Yahoo! launched its Personal Finance site earlier this
year, on January 19, 2007. In this piece, we will analyze the site based on my Web 3.0
framework.
Yahoo Personal Finance is a
part of Yahoo! Finance and has nine
sub-categories. The site provides financial information, tools, and advice on personal
financial management. The…
This is the final post from SXSW,
by Sean Ammirati of mSpoke. I’d like to thank Sean
for the excellent coverage of SXSW! Also, a disclaimer for this post: FM Publishing is
the main topic in the post and Read/WriteWeb is a part of this advertising
network.
Yesterday I attended a panel which I’ve
been thinking about constantly, ever since the…
Spanning Sync v1.0, an application that provides
two-way synchronization between Google Calendar and Apple iCal, has launched after seven
months of development – including a four-month beta period. As The
Unofficial Apple Weblog noted, Spanning Sync also syncs between multiple Macs and Google Calendar accounts,
with iSync-compatible devices like…
In Read/WriteWeb’s
interview with Matt Cutts of Google today, on the topic of next-generation search,
the very last question I asked him was how Google is going about indexing video. It’s a
big question, because with YouTube and other online video sites seemingly taking over the
Web (as far as consumer content goes), video search is a key issue…
Last week I had the pleasure
of interviewing the head of Google’s Webspam team, Matt Cutts. The topic of our conversation was
Next-Generation Search. In my pitch to get an interview with someone at Google, I
explained how Read/WriteWeb has
been
covering Next-Gen search a lot and so it
would (obviously) be great to get Google’s views on this…
The Open Data Workshop 2007
took place yesterday in New York City. The gathering was organized by AttentionTrust and sponsored by Reuters. The workshop brought together over sixty influencers from
startups, web giants, financial firms, venture capitalists and journalists interested in
the attention space. It was a very refreshing, open and candid…
Online community, or for that matter any community, is built upon the shared
experiences of its participants. In the real world, people in a community typically
interact with each other by gathering at same physical location, at the same time. In
online communities, it is easy for users to interact with each other without any
geographical or…
Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting
for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event.
This morning I attended a presentation by
Matt Mullenweg, the Founder of WordPress, on ‘Scaling
Your Community.’ Matt started by defining scaling your community as “being as useful
to the last 100k people as you are to the first 100k…
The Read/WriteWeb Job Board has now been
combined with the Job Boards at two popular Web Business blogs, VentureBeat and Alarm:Clock.
This means that when you post a job to the R/WW Job Board, it now displays on VentureBeat
and Alarm:Clock as well as Read/WriteWeb. I’m not sure what numbers the other two blogs
do, but by my calculations this…
Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting
for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event.
On Saturday we covered an SXSW panel
called Web App
Autopsy, which examined four live web applications (RegOnline, FeedBurner, Wufoo, and Blinksale) for things like conversion rates and
revenue per customer. Today there was a similar…
At the end of January we wrote about a
new service called Imagini Friends, which is a
social network that calculates your “VisualDNA” and uses it to find other people that
match. At the time, it reminded me of the personality tests you find in magazines like
Vogue. Well it looks like Imagini has recently gotten a surge in popularity, thanks to…
The mashups of our Top Alternative Search Engines list continue! Charles
Knight spotted a great post by the Search The Web 2.0 blog, which took the top 100 and attempted to rank them
by market share. The reason for this ambitious undertaking was a comment that
Charles made when we
first published the list:
“…people actually use four…
At SXSW there was a panel entitled ‘Using RSS for Marketing’ (our
coverage here from Sean Ammirati). Mick
Liubinskas, from group communications product Tangler,
left a good comment on our post:
“RSS is a big topic of discussion around Tangler. Obviously we want to
do it, but there’s doing it and there’s doing it well. Options with an RSS…
Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting
for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event.
Today’s keynote was a
conversation between Limor Fried of Adafruit
Industries and Phillip Torrone, the senior editor of MAKE magazine. In the conversation, they discussed a
new movement called ‘Open Source Hardware’.
Definition of…
Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at
SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event.
This morning, I attended a panel titled
“Using
RSS for Marketing”. The panel had a great set of participants including: Tom
Markiewicz CEO, EvolvePoint (moderator);
Emily Chang Co-founder, Ideacodes; Bill
Flitter Chief Mktg Officer…
The mashups of our Top
100 Alternative Search Engines list continue! The Name Inspector, a fun and interesting
blog run by a PhD in Linguistics, has done a linguistic analysis of
the 100 search engine names on the list. His conclusion is that “the search for search
engine names has drawn on some creative linguistic strategies.” The top 100 alt…
Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at
SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event.
The last panel I attended on the first
day of SXSW was entitled “Web
2.0 and Semantic Web: The Impact on Scientific Publishing”. The panel was moderated
by John Wilbanks from Science
Commons. John did an excellent job showing how a…
Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at
SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event.
After attending a panel on collaboration
earlier this morning, I attended the panel “Under
18: Blogs, Wikis and Online Social Networks for Youth”. The moderator was: Andrea
Forte of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The panelists…
Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at
SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event.
This afternoon I attended an amazing
panel titled
“Web App Autopsy”. This was one of the panels I was most excited about when I was
getting ready to come to Austin.
The panel examined four live web applications (RegOnline, FeedBurner…
Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at
SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event.
The SXSW conference has multiple panels
going on at the same time. I started my SXSW experience by attending the “World
Domination Via Collaboration” panel. The presenters were: Jory Des Jardins
Co-Founder, BlogHer LLC; Betsy Aoki…
