| Love & Tech Give a Jazzman an Eternal Voice Something I've believed since I began work for ReadWriteWeb is that nothing we write about here exists in a vacuum. No matter how obscure or specific or rarefied, every story we tell is about someone somewhere doing something. War, the economy, revolution, social movements - everyone everywhere is affected by everything. So when I saw what my best friend, Kelvin Holland, had done, I saw, among other things, a story about us. Lo these many years ago, Kelvin and I met at what became Ask.com. He wound up as the Head of Testing and I ran corporate projects. He now works in the DC area as the web producer for a history publisher. It was there he met Al Webber, a jazzman of the old school. Al recently passed away, but not before technology empowered Kelvin to capture, preserve and share a part of the man's ineffable essence.
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Has The Smartphone Location Tracking Fiasco Gone Too Far? Or Not Far Enough? A week of discussion around the mainstream discovery that our smartphones - iPhones, Android phones and Windows phones alike - were tracking and/or storing our location in one way or another has finally arrived at the logical conclusion: a warning sticker, a handful of lawsuits, a congressional hearing and, possibly most importantly, a South Park episode. What we want to know now is, has it all gone too far and become simply another media circus or is all of this outrage, precaution and parody perfectly warranted?
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Twitter Search Done Right by PostPo.st Trying to search for old tweets can be a pain. Twitter's own search engine brings back limited results and the top search engines like Google and Bing are so focused on real-time that trying to get something older than a couple of days is almost impossible. Often times you will find yourself scrolling through your timeline looking for that one tweet you sent months ago. If you tweet a lot, that is a giant hassle. PostPo.st thinks that it has come up with the solution. When you sign up for the service PostPost will determine 200 of your most relevant follows and index up to 400 tweets for each user. If some of the people you follow are also PostPost users then nearly all of their tweets will indexed. PostPo.st attempts to be as comprehensive a Twitter search engine that exists today.
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A Web-Walk Through the Redwoods on Arbor Day Save the Redwoods League has partnered with Google Earth Outreach to create a virtual walk through a modeled old-growth redwood stand in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park in California. To celebrate the U.S.'s 120th Arbor Day, you can take a stroll through 3D stands of ancient redwood trees.
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Iran Officially Worst Online Oppressor A new report from Freedom House has ranked Iran the world's worst abuser of online freedoms. "Freedom on the Net 2011" determined that the five worst countries for online freedom - based on obstacles to access, limits on content and violations of user rights - are Iran, followed by Burma, China, Cuba and Tunisia. (The last entry is certainly changed somewhat by the uprising earlier this year.)
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Nock Nock: Where The Foursquare Geeks At? Unless you're a member of the service industry, Friday can mean just one thing - close your computer, all pens and pencils should be down and it's time to hit the town. But where should you go? Sure, there are review apps like Yelp to figure out the best Thai food place within a half mile, but what if you're looking for people? Nock Nock helps you figure out which bars and clubs are happening in real-time by looking at Foursquare check-ins according to neighborhood in four cities worldwide.
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Download our Latest Free Report: The Influences Driving Virtualization Virtualization has been around long enough now that practices have been established. What's changing is how virtualization intersects with cloud computing. The Influences Driving Virtualization is the latest white paper from ReadWriteWeb. In the white paper, writer Philip Morgan looks at the influences that are shaping virtualization with particular emphasis on standardization, simplification and automation. Through that lens the white paper examines the factors that influence companies and how the cloud plays a defining role.
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Why Every Single Person Should Take 30 Seconds to Opt-in to the Delicious Data Transfer Earlier this week it was announced that Yahoo is selling social bookmarking service Delicious to the founders of YouTube and their new company called Avos. After the announcement was made, the companies told everyone who had ever had a Delicious account that they needed to log in and opt-in to having their data transferred over into the new company. You should go do that right now, even if you're not a big Delicious user anymore. It takes 30 seconds to do and is something good to do for yourself and for the good of the Web. If you don't, that data will disappear. Philosophically, that's bad because all your "data exhaust" like that is going to become an important currency of the future Web, an important asset whether it seems that way today or not. Practically, though, there are three important reasons why you should go take a moment to make sure that data is preserved.
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Adobe Flash Player 10.2 Ready For Honeycomb; Honeycomb Not Ready For Anything Adobe released its new version of Flash Player 10.2 for Android Honeycomb yesterday with a promise of features and functionality for Android tablets. Yet, there is a problem. Android tablets cannot yet support Flash 10.2. In a note sent along with the release, Adobe said, "Please note that users of the Motorola Xoom and other tablets that run Android 3.0.1 will not be able to experience Flash Player improvements until the devices receive an upcoming update to Honeycomb." Adobe is ready for Android yet it seems that Android is not ready for Adobe. The saga of Honeycomb's missing features continues.
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Facebook Responds to Abused DMCA Loophole Issue, Doesn't Fix System Yesterday we reported on a problem that was affecting several Facebook page owners - due to a loophole in Facebook's process for handling DMCA takedown requests, anyone with an ax to grind and a fake email address could take down any Facebook page by filling out an online form with false information, claiming copyright infringement. Facebook doesn't verify the identity of those filing the claim, and more importantly, it doesn't verify the claim is from a legitimate email address. After a handful of high-profile sites became the victim of this problem, Facebook has stepped in to resolve the problem. Well, sort of. The social networking company says it has restored four pages, but it has not made any changes to its system as of yet.
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