Google has created a site called Google Gadget Ventures. Marissa Mayer will announce it this evening at the Searchonomics Conference in Santa Clara. It’s a pilot program, with the aim of “bootstrapping an economic ecosystem around gadgets” – according to a press email we received. The program has two separate monetary offers. The first is … Read more

With the excitement building about Apple’s iPhone, and lots of third party apps being developed for it, now is a good time to find out how many R/WW readers will be buying one – and if so, when? Please participate in our poll below: Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

As media and blog coverage of the iPhone release on Friday June 29 reaches boiling point, web app providers are frantically pumping out versions of their apps for the iPhone. CRM provider Etelos – which has already embraced other popular Web platforms like Google Apps, Netvibes, Pageflakes and Windows Live – announced on its blog … Read more

Just a quick update on my post last week, stating that Read/WriteWeb is looking for writers to do startup and web product reviews. The response has been overwhelming – over 100 people so far have emailed to say they’re interested. So it’s taking me longer to sift through the emails than I first thought (and … Read more

WebOS vendor Morfik has created a platform for developers to build applications for Apple’s iPhone, which is being released Friday night. Morfik claims this is the first development tool for the iPhone. Up till this point, no one had announced a development tool for the iPhone – although there have been suggestions by bloggers that … Read more

Tonight Microsoft is launching two more products into its suite of Windows Live branded consumer web apps – Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta and Windows Live Folders Beta. According to Microsoft, tonight also marks the beginning of the next stage of the Windows Live rollout. This “next generation” of Windows Live has the goal of … Read more

I know you don’t want to read another blog post about the People Ready controversy, which was ignited by Valleywag on Friday US and turned into an all-in brawl over the weekend. But I feel obligated to sum up my position on it, as one of the 6-7 bloggers at the center of the storm. … Read more

Dan Farber talked to LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman on Friday at the Supernova 2007 conference, and was told that over the next 9 months LinkedIn will deliver APIs for developers. It seems that LinkedIn has been hurried onto this open track due to the hype surrounding Facebook’s new open platform. Dan also reports … Read more

I’m bemused by the latest blogging ‘controversy’ to dominate Techmeme. Normally I don’t blog about these things, but this one has me as a central character – although I wasn’t mentioned in the Valleywag piece that started it all. The Silicon Valley gossip blog has a headline reading ‘Microsoft pays star writers to recite slogan’, … 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 This week we took an in-depth look at the state of the Web Office Suite market, concluding that Google Apps and Zoho were … Read more

One of the strongest, but least hyped, uses of web 2.0 technologies over the past couple of years has been e-learning. We’ve covered this topic extensively on Read/WriteWeb – and so we’re pleased to bring you this overview of e-learning 2.0, including the leading web apps and sites in this niche, and predictions for its … Read more

Read/WriteWeb is looking for writers to do startup and web product reviews. Currently we are being inundated with emails from startups wanting us to profile them, but it’s no longer something I can keep up with due to my R/WW Network duties (this is my way of saying sorry if I haven’t responded to your … Read more

According to recent Compete data, digg has overtaken Facebook in number of unique visitors and has grown 1400% in one year. Compete’s May 2007 data states that digg had 22.6 Million unique visitors, while Facebook had 20.2 Million. Facebook still has many more page views, 11 Billion to digg’s 250 Million – which says that … Read more

One of the new features on AltSearchEngines, the R/WW Network blog edited by Charles Knight, is The Great Debates. Every Tuesday night at 8pm EST / 5pm PST, ASE hosts a discussion between various alternative search engines. Their first debate was on Continuous Search and featured Swamii, Searchbots, and Allth.at. The second debate was on … Read more

Plenty happening in the digital lifestyle space this week. R/WW Network blog last100 reports on the following 3 stories: BitTorrent releases SDK for set-top-boxes and other devices: BitTorrent, the company behind the popular peer-to-peer file sharing technology, has announced the availability of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for consumer electronics devices. Perhaps the most enticing … Read more