| Uploading Files to Google Docs Just Got Easier Last fall, Google Docs users gained the ability to drag and drop files from the desktop to the upload page. Now Google has announced that it will be rolling out a few more features to make that process of uploading any file to Google Docs even easier. The first new feature will help those who tend to upload a lot of documents: Google has added the ability to upload folders, not just individual files. This upload will actually preserve the folder structure, which means that folders within folders will also be uploaded.
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White iPhone, T-Mobile iPhone On Their Way (Report) Over the weekend, a pair of reports from Apple-watching industry blogs delivered tantalizing news to the iPhone-obessed, both involving details of new mobile devices. One report claims a T-Mobile iPhone is in the works, and it will also include the powerful new A5 processor, a fast, dual-core chip designed to outperform its predecessor, the A4, especially when it comes to mobile gaming. Another report out now claims that the seemingly mythical white iPhone is due to launch this week.
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Curation Tool Storify Opens To The Public With the amount of news available online, aggregation and curation are becoming increasingly important for finding, filtering and managing information. Of course news no longer emanates from traditional media sources or even from blogs. Much of it now comes from social streams as well, and oftentimes the news, analysis, and reactions via sites like Twitter are stories unto themselves. That's created a lot of opportunities for new sorts of digital storytelling, and one of the tools that the writers here at ReadWriteWeb have had in their storytelling toolbox is Storify. The website opens to public beta today.
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B&N's Nook Color Gets Apps, Flash & More in Major Update B&N's Nook Color e-Reader is receiving a major update today which brings a wider selection of Android apps to the tablet, plus an email client, faster Web browsing, support for Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR technologies and other improvements to the e-reading experience. The update will also deliver an upgrade to the tablet's base operating system, bringing it a newer version of Android - Android 2.2, code-named "Froyo." While this is not the most current version of Android available at present, it's less of a concern here because the tablet runs its own user interface designed specifically for e-Reading.
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Google Tweaks Its Plans for Google Video, Makes It Easier to Move to YouTube Last week, Google notified owners of video content on Google Video that the site would be officially shuttered, giving them what felt like very short notice on its closure. Effective April 29, videos would no longer be available for playback, and users had until May 13 to download content. Although Google Video hasn't allowed uploads since 2009, the site still contains almost 3 million videos according to Google Operating Systems. Many users complained that Google had made no easy way to port content over to YouTube. On Friday, Google announced that it was making some adjustments to its plans. It's eliminating the April 29 deadline. Furthermore, it's working on a way to automatically migrate videos to YouTube.
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Cartoon: The Silver Lining This one's for the engineers, the programmers, the database administrators, the sysadmins, the networking gurus, and the rest of that army of people that gets deployed when a major outage happens. While the rest of us grouse that we can't check in at our local haunts, or log on with our Twitter app of choice, or vote a story up or down on Reddit - or even do something a little more directly tied to social or economic productivity - those folks are working brutal hours under intense pressure to get everything back up again.
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Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that's ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too. Once a week we introduce our sponsors to our readers and let them know a little more about who they are and what they do. You can say thanks to the companies that make ReadWriteWeb happen by tweeting them (see the link below each sponsor) or following them using our Twitter list. Interested in being a ReadWriteWeb sponsor? Our readers are smart, tech-savvy decision makers; 40% have a graduate degree or PhD, and over 45% play a key role in information technology purchasing decisions. More than 1 million people on Twitter follow us to stay abreast of the latest Web technology trends from around the globe. To find out more about our sponsor packages, visit our advertising page or email our COO.
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