"Consumer apps" is a rather broad topic to tackle, so rather than try to recount everything that has happened across the entire cosmos of consumer web applications in the past year, we'll focus on two areas that have had perhaps the most impact overall in the way we conduct our...
Social news site Digg is a love-it or hate-it phenomenon. Here at ReadWriteWeb, we love Digg, but I've got to admit that new competitor Mixx is worth a real close look. Mixx announced today that it's taken a strategic investment (meaning a small one with a bunch of influence anyway)...
Both Facebook and Google gave 5 minute pitches last night at the New York Tech MeetUp event. Over 400 people came to IAC’s stunning Frank Gehry designed building, overlooking the river. It had a massive 100 foot long video wall for the demos. New York can be a tough crowd...
This week's feature series on Read/WriteWeb is non-profits and the Web. We'll be exploring how non-profit organizations use the Web and the tools available for them. By non-profits, we mean charities, clubs and any "organization whose primary objective is something other than the generation of profit" (Wikipedia's definition). Non-profit organizations...
This week we're trying something new with the format of the Weekly Wrapup. Instead of listing all of the posts we published over the past week, we'll filter them so you just get the best posts. The idea is that this will make good weekend reading, because it'll be highlighting...
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.News It was a relatively quiet week in terms of Web technology news. Perhaps the most exciting thing to happen was...
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...
In the young but growing world of user-generated news, sites like digg and slashdot dominate in the tech sphere. In the political arena, it is mostly editorial-driven sites that do well - such as DrudgeReport, HuffingtonPost and RawStory. Those sites get a lot of attention, but there are also a...
About a week ago, the hot topic online was NBC Universal and News Corp launching a joint-venture to provide "the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled." The joint-venture is still months away from being finalized - and from reading TechCrunch's notes of the conference call, it is obvious a...
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I review Tim Berners-Lee's recent interview with Christopher Lydon and analyse how the Fractal Society impacts on the world of blogging.Today I listened to Christopher Lydon's recent interview with Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web. In it Berners-Lee discussed the state of the Web and outlined his vision of...
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