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. Also our sister site last100 has a Weekly Wrapup too.R/WW Files: Personalizing Google This week's feature series was on Google's...
As part of this week's Read/Write Web Files, we're looking at what may be on the cards in Yahoo's 100-day strategy for getting its house in order. In the inaugural post of the week, Richard outlined his Top 10 Yahoo! Properties. And I'd like to make the case for another...
We have written here extensively about the rise of web services and the transformation of the web into a platform. In our post When Web Sites Become Web Services we argued that more and more web sites will open their information via an interface. In our post about Yahoo! Pipes...
Most Web users probably use at least one Yahoo product on a regular basis. So as part of our 100 Days For Yahoo week, let's take a look at 10 that are among the leaders in their particular market segment, or are particularly innovative. These are subjective selections, because it's...
Iceberg on Demand is declaring war on software, according to Co-Founder and head of product development Wayne Byrne. Iceberg is a private beta startup that provides a Web based platform for building, sharing and selling powerful business applications, without the need to do coding. A user at Iceberg can create...
Earlier this week I wrote about my favorite iPhone features. Most of you agreed that the iPhone is a unique, breakthrough device that is years ahead of other smart phones. A few of you said that there is nothing special about it, but one reader said that we should cover...
ZipGarage is a new site for garage sale enthusiasts to list and scout out local garage sales (or rummage sales, or yard sales, or whatever your preferred nomenclature) in the United States. The site is absolutely dead simple and completely free, and was created by 365Labs.Finding sales on ZipGarage is...
After having my iPhone for a little over two weeks it is clear that it is the best gadget that I ever owned. I am not a gadget guy, but I certainly appreciate elegant design and useful tools. iPhone's ease of use, intuitive interface and great set of built-in applications...
In a previous article, we explained that the pivot of the internet is shifting from search to social interactions. But this doesn't necessarily mean that search is losing its value. After all, don't we still live with previous paradigms like single sign-on and e-commerce? Search is still a crucial paradigm...
Amazon has long been one of my favorite sites on the web. It seems that every week I have a package arriving at my door from Amazon (or Threadless), but with such an immense array of products, browsing and searching them can become a chore. Below I'll take a look...
Summary: Life is becoming more digital and the digital is becoming more alive. On one hand we have the rapid rise of Second Life and other virtual worlds. On the other we are beginning to annotate our planet with digital information, via technologies like Google Earth. I was reading a...
As it's halfway through 2007, let's take a look back on the highlights of the first half of the year. How is 2007 shaping up in terms of web technology trends and activity? Which companies have shined from January - June 2007?Well so far in 2007, there are two Web...
MyLifeBrand is a new social networking convergence service, currently in invitation-only alpha testing. This product aggregates Web 2.0 functionality, tools, creativity and a portal for converging business with user generated content. The premise is to offer diverse services where individuals, groups and businesses can take advantage of proximity and community....
Over the past year or so we've seen many mainstream publications 'web 2.0-ize' their web presence. BBC has been a leading force, while in March USA Today announced a re-design. Also we covered Martha Stewart 2.0 in April. Now it's CNN's turn. One of the leading mainstream news operations in...
Written by Nitin Karandikar; all photos by Jeremiah Owyang The highlight of the Searchnomics 2007 conference today was a keynote, at the very end, by Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience at Google. Mayer's presentation was titled The Future of Search, in which she covered eight areas...
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...
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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This week Ask.com released a new user interface, which they nicknamed Ask3D. The vertical layout scheme looks very unusual for a general purpose search engine. However it's aesthetically pleasant. But as well as the visual enhancements, the new vertical scheme has other wisdom behind it. Let me explain with this...
The R/WW Weekly Wrapup is sponsored by: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 (see the sidebar on our website).Top Web News It was a big news week...
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