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
Last week we reported on an interview that health blogger Amy Tenderich carried out with Google Health’s Missy Krasner. Amy has followed up with an interview with Keith Toussaint, Senior Program Manager with Microsoft HealthVault. As we shall see, the two tech rivals – Google and Microsoft – have much in common when it comes … Read more
Over the weekend we editorialized that the world financial crisis will have a big impact on where Web Technology is headed. Has the world arrived at one of those giant inflexion points, we asked, where one Web era is usurped by another? We asked you to leave a comment in the post telling us what … Read more
A new report by Forrester Research states that the market for collaboration and productivity web apps in the enterprise (a.k.a. enterprise 2.0) is set for a shake-up, with prices to fall in some cases by over half. Price drops will be especially sharp in blog, wikis, social networking and widgets. The only exception is mashups, … Read more
As the world financial crisis has gotten gradually worse over the past few weeks, I’ve been pondering what this means for the Web. ReadWriteWeb as a publication focuses on technology – web products and trends – rather than business and VC happenings. So with the exception of one of our feature writers Bernard Lunn, who … Read more
It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side this week, Google said it would provide RSS feeds of search results, Yahoo updated its calendar app using Zimbra, Mozilla released Geode, Microsoft integrated its Live search into Facebook, and more. On the trends side, we looked at … Read more
Innovative Web Office startup Zoho has beaten Google to the punch again, announcing offline support for the newly public Zoho Mail tonight. Ironically Zoho is using Google Gears to enable offline functionality in Zoho Mail – see the video below by the Google Developer team. Zoho also beat Google to offline support in online word … Read more
Leading health blogger Amy Tenderich has just posted an illuminating interview with Missy Krasner, Product Marketing Manager for Google Health. When Google Health was launched to the public in May, we at ReadWriteWeb gave it a tepid review. We concluded that Google Health was not much more than a glorified health search engine / portal. … Read more
Our newest writer started tonight, Rick Turoczy – who many of you will know from his tech blog Silicon Florist. Rick is yet another RWW writer who hails from Portland, Oregon, USA. Marshall Kirkpatrick and Frederic Lardinois are also from that city. According to Wikipedia, Silicon Forest refers to “the cluster of high tech companies … Read more
The latest episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, kicks off at 3.30pm PST Monday (6.30pm EST). The topic is Mobile Web Development and we have guests from Google, Microsoft, Pandora and DevelopmentNow joining us. You can tune into the show, and interact with us via the chat, by clicking here. You can also … Read more
It’s now over a month since Google released its open source web browser, Chrome. An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web – a.k.a. the ‘dark web’. Right now the Chrome Terms of Service (TOS) prevents Google from indexing private data. But when you consider … Read more
It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. This week Nokia launched an iPhone competitor called the Tube, Netflix released an API, Google Blog Search re-designed, and we ran a poll about Flash coming to iPhone. On the trends side, we investigated the lack of commercial RDF apps in the … Read more
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm, Richard “Mr Scrobble” Jones. We’re running the interview in 3 parts, over 3 days. This is Part 3 about design and features; following on from Part 1 about last.fm and its competition and Part 2 about business models. In this post we … Read more
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm, Richard “Mr Scrobble” Jones. We wanted to find out last.fm’s reaction to the launch of MySpace Music and the rise of Imeem, discuss business models in online music, and find out what’s new at last.fm. We’re running the interview in 3 parts, … Read more
Swirrl is a wiki-like application that was built using Semantic Web technologies and launched as a beta last week. We heard about it in the comments to our post about the lack of commercial RDF applications on the Web. As with most Semantic Web apps, it’s a little difficult to describe what Swirrl is. On … Read more
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm, Richard “Mr Scrobble” Jones. We wanted to find out last.fm’s reaction to the launch of MySpace Music and the rise of Imeem, discuss business models in online music, and find out what’s new at last.fm. We’re running the interview in 3 parts, … Read more