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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

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