The growing ranks of online marketers gathered this week at ad:tech Chicago. Big technology players like Google, DoubleClick, WebTrends, Omniture, and Advertising.com were present, along with email marketing firms, large online agencies, and whole raft of smaller players with new tools for RSS, mobile, and video advertising. The coolest new...
Bloggers have long used the blogroll as a way of linking to their compatriots and sharing traffic. But a blogroll has always just been just a static list of links, that on some blogs (especially among political bloggers, where they might be most popular) have become so bloated and long...
ZipGarage is a new site for garage sale enthusiasts to list and scout out local garage sales (or rummage sales, or yard sales, or whatever your preferred nomenclature) in the United States. The site is absolutely dead simple and completely free, and was created by 365Labs.Finding sales on ZipGarage is...
USAToday has an article today discussing the recent trend for startups to sell themselves on eBay. USAToday starts off with a joke:"What do Beanie Babies, Pez Dispensers and troubled Internet companies have in common? They're all for sale on eBay."eBay has become known as a quick and easy way to...
I'm on holiday all this week and during that time Josh Catone will be Guest Editor of Read/WriteWeb. You may remember Josh from such posts as Internet Killed The Television Star and Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One. Josh is a talented writer, as well as being co-founder...
In observance of Friday the 13th, I've put together a 'Revenge of the Weird Search Engines' poll. Check them out and vote for your favorite!1) Ghostly Gateway2) UFO Crawler3) Ujiko4) Talk Backwards5) Tin Finger6) Patriot Search7) Time Search8) Good Luck Finder9) Adverlicio.us10) Quotiki
"Good Morning, HAL.""Good Morning, Charles.""You were out pretty late last night, HAL.""I went to a party.""Oh. Who was there? Any bots that I know?""Just friends; the usual chatterbots.""Was SHE there?""Who?""Oh come on, HAL, you know who I mean. Was Ms. Dewey there?""Yes. She was with some bot.""Who?""OLIVER somebody." "You know she's...
Like many other web 2.0 geeks, today I woke up to Mike Arrington's elaborate April Fools joke that Techcrunch has acquired infamous dot com site F**kedCompany.com. It actually is 1 April where I live, but it wasn't until I had finished reading the article that I realised it was probably...
The "wisdom of crowds" is a popular web 2.0 buzzword, popularized by James SurowieckiÄôs book of the same name. At its most basic, the term means that two heads are better than one, and that still more heads will yield even better results.The wisdom of crowds is all around us...
Well our poll asking whether Ajax is a Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology resulted in 70% of you saying YES, it is a RIA technology. 22% said no and 8% admitted they don't know. Total poll contributers was 560.The conversation in the post was revealing though - i.e. it revealed...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. We wrote recently about the renewed web browser war between Microsoft and Mozilla (and some other, smaller, usually very innovative players). Our theory is that in 2006 a lot of the ground work for a major battle was laid out. Microsoft...
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus You may feel relatively satisfied with the current search offerings of Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN. Search today is undoubtedly much better than what it was in the second half of the 1990's. But Internet search is still in its infancy...
Written by Bjorn Fant and edited by Richard MacManus Sweden is a nation determined to be an international competitor in the IT arena. IT budgets in the private and public sector add up to 5% of Sweden's total National Growth Product; IT and entrepreneurship are a huge part of the...
IBM has been pretty slow to cotton onto the social Web, but this year they've started to embrace web 2.0 and ramp up its marketing (some would say hype) around it. While IBM has undeniably always been at the center of technology and innovation, it's taken them a couple of...
Continuing my series on international Web apps, today I'll be covering the top products in the United Kingdom market. In case you missed it, over the past week or so I've reviewed Germany, Holland, Poland and Korea. This week I've got more great non-Silicon Valley startups for you!The information for...
William Slawski has compiled two very useful lists of acquisitions, first by Google and now by Yahoo (see also The Guardian's list). I'll add the third, Microsoft's acquisitions as listed on their corporate site. From 2003 on:Nov. 3, 2005: FolderShare Nov. 3, 2005: media-streams.com AG Aug. 30, 2005: Teleo Inc. ...
Good, Dave Winer has returned to text format (at least for today) for his morning coffee notes. That means I can link to it. He wrote this morning:"Every company, not just tech companies, needs to have a presence in the blogging world, someone whose feet are planted both in the...
Kevin Donahue posts some RSS Aggregator stats for his FanBlogs network of sites - and I was taken aback to see who is number 1, by a long shot. No it's not Bloglines, as it is for most of the geek set. For football fans, a staggering 64.8% of FanBlogs.com...
At the risk of going off-topic, I'm currently deeply into IMHO the best album I've heard in years - Green Day's American Idiot. It's a concept album and I often wonder how such a thing could be done in blogging. It's common wisdom that a focused blog is the best...
You may be getting sick of '2.0' being stuck onto the end of everything, but I can't resist pointing to this excellent post by VC Fred Wilson. He characterises the mid-to-late 90's era of Web content creation companies like About.com (ex-The Mining Company), Geocities and Tripod as "blogging 1.0". The...
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