Mitch Kapor, famous for co-founding Lotus 1-2-3 in the 80's and more recently the ambitious Personal Info Manager product Chandler (which is taking an awful long time to build - it's still in alpha after 3-4 years) has a new startup project. That's Mitch Kapor in the center of the...
Tom Wolfe could write a novel about this...or at least a short story. Cartoon by Oliver Widder, via Nick Carr's comments.Jason Calacanis also notes: "I think we have three of the top 20 DIGG users (and two from the top 10!). We also hired from Newsvine, delicious, and Reddit top...
The Diggtrends website has just done some stats relating to the Netscape owner's offer to buy out digg's top users. They found that the top 10 users contributed 1792 of the frontpage stories - i.e. 29.8%. The top 100 contributed 3324 stories, i.e. 55.28%. Nearly 30% of frontpage stories contributed...
Next in my series on international web apps is Korea. I have Chang W. Kim, who runs a blog called Web 2.0 Asia, to thank for providing me with all the info. Korea is in many ways ahead of the curve in terms of the Internet. It has the highest household...
This has turned into a very enjoyable series, profiling web products being built all over the world! The latest list is for Poland, courtesy of Sebastian Kwiecien - who runs a blog at web20.pl. Sebastian sent me a very detailed list of Polish web apps, including information about an intriguing...
RealNetworks had their Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call on Thursday evening (PST) and the transcript from SeekingAlpha makes for interesting reading. The two main points that came out of it, from a product and market perspective, is that 1) RealNetworks is exhibiting very strong growth in the gaming market; and...
The latest version of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice was officially launched today, a month after the beta was released. This is version 8, which includes plug-ins for the first time. Third-party developers can create plug-ins (aka widgets) for the platform. This has already proven to be very popular - since...
The media blitz from News Corp. executives on MySpace is increasing, with two excellent articles on The Hollywood Reporter and Washington Post.In The Hollywood Reporter, Fox Interactive Media president Ross Levinsohn says that social networking is just a platform for "peer recommendation" services:"What's next for FIM is leveraging MySpace's online...
Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This is the second in a 2-part series of posts.In our previous post we coined the term "Search 2.0", in order to compare...
Gotuit Media, an established player in on-demand video, today announced the launch of its new broadband video portal - Gotuit.com. I got a sneak peak of the new portal and spoke with Mark Pascarella (president of Gotuit Media) and David Laubner (Director of Product Marketing) about the launch. Gotuit.com is a...
Long-time readers of Read/WriteWeb may recall that I used to do a weekly summary of the top stories of the week, called the Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up. It ran all through 2005 and for a long time was the most popular feature on R/WW. I decided to put it to...
Netscape boss Jason Calacanis has offered to essentially buy out the top users on Digg, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit for $1000 per month: "We will pay you $1,000 a month for your "social bookmarking" rights. Put in at least 150 stories a month and we'll give you $12,000 a...
The June 2006 edition of Business 2.0 magazine lists the 100 fastest-growing tech companies of 2006. One trend that has emerged is that online advertising has replaced retailing as the Web sector that is most in demand. While in 2005 eBay was ranked 14 and there were two other retail...
Markus Frind is one of the more disruptive (and therefore interesting) bloggers to emerge this year. He's the guy who burst onto the scene with claims that he's making $10,000 per day off his online dating site PlentyOfFish.com. I actually met Markus in person last month at the Supernova conference...
Digg.com is not only a thriving community and great source for news, it's also an increasingly influential website for bloggers and website owners. It can be a heavy driver of revenue-generating traffic and can also help make your website viral (= popular). Given its growing importance then, I thought I'd...
Written by Ken Yarmosh, a Read/WriteWeb Guest Blogger On average, I hear a Match.com commercial on the radio about once a day. In referring to their user base, their catch phrase goes something like, "there are over 15 million reasons to use Match.com." Well, they may want to re-think this...
- List of Social Networking Systems (including their target audiences; very useful resource from Sid Yadav)- MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites (according to Hitwise, www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users)- Rise of the Socially-Integrated Media...
Ex-Yahooligan Ravi Dronamraju noted a couple of months ago (I've only just seen it) a subtle but important point about Yahoo's new Ajaxified homepage:"This homepage dropped the concept of website directory completely. I guess the transformation is complete. Yahoo! is now more about showing people in and around yahoo! network...
The NY Times reports that old media won out over new media when it came to World Cup coverage. The Times notes that television and newspapers benefited from the World Cup, but seems to overlook (or at least downplay) that Internet services did well too. While the Times article stated...
Over the past couple of days I've gotten 170 comments (and still going!) on a post I wrote last week entitled Netscape Community Backlash. I've actually gotten more comments than the official Netscape story on this topic. The general gist of the feedback is that existing Netscape users dislike the...
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