Our post this week about GoogleOS led to some vigorous and fascinating discussion in Read/WriteWeb. 87 mostly thoughtful comments were left here, plus many more on Slashdot and Digg. To get a final, more succinct, picture of whether R/WW readers expect to see a GoogleOS - here is a poll...
I know, a predictable (almost tabloid-y) blog headline. But in this case, there really is some interesting back and forth going on between Microsoft and Google currently - especially with regards to office software.Firstly Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote an article for The Economist, in which he takes aim at...
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus.There's no such thing as the GoogleOS in reality - but despite that, it is one of the most talkedabout Web products. People can't stop discussing it - and even imagining screenshots for it! Seems like everyone expects Google to get into...
On my ZDNet blog last night I took a look at the evolving world of Web Office widgets. I noted that the personalized start page Pageflakes has just introduced a couple of new office "flakes" - a Calendar Flake and a Notepad Flake. They also have an existing Mail Flake,...
The BBC wonders if British mobile operator 3 has "discovered the holy grail of the mobile phone industry", simply by bundling some mobile web services together and making it flat rate pricing. Mobile Web expert Ajit Jaokar is very bullish on this news.3's new package is called X-Series and here's...
While I was in San Francisco I sat down to talk to Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic Inc - the company set up to leverage the popular open source blogging tool Wordpress. One of their main projects is WordPress.com, described as "a more limited version of WordPress that is hosted...
In the latest in Read/WriteWeb's coverage of international Web markets, we explore Hungary - a central European country of 10 million people. The information in this post was supplied by Hírbehozó, a professional journalist for online media company Index.hu. Hírbehozó told me there are not too many startups in Hungary....
The big news over the weekend is the publication of an internal memo by Yahoo senior VP Brad Garlinghouse, dubbed the 'Peanut Butter Manifesto'. The crux of it is that Garlinghouse says Yahoo as a company is unfocused and has too many product lines that cross over. Here is how...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. A pure TechCrunch goodness has descended on New York on this rainy evening. Ignoring the rain, hundreds of web 2.0 fans, venture capitalists and sponsors rushed to the sought after New York venue called B.E.D.The venue is famous for serving out-of-this-world...
Bambi Francisco from MarketWatch has an interesting interview with Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media. Rosenblatt was chairman of MySpace at the time it was sold to News Corp and it appears as if he's aiming just as big with Demand Media. According to MarketWatch:"Rosenblatt has raised more than $200 million...
Bill Gates spoke yesterday at the TechNet event at Stanford University. Here are his thoughts on what changes IT will make in society over the next 10 years:"Changes are now coming faster than ever. We'll be seeing more and more students using tablets instead of stacks of books in schools...
While at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I caught up with About.com CEO Scott Meyer. About.com is the long-standing network of how-to websites, purchased in March 2005 by the New York Times Company for $410 Million. Since that time About.com has continued to flourish - it has 31 Million...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.John Markoff's recent article in NY Times has generated an interesting discussion about Web 3.0 being the long-promised Semantic Web. For instance, a short post on Fred Wilson's blog had a lot of lengthy comments attempting to define Web 1.0, Web 2.0...
Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus.The term groupware refers to applications that facilitate real-time communication, coordination and collaboration amongst groups of people. A number of startups are working hard to develop the nascent groupware market, so in this post we identify some of those startups and provide an overview...
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!It's the end of a hectic week of conference-going for your R/WW correspondent - and so time for a wrap-up of my thoughts on the Web 2.0 Summit. Firstly, my overriding feeling is that this year's conference was a lot different from last...
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!This is the final session at the Web 2.0 Summit this year, a conversation with Yahoo co-founder David Filo and Bradley Horowitz (Yahoo's head of innovation).John says there's a vibe that Y! has slowed down somewhat in public perception, as opposed to Google....
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!Marissa Mayer from Google only has 10 minutes to speak at Web 2.0 Summit, so she gives a high level look at Google's use of Ajax in applications. She notes that the key reason they created Gmail in Ajax was speed. This is...
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!Today has already had a flurry of announcements and news. Here's a brief wrap of them:Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth was introduced by Gary Flake at the conference. It's an impressive 3D and photo analysis tool. Currently you can't upload your own photos, so...
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!I'm at a session at the Web 2.0 Summit called 'Breaking Free: Working with Real Time Data, Online, Offline, and Outside of the Browser'. The speaker is Christophe Coenraets, a Senior Technical Evangelist from Adobe. He starts off by saying that Adobe is...
Tonight I sat down with Microsoft executives Steve Berkowitz (Senior Vice President, Online Services Group) and Christopher Payne (Corporate Vice President, Live Search) to talk about their new 3D version of Virtual Earth. Microsoft is positioning Virtual Earth as "the beginning of the 3D Web", a quote I heard from...
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