Less than 12 hours after we posted our review of the Web Office Suite space, Google has seemingly put the last piece of the jigsaw in place for their suite. Today Google announced it has acquired the assets of Zenter, “a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations.” This technology will be added … Read more

This morning Zoho will release their latest Web Office app, Meeting, as a public beta. It’s a good opportunity to consider what progress each of the main Web Office vendors is making towards a full Web Office Suite. For this post, we’ll consider Google Apps, Microsoft Office Live, Zoho, ThinkFree, and Zimbra. There are others … Read more

Spain/US-based MyStrands announced today that it’s raised $25 Million “to lead the social recommendation industry”. MyStrands is a music discovery and social networking site that covers the PC, mobile and physical worlds. We wrote about MyStrands’ technology in January, at which point it had announced a re-vamp. MyStrands is based on “behavior-based recommendation technologies” and … Read more

Firefox is a browser that can be extended and enhanced in many ways – chief among those being Add-ons, which give you more functionality or perhaps just a new theme. In fact sometimes they give you a full-blown web app, like Yoono, BlogRovr or Trailfire. We’ve written about Firefox add-ons a number of times on … Read more

Fred Wilson has a slightly provocative post this weekend addressing The Age Question, suggesting that it is “harder for anyone older than 30 to get funded in the web services market”. Dave Winer and others vigorously disagree. But I didn’t take offense at Fred’s central premise, even though I’m 35 (the same age as Marc … 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 Stories This week was dominated, at least on the Read/WriteWeb Network, by the Day Without Google – and its results. The idea was to … Read more

Ever since Facebook announced its open platform at the end of May, I have been receiving a flurry of emails from friends and blog buddies wanting to connect on Facebook. It could be just the ‘in thing’ with early adopter blogger types, but maybe it’s more than that. It could be the tipping point for … Read more

Last week we profiledeyeOS, which had just launched its 1.0 version. This week the eyeOS team contacted me to claim that a new competitor, MyBooo, has broken the Open Source license of eyeOS 0.9.x and is using it as a base for their project. The WebOS space is made up of a number of small … Read more

If you ever wanted to know what I look and sound like, here I am courtesy of Ross Dawson and One Minute World, a neat new service that specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices. And to preempt the comments – yes I do sometimes smile; and no, I don’t know … Read more

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