US Web stats company Compete has some interesting analysis on how Social Networking sites compare to portals. From a sample size of around 2 million US people, Compete concludes that social networking sites are quickly approaching the traffic level of the big portals like Google and Yahoo. Their key findings:1....
The latest Technorati State of the Blogosphere report shows that 39% of all blog postings are in english. Japanese is the second-most popular language, at 31% and China third with 12%. Here's Technorati's pie graph for June '06: Dave Sifry notes that there are some significant underreporting issues, especially in Korean...
As Read/WriteWeb continues to evolve and ramp up its traffic, I've found that it's consuming more and more of my time. I love it of course, as this blog is (and always has been) my passion. I've recently had a re-design and I've been putting a lot of effort into...
Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This is the second in a 2-part series of posts.In our previous post we coined the term "Search 2.0", in order to compare...
SiliconBeat has published a list of all "Web 2.0 companies" that received venture backing over 2005 and so far in 2006. The list was created by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. In the comments to SiliconBeat's post, two prominent 2.0 VCs have dissed the list. Peter Rip thinks...
Long-time readers of Read/WriteWeb may recall that I used to do a weekly summary of the top stories of the week, called the Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up. It ran all through 2005 and for a long time was the most popular feature on R/WW. I decided to put it to...
Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This 2-part series of posts is adapted from Ebrahim's research material in developing Qube. [update Part 2 is here]Let's start be defining what...
If you've visited R/WW over the past week you'll have noticed a new design has been rolled out. The designer was Kevin Hale of Particletree, who did a superb job. I want to thank Kevin very much for his hard work on the design and for the end result, which...
First the obligatory disclaimer: I work as a part-time freelancer for Broadband Mechanics, the creators of PeopleAggregator. I've actually done analysis and writing work on the PeopleAggregator project itself. So bear in mind that I'm heavily biased :-) Even so, I think it's in my Read/WriteWeb remit to take a...
Google is for the first time promoting its Personalized Homepageon the google.com homepage, using football World Cup modules/widgets. There is a "New! Add World Cup live scores and schedules to this page" promo link directly under the search query box, which leads to a "Welcome to Your Google homepage. Make...
Mike Arrington's a bit peeved at Google. His post is a good vent, but to me the key bit was way down in comment number 33:"...my main gripe is that I want to understand what Google’s overall game plan is. I just don’t see it."Nobody knows what Google's grand plan...
Ask.com is releasing a new blog search feature on their search engine, as well as integrating search more into their leading web-based RSS Reader Bloglines. You'll recall that Ask.com (or Ask Jeeves as it was known then) acquired Bloglines in February 2005 - and ever since then a lot of...
The Microsoft VC Summit 2006 happened a week or two ago, but I've only just had a chance to review the posts that came out of it. If you're interested in where Microsoft is headed with its product range and general Web strategy, there are some nuggets in the coverage....
There's been a lot of talk recently about Josh Kopelman's post, in which he wrote:"As more and more entrepreneurs start building what Fred Wilson referred to as second derivative companies, I think they run a big risk of designing a product/service that is targeted at too small of an audience....
As a Web (2.0) consultant and analyst (about me), I track a variety of market segments and products. Luckily for me, nowadays I don't have to do as much grunt work on gathering high level product data as I used to. There are a plethora of product lists and data...
James Governor of analyst firm Redmonk has posted a thoughtful piece on how blogging is changing the analyst and PR landscapes. When he wrote this part, he may as well have been talking about myself and Read/WriteWeb:"Bloggers and emerging non-traditional analyst firms are increasingly influencing technology and product strategies. In...
John Hagel has a thought-provoking post about microchunking and media businesses. It follows on from Umair Haque's post, in which Umair said that "unbundling" media (e.g. Disney releasing tv shows for free online) is only half the equation. The other half - the real value - is in "rebundling". By...
My introductory post last week about Microcontent Design got such a good response that I need to pause and consider all the feedback, before I move onto Part 2. Basically what I call 'microcontent design' involves:...microchunking your content, taking advantage of open standards, employing microformats, letting users subscribe to all...
Rojo, the web-based RSS Aggregator I've used ever since I gave up hope of Bloglines ever stepping up its functionality, has just come out with some more enhancements. About a month ago, they re-designed their site and now they've done another overhaul and added 3 new features - one of...
I've long been suspicious of some of the stats that certain companies and bloggers push. We all know by now that industry stats tool alexa.com must be taken with a grain of salt, but until today I hadn't realised the extent of how a site's own measured traffic can be...
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