| Weekly Wrap-up: Teens Don't "Like" Your Company, New XML Standard, 5 Must-Have Apps for SXSW, and More... Our top story this week came from our ReadWriteBiz channel, where writer John Paul Titlow discovered that even though teenagers in the U.S. are online pretty much all the time, they don't want to like your business on Facebook. Here's one of the more damning statistics: Only 26% said they feel they can trust a company's profile on a social networking site. If you listen closely I think you can hear the sound of 10,000 social media marketing experts weeping into their coffee. After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web - mobile, location, Internet of Things - plus highlights from our six channels. Read on for more.
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4 Tech Companies That Raised Venture Capital Today: Which One Is Poised to Change Our World? (Poll) Today's round-up shows a variety of companies that raised funding. We've got a site to make running a music business more efficient, software to secure our identities as we shop online, a digital advertising network that uses social analytics and data to target consumers and a service to help us Web authors earn money from our exit links. It's an ambitious task, this changing-the-world-business, but we're curious which company you RWW readers believe will affect our world the most? Also, find out about yesterday's winning company, the one that beat out six others in our daily poll.
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Twitter Tells Developers to Stop Building Twitter Clients Now Friends With Charlie Sheen, Twitter Tells Its Nerdy Old Pals to Drop Dead Twitter's platform/API leader Ryan Sarver issued an official statement to the Twitter developer world today that's sure to send a shudder down the backs of many people building new ways to use the popular social network: if you were thinking about building a new Twitter client - don't. "Developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no." Sarver went on to discuss a wide variety of innovative services built on top of Twitter (mostly analytics services) that the company will continue to support and said that existing Twitter clients would be tolerated, if closely watched. It was a strong statement that seemed to fly in the face of Twitter's long history of a strong developer community. The tone of the announcement won't help, either.
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Mobile Heatmap for SXSW Helps You Find Hot, or Quiet, Places Whether you're looking for a red-hot party in Austin tonight or for a quiet place with a smaller crowd, navigation's made easier by the way people declare their locations online. PR firm Waggener Edstrom Worldwide today launched a handy little app for iOS or Windows 7 called WeDig.It, which queries the Foursquare API to show you a map of places around Austin that have a lot, or a few, people checked in. Last night I happened upon the back patio of my favorite place in town and was overjoyed to find that almost no one else was there. It was a great place for conversation. Maybe tonight I'll be looking for just the opposite.
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Rdio Launches Developer & Affiliate Platforms Streaming music subscription service Rdio today announced availability of a series of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that outside developers can use to add playback of Rdio's 8 million song catalog and social features like popular playlists to their web applications. Developers that can sign up new subscribers to Rdio's $5 or $10 per month paid services will receive a 2% to 3% commission for the lifetime of the subscriber. That could help create a small army of sales people that could sell Rdio in settings outside of the Rdio iPhone app, where Apple will soon begin taking a hefty 30% cut.
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