Admin Admin: R/WW Expansion, Sponsor Opportunities Just a quick admin note about a few things. Firstly, Read/WriteWeb has been growing so well in recent months that I'm in the process of expanding the site. Key to this is continuing to provide premium content on web technology - and building a community around that. So I want to thank all the regular and loyal readers of R/WW - especially for all… Richard MacManus View comments
Data Services Amazon Web Services Success Stories Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. We have written before about the innovative Amazon Web Services Platform. This stack was officially announced by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos during the recent Web 2.0 summit and is now considered part of the core business strategy for Amazon. While analysts, competitors and Wall Street… Alex Iskold View comments
Social Networks Sex and Social Networking Sells: Fake User Profiles in Marketing Campaigns Increasingly marketing firms are using popular social networks on the Web as part of their campaigns - creating fake user profiles to sell their products. On one hand this is not a good thing for social networks, because the last thing they want is to be clogged up with marketing campaigns masquerading as users in their systems. But the reality… Social Richard MacManus View comments
Microsoft Microsoft Expression Web: Taking Over From Frontpage and Taking On Adobe It's going to be a busy month or two for Microsoft, as the business launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 is set for November 30 and there are a number of complementary initiatives that will see the light of day soon. One is the Expression suite of web design tools. Expression Web is part of the suite and is a standards based Web Design tool… Richard MacManus View comments
Music Virtual Ticket: Media Player for Rock Band Websites Ultrastar is a music fan site management company, started by David Bowie in the late 90's. They create and manage sites for a range of pop music acts - such as The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Sting, INXS and about 9 other acts. They emailed me today to tell me about out a new product for all their bands, a… Play Richard MacManus View comments