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title: "Read/WriteWeb Sponsors And Contributers"
date: 2006-09-04
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/WriteWeb Sponsors And Contributers

Read/WriteWeb is growing. Last month was a record month in traffic, by a long shot. And after over 4 years of blogging, last month was also the first month I’ve managed to earn enough from R/WW to ‘pay’ for the time I spend writing and editing it. So R/WW is now a professional publication in that sense, although I prefer to think it always has been in terms of how much work has gone into it! 🙂 My commitment going forward is to build R/WW into *the resource* for Next Generation Web Technology analysis and news.

I have two groups of people I want to provide a shout-out to. Thank you Read/WriteWeb’s initial sponsors (in order of arrival here):

- [Atlassian](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://www.atlassian.com/) is from my part of the world and they provide innovative enterprise software solutions, so they’re a perfect fit for R/WW. And because they were first on board as a R/WW sponsor, they got the top banner spot 😉
- [Zoho](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://www.zoho.com/) is another very innovative Enterprise company and they are building one of my favorite product types – a Web Office.
- [Flock](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://redir.flock.com/redir?component=external&partner=readwriteweb&distcode=flock&action=download&extra=banner&ref=readwriteweb-001&content=readwriteweb-001) is developing a social web browser and they are definitely one of the most innovative browsers around right now.
- [Pageflakes](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://www.pageflakes.com/?source=08704be4-7729-4e48-9beb-92d799a2fb65) is one of my favorite types of applications – a personalized start page. There’s so much creativity in this space and with 100 widgets and counting, Pageflakes is one of the very best and most productive.
- [Text Link Ads](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://www.text-link-ads.com/starter_kit.php?src=RRW) creates simple text ads which drive targeted traffic and grow your search engine rankings. Go check them out if you’re a blogger wanting to make money.

Thanks also to [FM Publishing](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://www.federatedmedia.net/), who have been a great help. It’s important to note that all of these sponsors **allow me to devote more time to R/WW**, which means I can continue to grow the site and provide even more quality content.

Also a huge thanks to the guest contributers R/WW has had over the past few months, who have all helped to make R/WW what it is today. While I don’t (yet?) earn anywhere enough to pay them for their troubles, it’s my aim to make sure it’s a win-win for them in terms of exposure. So thank you [Alex Iskold](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://www.adaptiveblue.com/), [Ebrahim Ezzy](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://qelix.com/blog), [Steve O’Hear](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://www.ohear.net/), [Ken Yarmosh](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://www.technosight.com/), [Ryan Stewart](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://www.digitalbackcountry.com/), [Ajit Jaokar](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172437/http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/) – who have all at some stage or another this year contributed to Read/WriteWeb.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_sponsors_contributers.php))*