Pluribo is a Firefox plugin that displays short summaries of product reviews on Amazon.com. Pluribo scans through reviews customers on Amazon have left and automatically creates a one sentence summary that is somewhat akin to a Zagat review. While Zagat uses human editors to compile its reviews, though, Pluribo is...
The consumer product review site SharedReviews.com will announce tomorrow that it has taken an undisclosed sum of investment from parties in the domain buying industry. Those investors include Frank Schilling, one of the world's most successful domain buyers, Seattle based early-stage VCs Monster Venture Partners and the big domainers at...
Viewpoints.com has set its sights on being the "end all" review site for people who like to read and write reviews. This niche probably should have been filled by now, but mysteriously no one site has dominated this segment of Web 2.0 - with the possible exception of Epinions. Viewpoints...
Back in January, Alex Iskold reviewed a number of 'web previews' tools - including Browster, Cooliris, Snap and Sphere. A couple of others are iReader and Blogrovr, although the latter is more about delivering content than previewing it. We've reviewed several of these web previews products before - e.g. see...
Following my analysis of TheFind, a lifestyle shopping service, in this post I will explore Wize - product research engine. Note that I have also reviewed the business story of Wize on my personal blog. So now let's take a look at their actual product using my Web 3.0 framework.ContextThe...
ShoppingPath.com is launching the beta version of its shopping comparison service. A preview of the ShoppingPath technology is located (for some reason) at the domain www.CrispyShop.com. What caught my eye was its unique, ipod-like, product comparison UI. It's a mix of Ajax and Flash and is quite interesting... maybe even...
Television is big business. No, let's not understate it: television is very big business. The global broadcast and cable television industry generates billions of dollars worldwide annually from subscription, equipment, advertising, and service fees; and is dominated by huge media conglomerates like General Electric, Viacom, News Corp., and Disney. The...
In October 2005 I reviewed a potentially disruptive search engine called ePrécis, from Syntactica. Unfortunately it got shut down by Google (they "nearly put us out of business", said Syntactica President Henry Neils). But there was some heavy duty linguistic theory behind ePrécis and the good news is that now...
Amazon has just released a new Wikipedia clone, called Amapedia. It's described as "a community for sharing information about the products you like the most." So far Amapedia has had no promotion from Amazon, but it was discovered today by Rogers Cadenhead. Anyone with an Amazon.Com account can edit the...
Written by Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb and edited by Richard MacManus At the NewTechMeetup on Tuesday, I saw a presentation from Robert Chea, Founder and COO of PowerReviews. PowerReviews is a new startup that provides free Amazon.com-like user reviews to web retailers. Amazon.com reviews are one of the main reasons...
CNET's huge cadre of editors has published a Best of CES 2007 article. There aren't many Internet apps in the selection, but Microsoft comes out smelling of roses. They won the Peoples Voice award with 'Ford Sync powered by Microsoft' (an in-car communications and entertainment system). Ford Sync is for...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManusLast week it was reported that Browster, one of the first companies to deliver previews of web pages, is done. Browster drew a lot of attention in 2005 and was backed by a 6M first round from Advanced Technology Ventures, Vanguard Ventures,...
The Microsoft VC Summit 2006 happened a week or two ago, but I've only just had a chance to review the posts that came out of it. If you're interested in where Microsoft is headed with its product range and general Web strategy, there are some nuggets in the coverage....
Oh no, please tell us this isn't the start of another "antennagate," but it appears that Consumer Reports is again making headlines for throwing the iPhone 4 under the proverbial bus. "The Verizon iPhone 4 has a problem that could cause the phone to drop calls," notes the American product...
Keeping up with all of the important technology news in a given week is a challenge for anyone, let alone busy professionals and people trying to run businesses. While there's not yet a known cure, ReadWriteBiz can help alleviate your information overload by bringing you a rundown of some of...
Here at ReadWriteWeb, like other major blogs, we get a ton of email tips everyday from entrepreneurs, PR companies and the general public suggesting story ideas and requesting product reviews.Surprisingly, considering the size of our site and the pervasiveness of spam in general, most of these emails are quite interesting...
The latest implementation of OpenCalais, the Semantic API by media company Thomson Reuters, has just been announced. It's with 'new media' stalwart CNET, which has signed up to use OpenCalais for semantic analysis of its tech product reviews, news, and blog posts. CNET has also joined Thomson Reuters as one...
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.Product Reviews This week's Web Product of the Week is Iceberg, which Phil Butler profiled for Read/WriteWeb. Iceberg is a private...
Just a quick update on my post last week, stating that Read/WriteWeb is looking for writers to do startup and web product reviews. The response has been overwhelming - over 100 people so far have emailed to say they're interested. So it's taking me longer to sift through the emails...
Read/WriteWeb is looking for writers to do startup and web product reviews. Currently we are being inundated with emails from startups wanting us to profile them, but it's no longer something I can keep up with due to my R/WW Network duties (this is my way of saying sorry if...
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