New Media New CNN.com Goes Live - Google and Yahoo Both Search Providers As we reported yesterday, CNN is this weekend re-launching its website as an enhanced multimedia site - packed with web 2.0 features such as recommendations and user generated content. The new site has just gone live - read our full review here. One noticeable thing about the new site, that we didn't mention, is that both Google and Yahoo are CNN's… Richard MacManus View comments
Apple Open Thread: How Do Your Favorite Web Apps Perform on the iPhone? In the week building up to the release of the iPhone on Friday evening US, we've been exploring web apps for the iPhone. We also reviewed the first iPhone Development platform, created by Morfik. Now that the iPhone is in the hands of early US adopters (the Apple ones at least), we expect to see a flurry of web entrepreneurs and ordinary users… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrapup, 25-29 June 2007 The Weekly Wrapups have been a feature of Read/WriteWeb since the beginning of January 2005 (when they were called Web 2.0 Weekly Wrapups). Nowadays the Wrapup is designed for those of you who can't keep up with a daily dose of RSS. Here then is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media CNN.com To Launch Web 2.0 Re-design This Weekend Over the past year or so we've seen many mainstream publications 'web 2.0-ize' their web presence. BBC has been a leading force, while in March USA Today announced a re-design. Also we covered Martha Stewart 2.0 in April. Now it's CNN's turn. One of the leading mainstream news operations in the world, CNN is this weekend re-launching its website as… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Who's Asking? A Roundup of Q&A Sites Yesterday Google's Russian Blog announced the launch of a new site on Google Russia called "Questions and Answers." The site uses a points-based system, where questions cost points and users are rewarded for participation (answering, rating, even logging in all apparently earn you points). This development has caused a lot of speculation… Josh Catone View comments