2008

It’s time for our annual predictions post, in which the ReadWriteWeb authors look forward to what 2009 might bring in the world of Web technology and new media. Looking back at our 2008 Web predictions, we got some of them right! “The big Internet companies will [embrace] open standards” (Google, Yahoo and others did this); … Read more

One our favorite blogs about consumer Internet trends, TrendsSpotting, has just published a presentation about social media trends. The predictions were gathered from social media influencers, including ReadWriteWeb. Check out the slides below, and also our post from yesterday 2009: Predictions Across the Web. And stay tuned for ReadWriteWeb’s own annual predictions post, it’s coming … Read more

For the final RWW Live show of the year today, the ReadWriteWeb writers and a couple of special guests got together to review the year in Web technology. Joining host Sean Ammirati were Marshall Kirkpatrick, Sarah Perez and Richard MacManus from ReadWriteWeb. We had two special guests who joined the call while we were live: … Read more

Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do with the choices of us here at ReadWriteWeb. … Read more

Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to identify the ones that had the biggest impact. Last week we announced that Apple was our choice for Best BigCo of 2008. Today we’re announcing Best LittleCo and Most Promising Company, as selected by the ReadWriteWeb writers. There were a number of small … Read more

2008 has seen a proliferation of new Web platforms, including a few major ones built using open standards. In this final instalment of our series of top products of 2008, we choose the top 10 Web platforms of the year. We’ve written a lot of times about platforms for the Web. A web platform can … Read more

It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, we continued our Best Products 2008 series with 5 more lists – covering Mobile Web, Enterprise, ‘Real World’, Digital Lifestyle, and Alternative Search Engines. We also named our Best BigCo of the Year, the fifth year we’ve done … Read more

We all tend to think of fax machines as quaint, 20th century products that became irrelevant when the Internet came along. But in reality faxes are still the most efficient way to quickly deliver a signed business document. As with most office tasks these days, you can do faxing over the Internet and in many … Read more

Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to identify the ones we think had the biggest impact. Today we’re announcing the Best BigCo of 2008 and next week we’ll announce Best LittleCo and Most Promising Company – all selected by the ReadWriteWeb writers. In 2007 the Best BigCo went to Facebook, … Read more

Forterra Systems, a company aiming to bring virtual world technology to enterprises, will shortly release a report entitled Recipe for Success with Enterprise Virtual Worlds. ReadWriteWeb was given an exclusive first look at the report. It is based on pilots conducted with consulting firms Accenture and ACS, using Forterra’s virtual world product called OLIVE (On-Line … Read more

Podcasting has had its challenges over the past couple of years and we even once questioned whether it would survive! But at heart we at ReadWriteWeb love listening to podcasts, nearly as much as we love reading blogs. So we decided to find out the favorite podcasts of our readers and writers. We put the … Read more

OpenX, an open source ad server for web publishers, released statistics today to show its strong recent growth – especially in the last 6 months. We interviewed the CEO of OpenX, Tim Cadogan, about the data. We also wanted to know how OpenX compares with Google’s competitor Ad Manager, and we discovered how exactly OpenX … Read more

A report on Reuters claims that 2008 was a breakthrough year for radio on the Web, with a proliferation of new web and mobile apps for radio. The report states that Clear Channel has “long led the way” with innovative Web programing such as its “Stripped” concert series and “New” artist spotlight program, but also … Read more

It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, we continued our Best Products 2008 series with two more lists: Best Consumer Web Apps and Best RSS/Syndication Products. We also reported on Google’s Chrome browser coming out of beta and MySpace’s answer to Facebook Connect, MySpaceID. On … Read more

This week’s RWW Live, our regular podcast show, was on the topic of ‘shopping 2.0’. In Part 2 of our analysis of the show, we explore how e-commerce has evolved over the past few years – what web technologies our expert guests are currently using and the trends they’ve picked up on. We had 4 … Read more