Trends Enterprise Adoption of Web 2.0: It's Happening If you're a business who has been ignoring the Web 2.0 trend and the spread of social media: look out, the tide is shifting and you're about to be left behind. The rise of social media didn't happen overnight, the power of the internet to unite people, the ubiquity of broadband, the rise of Gen Y, the development of new technologies for socializing… Sarah Perez View comments
Search Happy Anniversary AltSearchEngines On Monday, June 2, RWW network blog AltSearchEngines will be celebrating its one year anniversary with a post-a-thon! There will be one post every hour for 24 hours announcing... NEW relaunch of our forums! NEW AltSearchEngines conference! NEW Top 100 Alts list for June 2008! [more after the fold] Charles Knight, AltSearchEngines editor View comments
Product Reviews LastGraph - Visualize Your Last.fm History Last.fm is a great music service that keeps track of your listening habits. Though you can view stats such as last played tracks, top artists, or most played songs with just words and numbers, it can be limiting in so many ways. We're huge fans of visualization tools, so wouldn't it be cool if you could grab a visual history of your Last.fm… Corvida View comments
Features Weekly Wrapup, 26-30 May 2008 Here are some of the highlights from the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we covered announcements by Google about Gears and App Engine, we looked at some compelling Yahoo! Pipes apps, we checked out Strands Lifestreaming, and we reviewed promising Semantic Apps Faviki and Freebase. On the trends side we analyzed the… Richard MacManus View comments
Politics Oh Boy Obama: User Generated Campaign Think Tank Outsourcing research and development to customers via Digg-style voting is a hot trend for tech-savvy companies right now. Dell did it with IdeaStorm (our coverage), Starbucks did it with My Starbucks Idea (our coverage), and Salesforce did it with IdeaExchange. The concept has now made the leap to politics with Oh Boy Obama, an unofficial… Josh Catone View comments