Tech analyst, AI & the web
I founded the tech blog ReadWriteWeb in April 2003 and ran it until October 2012. During my time running the business, it was well known for its cutting edge content (“What’s next on the Web”) and its influential global audience. At its peak, RWW was ranked among the top ten blogs in the world by Technorati.
This category contains all of the articles I personally wrote for RWW, now archived on ricmac.org for easier browsing and search. If you’d like to explore the original context, you can also view a year-by-year archive with links to the Wayback Machine
It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, we continued our Best Products 2008 series with 5 more lists – covering Mobile Web, Enterprise, ‘Real World’, Digital Lifestyle, and Alternative Search Engines. We also named our Best BigCo of the Year, the fifth year we’ve done … Read more
We all tend to think of fax machines as quaint, 20th century products that became irrelevant when the Internet came along. But in reality faxes are still the most efficient way to quickly deliver a signed business document. As with most office tasks these days, you can do faxing over the Internet and in many … Read more
Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to identify the ones we think had the biggest impact. Today we’re announcing the Best BigCo of 2008 and next week we’ll announce Best LittleCo and Most Promising Company – all selected by the ReadWriteWeb writers. In 2007 the Best BigCo went to Facebook, … Read more
Forterra Systems, a company aiming to bring virtual world technology to enterprises, will shortly release a report entitled Recipe for Success with Enterprise Virtual Worlds. ReadWriteWeb was given an exclusive first look at the report. It is based on pilots conducted with consulting firms Accenture and ACS, using Forterra’s virtual world product called OLIVE (On-Line … Read more
Podcasting has had its challenges over the past couple of years and we even once questioned whether it would survive! But at heart we at ReadWriteWeb love listening to podcasts, nearly as much as we love reading blogs. So we decided to find out the favorite podcasts of our readers and writers. We put the … Read more
OpenX, an open source ad server for web publishers, released statistics today to show its strong recent growth – especially in the last 6 months. We interviewed the CEO of OpenX, Tim Cadogan, about the data. We also wanted to know how OpenX compares with Google’s competitor Ad Manager, and we discovered how exactly OpenX … Read more
A report on Reuters claims that 2008 was a breakthrough year for radio on the Web, with a proliferation of new web and mobile apps for radio. The report states that Clear Channel has “long led the way” with innovative Web programing such as its “Stripped” concert series and “New” artist spotlight program, but also … Read more
It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, we continued our Best Products 2008 series with two more lists: Best Consumer Web Apps and Best RSS/Syndication Products. We also reported on Google’s Chrome browser coming out of beta and MySpace’s answer to Facebook Connect, MySpaceID. On … Read more
This week’s RWW Live, our regular podcast show, was on the topic of ‘shopping 2.0’. In Part 2 of our analysis of the show, we explore how e-commerce has evolved over the past few years – what web technologies our expert guests are currently using and the trends they’ve picked up on. We had 4 … Read more
Yesterday our regular podcast show, RWW Live, was on the topic of ‘shopping 2.0’. The show was very illuminating about how the Social Web has changed e-commerce and what tactics leading apps use to target their audience and make money. Indeed many of the lessons can and should be used by other forms of business, … Read more
According to a new report by Forrester Research, corporate blogs are the least trusted information source of all. Only 16% of online consumers who read corporate blogs say that they trust them. You can grab a copy of this report for free by filling in a form at Forrester. The full trust scale is below, … Read more
It’s coming up to Christmas and for many of us that means buying presents for family. If you’re in this situation, “what to buy?” becomes the most pressing question in your Christmas shopping expeditions. But what if you could take a quick look at the online shopping wish lists of your loved ones – it … Read more
In this week’s episode of RWW Live, to be broadcast live at 3.30pm PST Tuesday (6.30pm EST), ReadWriteWeb talks to a group of leaders in the online shopping market. We have executives from Retrevo, ModCloth, Baynote, ThisNext and Cartfly on the call, and we’ll be discussing what’s next in online shopping in this timely holiday … Read more
Former ReadWriteWeb network blog last100 has produced a screencast showing the web browser in Google’s Android phone the G1. last100 editor Steve O’Hear remarked that the bundled browser is “fast, renders the full web flawlessly (aside from the lack of Flash support), and does a fantastic job of re-flowing text when you zoom in on … Read more
MuseWorx is a SaaS service targeted at ‘creative types’ – marketing and advertising people, graphic designers, video production companies. It’s an on-demand platform that lets creative professionals store and share files, track them, edit and collaborate. Essentially it’s an asset management system, which is a common enough software type in this field. However the fact … Read more