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29% of Internet Users Have Bought Things From Spam Email?? Say It Aint So!

Security company Marshal reports that their latest survey found 29% of respondents willing to admit that they have purchased something from a spam e-mail. While that number seems pretty questionable, PCMag's Appscout points to a related survey ...


Blogging Break

Wow! It is amazing how fast things can change. I like to think of myself as someone who adapts fairly easily and quickly to change, after all it has truly been the only constant in my life. But I think...


Feed.Informer Relaunches Its All-in-one RSS Toolbox

There is an infinite variety of things you can do with RSS feeds and a substantial number of those things can be done with Feed.Informer, which was formerly known as Feed Digest and just relaunched today. This super useful service was acquired i...


3jam Launches Twitter SMS Service

When Twitter announced they were killing SMS for anyone located outside the U.S., Canada, or India for financial reasons, many Twitter SMS users were upset as they had come to rely on that aspect of the service to send and receive tweets. However,...


Who Needs a Beta? Apple Extends MobileMe Subscriptions Another 60 Days

Apple once again had to accept defeat and has announced that it will extend all subscriptions to its bug-ridden MobileMe service for yet another 60 days. This move comes after the company already gave every subscriber an extra 30 days after the bo...


NewsCred, a Credible News Dashboard Opens to the Public

NewsCred garnered quite a bit of attention in its initial private beta launch where ReadWriteWeb was considered by its users to be one of the most credible news sources to read. With less than 20% of readers really believing what their news sourc...


Google Sites Now Home For Spammers

Google Sites, the Google platform for document sharing and collaboration, has been dubbed "SharePoint Light" by many members of the tech community. However, the platform might be getting a new name soon, and one that won't be so nice. Apparently, ...


Sponsor Announcement: DEMOfall 08 Agenda

The conference agenda for DEMOfall 08 has been announced. ReadWriteWeb is one of the media partners for DEMOfall 08, which is on September 7-9 in San Diego. There are 70 companies presenting and they fall into the following broad categories: Movin...


What Three Web Apps Excite You Most?

One of our favorite Australians, Lachlan Hardy, twittered an interesting question today: What are the three things online that are exciting you most? Lachlan was asked this question as part of a newspaper article in the Sydney Morning Herald. His ...


Yahoo! Opens Buzz Submissions to All - But is It Democratic?

Yahoo! Buzz, the social news service that launched in February and delivered giant piles of traffic to the lucky few websites that were indexed by the site, is tonight opening up to submissions from any site across the web. We warned that Buzz co...


RIAA Takes Down Muxtape, Will Future Solutions Please Hurry Up & Arrive?

Popular playlist sharing site Muxtape is down and says that it's because of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It might have been inevitable but the news will run chills down the spines of countless music sharers. It's a trage...


Create a Tour of Web Pages with Agglom

Sharing web pages in a conversation shouldn't be as tricky as it is. Sometimes you're on the phone, or speaking to a group of people and there isn't a handy way to bring people along with you from page to page and then let them have easy access t...


The Future of the Desktop

Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers. For example, a range of products such as Microsoft Office...


What Would the Perfect Streaming Music Service Look Like?

Pandora's on the ropes, Imeem is taking off, Grooveshark relaunched today with recommendations and a long list of cool features, Blip.fm threatens to make Muxtape look like old news - the streaming music market online is expanding and contracting...


U.S. Elections: Obama and McCain Start Sharing in Google Reader

Google today announced that it has signed up the Obama and McCain campaigns to share blog posts and news items they read on Google Reader. This program, called Power Readers in Politics also includes items shared by a number of high-profile journa...


Patents: GraphOn Sues Google for Connecting Databases to the Internet

GraphOn, which considers itself a "leading worldwide developer of server-based application publishing and Web-enabling software solutions," today announced that it is suing Google for infringing on four of GraphOn's patents. According to the compl...