http://www.newwebmag.com Everything and Anything Regarding WEB 2.0 Sat, 10 May 2008 09:18:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The number of people whose work is touched by the internet these days is hard to imagine. Many of us have been working full-time online for a while, but for the vast majority of people online today that's not the case. Here at RWW we communicate with people ... http://www.newwebmag.com/2008/05/10/five-tools-everyone-working-online-should-have-imho/ Yesterday, we brought you news of MySpace's surprising Data Portability partnerships with Yahoo!, Twitter, and Ebay, which will allow MySpace users to port their public profiles, photos, videos and some friend data from one site to another. Facebook, not looking to be outdone, has announced plans to launch their new ... http://www.newwebmag.com/2008/05/10/facebook-answers-myspace-data-availability-with-facebook-connect/ Everyone is talking about Twitter (to the consternation of many of our readers, I'm sure), but what are people talking about on Twitter? It is really just a flood of inane status updates and fragmented chat, or are people actually talking about things that matter to them via the ... http://www.newwebmag.com/2008/05/10/what-people-say-when-they-tweet/ oEmbed is a newly released spec from Cal Henderson (of Flickr), Mike Malone and Leah Culver (of Pownce), and Richard Crowley (of OpenDNS) that allows web sites to quickly and easily embed media when a user posts a link directly to that resource. oEmbed is an open format which ... http://www.newwebmag.com/2008/05/10/oembed-an-open-format-for-embedding-media/ Roofarena is basically the Million Dollar Homepage concept built as a graphical layer on top of Google Maps. The idea is that any roof in Manhattan is for sale and users can "virtually" purchase a roof and add their own design. In a post about copycat ideas last ... http://www.newwebmag.com/2008/05/10/roofarena-bringing-million-dollar-homepage-to-manhattan/ You've probably heard people talking about the new "it" book: "Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies." The book discusses the current trend of people using online social technologies like blogs, social networks, and podcasts, among other things, and how enterprise must learn to embrace these tools. Along ... http://www.newwebmag.com/2008/05/10/free-webinar-on-social-technology-today/ The perennial debate surrounding Twitter's revenue model continues to live on. The micro-blogging service has succeeded in building a strong, loyal following, but failed to capitalize on it. Such a scenario, which lacks a revenue model, isn't sustainable over the long-term, especially when investors begin to question the company's intentions. ... http://www.newwebmag.com/2008/05/10/the-ultimate-twitter-revenue-model/ Yesterday Google announced a new product aimed specifically at Google Apps' enterprise customers. The service, powered by Google acquisition Postini with technology from ScanSafe, is called Google Web Security for Enterprise and it offers real-time malware protection and URL filtering with policy enforcement and reporting. Essentially, it's a big Google ... http://www.newwebmag.com/2008/05/10/google-web-security-for-enterprise-puts-it-in-control/ Anyone who has followed my posts on ReadWriteWeb, knows that I am interested in how innovation is going global, particularly innovation from India, and that I think P2P is the next great disruptive technology - the only one that could derail the Google steamroller. So it is no ... http://www.newwebmag.com/2008/05/10/metaaso-a-bootstrapped-p2p-startup-from-india/ Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped noticed today that Google announced that it will be shuttering its Hello photo sharing and chat application next week. Hello was an instant messenger-like desktop photo sharing application that made it easy to send photos to friends via an encrypted connection. The Hello.com ... http://www.newwebmag.com/2008/05/10/google-says-goodbye-to-hello/