http://feedmashr.comFeedmashr.com RSS feed.http://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392647&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2f2008%2f07%2f05%2ffacebook-slide-topfriends%2fSlide, the ever popular widget and social application maker, spent the last week repairing its Facebook-friendly Top Friends application after having seen it suspended by the social network abruptly late last month. Now it is back in business. The problem attributed to the Top Friends application was a hole which allowed things like birthday, gender, and [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <a Mashablehttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392650&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2f2008%2f07%2f05%2fyoutube-viacom%2fChances are you’ve heard recently about an order made by a judge for the Southern District of New York for Google to turn over user data to Viacom for videos uploaded to and played back on the megasite YouTube. The extent of the demand is quite extraordinary. The data Viacom has asked for stretches back [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ad936f165962Mashablehttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392648&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2f2008%2f07%2f05%2fdada-blogo%2fEarlier this week, Dada Group, an Italy-based provider of online entertainment and social services with a reach across multiple continents, officially announced its purchase of a majority share in E-box S.r.l., a company which owns the Italian blog network Blogo.it. Data Group now lays claim to 70% of the publisher. According to the purchase details, [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" Mashablehttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392735&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2f%7er%2fTechcrunch%2f%7e3%2f327652312%2fWebaroo Technology has confirmed a $10 million round of funding for their product SMSGupShup, an SMS-based community site in India. The round, the third for the company, was co-led by Helion Venture Partners and Charles River Ventures. SMSGupShup is a community site that enables users to join groups according to their interests and [...]TechCrunch Headlineshttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392758&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2f2008%2f07%2f05%2ffriendmobilizer-facebook%2fWindows Mobile users may often get passed over when talk of handhelds these days invariably turns to the iPhone and the irrational exuberance it manages to inflict on the human population. Case in point: iPhone 3G-hungry linemakers in the heart of New York City sitting eager and idle about a week before the official launch [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1pxMashablehttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392654&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2f%7er%2fTechcrunch%2f%7e3%2f327539559%2fHoliday weekends, especially the ones that bracket the summer months, tend to be stress tests for the tech media. With the proliferation of smart phones, social media aggregators, and of course the Twitter clonestakes, it&#8217;s now trivial to get a snapshot of what is going on throughout the &#8220;time off.&#8221; Is nothing going on? Has the [...]TechCrunch Headlineshttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392651&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2f%7er%2freadwriteweb%2f%7e3%2f327589282%2fsisense_an_analytics_dashboard_for_amazon_s3.php<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2638963331_46711b77e7_o.png" width="150" height="51" border="0" /> <a href="http://www.sisense.com/">Sisense</a>, a company that specializes in intelligence software, has launched in private beta an analytic <a href="http://www.sisense.com/amazonS3.aspx">dashboard for the Amazon S3 platform</a>. Normally, developers would have to go through a ton ofReadWriteWebhttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392649&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2f2008%2f07%2f05%2falterhit%2fLondon-based Alterhit, new music network that gives artists, labels, and fans one more mutual option for discovery, is striking out onto the public stage after more than a year in development. It’s tag line: “Listen and Earn.” Suffice it to say that it may have a difficult time having a lasting impact. If you think about [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px;Mashablehttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392655&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2f%7er%2fTechcrunch%2f%7e3%2f327450679%2fVoicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they&#8217;ll stop using it. When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various enterprise voicemail systems - which had the best forwarding and group messaging, which allowed for archiving, [...]TechCrunch Headlineshttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392656&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2f%7er%2fTechcrunch%2f%7e3%2f327354105%2fYahoo Shortcuts automatically finds and underlines interesting items in articles and provides additional information via a pop up window (Yahoo Shortcuts also refers to shortcuts in Yahoo Search for common things like travel search). &#8220;People, places, organizations, and other things of interest are underlined,&#8221; says the FAQ. One blogger is pointing out, though, that the tool [...]TechCrunch Headlineshttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392759&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2f%7er%2freadwriteweb%2f%7e3%2f327680405%2fsend_messages_that_self-destruct_with_privnote.php<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/2640615338_b8665a3e63_t.jpg" width="100" height="29" border="0" /> Sending private messages through back channels is nothing new. We do it all the time with emails and direct messages on multiple services. However, sometimes information is just too sensitive to keep around once it's been sent. Wouldn't it be great to have messages self-destruct afteReadWriteWebhttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392652&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2f%7er%2freadwriteweb%2f%7e3%2f327478476%2fget_great_tech_product_coverage_with_tech_newsjunk.php<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3140/2639514308_eb095271af_t.jpg" width="100" height="26" border="0" /> There's a new aggregator in town folks. If you're a fan of Dave Winer's <a href="http://newsjunk.com/">political NewsJunk</a> aggregation site, <a href="http://techmeme.com">Techmeme</a>, or <a href="http://friendfeed.com">FriendFeed</a>, then you're going to love Winer's counterpartReadWriteWebhttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392653&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2f%7er%2freadwriteweb%2f%7e3%2f327359744%2fweekly_wrapup_30_june-4_july_2008.php<p><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/weekly_wrapup_box.jpg" />It's time to review the week that was on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at Adobe's announcement of searchable Flash, checked in with online TV service Hulu, reviewed a couple of innovative new web apps (Gnip and Identi.ca) and reviewed Firefox's recent world record. On the trends side, we analyzed Microsoft's acqReadWriteWebhttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392780&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2f2008%2f07%2f05%2fle-tour-de-france%2fOkay, so we’re a tad late on this one. The Tour de France began earlier today out of Brest, Valverde raised his fists in triumph, and we haven’t told the cycling fans among you how to watch the action. Apologies. Here’s a belated rundown. First, props to Michael Learmonth of Silicon Alley Insider. He put together [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=aMashablehttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392734&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2fmashable.com%2f2008%2f07%2f05%2fipoque-data-study%2fIpoque, a part-time researcher of Internet activity and trends headquartered in Leipzig, Germany (it hawks network monitors by day), recently released the findings of a study conducted between August and September 2007, in which it observed data traffic in Australia, Europe (east, west, and south), and the Middle East, to find out just what is [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="Mashablehttp://feedmashr.com/redirect.aspx?Id=392910&gotourl=http%3a%2f%2ffeeds.feedburner.com%2f%7er%2fTechcrunch%2f%7e3%2f327834314%2f Twitter is still far larger than its much younger competitor Friendfeed in aggregate terms. But an interesting trend is developing - many longtime Twitter users are noticing that the number of followers they have on Friendfeed is growing far more rapidly than on Twitter. And the conversations at Friendfeed are better, too. I joined Twitter when [...]TechCrunch Headlines