Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.Highlights this week: Richard MacManus ended 2007 with a review of the...
Radiohead's widely heralded experiment with free downloads plus a premium package and request for donations (effectively) remains shrouded in mystery, but Trent Reznor and Saul Williams released some numbers this week about a similar experiment. Those numbers indicate that very few people want to pay for recorded music these days.In...
Over the next few weeks we'll be reviewing a number of Web product categories on Read/WriteWeb, summarizing what's happened in 2007 - and what to look forward to in 2008. We're starting with the Web Office, a market that underwent a lot of changes this year. Our definition of Web...
We've discussed before on Read/WriteWeb about how we've entered The Digestion Phase of the Web, a term that Alex Iskold coined. He defined it as "a period of time for us to reflect, to integrate, and to understand recent technologies and how they fit together." Tim O'Reilly has also been...
This week we ran a contest asking you to tell us your favorite Mobile Web apps. We got over 50 comments and there were 5 Mobile Web apps that clearly stood out, with multiple mentions. Here then is the top 5, which will be useful to people new to the...
Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.Note: If you would like to sponsor the Weekly Wrapup - which...
Hulu, the online video project from Newscorp and NBC/Universal, with participation by Sony, MGM and others, has begun its highly controlled opening to the public this week. The Hollywood-content-only, wildly over funded project is opening up a private beta to a few thousand users it told reporters before a midnight...
It's been a very busy Monday on Read/WriteWeb - so here's a recap of the day's posts, plus Network highlights:Top News- Attention - NewsGator and Bloglines Join APML Workgroup (Marshall) - Discovery Purchasing HowStuffWorks for $250 Million (Josh) - AdBrite: Full Page "Skip This Ad" Units Now Available for Everyone...
Sponsor:Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.Web NewsAdobe Acquires Virtual Ubiquity - Enters Web Office Fray Josh Catone was at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago...
Enterprises continue to adopt web technologies and 'web 2.0' trends, but there are two common threads to this adoption. One is that web technologies are step-by-step being adopted by enterprises, but they aren't yet ready to usurp many desktop software apps. The Google Apps vs Microsoft Office debate currently raging...
The Filter, a social music recommendation service backed by rock star Peter Gabriel, has released a new version of their software - featuring an improved user interface, a Facebook app and a partnership with Nokia. The Filter is a "playlist creation suite" for iTunes, iPod, iPhone and Apple TV. It...
Most Web users probably use at least one Yahoo product on a regular basis. So as part of our 100 Days For Yahoo week, let's take a look at 10 that are among the leaders in their particular market segment, or are particularly innovative. These are subjective selections, because it's...
Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.Featured Posts To mark the halfway point of 2007, I wrote up a 2007 Half-Year Web Technology Report. This review showed...
MyLifeBrand is a new social networking convergence service, currently in invitation-only alpha testing. This product aggregates Web 2.0 functionality, tools, creativity and a portal for converging business with user generated content. The premise is to offer diverse services where individuals, groups and businesses can take advantage of proximity and community....
As media and blog coverage of the iPhone release on Friday June 29 reaches boiling point, web app providers are frantically pumping out versions of their apps for the iPhone.CRM provider Etelos - which has already embraced other popular Web platforms like Google Apps, Netvibes, Pageflakes and Windows Live -...
Spain/US-based MyStrands announced today that it's raised $25 Million "to lead the social recommendation industry". MyStrands is a music discovery and social networking site that covers the PC, mobile and physical worlds. We wrote about MyStrands' technology in January, at which point it had announced a re-vamp. MyStrands is based...
Written by Mircea GoiaRomania is a country of 21 million people and is the biggest from the Balkans (Eastern Europe). The total Internet penetration rate is about 23% (5 million) and it's the lowest in European Union. However the growth rate is one of the biggest (517% since 2000). Out...
This week the winners of the 11th annual Webby Awards, billed nowadays as the "Oscars of the Internet", were announced at a ceremony in New York. Much of the publicity was over the fact that David Bowie was there (Prince attended last year). But other than that, what were the...
Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Apologies for missing last week's wrapup, due to travel.Note that you can subscribe to the weekly wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email:Subscribe to the Weekly Wrapup Email NewsletterEnter your email address:Delivered by FeedBurnerTop Web...
Written by Nitin KarandikarThere are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) - each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein the future. These innovations are classified into four types: Query...
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