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A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN, which we concluded was a good ‘Influence Index’ for the Web. ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions. Unlike analytics services like Alexa or Compete, ://URLFAN doesn’t measure website traffic. It’s similar to Technorati, only ://URLFAN ranks all websites and not just blogs. … Read more

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we explain why augmented reality is ramping up (and look at three new iPhone examples), analyze the top websites in the U.S., check out new Twitter statistics suggesting that teens don’t tweet, review recent Wikipedia changes, and … Read more

Annual changes of note: Facebook #5 with a rocket; Twitter entered Top 50 in June; Demand Media, Answers.com and Break Media sites to watch. comScore has just released their latest Media Metrix rankings for the Top 50 U.S. Web Properties. If we compare the top 50 to one year ago, we see that the top … Read more

Our post a few weeks ago, 10 Future Web Trends, received a lot of excellent feedback. The most interesting was from people offering alternative future web trends to the ones we had chosen. In fact there were some grumblings that our 10 picks were not futuristic enough – so in this post let’s see if … Read more

A big thank you to our sponsors for supporting Read/WriteWeb. Wine Library TV is one of my favorite video blogs. In the latest episode Gary Vaynerchuk checks out some California Chardonnay. Zoho is a leading Web Office suite, with probably the most comprehensive product range of all the online office suites. Last week they introduced … Read more

It’s Apple Showtime today and as usual, plenty of great coverage to sort through. Here is a quick filter of the news, with a focus on Web-related announcements from Apple. iPod and iTunes forge ahead in online media The iPod now has 75.6% market share, according to Apple. The range of ‘devices’ it connects to … Read more

Web design firm 37Signals has kindly given me 5 copies of their 171-page PDF book, Getting Real, to give away. Retailing for $19 on the 37Signals website, the book is sub-titled ‘The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application’. Given that I named 37Signals my Best Web LittleCo of 2005, I think … Read more

Ben Barren’s written an excellent series of posts about his favorite features to flip. Here’s his top ten: #1 – Podcasting Ratings #2 – Better Blogging Tools #3 – MySpace meets Linkedin #4 – Non-Text RSS Reader #5 – RSS Search/Reader Attention Glue #6 – Images for Adsense #7 – Podcasting Creation Tool #8 – … Read more