There's one industry which has continued to flourish, whether it be web 1.0 or 2.0 or anything in between. And that's the domain name market. The Domain Name Values Weekly site polled 30 domain name experts to find out their Top 20 Domain Transactions of 2006. The main criteria wasn't...
CNET's huge cadre of editors has published a Best of CES 2007 article. There aren't many Internet apps in the selection, but Microsoft comes out smelling of roses. They won the Peoples Voice award with 'Ford Sync powered by Microsoft' (an in-car communications and entertainment system). Ford Sync is for...
By Steve O'Hear, a Mac fan who runs a ZDNet blog called The Social Web. Steve was also the writer and director of the documentary In Search of the Valley: a personal journey into the psyche of Silicon Valley.Today's Macworld keynote by Steve Jobs was possibly the most hyped since...
With two conferences to keep track of (CES and Macworld), it's easy to get lost in all the website coverage. One blog though is doing an outstanding job of covering both events - Engadget. I'm also enjoying the CNET CES coverage for down and dirty details on the products.Today I've...
At the Steve Jobs keynote speech at Macworld this morning PST, he announced "three revolutionary new products". An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator. But turns out it's all one device: the fabled iPhone!We'll have extended analysis about this later today, but for now let's review the news. Here's...
After only 3-4 months of general release, distributed social network MyBlogLog has been bought by Yahoo for an estimated $10-12M. This adds to Yahoo's collection of trendy Web 2.0 apps - they can pop the MyBlogLog folks in with Flickr and del.icio.us. When MyBlogLog initially came out in October 2006,...
It's going to be a big week of tech news, as Apple's Macworld conference and expo in San Francisco goes head-to-head with the 40th annual CES (Consumer Electronics Association) show in Las Vegas. Both conferences kick off Monday 8 January and there will be no shortage of blogs and other...
Web Security firm Finjan has just released their Q4 2006 report on web threats, which includes describing two cases of web 2.0 hacker attacks, on Wikipedia and MySpace. What's more, the report says that hacking the Web is very much a commercial activity nowadays - which is keeping Web security...
Interesting development from Microsoft - and one that makes perfect sense given their media device strengths (a.k.a. stranglehold over the OS). Microsoft has released a Windows Live for TV beta. The project is code-named "Orbit" and it is built on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Windows Live for TV will...
In the current Read/WriteWeb poll (see below), we're asking what 'search 2.0' concepts you think stand the best chance of beating Google. The results so far are interesting, because Artificial Intelligence is currently top pick - despite having a history of underachievement in the tech industry and there being no...
When I was looking for submissions for Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2006, a R/WW commenter pointed to a non-profit site called kiva.org - calling it "web 2.0 meets the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize".Kiva.org lets you loan money to an entrepreneur in the developing world. On the homepage there...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus In an article in the January 1st 2007 issue of NYTimes, reporter Miguel Helft writes about the race in Silicon Valley to beat Google. Certainly the future of search has been much talked about lately. Last year Read/WriteWeb had a number...
Written by Rudy De Waele from m-trends.org and edited by Richard MacManus. We are entering an era of broadband being available anywhere, on any device - and this will happen all 'over IP' (Internet Protocol). So we are looking at an all-IP world where choice of applications, devices and platforms...
Last week we published a list of web technology predictions for 2007, along with a poll asking which trend you think will be *the* biggest of 2007. Social networks dominated the Web scene in 2006, so what will be the equivalent in 2007?We've had 1,235 votes so far (but we'll...
It's a light posting week here on R/WW - but for those of you not out enjoying the xmas/new year break, here is a list of Read/WriteWeb's most popular posts in 2006. This is according to our server logs.But honestly, you really should be reading a good book instead of...
This is the third annual Best Web Companies round-up from Read/WriteWeb (see 2005 and 2004). This year we're spreading it out over 2 separate posts. In this post, we announce Best Bigco and the runners-up - with our special brand of analysis too. In our next post, we'll announce Best...
By Guest Writer Gang LuFeedSky is the largest Chinese feed management provider and has just launched its Beta 3. CEO Xinxin Lv described it to me as "mainly a UI update with some performance enhancement".The web2.0 market is still quite young in China, but its concepts are rapidly spreading throughout...
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus Did the above image shock you? No, this is not a real Google advert! But something similar may well turn into reality. In this sequel to our original GoogleOS blockbuster, we try to clarify our thoughts on what GoogleOS will look...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManusIt's no accident that Time magazine choose YOU as their Person of the Year. In 2006, the Web was all about the social. User generated content was king this year - and the Time editor in chief is betting that the impact...
Written by Richard MacManus, Ebrahim Ezzy, Emre Sokullu, Alex Iskold and Rudy De Waele. Also John Milan wanted to contribute, but unfortunately got caught up in the Seattle storm - so best wishes to John and all our Seattle readers.In our previous post we reviewed the Web trends of 2006,...
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