After the tremendous build-up and response to Adobe's Apollo platform, which aims to integrate desktop apps with the Web, we must also remember there are other products trying for the same thing. Dekoh is one such competitor and, like Adobe's Apollo, it is in the business of bringing the browser...
Forrester Research has just released two reports concerning 'web 2.0' in the enterprise. Forrester recently surveyed 119 CIOs on the topic and their answers illustrate what IT honchos want Äì and don't want Äì from social software technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, and content tagging.According to...
Earlier this week we gave away a free ticket to Office 2.0 and today we have a a free ticket to next week's ETech to offer as a prize. ETech is O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference and it'll be held next week, March 26-29, in San Diego. An important note about...
NOTE: Please see important update about this week's R/WW Poll below, on the topic of Personalized Homepages. We had to re-set it and so are asking for you to re-submit your vote.Today Google launched 6 new themes for its Google Personalized Homepage. The themes to choose from include: a beach,...
We had an awesome response to our caption contest on Monday - over 80 comments! The Under The Radar folks and myself had a tough choice deciding... but the winner of the free ticket to the Under The Radar Office 2.0 conference, to be held this Friday March 23 at...
Allth.at was one of the 100 top alternative search engines in Charles Knight's February list. It's a search agent that allows you to define a search topic, then refine it with the use of filters, and finally subscribe to it via email or RSS. It's similar in many respects to...
How to build a $50M online company is a topic that Dan Mitchell at the NYT explored recently, taking his cue from Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed. A few weeks ago Jeremy wrote about the scale a business has to achieve to get to $50M in revenue. I have summarized the...
One of the more innovative web apps around has just gotten another big injection of funds, and a new CEO to boot. Zopa describes itself as a "marketplace for Social Lending", where people lend and borrow money with each other - sidestepping the middleman, i.e. banks. They recently advertised for...
Disclosure: Userplane is a sponsor of Read/WriteWebUserplane, the provider of community web apps that was acquired by AOL in August last year, is today releasing Userplane Userlist - a Flash-based instant messaging app that you can integrate into web sites. Basically Userlist enables users on a site to view other...
On Tuesday Yahoo will significantly expand the reach of their new mobile search product, Yahoo! oneSearch, by making it the default mobile Yahoo homepage at http://m.yahoo.com for US users. In effect this brings oneSearch, which Yahoo launched in January 2007, to the Mobile Web masses. The US masses anyway -...
Today's Web has terabytes of information available to humans, but hidden from computers. It is a paradox that information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in esoteric ways that are difficult for machines to process. The so called Web 3.0, which is likely to be a pre-cursor of the real...
Read/WriteWeb has 1 free ticket to give away for the Under The Radar Office 2.0 conference, to be held on March 23 at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View. More details at the Under The Radar blog. The free ticket will be presented to the winner of this caption contest....
Netvibes, one of the leading 'personalized homepage' products on the market, today officially released its new version - nicknamed the "Coriander Edition". This edition has been under discussion for the past month on the Netvibes blog, but today it is being officially launched. Incidentally Netvibes is now using the term...
Well here I am joining a Techmeme scrum ;-) The big news today is that Michael Arrington announced a CEO for Techcrunch - Heather Harde, who is currently the SVP of Mergers and Acquisitions at Fox Interactive Media. This really does prove that blogs can be big business - it's...
Every Friday afternoon PST, Read/WriteWeb publishes a Weekly Wrapup of news, reviews and analysis from the past week. I know a lot of people are too busy with their jobs to keep up with Web tech news on a daily basis, so the Weekly Wrapup is the perfect opportunity for...
We wrote about Abdur Chowdhury in our recent coverage of the Open Data 2007 Workshop. Until recently he was running AOL Search, but left to start a new venture. Abdur is an impressive thinker and articulate speaker, with a great track record in the industry. So we decided to take...
Adobe recently announced they are to bring out online versions of some of their desktop software suite, including Photoshop, within the next 6 months. The first place we can get a glimpse of these offerings is on the popular photo and video sharing site Photobucket. Since last month, pro users...
13 months ago Read/WriteWeb published a review post about the leading "meme trackers" - i.e. sites that cluster and filter the latest tech news. My conclusion at that time was that Techmeme came out on top, closely followed by Tailrank and Topix.net. My summary back then:"All in all, Memeorandum still...
A new website called We Dig TV is transforming TV game shows and re-making them for the internet. The site converts tv programs and formats into Internet tv shows, making them interactive and a two-way Web experience. As of now they have adapted 4 classic TV game shows and optimised...
In yesterday's post about Google, a follow-up to this week's interview with Matt Cutts, we wrote that Google is still searching for a way to measure relevancy for video - and by extension a way to automatically insert contextual advertising around its YouTube videos. We think that the lack of...
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