Relay For Life of Second Life Raises Over $150k in First Hour!
19 Jul 2008 9:42pm GMT Relay for Life of Second Life is a charity event that celebrates the victories and remembers those that have been lost in the fight against cancer. Th 4th annual RFLofSL relay takes place today in the popular virtual network Second Life. Reports have been coming through the pipelines to let us know that the event has already amassed a ton money and it's only just begun! It's Only Just Begun RFLofSL was a huge success last year, raking in over $100,000 dollars and attracting more than 1,700...
Cartoon: Favicon Dead Pool
19 Jul 2008 9:00pm GMT Here is a new cartoon from Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of the big questions of the social web.
Google Integrates Services Into the New iGoogle
19 Jul 2008 5:38pm GMT Users love it when products and services from one company are nicely integrated with one another. It helps to keep users from bouncing around services. Companies love it because it's a way to lock users in, while gaining their trust. Nevertheless, Google has me hooked on yet another product from their labs: iGoogle. While I may be late to joining the RSS dashboard game, here's a look at a few of iGoogle's new features that users will enjoy. Gmail Integration If you're using the Gmail widget...
Weekly Wrapup, 14-18 July 2008
19 Jul 2008 1:00pm GMT It's time to review the week that was on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we continued our ongoing analysis of the iPhone 3G and its accompanying App Store, we looked closely at a Gmail update to its contact management system, covered the US launch of Microsoft Live Mesh, and reported on a developer revolt with Google's Android. On the trends side we revisited the Facebook platform, asked whether startups need Community Managers, looked into mainstream usage of the browser address bar, and...
BlogHer: Who Are Your Favorite Women Bloggers?
19 Jul 2008 1:17am GMT The Blogher conference for and about women bloggers kicks off today in San Francisco and in honor of this important event, we decided to share some links to some of our favorite women bloggers here at RWW. Gender is an important lens through which people communicate and that's still the case online. Below are links to some of our favorite women bloggers and some favorites from some web celebs you may or may not know. We hope you'll visit their sites and add more of your favorites in the...