Admin Thanks R/WW Sponsors A quick thank you to Read/WriteWeb's excellent sponsors, for supporting quality content on Web Technology. Thanks also to our fast growing community of readers - your comments and encouragement spur us along every day. If you're a fan of R/WW, you may like to sign up to our MyBlogLog community too. R/WW's current sponsors are: Wild Apricot… Richard MacManus View comments
web RSS Company Syndicate IQ Shuts Down Another startup has bitten the dust, RSS company Syndicate IQ has "ceased operations" according to a notice on its homepage. Syndicate IQ was a company that provided feed management, statistics and adverts - similar to Feedburner. Syndicate IQ launched in December 2004 and its goal was to "manage, measure, and monetize syndicated content… Richard MacManus View comments
mobile Mobile 2.0 Company Directory Occasional Read/WriteWeb guest writer Rudy De Waele has started up a Mobile 2.0 wiki. Rudy's intro: "Following the response and feedback on "Understanding Mobile 2.0" article at Read/WriteWeb, I created this wiki space to start categorizing the so-called mobile 2.0 companies, the next generation mobile products and services coming to… Mobile Richard MacManus View comments
Business Wiki Vendors Wrangle Over Wiki.com Domain Lately I've received some odd emails from wiki vendors Wikia and MindTouch about the domain wiki.com. A brief history: wiki.com (the domain name) was bought last year by entrepreneur John Gotts for a staggering $2.86 Million. After purchasing it, Gotts partnered with MindTouch, a wiki vendor comprised of ex-Microsoft employees. At the time the huge… Richard MacManus View comments
Polls Friday Poll: What Type Of RSS Reader Do You Use? Hitwise has released data that suggests Bloglines is still the clear leader in the RSS Reader stakes, with 3 times more US visits than its nearest web-based competitor Rojo. I don't think a lot can be gleaned from this data though, as it misses out desktop-based RSS Readers, start pages and a number of other types of RSS Readers. Also as Mike… Richard MacManus View comments