Richard MacManus

Editor’s note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommer chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days. Mashable founder Pete Cashmore is described as “studly” in Dan Frommer’s article Rise of the Tech … Read more

Editor’s note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommer chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days. Blog network Weblogs, Inc. sold to AOL in October 2005, for a reported $25 million. I … Read more

Editor’s note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommer chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days. TechCrunch launched on June 11, 2005, with the aim of covering the emerging trend called Web … Read more

Early Internet of Things innovator gets a makeover and a new name: Cosm. It’s attempting to become more social, but unfortunately it’s likely to turn normal people off – rather than turn them on. When we first started profiling the emerging trend of Internet of Things back in 2009, one startup stood out as an … Read more

Over the weekend, Yahoo’s embattled CEO Scott Thompson finally did the honorable thing and stood down. Ex-President of News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media division, Ross Levinsohn, has been named interim Chief Executive Officer. Hedge fund shareholder Daniel Loeb – whose firm Third Point owned 5.8% of Yahoo – and his three cronies have effectively won … Read more

“I believe the shift toward apps is about user experience.”Benjamin Sandofsky, Tech Lead on Twitter for iPhone, iPad, and Mac Apps vs. The Mobile Web. It’s often presented by the media as an either/or, winner-takes-all proposition. Usually accompanied by an “X is Dead” headline. Wired Magazine (in)famously declared that “The Web is Dead” in 2010. … Read more

“If it can be done on the Web, build it for the Web; if it can’t, build an app.” Alex Schleifer, GM of the Media Lab at SAY Media Thanks to Apple’s iOS and Google’s open source Android OS, smartphone and tablet apps have enjoyed a period of astounding success over the past few years. … Read more

Video content is one of the fastest growing categories online. Television networks are scrambling to keep up, because the success stories so far have been smaller entities creating highly targeted and Web native content. The most successful video content producer right now is a company called Machinima, currently in the middle of an investment round … Read more

Last week it was revealed that current Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson had falsified his résumé, by including a degree in computer science that he never earned. The man who dug up this piece of dirt was hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, whose firm Third Point owns a 5.8% shareholding in Yahoo! and who has been … Read more

Over the weekend Facebook bought another mobile social app, this time a product called Glancee. One of the leading apps in a very new category known as “ambient location,” Glancee and its main competitor Highlight were the most talked about apps at this year’s SXSW Interactive conference in March. Highlight won the popularity contest amongst … Read more

Today, the latest Android challenge to Apple’s iPhone was announced: Samsung’s Galaxy S III. Android is the only other smartphone OS competitive with Apple’s iOS and over 2011, Samsung established itself as the world’s leading vendor of Android-based devices. The predecessor of the Galaxy S III, the II model, was widely considered to be the … Read more

The latest trend in smartphone apps is social video. That’s because ever since Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 Billion, attention has focused on video sharing apps and whether one of them will win the next Zuckerberg lottery. The two leading contenders are Socialcam and Viddy. ReadWriteWeb’s Alicia Eler profiled those two apps, along with a … Read more

Earlier this week, we reviewed how mainstream social networks are being used to track the things you care about – such as art, baseball or cooking. Our conclusion was that Twitter is the best way to do this currently, because it’s easy to track topics and converse with other people about them. Google+ has some … Read more

Yesterday we discussed the trend of beautiful apps and websites in 2012. It’s an increasingly Visual Web and great design is a key part of getting attention nowadays. We put the call out over social media to find out your favorite examples of gorgeous apps. In this post, with your help, we’ve listed 10 examples … Read more

A noticeable trend this year is beautiful apps or websites. It’s all part of a larger trend that I’m calling The Visual Web, meaning that images and video are becoming an increasingly important part of what we consume online. Pinterest is the best example of that larger trend. But by “beautiful apps or websites,” I’m … Read more