About Dana Oshiro
Dana Oshiro is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb. She is
a Canadian blogger, PR pro and start up strategist. She writes about
her life in San Francisco at Villagers With Pitchforks. You can contact Dana at dana@readwriteweb.com.
Dana Oshiro Archive
Note: number of comments in brackets
01/21/10: Nokia Releases Ovi Maps with Free Walk and Drive Navigation (4)
01/ 6/10: Does Pandora for Cars Spell Death for Deejays? (10)
01/ 3/10: ReadWriteWeb's List of Kid-Friendly Online Resources (7)
12/30/09: Your Cyborg Eye Will Talk to You (2)
12/25/09: Where's my Jet Pack? Apple Tablet and Future Interfaces (5)
12/22/09: Will the Word-Blocking Patent Extend Beyond Microsoft? (1)
12/15/09: Google Adds Place-Ranking System, Should Yelp Be Afraid? (11)
12/14/09: 6 Climate Change Resources (8)
12/11/09: Top 10 Startup Products of 2009 (14)
12/10/09: Netvibes Launches Ultimate News and Lifestyle Dashboard (8)
12/10/09: Queen of Jordan Calls on Blogger Friends (1)
12/10/09: Leverage the Web's Most Disturbing Content, Says danah boyd (5)
12/ 9/09: Myspace Opens Floodgates: Developers Get API for Real-Time Stream (1)
12/ 9/09: PayPal Partnering with Philips for NetTV Monetization (2)
12/ 7/09: 5 iPhone Apps to Get You Ready for Le Web (7)
12/ 3/09: Friendster Relaunching: A Lesson in How Not to Brand (26)
11/23/09: The Last Days of Desktop: Chrome Welcomes Third Party Extensions (4)
11/16/09: Google Earth's iPhone App Lets You Track and View Your Adventures (4)
11/ 9/09: Thunderbird 3, Raindrop and the Future of Mozilla Messaging (5)
11/ 4/09: Can Digg Do Real-Time News? (4)
11/ 3/09: PayPal's X: A Platform to Pick Your Pocket (6)
10/22/09: BART Promos on Foursquare: Free Tickets for Check-Ins (1)
10/22/09: Mozilla's Raindrop: An Open Conversation Aggregator (7)
10/22/09: Facebook Redesigns Mobile Touch Site (12)
10/20/09: DiningIn: Evite with Group Food Orders (4)
10/15/09: Real-Time Activism: What the Heck is an E-Alert? (0)
10/ 9/09: Casting Stones Before the FCC: Google Voice and AT&T (3)
10/ 9/09: Wikileaks and Publishers to Partner on Whistleblower Stories (1)
10/ 8/09: Kayak Opens Access to River of Travel Search Data (2)
10/ 6/09: Monetizing Speed: AP May Charge for 30 Min Lead (6)
10/ 5/09: Ask.com Puts Shopping Deals Directly in Search (1)
10/ 5/09: iPhone's Flash Apps: Let the Games Begin (5)
10/ 1/09: LinkedIn Launches Profile Bookmarking (1)
09/24/09: Google Sites API Aims For Data Liberation (5)
09/24/09: Google Book Settlement Negotiations Continue (1)
09/23/09: ReadWriteWeb's List of Kid-Friendly Online Resources (5)
09/23/09: Nokia Buys Dopplr: The Ovi-Based Foursquare? (7)
09/23/09: YouTube's FastForward Biz Site Off to Slow Start (6)
09/22/09: French Officials Propose Disclaimer on Photoshopped Ads (5)
09/22/09: Google Crowdsources Reader, Docs and Search Features (2)
09/22/09: Picasa 3.5: Ruining Your Good Name with Face Recognition Tagging (14)
09/22/09: Google SketchUp Release Enables Faster Modeling (3)
09/21/09: Google Earth Tracks Marine Exploration (5)
09/21/09: Yahoo's $100 Million Ad Campaign: It's You! (8)
09/21/09: Netflix Prize: $1M is a Steal for Predictive Tech (4)
09/20/09: Facebook Data Mining: Truth in Association? (6)
09/20/09: Hulu's Facebook App: Posse Up for the Heroes Premiere (2)
09/17/09: BBC To Kill Open Source TV? (4)
09/17/09: Microsoft, NY Times and Scareware Offenses (3)
09/17/09: Google Invented Reading Lists? (12)
09/17/09: Obama's Health Plan Gets Facebook App (5)
09/16/09: Shouldn't Schools Have Embraced Second Life By Now? (30)
09/16/09: Is This a Joke? eBay and Verizon Win Privacy Award (10)
09/16/09: On Twitter: What's Valuation Got to Do With Revenue? (12)
09/15/09: CitySourced gives Ranters an iPhone App (2)
09/15/09: Facebook's Userbase to Pass US Population Numbers (5)
09/15/09: What Women Want: Startups Targeting Females (8)
09/15/09: AIM Debuts Lifestream Twitter Client (6)
09/14/09: Ask.com Powers Breast Cancer Cause-Search Campaign (6)
09/13/09: Social Radar Tracks Domino's After Gross-Out Video (0)
09/10/09: Survey Says Most iPhone Owners Download 10+ Apps (8)
09/10/09: Twitter Solidifies Governance: New Terms Keep Out Bots (1)
09/10/09: Facebook's Twitter-Like Tagging: Useful or Tiring? (6)
09/10/09: IBM's New Image Recognition-Based Search (8)
09/ 9/09: DataMasher: Get Freakonomic On Government Data (3)
09/ 9/09: How Facebook Beat MySpace: From College Dorm to Platform (10)
09/ 9/09: Apple's iTunes 9 Music Offerings Lack True Genius (5)
09/ 8/09: ContextVoice: Real Time Tracking with Big Picture Analytics (1)
09/ 8/09: Warcraft and Twilight Fans Make Wikia Profitable (6)
09/ 8/09: How to Price Your iPhone App (10)
09/ 8/09: Yoko Ono: Beatles' Catalogue on iTunes Tomorrow (6)
09/ 8/09: Will Privacy Concerns Kill Google Books Settlement? (4)
09/ 7/09: Latest Facebook Scare: The Cure May Be Worse Than The Disease (7)
09/ 7/09: Brightcove Brings Condé Nast Digital to Boxee (1)
09/ 6/09: Would You Moonlight for Technorati? (7)
09/ 6/09: Google PageRank Powers Endangered Species Hierarchy (7)
09/ 3/09: Radiohead Guitarist: MP3 Is Good Enough (14)
09/ 3/09: Twitter-like Dating, Brevity's the Best Opener (5)
09/ 3/09: Microsoft Launches Tools For Teachers (10)
09/ 3/09: Microsoft Windows 7: Partayyy! (1)
09/ 2/09: Microsoft's Global Patent: World Harmony or Legal War? (7)
09/ 2/09: The Bee's Knees: IBM's RFID to Track Prosthetics (2)
09/ 2/09: Machine-Powered Medical Info: HealthBase Semantic Search (8)
09/ 1/09: Facebook Fund REV Graduation Day: Backlight, Thread and More (4)
08/31/09: Your Cyborg Eye Will Talk to You (6)
08/31/09: Finding Better Friends: Delicious and SPEAR (3)
08/30/09: Gotcha! Tax Evaders Nabbed on Facebook (2)
08/30/09: Wikipedia's Most Visited Pages: Beatles, Jacko, YouTube (4)
08/28/09: MOG Music Service Raises $5 Million Round (2)
08/27/09: Spotify iPhone App Approved Thanks to the FCC (7)
08/26/09: Firefox 3.5: Browsing Privacy (9)
08/26/09: Google's Summer of Code Helps Government Transparency (1)
08/25/09: Microsoft's Photoshop Blunder: Racist or Shortsighted? (57)
08/25/09: Firefox Translation Plug-In to Increase Global Dialogue (13)
08/25/09: Magma: The Billboard Charts of Video (3)
08/25/09: YouTube to Help Monetize One-Hit Wonders (5)
08/25/09: Four Tools for Crowdsourced Funding (7)
08/24/09: Opera Mini Is Most Downloaded Mobile App (12)
08/23/09: Nokia's Ovi to Compete with iPhone App Store? (20)
08/23/09: iGoogle Video Chat Threatens Shirtless Blogosphere (10)
08/20/09: NY Transportation Authority Cites Schedules as Copyrighted Material (13)
08/20/09: Is AT&T's Denial of Service to Hacker Justified? (26)
08/20/09: Wikimedia Celebrates Hewlett Grant (1)
08/20/09: Facebook Pages to Automatically Publish to Twitter (11)
08/20/09: Google Labs Launches Listen Podcast App (12)
08/20/09: Open Textbooks Gaining Ground: Flat World in 400 Colleges (11)
08/19/09: Magic Beans Grow Portable Social Networks (11)
08/18/09: FCC Tweets and Blogs for National Broadband Plan (6)
08/18/09: Defective By Design: Kindle Discourages Readers (5)
08/17/09: Race To Data Portability: Google Chrome vs. Mozilla Weave (9)
08/17/09: Facebook to Address Privacy Concerns in Canada (5)
08/16/09: You're the Backup: Pirate Bay Archive Available for Download (9)
08/16/09: Facebook for iPhone 3.0: Your Little Black Book? (6)
08/13/09: Radiohead Says Singles Only, But Albums Live On (10)
08/13/09: Opera 10 Beta 3 Release: Faster and Prettier (6)
08/13/09: Google Books Offers Creative Commons Licensing (7)
08/12/09: Capture Your Summer with Great Mobile Video Apps (7)
08/12/09: Grooveshark Launches Subscription VIP Service (10)
08/11/09: Fear and Impatience are Killing the Nabaztag Bunnies (7)
08/11/09: De-Mock-cracy In Action: Facebook's Open Governance (6)
08/10/09: Google Adds Tools to Web Developer Suite (7)
08/10/09: Yahoo Deals: Woot and the New Coupon Clippers (3)
08/10/09: Caffeine: Google Tests New Search Infrastructure (6)
08/ 9/09: Twitter Hammers Nail in Coffin for Tr.im (6)
08/ 9/09: Amateurs vs. Agencies: Microsoft's Razorfish Acquired (3)
08/ 6/09: Digg-able Ad Program to Launch This Week (6)
08/ 6/09: LA Police Department Considers "Going Google" (1)
08/ 5/09: Creative Commons Launches CC OpenID Profile (13)
08/ 5/09: EFF Calls on Companies to Encrypt Location-Based Data (2)
08/ 5/09: Speed in the Feed: Google Reader and PubSubHubbub (8)
08/ 4/09: Where's my Jet Pack? Apple Tablet and Future Interfaces (5)
08/ 4/09: Despite Banning Twitter, 92% of China Netizens Use Social Media (28)
08/ 4/09: UN and Google Create Climate Change Mapping Resources (24)
08/ 3/09: Spotify to Close Up to $50M Round Before US Launch (5)
08/ 3/09: Google Apps Campaign: How Not to Influence IT Experts (15)
08/ 2/09: iPhone App Trends: Music, Health and Augmented Reality (5)
07/30/09: Technorati Launches Twittorati: Top Tweets from Blogosphere (18)
07/30/09: The Firefox Campaign Trail: A Billion Downloads, A Billion Votes (9)
07/30/09: Build Profit Not DMCA Suits: YouTube and the Wedding March (4)
07/29/09: Immersive Social Gaming: Twitter and Facebook on XBox (5)
07/29/09: Wikipedia's Inkblots: Normality in Tech and Medicine (3)
07/28/09: Twitter Redesigns As Streaming Trends Site (13)
07/28/09: 6 Resources for Tomorrow's Happy Hour (2)
07/28/09: iPhone Jailbreak Irony: Apple's Own History of Phone Hacking (7)
07/28/09: Microsoft Page Hunt Game to Improve Search? (2)
07/27/09: Will Apple's "Interactive Album" Cocktail Inspire Better Bands? (3)
07/27/09: Spotify iPhone App: Threat to iTunes? (3)
07/24/09: Microsoft to Bundle Firefox and Chrome with Windows? (22)
07/24/09: Tynt and Creative Commons: Tracking Content for Good (3)
07/24/09: Microsoft Linux Release: Legal Pressure or Purely Selfish? (UPDATE) (1)
07/24/09: News Registry: The Associated Press is Watching (1)
07/22/09: Why Billboard.com is Destined for Failure (20)
07/22/09: Open Source for America: The New Government Accountability (5)
07/22/09: Nokia Phones to Aid Against Malaria Deaths (8)
07/21/09: Seven e-Learning and Teaching Resources (18)
07/21/09: Jimmy Wales Joins Open Textbook Organization (3)
07/20/09: Let's go Sale-ing: A Web-Savvy Yardsale Resource (10)
07/20/09: Cloud Storage for Social Media: Twitter Backup (5)
07/20/09: Will Microsoft's Streaming Music Service Hinder Spotify US Release? (5)
07/19/09: Musical Memes, Choosing A Netizen Anthem (8)
07/17/09: Cat's in the Cradle: Family Websites Long Forgotten? (6)
07/17/09: UPDATE: Are You Facebook's Ad Poster Child? Exploring Acceptable Use (11)
07/16/09: Gad-Zookz! WTO to Allow Copyright Infringement? (2)
07/16/09: Changing the World With Open Translation (10)
07/16/09: Google Voice to add Audio Ads? (18)
07/16/09: Celebrate Unsung Heroes: Nominate an EFF Pioneer (0)
07/15/09: Whuffaoke or Bust: RWW's Road Trip Resources (1)
07/15/09: Tweeting via Facebook? (6)
07/15/09: One Time in Bandcamp: Challenging MySpace Music (7)
07/14/09: Eighteen Streaming Music Resources (28)
07/14/09: Wikipedia Training for US Health Department (7)
07/13/09: The Obama Time Capsule and the Future of Publishing (7)
07/13/09: Nine Cause-Based Job and Volunteer Resources (3)
07/12/09: Comments Dead, Twitter Holds Smoking Gun (13)
07/12/09: Remember Silverlight? Version 3 Launch and Features (2)
07/12/09: Endeavour's Journey: Shuttle Launch and Outer Space Resources (1)
07/ 9/09: Font-ificating: Delivering Web-Native Fonts (4)
07/ 8/09: Talk to Me: 5 Great Translation Tools (15)
07/ 7/09: Transportation Apps: Are We There Yet? (7)
07/ 6/09: 6 Travel Trends for the Weary Wanderer (10)
07/ 5/09: An Updated List of Bad Company Names (18)
07/ 5/09: 6 Great Tools for LSAT, SAT and GMAT Test Prep (9)
07/ 5/09: Bullied by Media, Palin Resigns (63)
07/ 2/09: Study says Patents Hurt Innovation (11)
06/30/09: Eat Right Web: 18 Great Cooking Resources (19)
06/30/09: Pirate Bay Acquired for $7.8 million, Content Providers to Get Paid (12)
06/25/09: Search and Rescue: 6 Approaches to Semantic Data Collection (3)
06/19/09: Study says 85% Online Canucks have Facebook Profiles (18)
06/10/09: AccuTerra iPhone Maps win Apple Design Award (6)
06/10/09: Appcelerator Launches Titanium Mobile Beta (2)
