There's one industry which has continued to flourish, whether it be web 1.0 or 2.0 or anything in between. And that's the domain name market. The Domain Name Values Weekly site polled 30 domain name experts to find out their Top 20 Domain Transactions of 2006. The main criteria wasn't...
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...
By Steve O'Hear, a Mac fan who runs a ZDNet blog called The Social Web. Steve was also the writer and director of the documentary In Search of the Valley: a personal journey into the psyche of Silicon Valley.Today's Macworld keynote by Steve Jobs was possibly the most hyped since...
With two conferences to keep track of (CES and Macworld), it's easy to get lost in all the website coverage. One blog though is doing an outstanding job of covering both events - Engadget. I'm also enjoying the CNET CES coverage for down and dirty details on the products.Today I've...
At the Steve Jobs keynote speech at Macworld this morning PST, he announced "three revolutionary new products". An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator. But turns out it's all one device: the fabled iPhone!We'll have extended analysis about this later today, but for now let's review the news. Here's...
Bill Gates' keynote at CES was webcast live by Microsoft. This keynote was entitled 'Connected Experiences' and a relaxed-looking Bill Gates kicked things off by cracking a joke about how, at future CES appearances, he might talk about infectious diseases (referring to his increasing involvement in philanthropy work).The Digital Decade...
It's going to be a big week of tech news, as Apple's Macworld conference and expo in San Francisco goes head-to-head with the 40th annual CES (Consumer Electronics Association) show in Las Vegas. Both conferences kick off Monday 8 January and there will be no shortage of blogs and other...
Written by Gang Lu and edited by Richard MacManus. Original version posted on Gang Lu's blog The MObilenoDE.Maxthon (formerly known as MyIE) is a browser that reportedly has 30% of the browser market in its home country of China, second only to IE and ahead of Firefox. It is a...
Written by Rudy De Waele from m-trends.org and edited by Richard MacManus. We are entering an era of broadband being available anywhere, on any device - and this will happen all 'over IP' (Internet Protocol). So we are looking at an all-IP world where choice of applications, devices and platforms...
Last week we published a list of web technology predictions for 2007, along with a poll asking which trend you think will be *the* biggest of 2007. Social networks dominated the Web scene in 2006, so what will be the equivalent in 2007?We've had 1,235 votes so far (but we'll...
By Guest Writer Gang LuFeedSky is the largest Chinese feed management provider and has just launched its Beta 3. CEO Xinxin Lv described it to me as "mainly a UI update with some performance enhancement".The web2.0 market is still quite young in China, but its concepts are rapidly spreading throughout...
This is the third annual Best Web Companies round-up from Read/WriteWeb (ref: 2005 and 2004). This year we're spreading it out over 2 separate posts and this is the second one - see yesterday's post for Best BigCo of 2006. Best Web LittleCoIt was a very hard decision this year, for...
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus Did the above image shock you? No, this is not a real Google advert! But something similar may well turn into reality. In this sequel to our original GoogleOS blockbuster, we try to clarify our thoughts on what GoogleOS will look...
Written by Richard MacManus, Ebrahim Ezzy, Emre Sokullu, Alex Iskold and Rudy De Waele. Also John Milan wanted to contribute, but unfortunately got caught up in the Seattle storm - so best wishes to John and all our Seattle readers.In our previous post we reviewed the Web trends of 2006,...
It's December already and so it's about that time to reflect on what has happened in Web Technology during 2006 - and ponder what 2007 may bring. Over the next few weeks Read/WriteWeb is going to publish some in-depth posts analyzing the trends and new products we've seen in 2006,...
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus.Paul Graham, as a combination of investor and uber geek, is a unique figure in the web industry. There's an increasing trend of entrepreneur-friendly blogging among investors; Guy Kawasaki, Baris Karadogan and Fred Wilson are perhaps the best examples of this. But...
Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus. Images by Jon Cornforth. This is the second article of a two-part series - see Part 1 here.Turning the Tide The other day I was trying out IE 7. It has a nifty feature that downloads all the elements of a...
This week Yahoo has released some new initiatives and polished up the design of existing content properties. Here is R/WW's summary of the action, along with some commentary...Yahoo TV re-design - and is Yahoo scaling back RSS?Yahoo TV has had a re-design, giving it a liberal sprinkling of Ajax and...
Orange Spain, a mobile operator, has two new music services - 'New Talents' and 'Enjoy your Music'. Both are powered by Music Intelligence Solutions, a provider of AI (artificial intelligence) software for music recommendation and discovery.Music Intelligence Solutions is an intriguing company. It was founded in 2002 and is based...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.We have written before about the innovative Amazon Web Services Platform. This stack was officially announced by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos during the recent Web 2.0 summit and is now considered part of the core business strategy for Amazon. While analysts, competitors...
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