Widgets Widgets are the new black Earlier this week I noted that widget services are really ramping up now. Indeed over the past couple of days I've noticed lots of action in the burgeoning widgets industry, plus some excellent commentary. At the Connected Innovators program at Supernova last night PostApp revealed the high level of WidgetBox, its "web widget… Richard MacManus View comments
Adobe What Adobe's Kiwi Project is about This post was written by Ryan Stewart, a Read/WriteWeb guest blogger. Note that Adobe's use of the terms 'Read/Write Web' and 'kiwi' is not associated with this blog. There is an interesting project going on over at Adobe that aims to combine the power of Flex 2 with the potential of the Read/Write Web. The project is codenamed Kiwi and they… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media Digg 3.0 expands beyond tech This Monday Digg will release the next version of the enormously popular community news site digg.com. Mike Arrington and I did a TalkCrunch podcast with Digg's co-founder and Chief Architect Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson, in which we discussed Digg's evolution and what the new product (which they refer to as "Version 3") offers. Below… Richard MacManus View comments
Supernova 2006 Supernova Panel: Power to the People Panelists: Craig Newmark (Craigslist), Saul Klein (Skype), Tina Sharkey (AOL), Mena Trott (Six Apart), Gil Penchina (Wikia) Pic: Dan Farber; from left-to-right: Tina, Mena, Saul (doing a very good Robert Di Niro impression), Gil, Craig Panel Blurb: "Users are becoming active co-creators of their media, commerce, entertainment, and… Richard MacManus View comments
Supernova 2006 Engaged Markets workshop: small companies competing against bigcos This workshop, moderated by Tara Hunt, split into 4 different groups for discussions. This format worked well and the group I joined, about little companies competing against big companies (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc) was an interesting one. The premise: you're a startup launching a product, but just as this happens you find out a Google or… Richard MacManus View comments