSwwoKWlDoVY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IGcgPRdvz1xDnqPFSwwoKWlDoVY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=I9l9BXe18CI:O0IcfABAcTA:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=I9l9BXe18CI:O0IcfABAcTA:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=I9l9BXe18CI:O0IcfABAcTA:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=I9l9BXe18CI:O0IcfABAcTA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=I9l9BXe18CI:O0IcfABAcTA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=I9l9BXe18CI:O0IcfABAcTA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=I9l9BXe18CI:O0IcfABAcTA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=I9l9BXe18CI:O0IcfABAcTA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=I9l9BXe18CI:O0IcfABAcTA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=I9l9BXe18CI:O0IcfABAcTA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=I9l9BXe18CI:O0IcfABAcTA:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/I9l9BXe18CI" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="my6sense_logo_jul09.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/my6sense_logo_jul09.png" width="150" height="51" class="mt-image-none" style="" /Using algorithms to give personalized recommendations is hard. A lot of online services try to leverage their users' social graphs to determine the stories, books, songs or movies that are potentially of interest to them. Given that your own interests can be quite different from those of your friends, though, these systems are often limited. a href="http://my6sense.com"my6sense/a, on the other hand builds a personalized and constantly evolving profile for all of its users and provides recommendations purely based on what its algorithm thinks is most likely to be interesting to you. Starting today, Android users will be able to find the most interesting items in their RSS, Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz feeds with the help of My6Sense./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21670amp;cb=21670' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21670amp;n=21670' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2My6Sense: The Basics/h2 pimg alt="my6sense_buzz.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/my6sense_buzz.jpg" width="300" height="500" class="alignright" style="" /At its core, My6Sense is a recommendation engine that focuses on highlighting the best stories in your feed subscriptions. The software can also point you towards the most interesting stories that your friends have shared on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz (support for Buzz is currently only available in the Android app). It learns about your reading habits by evaluating a number of signals while you are using the service. Among other things, these signals include which stories you click on, how long you read a story and which stories you share. Instead of just giving you a chronological list of recent stories, my6sense does away with this traditional feed reader model and uses its "digital intuition" to organize your streams according to your interests. /p pWe have been a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=+site:readwriteweb.com+my6sense"tracking/a the development of my6sense for almost two years now. Most recently, we a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/08/blogging-to-get-a-job-recommendations.php"covered/a the hire of a href="http://blog.louisgray.com/"Louis Gray/a as the company's VP of Marketing and first U.S. employee. As Gray told us yesterday, launching the Android version of my6sense is an important step for the company, as it will allow a wider variety of users to experience My6Sense's abilities. Until now, My6Sense was only available a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/my6sense_a_smarter_feed_reader_for_the_iphone.php"on the iPhone/a. /p h2New on Android: Support for Google Buzz/h2 pWhen you think about successful social networks, Google Buzz is probably not on the top of your list. As Gray noted, no matter the popular perception of Buzz, the quality of the stories that its users are sharing on the service is very high. Because of this, adding support for Buzz in the Android app makes sense for my6sense. /p pimg alt="ny6sense_android_1.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/ny6sense_android_1.jpg" width="300" height="500" class="alignleft" style="" /Besides support for Buzz, the Android app also features a number of nice tweaks that will hopefully make it to the iPhone app as well. You can now, for example, add a time filter to any stream, so that you won't see items that are more than 24 hours old, for example. The Android app also does a better job at displaying messages from your friends on the various supported social networks./p h2Looking Ahead: The Power of the My6Sense API/h2 pAs a personalized RSS reader, my6sense is already a very interesting product, but the real a href="http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/03/29/new-my6sense-api-gives-you-hyper-personalized-streams/"power/a of the company is a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/digital_intuition.php"in its APIs/a. For now, my6sense only has a few partners (a business a href="http://www.ecademy.com/"social networking site/a in the UK and the largest a href="http://www.cellcom.com/"mobile operator in Israel/a), but the company's technology looks to be flexible enough to make sense in a variety of contexts. As Gray pointed out when we talked to him, the mobile apps are really just demos for the powerful back end that the My6Sense team has developed. It's not hard to imagine places where the my6sense API could help. Wouldn't it be nice if you could come to a site like ReadWriteWeb or the New York Times, for example, and just see the stories that would be of interest to you?/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_good_stuff_machine_my6sense_comes_to_android.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bBEt2Pa9ngpPpwsuV1mjEqwxLRg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bBEt2Pa9ngpPpwsuV1mjEqwxLRg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bBEt2Pa9ngpPpwsuV1mjEqwxLRg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bBEt2Pa9ngpPpwsuV1mjEqwxLRg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rGmJr6zarzE:XKJEQ9NlZe4:FFnlKYwJmN0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rGmJr6zarzE:XKJEQ9NlZe4:Ij26kaj3iuU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rGmJr6zarzE:XKJEQ9NlZe4:C2pbw5bZMiI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rGmJr6zarzE:XKJEQ9NlZe4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rGmJr6zarzE:XKJEQ9NlZe4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=rGmJr6zarzE:XKJEQ9NlZe4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rGmJr6zarzE:XKJEQ9NlZe4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=rGmJr6zarzE:XKJEQ9NlZe4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rGmJr6zarzE:XKJEQ9NlZe4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?i=rGmJr6zarzE:XKJEQ9NlZe4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?a=rGmJr6zarzE:XKJEQ9NlZe4:OqabYuBsmOY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/rGmJr6zarzE" height="1" width="1"/

pimg alt="zfkit.png" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/zfkit.png" width="149" height="56" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /You've heard about a href="http://framework.zend.com/" target="_blank"Zend Framework (ZF)/a. You've watched the screeencasts. Yet, you haven't put your toe into the ZF waters. Why? Most likely, you saw it as a lot of work to get started or perhaps you ran into issues with the demo that came packaged with the ZF you installed./p pYou are not alone. Others had that exact same frustrations and created a href="http://zfkit.com/" target="_blank"zfKit/a as "ema starter kit for ZF to enable a productive 'out of the box' experience/em". Let's take a look. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21312amp;cb=21312' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21312amp;n=21312' border='0' alt='' //a/p h2Along comes zfKit/h2 pa href="http://zfkit.com/" target="_blank"zfKit/a was designed to be a download away from getting you up and going faster with some best practices on ZF. From the zfKit about page:/p blockquote zfKit provides Doctrine 1.3, PHPUnit and ZendFramework 1.10 in a ready to run package. /blockquote pYou might imagine that zfKit streamlines the process of getting up and running. In fact, the instructions might have you wondering what is missing -- but it really is this simple to get started:/p pscript src="http://gist.github.com/566312.js?file=zfKit_go.sh"/script/p pDone!/p pAlternatively, you can visit the a href="http://github.com/mgkimsal/zfkit" target="_blank"github repository for zfKit/a to get started./p h2Behind zfKit/h2 pThe zfKit creator and developer, a href="http://twitter.com/mgkimsal" target="_blank"Michael Kimsal/a, shared the following with RWH regarding the project goals, approach, and planned enhancements:br / span class="pullquote""zfKit aims to provide a starter kit for Zend Framework to enable a productive 'out of the box' experience."/spanbr / emRWH: What led you or prompted you to create zfKit?br / /em/p blockquoteKimsal: Every time I'd used Zend Framework before, there was always a large amount of setup that I needed to do (decisions about what libraries to use, configuration options/settings, etc). zfKit was an effort to distill those decisions down to a reusable project./blockquote pemRWH: Why did you choose github to host zfKit?br / /em/p blockquoteWhile I'm not a git guru, I'm liking git more and more because of the offline-nature. I can commit and branch locally as much as needed, and only push out the changes that really matter. github simply makes it easy to get started with git, but they also make it extremely easy to fork and modify other projects, then share those changes back. I recently had someone branch zfKit and add in some configuration options he finds handy - I wasn't even aware of them. :) That level of transparency, openness and sharing was not something I'd ever seen with sourceforge back in the olden days./blockquote pemRWH: What do you plan to add to zfKit in the future?br / /em/p blockquote Kimsal: I'm planning on adding in support for Doctrine2 in the near future, and would like to have a basic user/role/group management system in place by the end of the year. Beyond those, I'm open to requests or contributions from the community./blockquote pDo you plan to try out zfKit or do have you have other starter projects you've enjoyed using? 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