ReadWrite: January 2007 Archives – ReadWrite

January 2007 Archives

Thursday, 25th January 2007

MySpace, Yahoo Top US Charts for Time Spent Online

Compete (a R/WW sponsor) has released data that shows MySpace and Yahoo are the top websites in terms of average time spent on them by users. The data is for US users only. Here are the figures from Compete, expressed as % of total time spent online in the US in Dec 06: Source: Compete The good old long tail is in the house here, with 20 domains…

Richard MacManus comments

Attn Steve Jobs: Red Swoosh P2P Service Wants To Save You $15 Million

Red Swoosh is a P2P desktop client which appears to compete against the BitTorrent client. It's a very promising technology in a Web world increasingly filled with video and other large multimedia files. Red Swoosh is a desktop client (Windows only) that enables users to download and stream files from each other, rather than from webservers. It…

Richard MacManus comments

Wednesday, 24th January 2007

The New Face of Amazon - Tags, Ajax, Plogs & Wikis

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus Lately Amazon has been introducing a raft of 'web 2.0' features to its e-commerce website. In this post we explore how Amazon has implemented tagging, Ajax, blogs and wikis - and ask whether it's made much difference to the user experience, and to the bottom line. In previous posts, we've…

Alex Iskold comments

Zoho and Omnidrive Working On Web App Data Standards

Disclosure: Zoho is a sponsor of R/WW. Late last week, Web Office provider Zoho and online storage company Omnidrive announced a partnership, allowing users to edit a Zoho office document and save directly into Omnidrive. Also, both Omnidrive and Zoho released APIs. The news has already been covered in-depth elsewhere - e.g. TechCrunch and Zoli's…

Richard MacManus comments

IBM Many Eyes: Rich Visualization on the Web

IBM has just released a new product called Many Eyes, a "shared visualization and discovery" service. We talked about the usefulness or otherwise of 3D graphics on the Web earlier this week (and most people agree that 3D is becoming increasingly relevant), so this is I suppose another rich way to present data and content on the Web. The aim of Many…

Richard MacManus comments

Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
20
Next