Twitter has been a runaway success since the status message inspired web app launched about a year ago. Its rapid adoption, ease of use and extensibility resulted in a lot of excited developers taking Twitter's best bits and mixing them up to their own ends. FranticIndustries and the Twitter Fan...
This Monday morning in New Zealand, my local Wellington newspaper The Dominion Post ran a story about Read/WriteWeb. Seeing as the focus of the article is making a living off blogging, I thought I'd add some more thoughts on that. The DomPost article states:"Richard MacManus runs the world's 28th most...
This Tuesday social web browser Flock will release Version 0.9, as they inch towards the full 1.0. Version 0.9 is currently available to early adopters as a 'Release Candidate'. I had an in-depth chat with Flock's CEO Shawn Hardin last week and I have been testing the 0.9 version too....
Newspaper circulation has been on the decline over the past few years, but the traffic to newspaper websites continues to rise. Interestingly, the area of newspaper websites that has experienced the most growth is blogs, perhaps proving that new media formats are beginning to usurp old media in earnest.As we...
On Monday the blog Inside Facebook broke the story that the Facebook-only application Favorite Peeps had been acquired by slideshow creator Slide (and Slide confirmed to me yesterday that they had reached an agreement with the creator of Favorite Peeps). The rumored acquisition price was $60,000. This is the second...
Quick background: In April, Google sent a 50-page white paper to the US Department of Justice asserting that Microsoft was violating its 2002 antitrust settlement by not allowing outside desktop search engines (such as Google's own Desktop Search application) to be installed in Windows Vista. Microsoft initially denied the claims,...
The other day I tracked down another early alpha-testing startup called Fairtilizer, which is an online music community aspiring to define a new generation of music media. The premise behind this startup is that user generated music media is a threshold where online recommendations, distribution, artists and labels will pass...
I'm attending Supernova this year and will be covering the event for Read/WriteWeb. In addition to attending various panels, I participated in the conference today by giving a quick presentation as part of the challenge roundtable at the end of the first day. My topic was titled: The First Principle...
Scouta is a web app that provides you with media recommendations, based on preferences and interests you display by your selections within the application. If that sounds complicated, think Pandora, but for all media on the web (including media available outside the US). Or think Last.FM without the fuss about...
Yumondo is an "urban stylesharing" social network startup currently in private beta testing, that claims it will set new standards for community on Web 2.0. The site approaches community from a place and style standpoint. The vision is obviously one of creating local communities that branch outward (from a distinct...
By Dr. Riza C. Berkan, Founder & CEO, hakia.comEditor's Note: This is a guest post by the CEO of Hakia, Dr Riza C. Berkan. I want to stress that this post is NOT an advertorial - in fact I made it a condition of publication that the post should focus...
Over the past few years, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen's star has been waning. Ever since the web 2.0 trend started to become popular (around 2004 till now), Nielsen's 'keep it simple' design philosophy has failed to ignite the new generation of designers. But it's not the 'keep it simple'...
We have already discussed Yahoo! Travel and TripAdvisor from a Web 3.0 perspective. Continuing our look at the online travel industry we will evaluate Travelocity next.Travelocity, launched in 1996, is an online travel agency, and is owned by Sabre Holdings. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Travelocity is ranked number two among the...
Continuing Read/WriteWeb's series on international web apps, I bring you a sample of all that the emerald isle has to offer. 20 years ago Ireland was a sleepy backwater with high unemployment and mass emigration. Jobs were rare and the only new startups were farms. But all of that changed...
Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event. The last panel I attended on the first day of SXSW was entitled "Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: The Impact on Scientific Publishing". The panel was moderated by John Wilbanks from...
Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb.Top Web NewsThe launch of Google Apps Premier Edition was the big news this week. In our view, this represented a significant (but not earth-shattering) step forward for Google - in its bid to create a web-based Office Suite....
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus Music makes us happy. So happy in fact that we shake, smile and fork off billions of dollars every year on it. So it is not an accident that music is one of the most popular forms of media online.Because the...
Written by David Lenehan of Polldaddy and edited by Richard MacManus. This is David's account of the first day of the FOWA conference in London. Photos in this post are by donkeyontheedge (I hope he doesn't mind me using them). The Future Of Web Apps 2007 kicked off in London...
Yet another social network launched publicly today, but this one called Change.org caught my eye for a couple of reasons. Firstly it's for a great cause - enabling people to form communities around social issues like global warming and Net Neutrality. But it's also a very well designed site that...
Written by Jitendra Gupta of KarmaWeb and edited by Richard MacManus On the internet it is easy to pretend to be somebody else. DonÄôt like your name, adopt a new one. DonÄôt like the way you look, Photoshop your picture. Think you are too young or too old, select a...
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