Carole McManus (no relation) has a great post on the Yahoo! Messenger blog about the innovations we saw in IM over 2006. She says that 2006 was a "watershed year" for IM innovation, citing a Nick Gonzalez post on Techcrunch last November. The features that Nick highlighted then were: interoperability,...
Social networking was King (or Queen) in 2006 and mobile is often seen as the heir to that crown for 2007 and beyond. So what better way to hedge your bets than with a mobile social networking service? We've discussed the potential in this market before, specifically noting that Google...
Well our poll asking whether Ajax is a Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology resulted in 70% of you saying YES, it is a RIA technology. 22% said no and 8% admitted they don't know. Total poll contributers was 560.The conversation in the post was revealing though - i.e. it revealed...
John Milan wrote an excellent two-partarticle for R/WW this week, about the future of software. Because it was a very long article - filled with John's trademark nature metaphors - I thought I'd pull out a few of the highlights.The question addressed was: what will the software solutions of tomorrow...
Disclosure: One of the products listed in this post, Digication, has been a recent R/WW sponsor.One of the more active markets for web 2.0 is e-learning; for example we've written before about ChinesePod (learning Chinese) and Elgg (social network software for education). Also last August Steve O'Hear wrote a very...
Interesting new directory of "music 2.0" services, which includes the following useful categorization:Music Services - places like iTunes and Rhapsody where you can purchase or subscribe to musicMusic Discovery - places that help you find music - these fall generally into 3 subcategories: Social - wisdom of the crowds sites...
The latest browser stats are causing some discussion - mainly because of this article by InformationWeek, which pours water over Microsoft's claims about IE7:"Although Microsoft recently touted the 100 millionth installation of Internet Explorer 7, Web measurement firms said that the new browser is simply being swapped out for older...
By Alex IskoldLast week Apple's iPhone made a stunning debut. There are very few people who were not blown away by what Steve Jobs showed to the world, from the stage of MacWorld 2007. The irony was that beforehand, we didn't know what exactly the iPhone would be, but most...
By Alex Iskold In October last year, Netflix launched an unusual contest. The online movie rental company is offering 1 million dollars to anyone who can improve their recommendation engine by 10%. Netflix is known for its innovation and bold moves and in the grand scheme of things, $1M is...
Spotted tonight by John Milan, Google has a promotion for its online shopping product Google Checkout on its homepage - probably the most traffiked web page in the world.Also there's some interesting speculation over on the Cost Per News site that Google Checkout is set to ramp up:"IÄôve heard rumblings...
Twango is a new media sharing service, for video, photos and other media. It's similar to eSnips, Multiply and PeopleAggregator, in that it combines media sharing with social networking. Twango was founded by a group of 5 ex-Microsoft employees in fall 2004 and officially launched in October 2006. I spoke...
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManusYahoo has had its problems lately. Bad financial results in the 3rd quarter of 2006 and the peanut butter manifesto of senior vice president Brad Garlinghouse resulted in doubt about the company's ability to compete against Google and others. Some also think...
I am always one to promote the 'read/write' meme and today I noticed a post by Rod Boothby, on what he's calling the read/write Intranet. I didn't see a definition for what this is exactly, but in any case Rod's asking people to vote for the best read/write intranet systems....
We're starting to see a lot of startups either shutting down, fading away or being put up for sale. The latest is Talkr, an automated text-to-voice service that we actually use here on Read/WriteWeb. At the bottom of each R/WW post, you'll see an Audio link - click on that...
By John Milan. This is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 is here.What will the software solutions of tomorrow look like? They will be forged by four powerful elements: The Internet, Open Source, Mobile Devices and Web 2.0. We can debate the merits of each, but taken as...
By John Milan. This is the first in a two-part series. Part 2 is here.What will the software solutions of tomorrow look like? They will be forged by four powerful elements: The Internet, Open Source, Mobile Devices and Web 2.0. We can debate the merits of each, but taken as...
James Corbett has an interesting post speculating that Google Reader might become a 'read/write' app over the course of 2007. Says James:"The addition of support for tagging and link blogging were the warning shots but the coming months will see Reader evolve into a fully fledged Reader/Writer (let's call it...
Greg Linden just posted on his blog that Findory, the personalized news service he created and has been running for the past 3 years, is to slowly "fade away". In other words, he's not going to put any more effort into developing it or the business. However findory.com will continue...
By Alex Iskold What happens to people after they graduate college? Most of them get jobs and launch their professional careers. So Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook team are no doubt preparing for their user base of college students turning into professionals. Launched in 2004, Facebook quickly grew to become...
Todd Bishop at Seattle P-I newspaper has published a telling tag cloud view of Bill Gates' speech at CES earlier this week. Notes Bishop:"Putting our fancy new gizmo to work, we fed the text of Bill Gates' Sunday night Consumer Electronics Show keynote into the tag-cloud generator, and added the...
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