New York Times adds sharing tool
The New York Times unveiled a new service today that allows readers to quickly post stories that they find on the newspaper's Web site to Digg, Facebook and Newsvine. — It marks the first time that ...
iTunes sales 'collapsing'
Digital flatline looks ominous for music labels — The leading DRM digital download service, Apple's iTunes, has experienced a collapse in sales revenues this year according to analyst company Forres...
Scan and search a five-day-long "River" of headlines
Today I'm introducing, for each site, a page offering an extended reverse-chronological listing of posts that attain headline status. Techmeme River, memeorandum River, WeSmirch River, and Ballbug Ri...
In Web Traffic Tallies, Intruders Can Say You Visited Them
In late May, more than five million Web users vanished. — The disappearing act came when Nielsen/NetRatings, a leading company in measuring Internet traffic, sharply cut its previously reported stat...
YouTube Adds a Layer of Filtering to Be a Little Nicer
When the video-sharing site YouTube.com was sold to Google, many of its users worried that corporate ownership would restrict the content of its videos. But now one of YouTube's corporate partners is...
Times Sq. Ads Spread Via Tourists' Cameras
Advertisers have long been drawn to Times Square as a valuable place to reach consumers, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for space on billboards and blazing video screens. — But recently the...
Sales of iPods and iTunes Not Much in Sync
Apple's ubiquitous iPod and its iTunes music store were intended to be a kind of perpetual motion machine, with iPods helping to sell iTunes and iTunes helping to sell iPods. — Although both are suc...
I'm Joining Splashcast
I've been offered and have decided to accept a full time position as Director of Content at a pre-launch Portland startup called Splashcast. Splashcast is a multimedia platform that I believe is goin...
Understanding Mobile 2.0
Written by Rudy De Waele of m-trends.org and edited by Richard MacManus. This kicks off a mini-series of posts on the topic of Mobile 2.0, which we will explore on R/WW this week. — On the eve of L...
Why digg is destined for failure
If you've ever had the good fortune of having one of your websites or blog posts dugg to the point of showing up on digg's homepage, you've enjoyed a huge traffic boost to your site. This is wonderfu...
Public beta of Adobe Creative Suite 3 may boost Mac sales
Exclusive: Sales of Apple Computer's professional Mac line could receive a shot in the arm later this month if Adobe Systems proceeds with plans to release an early public beta of its Creative Suite 3...
Socialtext Unplugged
Today at Le Web 3 in Paris we launched Socialtext Unplugged, the offline wiki. On my way here, I used it by clicking on the Unplug icon, downloading a collection of wiki pages, got on a plane and edi...
You Can't Beat YouTube Without the Users
The latest buzz circulating through Web forums has a group of media companies teaming up to develop a YouTube killer. PaidContent.org has a nice wrap-up of the developing rumor here. — "The theory ...
Firefox TV Commercials Go Live: Interview with Mozilla's Asa Dotzler
Later today Firefox will begin broadcasting, for the first time, four "fan-produced" commercials on prime time television. Initially the ads will only run in the San Francisco and Boston regions, but...