Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb.
Top Web News
It was a relatively quiet week in Web news. There were various
mobile announcements from the 3GSM conference in Spain and some
product releases (e.g. MS Soapbox). Also Google
acquired video game advertising company Adscape. Perhaps the most interesting news
came right at the end of the week, with Dell’s web 2.0 Digg Clone and Video Sharing
Site. But not much else to report really!
Analysis Posts
Our most popular post this week was an Index of the main
video sharing sites. Emre Sokullu did a tremendous job of categorizing the white hot
online video industry and listing the main players. The feedback to the post was
overwhelming, but we plan to update it over time with more companies.
Also I recommend Alex Iskold’s analysis of How
Social Sites Reveal What Your Audience Likes. Especially if you’re a blogger, there
are some great tips in there on how to deliver what your audience wants. And as commenter
James Brown noted, there’s an opportunity for
Google or even a startup to make these stats easier to obtain:
“Wouldn’t it be great if these kind of statistics were pulled from social sites into
existing web-analytics software? Imagine opening Google Analytics and seeing a
correlation between number of del.icio.us bookmarks and sales, or ad hits.”
Other analysis posts this week:
- European
Startups and Web Innovation Around The World - Web 3.0 = (4C + P +
VS) - Five
Key Takeaways From Microsoft, OpenID Announcement - Yahoo!
Pipes and The Web As Database - Windows Live
Confusion – One Year On - Firefox 3
To Support Offline Apps - Top Web Apps
in Latvia - Google Search
AJAXified
Startup Action
We didn’t deliver as many startup reviews as I wanted to this week. But of note
were:
- EditGrid –
New Online Spreadsheet, Better Than Google Spreadsheets - Stray Cinema: Open
Source Film-making on the Web - 1dawg
Converts Online Video For Mobile Devices
Next week I will make a special effort to pump out more reviews (there’s certainly no
shortage of candidates in my email inbox!).
Poll
As mentioned in the previous post, the
topic this week was: does location matter in Web innovation? So far nearly half of
you (47%) think that location does matter, but that several places in the
world have just as high a chance of innovation as Silicon Valley (depending on product
type and other factors). A third of you (34%) think that location doesn’t
matter and that innovation can happen equally everywhere (NZ, Timbuktoo, etc). Only 1/5
of you (20%) think that Silicon Valley has the highest chance of innovation.
That’s a wrap for another week!
