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Social.FM in the Deadpool

Social.FM, the three year old startup which helped users discover music through their social network in a similar manner to Last.fm, has confirmed it is shutting down. GigaOm carried a tip-off to that effect, now the site is carrying the following message: To our Valued Customers, We regret to inform you and apologize for this inconvenience, but [...]

Mainstream Web Watch: The Olympics & Online Video

The Beijing Olympics starts in a couple of weeks and what better test of the mainstream web is there than the world's biggest sports event. This is the first in a series of posts that will look at the Web technologies powering this year's Olympics.

One of the most obvious ways the Web will be utilized with the Beijing

Kaltura Releases WordPress Integration App

Kaltura is an interesting video collaboration and publishing service that we talked about a great deal last year, but despite their relative quiet this year hasn’t been sitting on their hands.

It’s been a little while, so in case you’ve forgotten, Kaltura was the releasing an API for their music service. The music API gives any web appli

New Sonos Gear is Smaller, Cooler

Sonos just announced smaller receivers and players. The ZP120 - with amp - is 43 percent smaller and the ZP50 - without amp - is a standard receiver. Both use MIMO for increased range and link quality. If you’re familiar with the current Sonos line-up you’ll be doubly impressed by the size of these little [...]

Time Warner Sets the AOL Hook, Yahoo Bites

In a move that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Time Warner is poised to sell off AOL in separate pieces and will reportedly separate its advertising and content platforms with its dial-up business to get the most out of the poor sucker that a

A Conversation with Daniel Cohen of Gemini Israel Funds (Israel Media Tour)

Company Name: Gemini

Founded in: 1992

Location: Herzliya Pituach, Israel

I had the pleasure of speaking with Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Gemini, an Israeli VC fund founded in 1992 by Ed Mlavsky, that in

Social.fm Shuts Down: Doomed by Its Client?

Mercora, which last year renamed itself to Social.fm, was one of the earliest entrants into the music discovery market and launched to generally favorable reviews in early 2005. Now, however, as GigaOm allaboutpets, with an Oddcast-powered viral marketing scheme that is sure to get some attention. The Oddcast talking avatars, which can be customized a

Website … One Word: youCharades

Charades is a fun little trivia game that doesn’t require any boards, small pieces that children can choke on, or complicated instructions that resemble your new car guide. This game can be played any time and anywhere with just about any group of people, thanks to its nearly universal trivia appeal, and “anywhere” now includes the Web. A new site called SoundCloud is an online audio platform that enables people to send, receive, play, and distribute music, and also engage in conversation about the music. They now have an innovative open API.

Underage Sex in Google’s Lively

I’m sorry… will someone please explain human nature to those starry eyed hippies over at Google for me? I’m not sure they read my work over here - or if they read it, they tend to discount it out of hand quite a bit.

I just happened to be going through my weekend feed items this early morning - something I usually save for after I’ve had a good night’s sle

ESME: Is This What an Enterprise Twitter Could Look Like?

ESME, the Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment, is an experimental communication project developed for SAP's 'Demo Jam' by a group of 24 collaborators. It's a red hot vision of a Twitter-like exper

Simplify Your Car Search with Auto Classifieds Aggregator CarOcean (The Startup Review)

Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

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Company Name: Teachstreet today announced that it has expanded the reach of its network from Seattle, WA, to Portland, OR. TeachStreet is a marketplace where teachers ca

Apple Pulls Another Innocuous iPhone App

Another day, another capricious decision by Apple to pull a fairly innocuous application. This time it’s BoxOffice, a diabolical system for finding and displaying local movie times. Quoth the developers at Metasyntactic: Apple pulled the app yesterday without giving my any notification that they were doing it, or what their justification was for removing it. I’ve tried [...]

Adaptive Path Releases Aurora To “Inspire And Engage” Community

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. Adaptive Path, a product development and consulting service in San Francisco, is releasing a new web interface concept called Aurora this evening. The project, which was developed in collaboration with Mozilla, is being released to the community via the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license and is available [...]

TeachStreet’s Instructional Search Engine Goes West

TeachStreet, the instructional network and search engine that raised $2.25 million in funding from Madrona Venture Group earlier this year, is expanding on its city-by-city roll out with a local launch in Portland, Oregon. Since first emerging on the scene, TeachStreet has been g

Time Warner Ready To Unload AOL In Pieces. But At What Price?

Time Warner is moving forward with its plans to sell off AOL in pieces, and is finally ready to formally separate the AOL portal and advertising business from its legacy dial-up access business. But how much can it hope to get for these parts? When Google invested $1 billion in AOL a few [...]

Foxconn Building 800,000 iPhones A Week

Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics giant that produces the iPhone 3G for Apple, has ramped up production to 800,000 units per week, says a source close to Apple with direct knowledge of the numbers. This is “above current full capacity” and there may be some concerns with quality control. Apple sold just 6 million of its first [...]

WePlay Scores $8.6 Million In Series B

Youth-oriented sports social network WePlay raised $8.6 million in a series B financing led by Deep Fork Capital. Existing investors also participated in the round, including FirstMark Capital and athletes Derek Jeter, LeBron James and Peyton Manning. That brings the total capital raised to $13 million. WePlay launched in March, and is designed as [...]

Jobvite Cherry Picks Yahoo AMP Director of Engineering

Adam Hyder, Yahoo’s Senior Director of Engineering for its Advertising Management Platform (AMP), has joined the flood of recent departures from the search giant in hopes of greener pastures. Hyder has joined Jobvite, an online recruiting service, as the company’s CTO. Last month, Jobvite hired Yahoo HotJobs boss Dan Finnigan as its CEO. It’s likely [...]

Microsoft Relaunches Windowslive.com as a Community Site

Until now, Microsoft had used WindowsLive.com as the main hub for getting information about its Live branded services like Messenger, Hotmail, Spaces, SkyDrive, and Photo Gallery. Today, Microsoft has re-launched the site as a community site, where users c

'Web Meets World' Competition: Win Tickets to NYC Web 2.0 Expo

This year the Web 2.0 Summit conference (5-7 Nov) is hosting an auction to benefit a few innovative organizations that are solving big problems.

To show our support for this initiative, ReadWriteWeb is running a competition in this post. We

Why Apple and Facebook Need to Leave Apps Alone

According to numerous reports, Apple has taken down a popular free application called Box Office just days after it removed NetShare, then allowed it back onto the App Store over the weekend, only to take it down once again.

Apple has yet to respond to the takedown,

Are Social Media Jobs Here to Stay?

Let’s face it: Social media has become one of the hot buzzwords in tech circles. It used to be Web 2.0 and social networking, but now we have moved on to a broader term that encompasses not only social networking, but blogs, podcasts, user-generated content, social bookmarking, microblogging, and lifestreams. The rise of all these forms of new media has also created demand for people wh

Quote This: 11 Resources for Word Lovers

There’s a social network for just about anything you can imagine these days, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that there are services centered around quotations and famous words. Increasingly, these sites are offering more ways to collect and share your favorite quotes with widgets and plugins. Some are even making connections with other services such as Greasemonkey, the Firefox plug-in that lets users run simple scripts on top of their favorite web pages to add new functionality or remove unwanted distractions. At first blush Greasemonkey might seem more technical than many users feel comfortable with, but running the scripts is really just like adding a plug-in to a plug-in. Give it

The Future of Blogging Revealed

There has been a lot of talk lately about the changing face of the blogging landscape. Darren Rowse of ProBlogger asked if blogging has lost its relation

Songbird 0.7: Big Improvements for the Little Music Player

Songbird, the desktop music player powered at its core by Mozilla technology, has recently released a new version: Songbird 0.7. This release offers several new features for the pl

All It Takes To Inflate Your FeedBurner Numbers Is a Netvibes Account

Feedburner hacked! from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo. It is hardly surprising that FeedBurner’s subscriber numbers can be faked. What is surprising is how easy it is to do so. As the video above shows, all you need is a Netvibes account. The folks at the Next Web in Amsterdam took a [...]

Facebook Developers: Apply Now for fbFund

Facebook has just kicked off this year’s fbFund competition for application developers. First announced last month at the F8 conference, Facebook is now accepting submissions from developers, 25 of which will earn $25,000 grants to further pursue their ventures. From there, the pool will be narrowed to 5 application ide

Yahoo Opens its Music Catalog to Developers with New API

Yahoo may seem like it’s in a death spiral, but that has not stopped the developers from doing their work. Today we saw the announcement of the Yahoo! Music API.

The API is a fairly complete offering, giving developers lots of acces