Analysis Pageflakes, Netvibes Take on Social Networks: What Chance Do They Have? Last week the personalized start page Pageflakes announced its latest version, nicknamed Blizzard. It introduces social networking functionality, themes, a slick Ajax UI, and more. What struck me about the new look was how much it reminded me of Facebook, or at least how much it wants to be like Facebook. The same can be said of Netvibes… Social Richard MacManus View comments
Admin Read/WriteWeb's New Comments Feature: SezWho At the beginning of this week we introduced a new comments feature on Read/WriteWeb, called SezWho. Basically it introduces comment rating, reputation and filtering to this blog. SezWho was created by one of our occasional writers, Jitendra Gupta - whose team installed it onto R/WW. You can check out the full list of features in the SezWho FAQ, but… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrapup, 16-20 July 2007 Sponsor: Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Facebook Week This week was Facebook Week on Read/WriteWeb. It was a huge success, even if by the end of the week a few people were questioning the intense focus. But the… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Is Facebook Worth the Hype? This was Facebook Week here at Read/WriteWeb, but I couldn't help but notice how many other blogs wrote posts about Facebook this week as well. It seemed that almost every day there was a Facebook meme on Techmeme. Anecdotal evidence would seem to suggest that Facebook is the most hyped thing this year other than the iPhone. So I had this post… Josh Catone View comments
Digital Lifestyle GoogleTV - A Glimpse at The Future Daniel Langendorf has an excellent post on last100, analyzing comments made by Vincent Dureau, GoogleÄôs head of TV technology, in his opening keynote at iTV Con - a trade show conference dedicated to Internet TV. It seems that Google is aiming to create versions of search and Adsense for InternetTV, to match what they did in the 90's and early… Richard MacManus View comments