Web metrics firm Compete has an interesting post, outlining the top 20 websites (for US traffic). According to Compete, all 20 of them got over 20 million unique visitors in October 2006. Here is the chart:A couple of people noted in the comments that if you add Microsoft's 4 top...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. There has been a lot of talk lately about 2007 being the year when we will see companies roll out Semantic Web technologies. The wave started with John Markoff's article in NY Times and got picked up by Dan Farber of...
While looking through Mary Meeker's 2006 Web 2.0 Summit presentation, I was struck by the figures on page 19: "Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic was 60% (and rising) of Internet traffic in 2004, with BitTorrent accounting for 30% of traffic, per CacheLogic". You can definitely see why this is the case, as...
Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus. Images by Jon Cornforth. This is the second article of a two-part series - see Part 1 here.Turning the Tide The other day I was trying out IE 7. It has a nifty feature that downloads all the elements of a...
Zoho recently released a set of APIs that lets anyone write their own program to use Zoho Writer and Zoho Sheet data [disclosure: Zoho is a sponsor of Read/WriteWeb]. As Matthew Ingram explained, it "means that other companies -- online storage providers such as Box.net, Carbonite or Mozy, for example...
John Milan's latest article for Read/WriteWeb explores the evolving software environment, with particular focus on Microsoft and Google. The article gets us to thinking: is Google the latest manifestation of an Internet bubble, or is it really different this time?Although comparing two different decades is a little dangerous, perhaps even...
Recently I came across a new magazine that is delivered via the Web - and utilizes a lot of Web native functionality in the process. It's called Avantoure and the tagline is "life is a game". The contents of the magazine appeal to me, but in this post I'll focus...
Via Geekzone comes news of a 3D shopping mall, called The Mall Plus, that has just been released in New Zealand. After seeing this, memories of the mid to late 90's came flooding back to me - a time when websites built on real world metaphors filled the Web landscape....
Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus. This is the first in a two-part series. Update:Part 2 is now available. The most insidious thing about global warming is that it's everywhere, but not right in front of you. And really, it has more to do with things disappearing...
Yahoo has announced an event around Predictive Markets, called confab.yahoo. It's described as an "open micro-conference series" and is being run by Yahoo!’s Technology Development Group. The reason it caught my eye was this:"We started confab.yahoo because we want to push the web and its applications up to the next...
Recent Google acquisition JotSpot found itself the subject of unwanted attention this week, when an early customer complained of being shut out after the Google deal. A blog post by someone named Kevin (no last name supplied) had all the gory details, but Kevin then subsequently deleted it (note: I'd...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.A few weeks ago we were briefed by the co-founder of vFlyer, Oliver Muoto, about the changes and new features in their upcoming release. Oliver gave us a great overview of the service (which we will talk about a bit later) but...
This week Yahoo has released some new initiatives and polished up the design of existing content properties. Here is R/WW's summary of the action, along with some commentary...Yahoo TV re-design - and is Yahoo scaling back RSS?Yahoo TV has had a re-design, giving it a liberal sprinkling of Ajax and...
Searchfeed.com is one of a large group of so-called "second tier" PPC (Pay-Per-Click) search advertising networks - others include Kanoodle, InfoSeek, and Looksmart. SearchEngineWatch lists some more on this page (nb: it's 3 years old, but I couldn't find a more up-to-date list). The first tier services are Google AdWords...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.We have written before about the innovative Amazon Web Services Platform. This stack was officially announced by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos during the recent Web 2.0 summit and is now considered part of the core business strategy for Amazon. While analysts, competitors...
Increasingly marketing firms are using popular social networks on the Web as part of their campaigns - creating fake user profiles to sell their products. On one hand this is not a good thing for social networks, because the last thing they want is to be clogged up with marketing...
Ultrastar is a music fan site management company, started by David Bowie in the late 90's. They create and manage sites for a range of pop music acts - such as The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Sting, INXS and about 9 other acts. They emailed me today to...
Holotof is a network of "advertising creatives", which enables businesses to come and pitch them work - in the form of ad projects and campaigns. The idea then is that creatives submit ideas for the pitch and the client chooses the best one to work with. The site was launched...
Lloyd Sakazaki has written a good overview of recent trends in global websites. It is based on Alexa data, a stats source which comes under regular fire for its faults (most recently ex-Netscape boss Jason Calacanis took aim). Nevertheless, there are some interesting underlying trends in the Seeking Alpha article....
While in San Francisco earlier this month, I met up with Laszlo’s Founder and CTO, David Temkin, along with CMO Kent Libbey. Laszlo has an open source Ajax application development platform called OpenLaszlo - which has been used for external apps like Pandora (online radio and music sharing) and ishares.com...
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