Written by Alex Iskold and edited by
Richard MacManus. Disclaimer: Alex’s company AdaptiveBlue has a product called The
blueorganizer, which is a Firefox extension.
It is ironic, but the laws of
physics apply to technology. Since Internet Explorer won the browser battle 10 years ago,
it had little incentive to change. So obeying Newton’s law of…
This week I
spoke to Chris Beard, Mozilla’s vice president of products. Among other things we
discussed how Firefox
2.0 is going to be marketed. I was going to save this for the full write-up of my
interview with Chris Beard, but reading
Chris Messina’s post today about IE7 made me want to address it now. Chris Messina,
an ex-Flock architect…
This post may
ring a bell for all the non-Silicon Valley readers. Firstly an admission: I hardly ever
write about my home country, New Zealand. The reason for that is mostly down to
demographics: just 1% of Read/WriteWeb’s page views come from my own country. The US, UK
and Canada are where the bulk of R/WW’s readers come from – but I’m also…
Written by Guest Blogger Emre Sokullu and edited by
Richard MacManus.
Introduction
Personalized Content is one of the two most popular approaches in next generation news
sites – the other is Power of Masses, which we will cover in a future post. The leading
examples of these approaches are reddit for Personalized
Content and digg for Power of…
Disclaimer: SocialText is a competitor of Atlassian, one of our sponsors.
This week I spoke to Ross Mayfield, CEO of wiki company SocialText, about “Enterprise 2.0”. To put it very
crudely, Enterprise 2.0 means blogs and wikis in the enterprise. According to Ross and
others, Enterprise 2.0 is slightly different to the “Office 2.0” or Web Office…
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by
Richard MacManus. Disclaimer: Alex’s company AdaptiveBlue has a product called The
blueorganizer, which is a Firefox extension.
In this post, we take a look at what the Firefox team is going to deliver in their
upcoming major release: Firefox 2.0. We ask the question: will it be enough to make
significant…
Disclosure: Pageflakes is a sponsor of Read/WriteWeb.
It’s the season of v2.0 launches! The
personalized start page Pageflakes has undergone
a major upgrade to its interface, which has just gone live today. Back in May I posted about
Pageflakes’ page publishing feature, which enables users to share their pages
with other people – as read-only or…
Back in February I wrote a post entitled Rating the Meme
Trackers. At the time I rated Memeorandum (now known as Techmeme) as the best, but I thought Topix and Tailrank
were right up there too. Tailrank has just launched a new version, labeled – you guessed
it – Tailrank 2.0. It
has a new UI, but the main change is an overhaul of its ranking…
Today
Six Apart will release a new version of its Movable
Type Enterprise
edition. I spoke to Anil Dash (a SixApart VP) and Chris Alden (EVP and GM of Movable
Type – formally CEO of Rojo) about the upgrade and to discuss the future of Movable
Type.
Some of the more ‘experienced’ bloggers will remember the time when Movable Type was
released 5…
In our
recent Social
Bookmarking Faceoff, we discovered that social bookmarking site StumbleUpon actually has more
users than the more hyped del.icio.us. Currently
StumbleUpon has 1,375,696 users, according to its About page. Recently del.icio.us announced it had reached 1
million users. I grew even more curious about StumbleUpon’s success after…
To further Read/WriteWeb’s
continuing look at the Web Office space, I spoke again recently with Joe Kraus – CEO of
JotSpot. What started out as a wiki company, is slowly
but surely morphing into a Web Office suite contender. Although JotSpot does not actually
position itself in that way – they’re positioned as a kind of wiki/office hybrid, which
we…
The Product (RED)
campaign is sweeping the world, thanks to some heavyweight backing from celebrities
(Oprah, Bono) and brand names (Apple, American Express, Armani). It’s a great cause,
because for each (RED) branded product or service sold, a part of the profit goes to the
fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Africa.
Some prominent…
IBM has
been pretty slow to cotton onto the social Web, but this year they’ve started to embrace
web 2.0 and ramp up its marketing (some would say hype) around it. While IBM has
undeniably always been at the center of technology and innovation, it’s taken them a
couple of years to marry their ‘traditional’ idea of web innovation to the more…
Web
security firm Finjan has just released
a report outlining “sophisticated new threats that target Web 2.0
platforms and technologies.” According to the report, this web security
threat “centers on the use of Web 2.0 and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and
XML) technologies for malicious activities.”
Finjan acknowledges that…
Written by Sebastian Moser from
Austria and edited by Richard MacManus
With 4.6 million internet users (a
penetration rate of 56.8%) and a broadband penetration rate of 61.8%, Austria is a little
bit above the average for the European Union in internet usage. Besides the Internet, 8
million people use a mobile phone – which means that just 200,000…
In our previous
post, written by John Milan, we explored the emerging world of “social business
applications” – where Internet-connected data is synchronizable and accessible anywhere,
online and offline. It’s a fascinating article and I highly recommend you take the time
to read it, if you’re at all interested in the next generation of Web…
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by
Richard MacManus.
This post looks at the main players in the Social News space, to try and identify
their characteristics and understand the dynamics of the market. The sites we analyze are
digg, Netscape, Newsvine, and Reddit. While there are many other social news sites
around, a great number are clones…
Written by Guest Blogger John Milan
and edited by Richard MacManus. John is Senior Software Architect and founder of
TeamDirection, one of the companies mentioned in this post.
What amount of time is the right amount of time for two people to tie the knot? Three
months? Two years? One decade? It turns out to be not so much a specific duration…
The new combined Writely (online word processing) and Google Spreadsheets interface has just gone live, under
the name Google Docs & Spreadsheets. The
Writely.com site now re-directs to http://docs.google.com and the Writely brand has been
replaced by the usual no-frills Google brand. The homepage allows you to tag and sort
your files. There…
Both Google and Zoho will be announcing new office product offerings at tomorrow’s
Office 2.0 conference. Steve
Bryant from eWeek reports:
“Google will announce tomorrow at the Office 2.0 conference a new product called
Google Docs, which will merge Writely and Google Spreadsheets into a collaboration and
document management solution, according…
