A new Forrester report by Erica Driver and Ron Rogowski suggests that rich Internet applications (RIAs) may usurp Microsoft Office and enterprise portals as the front-end UIs for “decision-makers and task-oriented workers”. The phrase Forrester uses for this front end is “Information Workplaces (IWs)”. RIAs in the enterprise; source: Forrester The report states that today, … Read more

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Last Monday I found out from my doctor that I have Diabetes (probably Type 1; I need more tests to confirm), which basically means high blood sugar. It was quite a surprise, as I have no family history of diabetes and it is relatively uncommon to get Type 1 diabetes in your 30’s. However, I … Read more

The NY Times has another of those ‘Mobile Web isn’t living up to the hype’ articles that have become so familiar since, oh, the late 90’s when WAP came onto the scene. The NYT quotes statistics from Rethink Research, stating that data will make up only 12 percent of average mobile phone revenue per user … Read more

Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Note: This is a shortened version of the Wrapup, due to Thanksgiving in the US. Here … Read more

Indian company InstaColl today formally launchedLive Documents, a mini-office suite of products similar to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Live Documents has already received plenty of press coverage, mainly because it was co-founded by Sabeer Bhatia – the man who famously sold web mail service Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million in 1998. Live Documents was … Read more

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, today published a blog post about what he terms the Graph, which is similar (if not identical) to his Semantic Web vision. Referencing both Brad Fitzpatrick’s influential post earlier this year on Social Graph, and our own Alex Iskold’s analysis of Social Graph concepts, Berners-Lee went on … Read more

At the risk of reporting rumors (ahem), I can’t resist making a note of this one. For the past couple of weeks we have been analyzing LinkedIn and comparing it to Facebook. When I say ‘we’, I mean Bernard Lunn. But it’s a topic a fewof us have written about in the past here at … Read more

Blog search engine Feedster has had the following notice on its frontpage for at least a few weeks now: There is no sign of life on the site and the Feedster blog has already been killed off (the big 404 in the sky). In terms of the blog search market in general, Feedster has been … Read more

We’ve discussed before on Read/WriteWeb about how we’ve entered The Digestion Phase of the Web, a term that Alex Iskold coined. He defined it as “a period of time for us to reflect, to integrate, and to understand recent technologies and how they fit together.” Tim O’Reilly has also been reflecting on how innovation has … Read more

I used to write a blog about ebooks – some of you may remember eBook Culture (alas I let the domain name slip and so it was gobbled up by a squatter). Anyway, as a lover of both books and the Web, the vision of an Internet-connected eBook Reader has been one of my obsessions … Read more

Our friends from Polldaddy, the online polling service we use here at RWW, have launched a new version of their site. The new features: New online survey tool; Addition of pro account for $20 per month – gives users more access to the site and allows removal of the link to PollDaddy in their polls; … Read more

A big Thanksgiving thank you to our sponsors for supporting Read/WriteWeb. We have an amazing line-up of sponsors, all supporting RWW’s mission to provide quality analysis about Web Technology. Quintura uses advanced visualization techniques to enhance the search engine user experience. Check out the Quintura Cloud on our network blog AltSearchEngines as an example (where … Read more

Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web News It was a relatively quiet week in Web news, after all the kerfuffle the … Read more

It’s the weekend – another hectic week has gone by. In this era of quick news fixes, PR regurgitation on tech blogs, and the ‘quantity over quality’ maxim most tech publishers follow, the blogosphere usually overlooks the longer, more meaningful blog posts. So with that in mind, here are 5 ‘must read’ blog posts from … Read more