Next in my series on top Web apps in international markets is Russia. To remind you of the previous countries profiled: Germany, Holland, Poland, Korea and United Kingdom. Other country profiles coming soon include Spain, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand (if I can rustle up enough web apps from the NZ2.0...
In my search for innovative web and Internet applications, I noted the buzz around new P2P company Skyrider at the end of last week. While it's hard to say whether Skyrider is truly innovative, seeing as they don't actually have a product on the market yet (it's due "in the...
The text of Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie's speech at Thursday's Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2006, makes compelling reading. To me it sums up why we've moved far beyond the Web 2.0 trend and into something much deeper and richer. Web innovation, which is primarily what my blog explores,...
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...
This post was written by Ryan Stewart, a Read/WriteWeb guest blogger. Note that Adobe's use of the terms 'Read/Write Web' and 'kiwi' is not associated with this blog. There is an interesting project going on over at Adobe that aims to combine the power of Flex 2 with the potential...
This post was largely written by Ryan Stewart, a guest blogger on Read/WriteWeb. I've added my own Best of Breed picks for each category. Feed readers can be divided up into two general camps: The web based feed readers - such as NewsAlloy, Rojo, Bloglines and Google Reader - are...
Tim Bray doesn't like Web metaphors:"The Web isn’t a platform or a database or an API or an OS a cloud or a clickstream or any other of those things. In fact, the Web isn’t even a thing, it’s a mesh of agreements with a nice straightforward engineering rulebook. Play...
Today I had the pleasure of attending a web conference in my own hometown, Wellington. The conference is the fantastically named Webstock, a two-day show finishing tomorrow. The Webstock organizers managed to secure some great talent from the other side of the world - including Joel Spolsky, Doug Bowman, Dori...
Recently I posted a meta-list of Web 2.0 lists. My current favorite list is the eConsultant's Web 2.0 Directory. It has "1007 Web 2.0 sites/services/links in 50+ categories". Sacred Cow Dung's is another easily-scannable catagorized list. As I scrolled through these lists today, I wondered which categories are currently underserved...
Yesterday Yahoo! held their Analyst Day - the 188-page slide presentation is here (12MB). There's too much in the preso for any one mind to fully comprehend, but here are the things that stood out for me...Yahoo's Big Bets for the Next 5 YearsSee slide 16:1. Next Generation Experience -->...
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...
Some interesting posts recently on the Internet TV trend, which is really ramping up this year. Mark Cuban, who co-founded Broadcast.com in 1995 and sold it to Yahoo! in 1999, has a great post on his blog outlining some of the pros and cons of rich media on the Net....
by Ryan Stewart(Richard's Note: I'm introducing guest bloggers to Read/WriteWeb, to write about topics that I think will be of interest to R/WW readers - but which I'm not an expert in myself. Ryan Stewart is the first of my guest bloggers, writing on the topic of Flash and 'rich...
I've joined the Media 2.0 Workgroup, which isn't associated with the Web 2.0 Workgroup which I co-founded - but was I believe inspired by it. I see the two workgroups as very complementary and so I'm trying to get the two groups to connect. On a personal level, the intersection...
Windows Live Ideas is a good place to bookmark (you know, that thing you used to do in the 90's with web pages when you wanted to regularly check for updates...). It outlines all of Microsoft's products on the Live platform, most of which are in beta currently. Given the...
I'm still in transit from my flight back from Microsoft Search Champs in Seattle. Due to foggy weather in my home city of Wellington, I've had cancelled and delayed flights to deal with. And to top it all off, the airline lost my luggage!! I'm currently in Auckland and will...
Tushar Vyas, from mOne-Group M: "Traditionally, media enthralled people. Today it doesn't happen - customers are multitasking and fragmented. Today's customer wants to gain perspective, personalise the experience, get involved and participate. Digital allows this to happen."Quoted by Dina Mehta at Digital Summit 2006 - Integrating Online into the Traditional...
John Battelle just posted that Amazon is opening up its Alexa search data and tools to the world! According to John, Alexa has about 5 billion documents in its index, which is about 100 terabytes of data. With this move anyone will be able to use Alexa's index to develop...
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