The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Facebook’s New iOS Apps: Pros & Cons”.Dave Copeland says, “Released four weeks ago, Facebook’s new iPhone and iPad apps have proven a hit: The average rating jumped from 1.5 stars to more than 4 stars on iTunes store, and users are raving about the improvement in speed when compared to Facebook’s previous HTML5 app. As in all things Facebook, though, users have complaints and see room for improvement.Facebook’s New iOS Apps: Pros & ConsReadWriteWeb [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “New Internet Explorer Security Bug Could Affect Millions”.Mark Hachman says, “Microsoft said it was investigating a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that could affect millions of users, running the latest versions of Internet Explorer on Microsoft’s most popular operating systems”This change allows people and companies to feature interactive tweets directly on their sites. That means that third-party sites, like ESPN (which is embedding U.S. Open info)”.New Internet Explorer Security Bug Could Affect MillionsReadWriteWeb [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Twitter Launches Ugly Updates In The Name Of Consistency”.Jon Mitchell says, “On the TODAY Show Tuesday, Twitter announced two big cosmetic changes. It updated its iPad app to be more like the simple mobile versions that launched in December. It also added a header photo to profile pages to give you more personal flair. While these updates are cheery and consistent across devices, they’re symptomatic of the company’s misguided effort to control the user experience”.Twitter Launches Ugly Updates In The Name Of ConsistencyReadWriteWeb [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Facebook Friends: How Many Is Too Many?”.Antone Gonsalves says, “Forget its $104 billion IP0, Facebook’s greatest achievement is building a social network of 950 million people. But what if that tremendous size is also Facebook’s Achilles’ Heel? Forget “too big to fail.” What if Facebook is getting too big to succeed? Ever-growing friend lists threaten to make the service less personal – and less compelling”.Facebook Friends: How Many Is Too Many?ReadWriteWeb [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Ping Is Dead. Long Live Apple’s New Social Strategy”.John Paul Titlow says, “Ping, the pseudo-social network once proudly baked into iTunes, will be no more by the end of the month, Apple announced on Thursday. It’s a smart (if overdue) move, but now the company needs to get more serious about integrating established social networks into its products”.Ping Is Dead. Long Live Apple’s New Social StrategyReadWriteWeb [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “3 Scams That Are More Social Than Technical”.Brian Proffitt says, “Internet scams always have a target-rich environment, and they exploit it with a little bit of technology and a lot more con-artistry. Here’s a look at three such social-engineering scams to be aware of, including one that targeted me recently”.3 Scams That Are More Social Than TechnicalReadWriteWeb [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Social Networking For Authors & Overcoming The Rejection Slip”.Richard MacManus says, “Yesterday I reviewed the leading social network for book readers, Goodreads. In the second post in my Social Books series, I’m checking out a brand new social network for book writers. Called Writer’s Bloq, it was founded by a young wannabe writer from New York named Nayia Moysidis. In a phone interview, I discovered that Moysidis, a graduate of Columbia University’s creative writing program, started Writer’s Bloq because of... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “New Changes To Twitter’s Embedded Tweets”.Adam Popescu says, “It seems there are more changes at Twitter than to the molecules of a frozen burrito in a microwave.On the heels of last month’s API change (and scare), Twitter is tweaking content delivery.Twitter product manager Brian Ellin wrote in a blog post last week that the firm is “launching a new tool that makes it easy to embed interactive timelines of tweets on any website.”This change allows people and companies to feature interactive tweets directly... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Facebook’s Ad Exchange Has A Promising Launch”.Dave Copeland says, “The much-anticipated Facebook Exchange, intended to help advertisers target ads at customers who have visited their site, finally launched Thursday and the early indications are it could be a game-changer”.Facebook’s Ad Exchange Has A Promising LaunchReadWriteWeb [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “8 Surprising Startup Lessons – What You Don’t Know You Don’t Know”.Scott Gerber says, “It takes more than a big idea and a thorough business plan to start a new business. Most entrepreneurs aren’t quite sure what else it takes until they’re well underway, and many are shocked to discover important elements of startup success that they simply hadn’t considered at all”.8 Surprising Startup Lessons – What You Don’t Know You Don’t KnowReadWriteWeb [...]