Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! Kevin Rose is on stage talking about what Digg knows. He says they have 600k editors that digg stories. Yesterday they set a record for fastest story to hit digg frontpage – the Rumsfeld resignation story took just 4 minutes to hit the homepage after it was … Read more

comScore has released some intriguing data about Web usage internationally. They say that 14 of the top 25 US Web properties now attract more visitors from outside the US than from within. That includes the top 5 US properties – Yahoo! Sites, Time Warner Network, Microsoft, Google Sites, and eBay. This is significant because it’s … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! Today has already had a flurry of announcements and news. Here’s a brief wrap of them: Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth was introduced by Gary Flake at the conference. It’s an impressive 3D and photo analysis tool. Currently you can’t upload your own photos, so it’s more a … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! In the final session of the day, John Battelle chats with Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie. John starts with the now famous memo, which “leaked” (but it wasn’t leaked, according to Ray) – he asked Ray how it was progressing. Ray said the intent of the … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! This session at Web 2.0 Summit reunites two old Ask.com execs, current Ask CEO Jim Lanzone and former and ex-CEO and now senior vice president of the Online Services Group at Microsoft Steve Berkowitz (whom I interviewed a couple of days ago). 60-70% of Ask’s revenue historically … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! At last year’s Web 2.0 Conference, Mary Meeker of MorganStanley outlined how mobile and Asia were set for big growth. At this year’s Summit, Meeker focused on video and monetizing that. Mary speaks at a million miles per hour and data points go past faster than one … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen is talking to Tim O’Reilly on stage now. Bruce says that before the Macromedia acquisition, Adobe was a peripheral player on the Web – so the acquisition brought them back into the heart and soul of the Web. He talks about the importance … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! Day 2 at the Web 2.0 Summit and Jeff Bezos is on stage, talking about S3 and EC2. He says “we’re a small company with big ideas”, but they’ve been surprised at the level of interest in these services. He thinks people are excited because they can … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! The Launchpad at the Web 2.0 Summit is a popular event, the venue is packed. 13 companies have 5 minutes each. Here are some quick impressionistic views of how it went…. In the chair is a music-based video game, where people can interact with music – e.g. … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! I’m at a session at the Web 2.0 Summit called ‘Breaking Free: Working with Real Time Data, Online, Offline, and Outside of the Browser’. The speaker is Christophe Coenraets, a Senior Technical Evangelist from Adobe. He starts off by saying that Adobe is looking for a “high … Read more

Tonight I sat down with Microsoft executives Steve Berkowitz (Senior Vice President, Online Services Group) and Christopher Payne (Corporate Vice President, Live Search) to talk about their new 3D version of Virtual Earth. Microsoft is positioning Virtual Earth as “the beginning of the 3D Web”, a quote I heard from Steve Lawler (General Manager, Virtual … Read more

This WidgetsLive panel featured Adam Sah from Google Personalized Homepage, Sanaz Ahari from Microsoft’s Live.com, and Tariq Krim from Netvibes. After the usual product intros, the panel got more interesting with conversations steered by Niall Kennedy (the moderator). Niall started by asking about monetization. Sanaz said that being a homepage for Microsoft properties is key … Read more

I’m here at Widgets Live in San Francisco, where Dan Strauss and Don Synstelien from Fox Interactive Media are onstage talking about their new widget platform called SpringWidgets. The defining feature of this product is that it works on both the desktop (like Konfabulator) and in the browser (like Google widgets). However the desktop part … Read more

Tomorrow morning I’m traveling to San Francisco for next week’s Web 2.0 Conference. I attended it last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Read/WriteWeb’s coverage of the 2005 conference is here – and needless to say I’ll be pumping out the posts again this year. In association with the conference, a new Web 2.0 report has … Read more

This morning I participated in a conference call by MIT and the University of Southampton in Britain, announcing an initiative called Web Science. Tim Berners-Lee is leading the program, which is essentially about formalizing a new kind of scientific discipline called Web Science. The goal is to understand the deeper structure of the social Web … Read more