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1,500 Newspapers Could Soon Support the AP's Controversial hNews Microformat

ReadWriteWeb  Oct 20 09

Earlier this year, the Associated Press, together with the Media Standards Trust, introduced hNews, a new microformat for describing news content. HNews allows publishers to easily attach machine-readable news semantics to content on the web. Today, the AP announced the completion of the first draft of hNews. In addition, TownNews, announced that is will support hNews in its BLOX content management system, which is being used by over 1,500 newspapers in the US.

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Travelers Love the Mobile Web - But Most Don't Use Travel Apps Yet

ReadWriteWeb  just under two hours ago

Once upon a time, you had to bring travel guides, maps and paper tickets on every trip. Today, you can just take your smartphone and get access to all of this information without having to lug a couple of books and magazines around with you.

Formspring.me: Another Startup Packing Its Bags for Silicon Valley

ReadWriteWeb  just under two hours ago

News broke yesterday that popular online Q&A startup Formspring.me had raised some $2.5 million in venture funding and would be relocating to Silicon Valley from Indianapolis.

Twitter Search Is About Popularity

ReadWriteWeb  2 hours ago

For many people, Twitter offers a larger, more diverse stream of constantly flowing data than they've ever had to deal with before in their life.

Novell Gets Ready To Release Pulse and Federation with Google Wave

ReadWriteWeb  3 hours ago

Novell is providing the first glimpse of Pulse, its new real-time collaboration service. The new service will eventually fully integrate with Google Wave.

If You Tell Them On Facebook, They Will Come...Again and Again

ReadWriteWeb  4 hours ago

In continuing to look at the way that Facebook has become a driving force behind online news consumption, Heather Hopkins of Hitwise has dove into the numbers again, this time examing how Facebook users compare with others in return visits.

Weekend Fun: New Apps for Your iPhone

ReadWriteWeb  4 hours ago

As one of ReadWriteWeb's iPhone users, I'm always looking for new applications to try out. Some get downloaded for a day and then deleted right away, others slowly inch their way closer to my homescreen.

Three iPhone Apps To Save Yourself & The World

ReadWriteWeb  5 hours ago

We saw a cartoon recently that shows the attendees of a "Climate Summit", with a single naysayer yelling out from the back of the crowd "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"

Well, in the spirit of creating a better world for nothing, we bring to you three iPhone apps that we hope can help do just that.

OneRiot Brings Its Real-Time Ads to the Web

ReadWriteWeb  5 hours ago

Until now, anybody who wanted to implement real-time ads from OneRiot's RiotWise network had to get these ads through OneRiot's API and create a customized user interface around these ads.

The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter

ReadWriteWeb  6 hours ago

A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence.

Will Windows Phone 7 Series Be A Smartphone for the Enterprise?

ReadWriteWeb  14 hours ago

We're seeing a few glimpses from Mix10 of what Windows Phone 7 Series will look like for the enterprise.



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