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...
Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus. John is Senior Software Architect and founder of TeamDirection. The days of purely desktop-based applications are clearly numbered, but so are the days of exclusively web-based apps... The two elephants of personal computing these days are Microsoft and Google. Microsoft rose to...
Last.fm, one of my favorite online music recommendation and listening services, today announced a website relaunch. The London-based company has added four new features: Events system (e.g. concerts), Free MP3s, Flash player radio, and a Taste-o-meter. Last.fm hopes these new features, plus the re-design, will make it easier to find...
Written by Vishal Sharma and edited by Richard MacManus Richard's intro: Australia is a country of 20.75 million people, 14,663,622 of whom are Internet users according to a Nielsen//NR report from August 2006. That gives Australia an Internet penetration of 70.7%, which is about average for the Western world. Not...
"Why on earth does the world need another search engine?", asks the new Live Search promotional site. In addition to that website, as John Battelle's Searchblog reports, Microsoft has launched a campaign for Live Search with digital and print ads in major newspapers - New York Times, Wall Street Journal,...
Metacafe, a YouTube-like video sharing site originally from Israel, has just gone live with a revenue sharing program called Producer Rewards. The payments are on a sliding scale and based on 'views'. Payments start at 20,000 views ($100) and go up from there - e.g. 2 million views is $10,000....
The Pluck RSS Reader is shutting down, according to a message posted on the Pluck website:"All versions of Pluck's RSS readers for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Pluck's web edition will be discontinued on 1/5/2007. The RSS Readers have served our community of end users well for several years, but with...
Tamago recently launched a peer-to-peer commerce system that enables people to sell digital media directly to customers. It's designed for semi-professional and amateur people who publish music, videos, photos, e-books, etc. to earn royalties whenever their creative content is downloaded. Meanwhile the buyers can also earn commissions, for distributing media...
There's an interesting rumor doing the rounds about Google doing a re-org of their advertising business. Jeff Molander wrote:"Three of my most credible resources, including DM News’s Giselle Abramovich, are indicating plans for a significant re-organization at Google (Nasdaq: GOOG). [...] On the re-org, says Ms. Abramovich,“What this means is...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.The last few weeks have been packed with browser action and the two market leaders, Internet Explorer and Firefox, have launched major new versions. So to round out our recent browser coverage, we present the Web Browser Faceoff - looking at how...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. Disclaimer: Alex's company AdaptiveBlue has a product called The blueorganizer, which was one of the twenty "Recommended add-ons" selected by Mozilla for the Firefox 2 launch.This week the spotlight is on Firefox as it launches its milestone 2.0 release. We've covered...
The moment has arrived, Mozilla has pushed the go-live button on Firefox 2. The new final 2.0 version of the browser is now available for everyone to download.Read/WriteWeb has been actively covering the launch, most recently with a pre-launch interview with Chris Beard - Mozilla Vice President of Products. We've...
This afternoon Firefox 2 will be officially launched. In anticipation of the unveiling, here is an in-depth interview with Chris Beard (Mozilla Vice President of Products). Subjects discussed in the interview include the growing enterprise usage of Firefox, the importance of user experience and security, Mozilla's theory behind Web feeds...
Following hot on the heels of the Microsoft-powered NY Times Reader, Adobe has released Adobe Digital Editions Beta - a Rich Internet Application (RIA) for digital publishing and reading. The product enables users to acquire, read, and manage content such as eBooks and other digital publications. This market is ramping...
This week I spoke to Chris Beard, Mozilla's vice president of products. Among other things we discussed how Firefox 2.0 is going to be marketed. I was going to save this for the full write-up of my interview with Chris Beard, but reading Chris Messina's post today about IE7 made...
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