In the latest in Read/WriteWeb's coverage of international Web markets, we explore Hungary - a central European country of 10 million people. The information in this post was supplied by Hírbehozó, a professional journalist for online media company Index.hu. Hírbehozó told me there are not too many startups in Hungary....
The big news over the weekend is the publication of an internal memo by Yahoo senior VP Brad Garlinghouse, dubbed the 'Peanut Butter Manifesto'. The crux of it is that Garlinghouse says Yahoo as a company is unfocused and has too many product lines that cross over. Here is how...
Bambi Francisco from MarketWatch has an interesting interview with Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media. Rosenblatt was chairman of MySpace at the time it was sold to News Corp and it appears as if he's aiming just as big with Demand Media. According to MarketWatch:"Rosenblatt has raised more than $200 million...
While I was in San Francisco, I met up with uGenie co-founder and President Harish Abbott. uGenie is a comparison shopping service that not only finds the best price on a single product, but on groups of products which it calls a 'bundle'. uGenie computes the bottom-line price (including shipping,...
During the Web 2.0 Summit, I got a chance to sit down with the team at Ask.com and find out more about their search engine. This was straight after a Summit session entitled 'Disruption Opportunity: Beating Google at Their Own Game' - in which Ask CEO Jim Lanzone and Senior...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.We have written extensively about widgets here at Read/WriteWeb because widgets offer a new, byte-size way to expose and consume online content. Widgets are really a win-win for all. Content providers and developers can instantly send their content to many sites, while...
Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus.The term groupware refers to applications that facilitate real-time communication, coordination and collaboration amongst groups of people. A number of startups are working hard to develop the nascent groupware market, so in this post we identify some of those startups and provide an overview...
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!It's the end of a hectic week of conference-going for your R/WW correspondent - and so time for a wrap-up of my thoughts on the Web 2.0 Summit. Firstly, my overriding feeling is that this year's conference was a lot different from last...
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!This is the final session at the Web 2.0 Summit this year, a conversation with Yahoo co-founder David Filo and Bradley Horowitz (Yahoo's head of innovation).John says there's a vibe that Y! has slowed down somewhat in public perception, as opposed to Google....
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!At last year's Web 2.0 Conference, a much discussed panel was one featuring a group of teenagers telling everyone what Web products they use. This year the concept has been take an extra level, by inviting the parents of the teenagers as well....
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!Marissa Mayer from Google only has 10 minutes to speak at Web 2.0 Summit, so she gives a high level look at Google's use of Ajax in applications. She notes that the key reason they created Gmail in Ajax was speed. This is...
comScore has released some intriguing data about Web usage internationally. They say that 14 of the top 25 US Web properties now attract more visitors from outside the US than from within. That includes the top 5 US properties - Yahoo! Sites, Time Warner Network, Microsoft, Google Sites, and eBay.This...
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!This session at Web 2.0 Summit reunites two old Ask.com execs, current Ask CEO Jim Lanzone and former and ex-CEO and now senior vice president of the Online Services Group at Microsoft Steve Berkowitz (whom I interviewed a couple of days ago).60-70% of...
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!At last year's Web 2.0 Conference, Mary Meeker of MorganStanley outlined how mobile and Asia were set for big growth. At this year's Summit, Meeker focused on video and monetizing that. Mary speaks at a million miles per hour and data points go...
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen is talking to Tim O'Reilly on stage now. Bruce says that before the Macromedia acquisition, Adobe was a peripheral player on the Web - so the acquisition brought them back into the heart and soul of the Web. He...
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!Day 2 at the Web 2.0 Summit and Jeff Bezos is on stage, talking about S3 and EC2. He says "we're a small company with big ideas", but they've been surprised at the level of interest in these services. He thinks people are...
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!I'm at a session at the Web 2.0 Summit called 'Breaking Free: Working with Real Time Data, Online, Offline, and Outside of the Browser'. The speaker is Christophe Coenraets, a Senior Technical Evangelist from Adobe. He starts off by saying that Adobe is...
Tonight I sat down with Microsoft executives Steve Berkowitz (Senior Vice President, Online Services Group) and Christopher Payne (Corporate Vice President, Live Search) to talk about their new 3D version of Virtual Earth. Microsoft is positioning Virtual Earth as "the beginning of the 3D Web", a quote I heard from...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.WebOS services are going to be utilized by thousands of companies - and will power the next generation of web applications. Amazon is at this point leading the charge of the big Internet companies to capture this potentially huge market.There is a...
Those of you who read John Milan's insightful article on R/WW about the coming convergence of Web apps and desktop apps, will be interested in a new development by Blake Ross - famous in the Web world for co-founding Firefox. Blake has an intriguing new startup called Parakey, which is...
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