web Dekoh Challenges Apollo As Desktop/Web Platform After the tremendous build-up and response to Adobe's Apollo platform, which aims to integrate desktop apps with the Web, we must also remember there are other products trying for the same thing. Dekoh is one such competitor and, like Adobe's Apollo, it is in the business of bringing the browser to the desktop. Launched in private beta at the end… Jay Fortner View comments
Analysis CIOs Spurn Web 2.0 Startups - Enterprises Want Suites and Large, Incumbent Software Vendors Forrester Research has just released two reports concerning 'web 2.0' in the enterprise. Forrester recently surveyed 119 CIOs on the topic and their answers illustrate what IT honchos want Äì and don't want Äì from social software technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, and content tagging. According to the… Richard MacManus View comments
Contests Caption Contest: ETech Ticket Giveaway Earlier this week we gave away a free ticket to Office 2.0 and today we have a a free ticket to next week's ETech to offer as a prize. ETech is O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference and it'll be held next week, March 26-29, in San Diego. An important note about the prize - the Etech pass is good for sessions only at ETech (Tuesday-Thursday… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis MSN Money - Stronger than Yahoo Offering in Commerce and Community Lately I have been discussing the vertical segments that old media companies are losing to new media, with a focus on Personal Finance as an important category. Previously on Read/WriteWeb I covered Yahoo Personal Finance and in this post I will take a look at Microsoft’s… Sramana Mitra View comments
Google Google Gives Personalized Homepage "Personality" NOTE: Please see important update about this week's R/WW Poll below, on the topic of Personalized Homepages. We had to re-set it and so are asking for you to re-submit your vote. Today Google launched 6 new themes for its Google Personalized Homepage. The themes to choose from include: a beach, a city, a sweet dreams theme, a teahouse, a winter… Richard MacManus View comments