Everyone knows that widgets are the new black. They are cool, they are slick, they are playful. Cool and fun is one thing, but business is another. We are seeing an increasing number of media companies and publishers turning to widgets. But why? What is it that media giants expect...
Last week we wrote about Digital Life - the rise of life-like digital experiences. We argued that online worlds like Second Life are becoming increasingly more engaging because of their realism. We noted that Second Life succeeds because it brings to the digital world real economics, geography and, of course,...
Jack Johnson tipped me off to this website. Well, okay, he tipped off a couple of billion other people at the same time. I'm writing this while I watch the web stream of Johnson's set at the Live Earth concert in Sydney, Australia, and right before an energetic rendition of...
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...
During the weekend we asked for feedback from readers and startups alike, about how your favorite web apps perform on the iPhone. The early feedback mostly reported issues with AT&T getting the service up and running - e.g. Orlando commented that he bought the iphone on Friday at 7:00 pm,...
One of my pet peeves currently is when people badly submit an article to digg. It is bad for both digg readers (who may never get to see the article because it was dugg badly) and of course for the publishers. It's definitely a flaw in the digg system. But...
iPhone is more than just a breakthrough mobile phone device. It is a strategy that may expand Apple's sphere of influence, from web browsing to social networking and even possibly search.The iPhone is here. The blogosphere is echoing with both great praise and cries of problems. The hype was both...
The Weekly Wrapups have been a feature of Read/WriteWeb since the beginning of January 2005 (when they were called Web 2.0 Weekly Wrapups). Nowadays the Wrapup is designed for those of you who can't keep up with a daily dose of RSS. Here then is a summary of the week's...
In the week building up to the release of the iPhone on Friday evening US, we've been exploring web apps for the iPhone. We also reviewed the first iPhone Development platform, created by Morfik.Now that the iPhone is in the hands of early US adopters (the Apple ones at least),...
It's possible the iPhone launch on Friday 29 June is more hype than substance - indeed the current poll we're running on R/WW has only 20% of respondants interested in buying an iPhone as soon as it's released! 41% have no plans to buy one and a further 18% said...
Google has created a site called Google Gadget Ventures. Marissa Mayer will announce it this evening at the Searchonomics Conference in Santa Clara.It's a pilot program, with the aim of "bootstrapping an economic ecosystem around gadgets" - according to a press email we received. The program has two separate monetary...
With the excitement building about Apple's iPhone, and lots of third party apps being developed for it, now is a good time to find out how many R/WW readers will be buying one - and if so, when? Please participate in our poll below:
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 -...
WebOS vendor Morfik has created a platform for developers to build applications for Apple's iPhone, which is being released Friday night. Morfik claims this is the first development tool for the iPhone.Up till this point, no one had announced a development tool for the iPhone - although there have been...
Quick background: In April, Google sent a 50-page white paper to the US Department of Justice asserting that Microsoft was violating its 2002 antitrust settlement by not allowing outside desktop search engines (such as Google's own Desktop Search application) to be installed in Windows Vista. Microsoft initially denied the claims,...
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:Subscribe to the Weekly Wrapup Email NewsletterEnter your email address:Featured PostsThis week we took an in-depth look at the state of...
One of the strongest, but least hyped, uses of web 2.0 technologies over the past couple of years has been e-learning. We've covered this topic extensively on Read/WriteWeb - and so we're pleased to bring you this overview of e-learning 2.0, including the leading web apps and sites in this...
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:Subscribe to the Weekly Wrapup Email NewsletterEnter your email address:Featured StoriesThis week was dominated, at least on the Read/WriteWeb Network, by...
Last month at the D conference, Real Networks announced the next version of RealPlayer, which features one-click downloading and saving of online video. This week last100 editor Steve O'Hear got his hands on RealPlayer 11 and thoroughly tested it. Steve reported that RealPlayer 11 has a cleaner installation process, a...
In an effort to boost market share, Steve Jobs dropped an unexpected bombshell on the audience at the WWDC this morning: Apple's Safari web browser is coming to Windows. IE currently controls about 78% of the browser market, Firefox 15%, and Safari just 5% (according to Jobs' stats -- depending...
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