News Why AOL Created 63 Million New OpenIDs Written by Jitendra Gupta of Karmaweb and edited by Richard MacManus Late last week AOL announced its support of the open identity system OpenID, for all 63 million of their AOL/AIM Ids (for those looking for a quick introduction to OpenID, click here). The details of the announcement, via the dev.aol.com blog, are as follows: Every AOL/AIM user… Jitendra Gupta View comments
web Living The Blogging Dream New Zealand's biggest newspaper, The New Zealand Herald, has run an article about me in Monday morning's paper. It's on the back page of the Business section and is entitled Kiwi blogger logs on to make a living. This is the first time I've had any mainstream media coverage, so I admit it is quite a thrill. The article notes that Read/WriteWeb… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrapup, 12-16 February 2007 Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Top Web News It was a relatively quiet week in Web news. There were various mobile announcements from the 3GSM conference in Spain and some product releases (e.g. MS Soapbox). Also Google acquired video game advertising company Adscape. Perhaps the most interesting news came… Richard MacManus View comments
International European Startups and Web Innovation Around The World Saul Klein, the former Skype global marketing VP who joined VC firm Index Ventures this week, has a great post on his blog about the European startup scene. I spoke to Saul earlier this week and I will write up a post about that conversation next week. But for now, check out Saul's post - it really nails why Web innovation is happening more and… Richard MacManus View comments
News Dell 2.0: Launches Digg Clone and Video Sharing Site This morning Dell unveiled a couple of community-focused sites, essentially jumping into the web 2.0 waters with a splash. They've released a digg-like community site called IdeaStorm and a video sharing site called StudioDell. It's all part of Dell’s "Digital Media plan" and the new products are designed to increase the interaction… Richard MacManus View comments