Earlier today, Richard took a look at the state of e-learning 2.0, which got me to thinking about how school might be different if I were in college today because of the influx of new Web 2.0 apps aimed and students. I went to a school that utilized a Virtual...
This afternoon at Supernova thirteen companies selected by TechCrunch and Supernova, from 130 applicants, presented at the Connected Innovators Session. The companies presented to a panel of experts including Mike Arrington from TechCrunch, Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital and Julie Hanna Farris - a serial entrepreneur. The panel held...
This morning Zoho will release their latest Web Office app, Meeting, as a public beta. It's a good opportunity to consider what progress each of the main Web Office vendors is making towards a full Web Office Suite. For this post, we'll consider Google Apps, Microsoft Office Live, Zoho, ThinkFree,...
I've had a thing for WebOS products for quite some time. I first reviewed one of their number, EyeOS, in August 2006. Recent WebOS reviews I've done on Read/WriteWeb include DesktopOnDemand and Blake Ross of Firefox fame's Parakey. Also Emre Sokullu wrote a popular article on the still mythical GoogleOS,...
Update to Microsoft story: news has just come out about the product described below, officially named Surface. It's a lot bigger than the iPhone, but uses similar multi-touch technology. Here is the press release and here is our write-up.(original story) Our sister site last100 reports on the imminent unveiling of...
Over on our new network blog, last100, Steve O'Hear has covered two interesting developments in the 'digital home' space. Firstly Steve posted that there has been quite a bit of development activity around AppleTV - but not by Apple itself, rather by hackers. Wrote Steve:"...[the hackers] have been hard at...
Editor's note: Sramana Mitra is currently running a series on her blog reviewing the photo sharing industry. In this Read/WriteWeb post, she looks at Flickr's offering using her Web 3.0 framework. Before I get to my analysis, here is a quick overview of Flickr's history and its current position. Caterina...
Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks has an interesting post today about Ask.com, in which he lays out his strategy for getting the search engine back on track. That caught my eye because last night when looking over the latest search data from Nielsen//NetRatings, Richard and I started talking about Ask.com....
I'm pleased to announce the first network blog to launch under the Read/WriteWeb banner - last100. We have more network blogs launching soon, all with the aim of leveraging Read/WriteWeb's reputation for quality news and analysis about Web technology.last100 will provide news, reviews and industry analysis on products and services...
RateItAll, a social network based around online reviews and opinions, has released a new distributed rating widget. It enables users to not only view (read) a widget, but to interact with it and enter data (write). The initial application for RateItAll's read/write widget is a blog feedback badge, which is...
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hear Chris DiBona, the Open Source Program Manager at Google, speak at a TiE Pittsburgh event. At the event, Chris provided an extremely insightful presentation on the state of the open source market. After the event, Chris and I exchanged emails...
We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel from a Web 3.0 perspective already. Here we take a look at the offering from online travel community behemoth TripAdvisor.TripAdvisor was founded in February 2000 and is among the worldÄôs largest online travel communities with over 20...
Written by Emre Sokullu, with contributions by Charles KnightQuintura is a clustering search engine, one of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines chosen by Charles Knight. Quintura, like many other alt search engines, is focusing on user interface (UI) innovations - see our previous categorization of search engines here. The...
Following last year's backlash over Yahoo!'s re-design of their TV section, and in particular their television listings feature, many users felt left out in the cold. I was one of them. Having previously relied on the Yahoo! online television guide to know what was on the boob tube, I was...
Continuing Read/WriteWeb's series on international web apps, I bring you a sample of all that the emerald isle has to offer. 20 years ago Ireland was a sleepy backwater with high unemployment and mass emigration. Jobs were rare and the only new startups were farms. But all of that changed...
Later today Web previews product Snap is launching 8 new localized versions of their Snap Preview Anywhere product. They will support 9 languages in all:English (by Default) JapaneseKoreanChinese - Simplified Chinese - Traditional French German Spanish PortugueseWeb Previews - good or bad?But whatever the language, it's up to end users the world over to decide if...
On Tuesday Yahoo will significantly expand the reach of their new mobile search product, Yahoo! oneSearch, by making it the default mobile Yahoo homepage at http://m.yahoo.com for US users. In effect this brings oneSearch, which Yahoo launched in January 2007, to the Mobile Web masses. The US masses anyway -...
We wrote about Abdur Chowdhury in our recent coverage of the Open Data 2007 Workshop. Until recently he was running AOL Search, but left to start a new venture. Abdur is an impressive thinker and articulate speaker, with a great track record in the industry. So we decided to take...
I have written a few framework articles recently, defining Web 3.0 and Enterprise 3.0. I also wrote a piece towards the end of 2005, called What is this Sea Change? In this article, I am going to start coverage on a very interesting company called Rearden Commerce, which touches upon...
Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb.Top Web NewsIt was a relatively quiet week in Web news. There were various mobile announcements from the 3GSM conference in Spain and some product releases (e.g. MS Soapbox). Also Google acquired video game advertising company Adscape. Perhaps the...
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