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NBC Drops Silverlight, Runs Back to Adobe for Flash

NBC seems to be having a change of heart this week. The network recently wrapped up their streaming of the Olympics using Microsoft's Silverlight technology. However if you tuned in for this week's NFL season opener, NBC was using Adobe's Flash te...


The Ultimate List of Custom Ubiquity Verbs

With all the news about Chrome, it's been pretty easy to forget about one of Firefox's recent releases: Ubiquity. We gave Ubiquity a rave review for giving Firefox a whole new UI. The standard commands, or "verbs", that come with Ubiquity are gre...


Businesses Can't Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0's Impact Across Industries

If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn't know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is "next candid...


Weekly Wrapup: Special Chrome Edition

Join us now for our weekly review of Web Technology news. This week was dominated by the launch of Google's new open source browser Chrome. As the Ed tweeted during the week: how often does a major Internet company launch a brand new browser? Che...


Thanks RWW Sponsors; Email Us For Media Kit

Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting ReadWriteWeb's mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web apps and trends. To enquire about sponsor slots on ReadWriteWeb, email us for a Media Kit. Why sponsor ReadWriteWeb? It is one of the most popular...


Sponsor Announcement: DEMOfall 08

ReadWriteWeb is one of the media partners for DEMOfall 08, which starts this weekend September 7-9 in San Diego. Sarah Perez will be there to cover the event for RWW. ReadWriteWeb readers can receive a discount rate of $2,395 ($600 off the standar...


Yoono: The Social Media Tool for Mainstream and Early Adopters

Social media tools are some of the latest crazes these days. We happen to be huge fans of a ton of them here on ReadWriteWeb. Yet the biggest problem with most social media tools is that they aren't for everyone. There's a constant debate on how ...


Joost Ditches the Desktop Player - Could iTunes Video Be Next?

Rich Internet Application is the fancy name for a desktop app that leverages internet connectivity outside the browser. RIAs, as they're called, are supposed to be ushering in a post-browser future, according to some people. Why, then, has on...


Google Updates Picasa and Picasa Web Albums

Google's Picasa team released a number of major updates to both its desktop photo managing application Picasa and its online photo gallery this week. On Tuesday, we already reported about the addition of face recognition to the Picasa web albums, ...


Mememoir: A Better Wiki For Science

Thanks to successful projects like Wikipedia or Wikitravel, wikis have quickly become a standard tool on the Internet, but in academia, the anonymity often associated with publishing in wikis is a key factor that works against them. Tracking down ...


African Social Media Tracker Afrigator Gets Acquired

Afrigator, a multimedia meme tracking site aggregating African blogs, podcasts and video, has been acquired by South African conglomerate MIH Group/Naspers. We gave Afrigator a positive review nine months ago and CNN's Business 2.0 called it one ...


Socialbrowse: Don't Surf Alone

Browsing the web is typically a very solitary activity, even if the Web 2.0 revolution has given us easy tools like FriendFeed or SocialMedian to share our online activities. However, a different breed of services like Browzmi or the Y Combinator ...


OLPC, Daily Motion Partner on Open Source Video Format for Kids

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation, the group working to create computers that can be sold for $100 and given to children in developing countries, has partnered with popular French video company Daily Motion to advance the Open Source vide...


New Adobe AIR App Delivers Live Video From FOX News

Are you addicted to the news lately? Here in the U.S., it's election season which means that easy access to live news coverage is a must-have these days. There was a time when you could only get the news via TV, radio, or paper, but now the web of...


Word Processing: Most of You Still Use Desktop Software

This week we ran a poll asking which word processing tool you primarily use. We wanted to see if things had changed much since we ran the same poll one year ago. So are ReadWriteWeb readers, many of whom are early adopters of Internet technology,...