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Identi.ca Implements Twitter API

When we first reported about the new microblogging service Identi.ca  earlier this month, it looked like an interesting experiment. Since then, its community has grown rapidly and today, it...

Host Your Own Lifestream With Sweetcron

Not everyone loves FriendFeed - its social media firehouse qualities can lead to a lot of noise which can certainly be overwhelming to newcomers. However, even those who don't participate on the...

Twitter Testing a New Design - Getting Ready to Integrate Summize?

There have been various sightings of a new design for Twitter this afternoon, though by now, Twitter has reverted back to its old design. Possibly, Twitter is testing this new design as it prepares...

Corporate Social Networks Are A Waste of Money, Study Finds

How would you feel if you spent more than $1 million throwing a party and less than 100 or even 1,000 people showed up? That sinking feeling is spreading over corporate boardrooms around the nation,...

Twinkle: Location Aware Twitter Client

Tapulous, the developers of the highly popular Tap Tap Revenge game for the iPhone and iPod touch, released a native, location aware Twitter client for the iPhone tonight. Twinkle (iTunes link)...

DEMOfall 08 Sessions Announced

As mentioned earlier this week, ReadWriteWeb is partnering with a couple of conferences this year and one of them is DEMOfall 08, the long-running launchpad for startups. DEMOfall 08 is on September...

The Story of the Fail Whale

How An Unknown Artist's Work Became a Social Media Brand Thanks To the Power of Community Twitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the Fail Whale. This social object has been...

Google Gears Coming to Gmail and Google Calendar Soon

According to Andrew Fogg from kusiri, Google will start rolling out offline support for both Gmail and Google Calendar through Google Gears within the next six weeks. Google enabled offline access to...

Joint Contact: First Business Tool To Integrate Twitter?

Enterprise 2.0 is a rapidly growing trend that takes the concepts and tools of social media (social networking, RSS, wikis, blogs, etc.) and re-purposes them for business use, wrapping them up into...

Last.fm Re-Design Goes Live, With New Lick of Paint (Literally)

Today online music service last.fm released the new design they've been working on since May. At first glance it looks quite different to the Facebook-like UI that we saw in the beta in June. However...