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...
Another busy week of Web Tech news and analysis. Here is what we covered on Read/WriteWeb during the week (number of comments in brackets)...OneWebDay: In Celebration Of The Web (2) - looks like this didn't take off in a big way, judging by the lack of blogosphere love for it....
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.With all this buzz around the potential Yahoo! acqusition of Facebook for $1Billion, we think it's time to do the social networking faceoff.Arguably of all services in the new social era, the social network sites hold most promise. The reason for this...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.The social bookmarking market is in a steady state with two dominant players - del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. The rest of the pack, including Yahoo MyWeb, appears to be substantially behind. Will they catch up? In this post we attempt to answer that...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.Whether you like the bubble mentality of the current era or not, it's hard to deny that VCs play a big role in the Web ecosphere. Many prominent venture firms have funded startups in social networking, online video and vertical search -...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.In this post we profile the red hot photo sharing space, where the blogosphere darling Flickr is actually trailing in the mass market. Back in June, Hitwise posted their online photo market statistics - which showed Photobucket with a huge market lead...
Recently a new personalized start page product was announced, Webwag. In the comments to my post about Webwag, several people expressed their view that start pages are not a viable business. Personally I think start pages have plenty of opportunities to make money, despite (and sometimes because of) competition from...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.In this post, we survey a range of client applications which utilize the new web platform. This is a follow-up to our Web Platform Primer post a few days ago, in which we explained the building blocks of the new Web infrastructure: The...
China is next in my series on top international Web apps. If you haven't been following, the other countries I've profiled so far have been Germany, Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia and Spain. As this series has gone on, the comments have become as important as the posts -...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.The Web computing platform today encompasses a wide range of functions, a lot of which are accessible via APIs (Application Programming Interface). From the relatively simple bookmarking service del.icio.us, to more complex functionality like Amazon S3's complete virtualization of data storage -...
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...
Continuing my series on international Web apps, today I'll be covering the top products in the United Kingdom market. In case you missed it, over the past week or so I've reviewed Germany, Holland, Poland and Korea. This week I've got more great non-Silicon Valley startups for you!The information for...
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 is the second in a 2-part series of posts.In our previous post we coined the term "Search 2.0", in order to compare...
The latest comScore stats for May 2006 show how fast social networking sites are growing, but YouTube in particular is displaying spectacular growth. As comScore noted in its monthly report:"There seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the popularity of social networking sites. Myspace.com surpassed the...
Personalized Start Pages is a growing, but fiercely competitive, market. So what are they? Predominantly they're homepages for Web information, gadgets and widgets. The difference from old-style web portals are: the user can personalize them much more (with RSS, inline email, etc), the content is more interactive and potentially much...
One more quick post for the day, before I go and watch the rugby (go Canes!). Hitwise has done a table showing relative popularity of the Google properties:Compare this to Alexa's breakdown:- google.com - 75% - mail.google.com - 8% - images.google.com - 8% - groups.google.com - 2% - video.google.com -...
So Russell Beattie has decided to call it a day. I admit his decision surprised me, because I've always enjoyed reading Russ' well-informed commentary on the mobile Web. However it did make me wonder - what would cause other people to give up blogging?Here are the top ten reasons I...
I've long been suspicious of some of the stats that certain companies and bloggers push. We all know by now that industry stats tool alexa.com must be taken with a grain of salt, but until today I hadn't realised the extent of how a site's own measured traffic can be...
I've been tracking the development of all the personalized start pages that have flowered up over the past year. Live.com, Google Personalized Homepage, Netvibes, PageFlakes, et al. These are services that don't just offer a place to store all your content and links - but house your widgets, gadgets and...
Ex-Feedster Scott Johnson has an interesting podcast entitled The Young Engineer’s Guide to Startups. It gives a nice overview of the startup life, especially things like equity and the 'risk to reward ratio'. The latter can be summarized as: the earlier you join a startup, the higher the risk... but...
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