Video Services Online Video Week In October 2006 Google acquired the hottest online video property on the planet, YouTube. Later on that same month, news came out that the founders of Kazaa and Skype were building an Internet TV service, nicknamed The Venice Project (later named Joost). To underscore the point that online was Where It's At, in December Read/WriteWeb readers voted… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrapup, 13-17 August 2007 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. News The latter part of this week was dominated by the major outage suffered by popular VoIP product Skype. Also this week eBay stepped up its attack on the online classifieds market… Richard MacManus View comments
News Update on the State of Internet Radio By 2020, eMarketer estimates that Internet radio will have 180 million listeners and generate $19.7 billion in ad revenue. That can't possibly happen, however, if prohibitively high royalty fees in the United States force the bulk of net radio stations to stop operating in the US or shut down completely. We'd be remiss not to post an update on… Josh Catone View comments
Music Top 5 Online Music Streaming Services: The Velvets Test This week is Online Music Week at Read/WriteWeb, so I decided to check out how the leading music streaming services compared. I used this week's poll to determine the top 5 apps. As of writing, the top 5 are quite a bit ahead of the the rest of the services in our poll. They are: last.fm, Pandora, Yahoo Music, iTunes Music Service and… Play Richard MacManus View comments
RSS Readers fav.or.it - New RSS Reader Aims to Integrate Commenting fav.or.it is a new type of RSS Reader currently in private beta, which aims to solve the long-standing issue of feed content being separated from commenting. The fav.or.it RSS Reader lets you read feed content and comment, all within the app. The comments can be two-way, meaning publishers can choose to aggregate fav.or.it comments into their… Richard MacManus View comments