Today Six Apart will release a new version of its Movable TypeEnterprise edition. I spoke to Anil Dash (a SixApart VP) and Chris Alden (EVP and GM of Movable Type – formally CEO of Rojo) about the upgrade and to discuss the future of Movable Type. Some of the more ‘experienced’ bloggers will remember the … Read more

The Product (RED) campaign is sweeping the world, thanks to some heavyweight backing from celebrities (Oprah, Bono) and brand names (Apple, American Express, Armani). It’s a great cause, because for each (RED) branded product or service sold, a part of the profit goes to the fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Africa. Some prominent … Read more

To further Read/WriteWeb’s continuing look at the Web Office space, I spoke again recently with Joe Kraus – CEO of JotSpot. What started out as a wiki company, is slowly but surely morphing into a Web Office suite contender. Although JotSpot does not actually position itself in that way – they’re positioned as a kind … Read more

IBM has been pretty slow to cotton onto the social Web, but this year they’ve started to embrace web 2.0 and ramp up its marketing (some would say hype) around it. While IBM has undeniably always been at the center of technology and innovation, it’s taken them a couple of years to marry their ‘traditional’ … Read more

Web security firm Finjan has just released a report outlining “sophisticated new threats that target Web 2.0 platforms and technologies.” According to the report, this web security threat “centers on the use of Web 2.0 and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technologies for malicious activities.” Finjan acknowledges that Web 2.0 and AJAX technologies enable a … Read more

Written by Sebastian Moser from Austria and edited by Richard MacManus With 4.6 million internet users (a penetration rate of 56.8%) and a broadband penetration rate of 61.8%, Austria is a little bit above the average for the European Union in internet usage. Besides the Internet, 8 million people use a mobile phone – which … Read more

In our previous post, written by John Milan, we explored the emerging world of “social business applications” – where Internet-connected data is synchronizable and accessible anywhere, online and offline. It’s a fascinating article and I highly recommend you take the time to read it, if you’re at all interested in the next generation of Web … Read more

The new combined Writely (online word processing) and Google Spreadsheets interface has just gone live, under the name Google Docs & Spreadsheets. The Writely.com site now re-directs to http://docs.google.com and the Writely brand has been replaced by the usual no-frills Google brand. The homepage allows you to tag and sort your files. There are also … Read more

Both Google and Zoho will be announcing new office product offerings at tomorrow’s Office 2.0 conference. Steve Bryant from eWeek reports: “Google will announce tomorrow at the Office 2.0 conference a new product called Google Docs, which will merge Writely and Google Spreadsheets into a collaboration and document management solution, according to sources.” Google Docs … Read more

With Microsoft’s IE7 just around the corner and the other big Internet companies upgrading key information management products, 2007 is going to be the ‘make it or break it’ year for RSS. Fergus Burns noted these 4 key platforms, which are all set to ramp up over the next 6-12 months (my notes added): 1. … Read more

Co-written with Neeraj Kumar of India Upcoming It’s an exciting time for the economy in India, which is also reflected in its Web market. India has 1.1 Billion people and the average age of the nation is just 24.9 years. The Indian GDP is growing at 8% + and after years of dependence on the … Read more

Well turns out the speculation, which was first reported on Techcrunch on Friday, was true. Google has acquired YouTube for $1.65 Billion in stock. Out of all the reports, the thing that most strikes me is how much Google believes video is the future of the Internet. As Paul Kedrosky put it in his excellent … Read more

For those of us who can’t make the Office 2.0 conference, there is an Office 2.0 Podcast Jam running all this week. I contributed a 5-minute podcast, which was chosen as the keynote to kick off the jam. My topic was: Why Web Office Software is a New Paradigm, Different from Desktop Office Software. I’m … Read more

Zoho announced during the weekend the Zoho Single Sign-on (SSO), which allows existing users to merge their different Zoho services accounts into one. As of now the Zoho Single Sign-on currently covers the following 6 services: Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, Zoho Creator, Zoho Planner and Zoho Chat. I asked AdventNet CEO Sridhar Vembu … Read more

For those busy souls who don’t have time to read blogs on a regular basis, here are the highlights from Read/WriteWeb this week. It turned out to be a Social Networking special, with a lot of our posts devoted to the future of social networks. Google SNS integration The founders of Dodgeball and Orkut met … Read more