In the latest in Read/WriteWeb's coverage of international Web markets, we explore Hungary - a central European country of 10 million people. The information in this post was supplied by Hírbehozó, a professional journalist for online media company Index.hu. Hírbehozó told me there are not too many startups in Hungary....
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!It's the end of a hectic week of conference-going for your R/WW correspondent - and so time for a wrap-up of my thoughts on the Web 2.0 Summit. Firstly, my overriding feeling is that this year's conference was a lot different from last...
Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus. John is Senior Software Architect and founder of TeamDirection. The days of purely desktop-based applications are clearly numbered, but so are the days of exclusively web-based apps... The two elephants of personal computing these days are Microsoft and Google. Microsoft rose to...
As if we needed any further proof that the online video market is white hot right now, the founders of Skype have now set their sites on a Web TV service - according to this Yahoo News story. After creating the file-swapping service KaZaA and then VoIP software Skype, Janus...
Transclick is a mobile enterprise application that translates text in email, SMS and IM. The software has been around for a while (see this CNNMoney.com article from March 2005), but is now starting to make waves as a business productivity tool. RIM Blackberry just announced Transclick as the winner of...
Today Six Apart will release a new version of its Movable TypeEnterprise 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'...
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 -...
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...
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...
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?...
For those of us who can't make the Office 2.0 conference, there is an Office 2.0 Podcast Jam running all this week. I contributed a 5-minute podcast, which was chosen as the keynote to kick off the jam. My topic was: Why Web Office Software is a New Paradigm, Different...
To continue our interview series on VCs and next generation web, today we speak to Neil Rimer - a co-founder and General Partner of Index Ventures. Neil's firm Index Ventures is probably best known in the web 2.0 world for investing in these innovative VoIP or WiFi services: Skype, Rebtel...
Last week at X06, an Xbox event in Barcelona, New Zealand movie director Peter Jackson announced a new games development studio called Wingnut Interactive - an offshoot of his highly successful movie production company Wingnut. The new venture will develop a "Halo series" for the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live....
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.This week at DEMOfall I saw two vertical search applications that made me think that this area is getting mature and ready for prime time. Pluggd and Retrevo launched technologies that are not only good at finding podcasts and consumer electronics (respectively)...
Blogged Live from DEMOfall by Alex Iskold Look Ma, no charger! Today at DEMOfall, the CEO of Moixa Energy Simon Daniel (a quirky physics PhD from the UK) dropped a bag full of chargers on stage. He kicked them away and pulled out of his pocket the marvel created by...
Back in June I spoke about the corporate blogging project that I co-run with The Rights Marketing Company. Called Micro Media Corp, it's a corporate blogging and podcasting program that aims to give business people insights into the Web 2.0 and New Media worlds. Our first major customer is British...
Interesting NY Times profile of Baidu, China's main search engine and currently the 4th biggest website in the world. It has a market value of $3 billion, but "some analysts" question whether Baidu can keep out competition from Google and Yahoo:"While Baidu continues to gain market share in China —...
So far in Read/WriteWeb's Top International Web Apps series, we've covered countries in Europe (Germany, Holland, Poland, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Italy) and Asia (Korea, China). We may have some issues covering certain other regions, as worldwide Internet penetration is still very low - 16% at last count. That's...
There has been a lot of great discussion on Read/WriteWeb recently, so I thought I'd pick out some highlights from a few of last week's posts...Engelbart's vision exists!Douglas Engelbart's HyperScope 1.0 Launched: early this week saw the launch of HyperScope 1.0, an advanced browsing application based on tech legend Douglas...
Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim runs a search engine called Qube - which is a webified desktop app.Richard's Note: In some ways Ebrahim's conclusions in this article contradict my own views, but I think that makes it even more appropriate for Read/WriteWeb to publish. I'm...
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