Richard MacManus

Gotuit Media, an established player in on-demand video, today announced the launch of its new broadband video portal – Gotuit.com. I got a sneak peak of the new portal and spoke with Mark Pascarella (president of Gotuit Media) and David Laubner (Director of Product Marketing) about the launch. Gotuit.com is a free service. It offers … Read more

SiliconBeat has published a list of all “Web 2.0 companies” that received venture backing over 2005 and so far in 2006. The list was created by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. In the comments to SiliconBeat’s post, two prominent 2.0 VCs have dissed the list. Peter Rip thinks it’s “ridiculous”, saying that “Web … Read more

Long-time readers of Read/WriteWeb may recall that I used to do a weekly summary of the top stories of the week, called the Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up. It ran all through 2005 and for a long time was the most popular feature on R/WW. I decided to put it to one side at the start … Read more

Netscape boss Jason Calacanis has offered to essentially buy out the top users on Digg, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit for $1000 per month: “We will pay you $1,000 a month for your “social bookmarking” rights. Put in at least 150 stories a month and we’ll give you $12,000 a year. (note: most of these … Read more

The June 2006 edition of Business 2.0 magazine lists the 100 fastest-growing tech companies of 2006. One trend that has emerged is that online advertising has replaced retailing as the Web sector that is most in demand. While in 2005 eBay was ranked 14 and there were two other retail companies in the top 20, … Read more

Markus Frind is one of the more disruptive (and therefore interesting) bloggers to emerge this year. He’s the guy who burst onto the scene with claims that he’s making $10,000 per day off his online dating site PlentyOfFish.com. I actually met Markus in person last month at the Supernova conference and I can confirm he’s … Read more

Digg.com is not only a thriving community and great source for news, it’s also an increasingly influential website for bloggers and website owners. It can be a heavy driver of revenue-generating traffic and can also help make your website viral (= popular). Given its growing importance then, I thought I’d investigate digg’s stats and identify … Read more

The new-look Ajax-powered Yahoo.com homepage goes live in the US on Monday and will roll out to other regions during the rest of July. Read/WriteWeb exclusively profiled the “preview” two months ago and now it is ready to be the default homepage for Yahoo’s 500 million users. The new homepage – which utilizes ‘Web 2.0’ … Read more

Wufoo is a new web app that enables users to create their own web forms. I have to disclaim that Kevin Hale, the guy who re-designed my blog, is one of the people behind Wufoo – so I’m somewhat biased in writing about it. But to balance that, I’ll also mention other companies who have … Read more

If you’ve visited R/WW over the past week you’ll have noticed a new design has been rolled out. The designer was Kevin Hale of Particletree, who did a superb job. I want to thank Kevin very much for his hard work on the design and for the end result, which I’m delighted with! There are … Read more

RealNetworks is announcing today an enhanced set of Rhapsody Web services APIs and RSS feeds, along with a 3-month competition aimed at getting developers to build on their platform. Rhapsody is one of the biggest music subscription services on the Web. It has over 2 million tracks in its library, which users can listen to … Read more

Written by Ken Yarmosh, a Read/WriteWeb Guest Blogger On average, I hear a Match.com commercial on the radio about once a day. In referring to their user base, their catch phrase goes something like, “there are over 15 million reasons to use Match.com.” Well, they may want to re-think this selling point because MySpace has … Read more

Yahoo has issued a rather hoity-toity response to Hitwise’s stats that claimed MySpace is now the number 1 domain on the Web. Sniffs Yahoo in its official statement: “The report that Hitwise released today with the headline “MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites” is misleading. The Yahoo! network is made up of … Read more

Ex-Yahooligan Ravi Dronamraju noted a couple of months ago (I’ve only just seen it) a subtle but important point about Yahoo’s new Ajaxified homepage: “This homepage dropped the concept of website directory completely. I guess the transformation is complete. Yahoo! is now more about showing people in and around yahoo! network and not about showing … Read more

– List of Social Networking Systems (including their target audiences; very useful resource from Sid Yadav) – MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites (according to Hitwise, www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users) – Rise of the Socially-Integrated Media Empire (Robert Young … Read more