Disclosure: Read/WriteWeb will be going live shortly with a custom Eurekster search box. One of the big pieces of news this week has been Google’s new Custom Search Engine. It’s noticeable not because it’s an innovative product, but more because Google is most definitely a follower and not a leader when it comes to custom … Read more

The moment has arrived, Mozilla has pushed the go-live button on Firefox 2. The new final 2.0 version of the browser is now available for everyone to download. Read/WriteWeb has been actively covering the launch, most recently with a pre-launch interview with Chris Beard – Mozilla Vice President of Products. We’ve also reviewed the product … Read more

This afternoon Firefox 2 will be officially launched. In anticipation of the unveiling, here is an in-depth interview with Chris Beard (Mozilla Vice President of Products). Subjects discussed in the interview include the growing enterprise usage of Firefox, the importance of user experience and security, Mozilla’s theory behind Web feeds and why they haven’t included … Read more

Following hot on the heels of the Microsoft-powered NY Times Reader, Adobe has released Adobe Digital Editions Beta – a Rich Internet Application (RIA) for digital publishing and reading. The product enables users to acquire, read, and manage content such as eBooks and other digital publications. This market is ramping up quickly in late 2006, … Read more

freenigma is a Firefox plug-in that offers e-mail encryption to a whole range of Web email systems – including Gmail, Yahoo!Mail and Hotmail/MSN. It is a product of Germany-based freiheit.com. freenigma came out of public beta at the end of September and is now open to all – but you still have to enter your … Read more

Written by Bjorn Fant and edited by Richard MacManus Sweden is a nation determined to be an international competitor in the IT arena. IT budgets in the private and public sector add up to 5% of Sweden’s total National Growth Product; IT and entrepreneurship are a huge part of the cultural agenda; and Swedish success … Read more

Disclaimer: I am testing out Trailfire as part of a consulting agreement. Full details below. At the beginning of September I posted about Trailfire, a unique social bookmarking service that reminded me at the time of Vannevar Bush‘s 1945 pre-hypertext concept The Memex. Essentially what Trailfire does is enable you to place annotations on any … Read more

This past week we had some excellent posts and discussions on Read/WriteWeb. In fact I was literally exhausted by the end of the week and it’s taken me a couple of days to recover from all the goings on 🙂 It’s Monday morning where I am, but before we head full throttle into the new … Read more

I recently signed up to MyBlogLog, which is a kind of instant social networking system for bloggers. It enables you to set up a community around your blog and – optionally – add statistics. More details of MyBlogLog can be found at Techcrunch and A VC. I’ve added a ‘Recent Readers’ widget to R/WW (see … Read more

This post may ring a bell for all the non-Silicon Valley readers. Firstly an admission: I hardly ever write about my home country, New Zealand. The reason for that is mostly down to demographics: just 1% of Read/WriteWeb’s page views come from my own country. The US, UK and Canada are where the bulk of … Read more

This week I spoke to Chris Beard, Mozilla’s vice president of products. Among other things we discussed how Firefox 2.0 is going to be marketed. I was going to save this for the full write-up of my interview with Chris Beard, but reading Chris Messina’s post today about IE7 made me want to address it … Read more

Disclaimer: SocialText is a competitor of Atlassian, one of our sponsors. This week I spoke to Ross Mayfield, CEO of wiki company SocialText, about “Enterprise 2.0”. To put it very crudely, Enterprise 2.0 means blogs and wikis in the enterprise. According to Ross and others, Enterprise 2.0 is slightly different to the “Office 2.0” or … Read more

Disclosure: Pageflakes is a sponsor of Read/WriteWeb. It’s the season of v2.0 launches! The personalized start page Pageflakes has undergone a major upgrade to its interface, which has just gone live today. Back in May I posted about Pageflakes’ page publishing feature, which enables users to share their pages with other people – as read-only … Read more

In our recent Social Bookmarking Faceoff, we discovered that social bookmarking site StumbleUpon actually has more users than the more hyped del.icio.us. Currently StumbleUpon has 1,375,696 users, according to its About page. Recently del.icio.us announced it had reached 1 million users. I grew even more curious about StumbleUpon’s success after reading the comments on a … Read more

Back in February I wrote a post entitled Rating the Meme Trackers. At the time I rated Memeorandum (now known as Techmeme) as the best, but I thought Topix and Tailrank were right up there too. Tailrank has just launched a new version, labeled – you guessed it – Tailrank 2.0. It has a new … Read more