Richard MacManus

Davide Casaleggio sent a tip to Read/WriteWeb about a video his company produced exploring the future of media. It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and imaginative) guesses at how the Web and media will evolve over the next 40-50 years. In the short movie, Google, Amazon.com and Second Life are … Read more

Plenty of interest this week in our poll, asking which online collaboration platform do you use? So far, after over 1,100 votes, Google Apps is way out in front – 47% of respondents use it. Basecamp is next with 20%, with Zoho on 10% and ThinkFree 6%. The two Microsoft options, Office Groove and Office … Read more

Last month at the D conference, Real Networks announced the next version of RealPlayer, which features one-click downloading and saving of online video. This week last100 editor Steve O’Hear got his hands on RealPlayer 11 and thoroughly tested it. Steve reported that RealPlayer 11 has a cleaner installation process, a UI similar to iTunes, and … Read more

Yesterday was the Day Without Google, a one-day blog event organized by AltSearchEngines. A lot of people tried to last a day without using Google’s ubiquitous search engine, and in this post we take a look at the results. TheRegister has already covered the event, in an article provocatively entitled Blog calls for Google boycott. … Read more

Co-founder of Clipperz, Marco Barulli, recently contacted Read/WriteWeb to let us know about their recently launched online password manager – available in both english and Japanese. In this age of social networks, the Web Office and Best of Breed web apps, it can get tricky to keep track of all your usernames and passwords. I … Read more

Today Flickr is launching in seven additional languages, including French, German, Spanish, Japanese and the Hong Kong dialect of Chinese. I spoke with co-founder and head of Flickr, Stewart Butterfield, about the news – and also found out the meaning behind the “loves you” label currently on Flickr’s logo! More on that below. Flickr now … Read more

Are you ready to spend a whole day, today (Tuesday), without using Google? There are literally hundreds of alternative search engines to choose from. Once again here are the ‘ground rules’, as prepared by AltSearchEngines editor Charles Knight: 1. All day Tuesday, June 12th, don’t use any of the 5 major search engines. 2. Avoid … Read more

Babelgum, an Internet TV competitor to Joost, is in limited beta and has started to send out invites. You may’ve seen them already on other sites, but if you haven’t got an invite yet then click here to go to the Read/WriteWeb/last100 Babelgum signup page. Note: the app is Windows only. last100 has covered both … Read more

This week’s poll was requested by a reader, who wanted to find out what online collaboration platforms R/WW readers used. The email I received noted: “While mass services such as myspace and facebook get a lot of coverage, there’s not a lot of data showing how well collaborative platforms do. I think that your audience … Read more

Last week I was briefed on the new online advertising platform that Tumri is launching today. Flush with $16.5 million in investment and already well covered by business tech blogs, Tumri is building out a widget-based Merchandising Network that it hopes will be The Next Big Thing in online advertising – after Google Adsense. Tumri … Read more

AltSearchEngines is asking everyone to go one day, this Tuesday (whatever your timezone may be), without using one of the major search engines; Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, or Ask. This was inspired by a similar Between The Lines experiment. AltSearchEngines editor Charles Knight wants everyone to try one of the alt search engines in his … Read more

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This week the winners of the 11th annual Webby Awards, billed nowadays as the “Oscars of the Internet”, were announced at a ceremony in New York. Much of the publicity was over the fact that David Bowie was there (Prince attended last year). But other than that, what were the highlights of the Webbys? In … Read more

last100 reports that Joost, a hot Internet TV startup from the founders of Skype, may come out with a set-top-box (i.e. allowing Joost to connect to a TV) and a mobile version of their product. Right now Joost is a browser-based app. But it certainly makes sense to bring Joost more into the living room … Read more

Today I traveled to Sydney, Australia for a Web 2.0 forum. Most of the top Aussie web 2.0 startups were in attendance, as well as an interesting mix of Australian business people and executives in the audience. I got the sense that Australian big business is interested in utilizing new web technologies, and I made … Read more