Richard MacManus

An AP report today states that Nielsen/NetRatings, one of the leading Internet stats services, will “scrap rankings” based on page views and replace it with how long visitors spend at websites. The reason is that online video and technologies such as Ajax “increasingly make page views less meaningful.” We’ve known for some time, but it’s … Read more

This week’s poll is an extension of our 2007 Half-Year Web Technology Report, which reviewed the first six months of this year in web technology. In that report, I noted that Google and Facebook have been the two companies to impress me so far this year. But what do you think? We’ve asked a similar … Read more

UPDATE: In discussions with MediaTemple after things had calmed down, we agreed that R/WW is better off on a single tenant server. For all its positive points and innovation, ultimately the Grid is a multi-tentant solution – which when you have a critical asset (as R/WW is for me) is probably not the ideal solution. … Read more

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 popular blog, Read/WriteWeb, from … Read more

Thank you to everyone who applied for the Read/WriteWeb writer roles we wrote about a couple of weeks ago. The response was amazing, with over 120 people applying. There were a lot of good applicants and the shortlist was brimming with talent. However we only had two part-time positions available and they have gone to: … Read more

Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Featured Posts To mark the halfway point of 2007, I wrote up a 2007 Half-Year Web Technology Report. This review showed that Google and Facebook … Read more

R/WW Network blog last100 has been busy reviewing new Internet TV services. This week last100 editor Steve O’Hear hands-on tested and wrote reviews of three Internet TV applications: VeohTV, which is pitching itself as a more open alternative to Joost; Zattoo, a p2p live streaming offering; and LiveStation, which like Zattoo also specializes in ‘live’ … Read more

Europe’s burgeoning startup culture just got another boost, with the launch of Seedcamp – a project to support Europe’s young entrepreneurs, by giving them funding and contacts. It’s very similar to Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator, the Paul Graham-led investment fund that specializes in early stage startups. We profiled Graham and Y Combinator in December last … Read more

One year ago, the new-look netscape.com launched. What was once the leading portal in the 90’s was re-born in June 2006 as a digg clone. Soon after the re-launch, there was an enormous uproar from the existing Netscape.com community – which, it turned out, were fairly ‘old school’ about what kind of portal they liked. … Read more

German courts have confirmed that Google’s fight for the G-mail trademark has been lost. 33-year old German businessman Daniel Giersch has won a case against Google, meaning that Google is not permitted to use the “Gmail” name in Germany. Giersch had registered ‘G-mail’ in 2000, four years before Google came out with its web mail … Read more

As it’s halfway through 2007, let’s take a look back on the highlights of the first half of the year. How is 2007 shaping up in terms of web technology trends and activity? Which companies have shined from January – June 2007? Well so far in 2007, there are two Web companies that in our … Read more

During the weekend we asked for feedback from readers and startups alike, about how your favorite web apps perform on the iPhone. The early feedback mostly reported issues with AT&T; getting the service up and running – e.g. Orlando commented that he bought the iphone on Friday at 7:00 pm, but “till now AT&T; has … Read more

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One of my pet peeves currently is when people badly submit an article to digg. It is bad for both digg readers (who may never get to see the article because it was dugg badly) and of course for the publishers. It’s definitely a flaw in the digg system. But there is a relatively easy … Read more

Google’s 2007 acquisition spree has continued, with the acquisition of GrandCentral – a service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account, which can be accessed from the web. Interestingly, Google says they bought GrandCentral because it fits well with their other services that “enhance the collaborative … Read more