2010 in Review Series

2010 in Review

Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2010

Every year ReadWriteWeb selects the top 10 products or developments across a range of categories. We kick off the 2010 'Best Of' series with our selection of the top 10 Semantic Web products and implementations of the year. This year we've chosen 5 products by semantically charged startups and 5 implementations by large organizations. The startups…

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2010 in Review

Top 10 RSS and Syndication Technologies of 2010

"RSS is Dead", tech sage Steve Gillmor said in May of 2009. I know that's not true, because I spend a lot of my work and my leisure time reading RSS and other forms of syndicated content feeds. If you're not familiar with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) - it is, in the simplest of terms, a powerfully simple technology that delivers new content…

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2010 in Review

Best BigCo of 2010: Facebook

At the end of every year, ReadWriteWeb reviews the progress (or otherwise) of big Internet organizations and names one of them our 'Best BigCo.' We started this tradition in 2004, making this the 7th year. In 2009 it was Google, thanks to Chrome, Android and other advancements. In 2008 we chose Apple, due largely to the iPhone and App Store…

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2010 in Review

Top Trends of 2010: App Stores

The Mobile Web has been a huge trend in 2010 and one output of that has been the emergence of app stores. It started of course with Apple's App Store for the iPhone and then iPad. Then we saw other app stores come onto the scene: Android Market, Nokia's Ovi Store, Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace and others. In addition to these OS-based…

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2010 in Review

Most Promising Company For 2011: SimpleGeo

Yesterday we selected our Best LittleCo of 2010, the light blogging service Tumblr. In this post we select a company that we think has the potential to be Best LittleCo of 2011. Next year we're expecting a lot from data-centric companies and one in particular. This company provides a platform for developers to create location-aware applications…

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2010 in Review

Top Trends of 2010: Internet TV

Looking back on the year in Web technology, we can see that several product categories have evolved significantly over 2010. We've already written about App Stores and eReaders. Another market that progressed in 2010 was Internet TV. Among the developments: Apple announced a major overhaul of Apple TV, Google launched its Android-powered Google TV…

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2010 in Review

Top 10 Startups of 2010

2010 was a good year for Web startups. Deal flow, particularly at early stages, was active, and even though valuations were high, investor dollars were seemingly at the ready. Of the companies that made headlines and that led some of the major tech trends of the year, many were startups: Zynga (social gaming), Groupon (group buying), Foursquare…

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2010 in Review

Top Trends of 2010: Privacy

The rise of Facebook as a truly mainstream social network was a big story this year. An interesting question is, how much of Facebook's success was directly related to its loosening of privacy controls at the end of 2009? That move created both a backlash and a huge bump in users as 2010 unfolded. The issue of privacy has come to the fore again…

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2010 in Review

Top Trends of 2010: Growth of eBooks & eReaders

eBook sales almost doubled over 2010 and now make up 9% of total consumer book sales, according to the Association of American Publishers. This growth was fueled by intense competition amongst eReader manufacturers over 2010. Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook and others attempted to undercut each other throughout the year…

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2010 in Review

Top 10 Mobile Products of 2010

Mobile technology has seen major advances over the course of 2010, with new platforms, new services and new usage trends all taking hold to spread the adoption of not just the mobile Web, but the Web itself. The number of smartphone owners are increasing, mobile operating systems are proliferating and apps have become the new go-to tools for…

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Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2010

Top 10 RSS and Syndication Technologies of 2010

Best BigCo of 2010: Facebook

Top Trends of 2010: App Stores

Most Promising Company For 2011: SimpleGeo

Top Trends of 2010: Internet TV

Top 10 Startups of 2010

Top Trends of 2010: Privacy

Top Trends of 2010: Growth of eBooks & eReaders

Top 10 Mobile Products of 2010