2 Weeks Ago, Richard MacManus from Read/WriteWeb says (in Using Your Mobile Phone as a Proximity Sensor) RWW's Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things Series: As Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote earlier, "where you are" has became a platform to build added value on top of - just as "who you know" has on Facebook and "what you're doing" on Twitter. Marshall outlined some current use cases for location da...

And Matthew Casperson from Mashups via Programmable Web says (in UK Government Launches Open Data Site: data.gov.uk) The British government is opening up a wealth of UK government-held non-personal data with the official opening of data.gov.uk. Created with the help of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, data.gov.uk will publish government data using the Resource Description Framew...

Last Month, Richard MacManus from Read/WriteWeb says (in Opinion: Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things: Barcode Scanning) Barcode scanning and its applications will grow during 2010, meaning more and more real world data will be connected to the Internet and accessed on your mobile phone. There are many apps trying to entice consumers to wave their mobile phone in front of products, so let us know your favorit...

And Richard MacManus from Read/WriteWeb says (in Opinion: Weekly Wrapup Special: Best Products & BigCo of 2009) The print version is coming soon!

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1. Twitter

2. Google Chrome

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4. Facebook

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8. Google Apps

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4 Months Ago, Rafe Needleman from Webware.com says (in Opinion: Is Quicken at the end of the road?) The Quicken code base overall: While Patzer has yet to take the reins at Intuit's Quicken group, he's already thinking about unifying the codebases of the various personal financial products that will be under his purview. He's considering developing a cross-platform version of Quick...

And Rafe Needleman from Webware.com says (in Podcast: Reporters' Roundtable #3: Mint CEO Aaron Patzer) Also, Elinor grills Patzer on the security safeguards in his system. Patzer tells us getting access to Mint data is like initiating self-destruct on the Starship Enterprise: You need three people to give their individual passwords at the same time or no go. Play the podcast for the full con...