Polls Poll: Do You Actually Use OpenID? As David Lenehan reported today, Digg is the latest company to declare its support for OpenID - the decentralized single sign-on service. This follows on from recent announcements of support from Microsoft and AOL. And as Techcrunch noted, Yahoo, LiveJournal, and Wikipedia are some other organizations that had previously announced their… Richard MacManus View comments
Conferences Future Of Web Apps, Day 1 Written by David Lenehan of Polldaddy and edited by Richard MacManus. This is David's account of the first day of the FOWA conference in London. Photos in this post are by donkeyontheedge (I hope he doesn't mind me using them). The Future Of Web Apps 2007 kicked off in London today with a host of speakers from various startups, bigcos, media… David Lenehan View comments
web iReader Previews The Content Behind Links In October 2005 I reviewed a potentially disruptive search engine called ePrécis, from Syntactica. Unfortunately it got shut down by Google (they "nearly put us out of business", said Syntactica President Henry Neils). But there was some heavy duty linguistic theory behind ePrécis and the good news is that now Syntactica is back… Richard MacManus View comments
web Talkr Sold - New Owners Plan To Make Money Via Audio Advertising Last month we reported that automated text-to-voice service Talkr was put up for sale, by founder Chris Brooks. Well Talkr has just been acquired - by a company who found out it was for sale via Read/WriteWeb! The buyer is LiveOnTheNet, a Huntsville-based digital media company which is developing a new social networking VoIP product. They decided… Richard MacManus View comments
International QQ - China IM Service Goes Web 2.0, With Half a Billion Registered Users! Written by Gang Lu and edited by Richard MacManus. China's QQ.com is the world's 9th largest web property and in this post Gang Lu talks with Richard Chang, the Founder and Director of QQ Labs, to find out more about their Web 2.0 plans. Founded by Pony Ma in Shenzhen, China, in November 1998, Tencent is now recognized as the leading provider… Gang Lu View comments