New Media Times Reader - Exclusive Screenshots Of As Yet Unreleased Microsoft App Times Reader is an upcoming new application from The New York Times and Microsoft, which lets users read the NY Times electronically using advanced screen reading technology from Microsoft. The app is due to be launched as a free beta soon - an article about it is now available at the NY Times' First Look Blog. I got the chance to check out a… Richard MacManus View comments
Lists Announcing the Read/WriteWeb Jobs Board Just kidding... but now that I have your attention, here are some interesting Web Tech tidbits: Amazon aStore is a new product from Amazon that enables you "to build a dedicated shopping area that can be embedded within, or linked to from, your website." Mitch Ratcliffe and Nick Carr have examples and good thoughts on this. As Nick said, this… Richard MacManus View comments
Browsers Internet Explorer 7: Good Solid Browser, Or Ford Pinto? I recently had the pleasure of talking to Opera's Chief Technology Officer Håkon Wium Lie. We spoke about Microsoft's latest web browser IE7 and Håkon was harshly critical of it, as well as Microsoft's past history with CSS and web standards. Bear in mind that Opera competes with IE and also that Håkon has a distinguished… Richard MacManus View comments
Browsers Top 10 Firefox Web 2.0 Add-ons With all this talk of the Web as a platform, it's worth taking a closer look at what web apps are using Firefox as their platform. Firefox is regarded as the best Web browser in terms of extensions - i.e. small browser add-ons which modify or add to existing functionality. It has hundreds of add-ons, which can be downloaded from here. But which… Richard MacManus View comments
Start Pages Business Models For Start Pages Recently a new personalized start page product was announced, Webwag. In the comments to my post about Webwag, several people expressed their view that start pages are not a viable business. Personally I think start pages have plenty of opportunities to make money, despite (and sometimes because of) competition from Microsoft, Google and… Richard MacManus View comments