News Yahoo Mail API Launched The Yahoo Mail news is coming thick and fast this week. Yesterday they announced that Yahoo Mail now has free unlimited email storage space, and today Yahoo has announced an API for Yahoo Mail. Earlier today I spoke with Chad Dickerson, Head of Yahoo! Developer Network, and John Kremer, VP Yahoo! Mail, to find out more. The Yahoo! Mail Web… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, March 2007 Well, it's that time again! Time for the monthly update of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines. Before we get into it, allow me to back up just a bit. First of all, the "Alternative" in the title refers to "alternatives to Google." That is, one criteria for making it onto the list is to exhibit superiority to Google in one… Charles Knight, AltSearchEngines editor View comments
Open Thread Point/Counterpoint: Which is better, an offline Web App or an online Desktop App? This is a point/counterpoint argument, with John Milan taking the position that online desktop apps are better, while Richard MacManus argues for offline web apps. Let us know what you think, in the comments. Point (John Milan) John Milan: ReadWriteWeb is currently running a poll asking which web apps should also work offline. Shouldn't… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Adobe Apollo - On A Collision Course With Web Browsers Alex Iskold is reporting live from ETech 2007 The Apollo team from Adobe is here at ETech, presenting the Alpha version of their new runtime environment - which is aimed at empowering web developers to create desktop applications. Apollo is a lightweight virtual machine that runs on the desktop and acts as an interpreter of HTML, JavaScript and… Alex Iskold View comments
enterprise Trampoline: Harnessing Social Behavior in the Enterprise I wrote a piece back in January called IBMÄôs Entry Into Social Networking, where I discussed the potential for applying web 2.0 techniques in the enterprise. Subsequently, I have written extensively about Enterprise 3.0 and the Extended Enterprise trends. A company from England contacted me after reading the IBM piece. This company… Sramana Mitra View comments