Could micropayments be the key to monetizing YouTube? The New York Times has an interesting article today about the history and future of micropayments. "In December 2000, Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor in New York UniversityÄôs interactive telecommunications program, wrote a manifesto that people still cite whenever someone suggests resurrecting...
Ars Technica is reporting that the National Football League in the US (i.e., football with your hands, not your feet), will begin streaming its games online this year. Subscribers of the league's $269 DirecTV satellite package will be able to pay an additional $99 to get games streamed to their...
Tonight Bloglines is launching a new design at beta.bloglines.com, which includes a new personalizable Start Page, more views, and drag and drop Ajax functionality. I spoke to new Bloglines GM Eric Engleman about the makeover and tested the Beta Bloglines myself. My judgement below, plus I re-cap the history of...
The Ajax version of Yahoo Mail has finally had its beta tag removed and is now the default interface for all Yahoo Mail accounts. The new service includes two interesting real-time communication features:1) Free text messaging to mobile phone numbers (but only available in the US, Canada, India and the...
Recently Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, has been throwing out warning signals about the Internet. He told the BBC that poor security and poor software design are undermining the reliability of the internet. In particular he mentioned Operating Systems and browsers:"The biggest hole we have...
Mark Cuban says the Internet is dead and boring, but Fred Wilson says it isn't for him! Who's right? Well, both of them. Let me quickly explain (before you get bored with what is actually a fairly pointless argument). Cuban wrote:"Some people have tried to make the point that Web...
This poll is about the Web Office, our feature this week. We're looking to find out your current word processing habits - have they changed much now that online word processing is an option? Not wanting to sway the poll results, but currently I use browser-based word processors much more...
This week Read/WriteWeb will be featuring a series of posts about the Web Office. Let's start by summarizing what exactly is a Web Office. In a June post we mentioned that a Web Office suite should have, at the least, the following apps in it: email, calendar, word processing, spreadsheets,...
The Attention Economy is a marketplace where consumers agree to receive services in exchange for their attention. Examples include personalized news, personalized search, alerts and recommendations to buy. Note that the Attention Economy is different from the tradional meaning of an economy, because it isn't about buying and selling -...
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...
Lypp is a free conference calling service that will launch in September. It will not be the most feature-packed group calling service, but it may be the most simple. The app will utilize existing instant messaging networks (AIM, Google Talk, iChat, ICQ, MSN, Jabber and Yahoo! will be supported) to...
In December 2005 Google announced a Labs project called Transit to help residents of Portland, Oregon plan local trips on the TriMet public transit system. The Transit app is essentially a Google Maps mashup that lets users plan local trips and navigate public transportation systems. Google Transit now covers 15...
This week is Online Video Week at R/WW, so our network blog AltSearchEngines went out and found the leading video search engines on the Web. Following is the list that ASE editor Charles Knight came up with - he used Google Video as the benchmark. What is your favorite video...
Today the NY Times announced its new personalized start page, called My Times. As with existing 'start pages', such as My Yahoo, Pageflakes and Netvibes, My Times is a way to create a personal homepage for news and mini web apps - by adding RSS feeds and other widgets. With...
"Lecterns are so 2004," says AP writer Jake Coyle. Not wanting to feel left out after all the CNN-YouTube debate hoopla, MySpace and MTV announced a series of one-on-one "candidate forums" yesterday. Rather than a debate format, candidates will appear individually to answer questions submitted by MySpace users specifically for...
By Guest Blogger Mark O'Neill One of the most commonly requested features by Skype forum users is the ability to use the telephony tool from a USB flash drive. As yet, Skype has not got around to making an official portable version and even the John Haller PortableApps website, which...
File this one under "D" for "Duh." A new report by the Burton Group says that Google Apps Premier Edition isn't quite ready for enterprise applications. The report, according to Infoworld, says using Google Apps could be a "career-limiting move for enterprise architects."At $50 user the Google product may be...
Net radio broadcasters have reached a deal with SoundExchange, the group that collects royalty fees for record labels, that will put a $50,000 cap on royalties for individual broadcasters. The cap will apply to broadcasters as a whole. Individual channels will be subject to a $500 minimum, but services like...
As a follow-up from our post earlier today - The Web 2.0 Election: Does the Internet Matter in Election Politics? - The Washington Post is reporting that online "friends" could be pivotal in the 2008 U.S. race. But it seems Democrats have a big advantage on popular social networks:"Democrats outnumber...
Mefeedia was one of the online video aggregators that Josh Catone reviewed in his Guide to Video Aggregation Sites. It claims to aggregates video blogs and web shows from over 15,000 websites. Their index include 3.3 million episodes from over 24,000 different video feeds.In a recent blog post, the Mefeedia...
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