Last week the personalized start page Pageflakes announced its latest version, nicknamed Blizzard. It introduces social networking functionality, themes, a slick Ajax UI, and more. What struck me about the new look was how much it reminded me of Facebook, or at least how much it wants to be like…

At the beginning of this week we introduced a new comments feature on Read/WriteWeb, called SezWho. Basically it introduces comment rating, reputation and filtering to this blog. SezWho was created by one of our occasional writers, Jitendra Gupta - whose team installed it onto R/WW. You can check…

This was Facebook Week here at Read/WriteWeb, but I couldn't help but notice how many other blogs wrote posts about Facebook this week as well. It seemed that almost every day there was a Facebook meme on Techmeme. Anecdotal evidence would seem to suggest that Facebook is the most hyped thing this…

Amióta a webes szolgáltatások kerültek előtérbe a weboldalakkal szemben, valahogy a felhasználói élmény is felértékelődött - a grafikai megjelenítés mellett - és sokan próbálják magukat beleásni, hogy mitől is jön létre, hogyan tartható fenn, de legfőképpen hogyan lehet…

A cégeknek (köztük a médiacégeknek) nem elég belépniük a Second Life-ba, vagy saját profilt létrehozni a MySpace-en,  vagy a Facebookon (nálunk legoininkább az iWiWen) és várni a csodást. Azok se számítsanak gyors változásra, akik figyelik a megmondóembereket és minden…

Even if you never read a single thing Dave Winer wrote in his 439 years of blogging, it's worth taking time to study his ideas about comments on blogs (he doesn't allow them)."...to the extent that comments interfere with the natural expression of the unedited voice of an individual, comments…

If you use Google Reader, you must know about its sharing feature. "Every Google Reader account comes with a public page which you can use to share items of interest with your friends and family. (...) Like any regular web page, your public page is viewable by anyone who knows its…

Google has an emerging social network and it doesn't use it. No, I don't talk about orkut or Socialstream (which was only sponsored by Google). Gmail, Google's most successful project if we leave search aside, has the potential of gathering information from all the other Google services that can be…

Worluk ma hajnali postjában írja, hogy törölte az összes ismerősét az iWiW-en. Érvei számosak. Például, hogy mire is jó neki, hogy ott van? Oké, tisztában van vele, hogy kik az ismerősei, és a rendszer egyetlen haszna, hogy ebből azt is megmutatja neki, hogy kiket ismerhet még.…

Incentives work. Our whole economy is powered by incentives — as one of my favorite business books Freakonomics reveals.Incentives work in the blogosphere too. Commentors will respond to incentives. Motivate your readers to comment with the following WordPress plugins (hat tip to…

Customized home page startup Pageflakes launched a slew of new features this morning under what it is calling its “Blizzard” release.Among all of the new features, the two that are important to highlight are social networking and customizable themes on pages.Until today Pageflakes users…

Nokia has created a mobile social networking site called Mosh. There’s an online and mobile component for this social network, giving you cross-platform access for networking and media-sharing. While Sprint-Nextel has added more access to existing networks via mobile devices, Nokia has created…

Míg a magyar társadalom kétharmada különböző okok miatt nem internetezik, addig a 14 év fölötti tinik négyötöde használja a netet valamilyen gyakorisággal (WIP 2006). A náluk fiatalabbak internethasználatáról egyelőre nem rendelkezünk adatokkal, de talán a VMR Kids…

A while back I tried signing up for an OpenID, an "open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity." The basic idea is that, instead of needing to choose a user name and password for every site you visit, you can identify yourself with an ID that many sites will…

Back home in New York. We had about 75-100 people come to the New York demo yesterday, along with an army of Fog Creek technical staff in matching sky blue kiwi polo shirts.When I got back to my desk on Monday afternoon, I turned into the prototypical bastard client from hell. Our web designers…

TechCrunch has the news that Google plans to open "a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google's social graph data. They'll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google's personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk and other Google…

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails  —  SUMMARY: I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn't meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom.