Just a bit of admin: we’ve now introduced RSS feeds for comments onto Read/WriteWeb. On each post you’ll see a “Subscribe to comments for this post” link (just under the Comments header). If you want to subscribe to comments for all posts, there is a single feed for that: http://www.readwriteweb.com/comments.xml I’m hoping this makes it … Read more

Interesting LA Times article about how Google is re-focusing on improving and integrating its current products, rather than pumping out new products willy-nilly. Included in the article is this quote about ‘Google Office’: “The initiative’s primary goal is to make Google products easier to use, especially by packaging disparate products. For example, said Chief Executive … Read more

To continue our interview series on VCs and next generation web, today we speak to Neil Rimer – a co-founder and General Partner of Index Ventures. Neil’s firm Index Ventures is probably best known in the web 2.0 world for investing in these innovative VoIP or WiFi services: Skype, Rebtel and FON. They also have … Read more

Polldaddy, the online poll tool I’ve been testing out in private beta here on R/WW, has just launched as a public beta. It has one of the best designs I’ve come across in a while, with functionality to match. Not only does it make it simple to create polls to include on your blog or … Read more

Ektron and SitePoint did a survey of 5,000 web developers over the US summer, and have just released the results in a report entitled The State of Web Development 2006/2007. It’s packed full of useful data, even in the 25-page preview (which is free). The bits that particularly interested me were the following two charts, … Read more

I recently interviewed del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, who is now with Yahoo after the popular social bookmarking service was acquired last December. Joshua was recently named as top innovator of the year by MIT Technology Review Magazine. Tagging is one example of an innovation that del.icio.us pioneered (at least in its current form). Joshua told … Read more

Thanks once again to Read/WriteWeb’s excellent sponsors, who I’m very grateful to for supporting the aims and ideals of this blog. The goal of R/WW is to provide quality analysis about web technology – and we think this focus on quality reflects very well on our sponsors. It also (may I say) leads to insightful … Read more

Last week at X06, an Xbox event in Barcelona, New Zealand movie director Peter Jackson announced a new games development studio called Wingnut Interactive – an offshoot of his highly successful movie production company Wingnut. The new venture will develop a “Halo series” for the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. Full details haven’t emerged yet, … Read more

Alex Iskold was at DEMOfall last week, but not only to live-blog the event and do interviews for Read/WriteWeb 🙂 He was also promoting his own product blueorganizer, so I thought it’s only fair to turn the tables and interview him about DEMO – particularly as blueorganizer was regarded as one of DEMO’s highlights by … Read more

I’ve been hearing whispers that Google will integrate their social network Orkut with the mobile social networking app they acquired last year, Dodgeball. While it’s not rocket science to make the connection between the two products (both are social networking), the reasons to join the two are becoming more compelling… Here are some of them: … Read more

I guess this is a sign of the times – a site dedicated to gaming digg, called User/Submitter. But there’s no reason such a site couldn’t exist for del.icio.us, or stumbleupon, or netscape – or any site that relies on voting. Needless to say, I hope this site gets squashed ASAP – it’s at the … Read more

Another busy week in web tech. Alex Iskold was at DEMOfall06 in San Diego – where emerging technology companies showed their wares – and live-blogged much of the action for Read/WriteWeb. A full list of his posts is here, but I thought I’d mention some of my favorites: BuzzLogic – a hot new social influence … Read more

Hot on the heels of the well-received Google Reader re-design, I received a tip tonight (thanks Mike Rundle) that Bloglines has also done a slight re-design. On their blog they note: “You might have noticed a few fancy little changes we’ve made to your feed tree on the left pane today. You’ll like them even … Read more

Google Reader, Google’s web-based RSS Aggregator, has had a re-design and I am impressed. It now has a look n’ feel very much like Gmail, which I believe is a pointer to this product being prepped for mainstream promotion – and/or merged with Gmail. Probably a bit of both, as a standalone RSS Reader is … Read more

It’s been a busy day on Read/WriteWeb, with Alex Iskold managing to find time to file multiple reports from DEMOfall 2006 in San Diego. Here are his posts from today: Widgetbox: A Chat With CEO Ed Anuff USBCell does away with chargers Lirix innovates in music advertising BuzzLogic innovates in social influence space RingCube launches … Read more