Recently I interviewedeProject, an on-demand Project Management company. More than 100,000 users at 650 companies currently use eProjectÄôs solutions. They run the gamut from Fortune 500 companies to medium-sized fast growing organizations.The product is used across industries, but has some sweet spots of adoption in highly regulated industries such as...
Last week we ran a contest giving away 3 tickets to the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco next week, worth $1,500 each. To enter, all you had to do was define Web 3.0. We got a lot of awesome definitions and it was extremely tough to pick out...
Written by Aydin Senkut, an ex-Google senior manager who is currently an angel investor for his company Felicis Ventures. During Aydin's 6 years with Google, he managed their international expansion - including launching Google's first 10 international sites.Today China boasts over 105 million Internet users, not to mention 350M mobile...
Even though SecondLife has attracted a lot of attention in China and the first millionaire from SecondLife is Chinese, this western virtual world has still not been officially launched in China. But the rapidly growing Chinese Internet apparently could not wait for it. Last week a Chinese virtual world was...
Continuing Read/WriteWeb's series on international web apps, I bring you a sample of all that the emerald isle has to offer. 20 years ago Ireland was a sleepy backwater with high unemployment and mass emigration. Jobs were rare and the only new startups were farms. But all of that changed...
Mike Shaver from the Mozilla foundation is here at ETech talking about the Mozilla Manifesto. Traditionally, a manifesto on an organization's web site says what they stands for. These declarations are not necessary or typical, but are often made to emphasize the values that an organization believes in. It is...
The big news today is News Corporation and NBC Universal launching what they claim will be "the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled", with AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! as the siteÄôs initial distribution partners. It will launch this summer (US). The benefits obviously work both ways - News...
The "wisdom of crowds" is a popular web 2.0 buzzword, popularized by James SurowieckiÄôs book of the same name. At its most basic, the term means that two heads are better than one, and that still more heads will yield even better results.The wisdom of crowds is all around us...
How to build a $50M online company is a topic that Dan Mitchell at the NYT explored recently, taking his cue from Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed. A few weeks ago Jeremy wrote about the scale a business has to achieve to get to $50M in revenue. I have summarized the...
A new website called We Dig TV is transforming TV game shows and re-making them for the internet. The site converts tv programs and formats into Internet tv shows, making them interactive and a two-way Web experience. As of now they have adapted 4 classic TV game shows and optimised...
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...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManusIt's 2007 and no longer do startup employees, or even those of medium-size and large companies, need to be located in the same place. Instead, more and more companies are going virtual. The answer to long commutes, inner city traffic, tapping into...
Following on from the New York Times Reader last year, made with Microsoft's rich presentation technology WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), three more big media companies have released Web/desktop News Readers built with WPF. Tim Sneath from Microsoft notes that the Daily Mail in the UK, forbes.com and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer have...
By guest author Jawad Shuaib, the founder of Shuzak.com: The social network for geeks.Startups have been multiplying like rabbits over the past three years. Due to the added competition, many startups are beginning to narrow their focus to a much smaller demographic. The year 2007 will mark the transition from...
These summary posts are designed to be a 'quick fix' of the top Web news, for those people who don't have time to read the full articles but who want to stay informed.- Internet Boom in China Is Built on Virtual Fun; NY Times continues the western fascination with all...
The Read/WriteWeb team is a little obsessed with next-generation search, even more so after Charles Knight's illuminating post outlining 100 alternative search engines. Although Pixsta didn't make that list (note that Charles is constantly updating the top 100), it is a "visual browse and search" engine that has a unique...
Some interesting Web Tech news out today...- Web giants ask for feds' help on censorship; mostly relating to US Big Internet Companies (Goog, MS and Y!) trying to do business in China, although this CNET report suggests that about 25 countries around the world are currently engaged in Internet filtering.-...
Our current poll has been causing a bit of water cooler discussion amongst the Read/WriteWeb authors. The question we're asking in the poll is: in your current Web activities where an identity is required (i.e. you can't be anonymous) do you ever fake all or part of your identity?After 511...
Normally when we discuss mashups, we're talking about browser-based mashups (and usually they involve Google Maps!). But Proto is a new application for building "desktop mashups". The desktop/Web hybrid theme is one we've been exploring in recent months on Read/WriteWeb, so Proto is an interesting twist on this. The site...
In my previous post, I noted how the new Gmail/Google Docs & Spreadsheet integration feature threatens Microsoft. There's also some high level discussion going on in the tech sphere about how Microsoft's continued loss of search market share and confusion over the Live branding means they are losing the "web...
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