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
The latest episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, is set to begin in less than an hour at 3.30pm PST (6.30pm EST). We’ve changed the format a bit: each week we’ll invite a special guest or two and have a discussion on a specific theme. We’re hoping that as it’s a live show, … Read more
Music-based social networking site Imeem is getting a lot of the right kind of press currently, based on strong traffic growth and key deals with record labels. We last wrote about Imeem in March, when they launched a developer platform that enabled read/write access to user information and more. As we explained then, Imeem is … Read more
The TrendsSpotting blog has produced a thorough overview of Online China, collected from a variety of sources such as Universal McCann, CNNIC, Pew Internet, Hitwise, comScore and more. The report focus on three key themes: 1) China as an online leader, 2) the competitive landscape in Search, IM & Web 2.0, and 3) Business in … Read more
It’s the weekend, so time for our review the past week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we showed you how to create a custom search engine using social bookmarks, found out why online video is set for a boost at the Olympics, analyzed a new mainstream RSS Reader, … Read more
Earlier this week we ran a competition for 2 full tickets to the New York Web 2.0 Expo conference 16-19 Sept. The tickets are valued at over $1000 each and we also have a consolation prize of a free Expo hall pass (value $100). To be in to win one of the 3 prizes, we … Read more
This week we’re looking at how Web technology is being used in the Beijing Olympics. In today’s post we check out how some of the world’s leading brands are using social media tools in their Olympics campaigns. Our first post discussed how online video will be a big part of this Olympics, which is great … Read more
Practice Fusion is a startup making waves in the health 2.0 market. The product is a free, web-based EMR (electronic medical record) system for physicians. It runs in the browser and has been marketed as a ‘Google Apps for doctors’, providing patient management, scheduling, secure email and more. The business model is largely serving ads, … Read more
This year the Web 2.0 Summit conference (5-7 Nov) is hosting an auction to benefit a few innovative organizations that are solving big problems. To show our support for this initiative, ReadWriteWeb is running a competition in this post. We have 2 full conference passes to give away to the New York Web 2.0 Expo … Read more
The Beijing Olympics starts in a few days and what better test of the mainstream web is there than the world’s biggest sports event. This is the first in a series of posts that will look at the Web technologies powering this year’s Olympics. One of the most obvious ways the Web will be utilized … Read more
Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting ReadWriteWeb’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web apps and trends. To enquire about sponsor slots on ReadWriteWeb, email us for a Media Kit. Why sponsor ReadWriteWeb? It is one of the most popular blogs in the world, number 9 currently according to Technorati, and reaches an influential … Read more
It’s time to wrap up the week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we reviewed a super-hyped new search engine called Cuil, analysed the BT acquisition of web telephony platform Ribbit, looked at why Google bought video startup Omnisio, and investigated why popular Facebook app Scrabulous was shut down. … Read more
I’m very pleased to announce that Marshall Kirkpatrick has joined ReadWriteWeb in a full-time capacity, as our new Vice President of Content Development. The grand title reflects Marshall’s senior position within ReadWriteWeb, where he will be responsible for driving a lot of our upcoming content developments. These include premium content, publishing system enhancements, and more … Read more
One of the conferences we’re supporting this year is Defrag. The topics that Defrag explores are very close to our hearts – OpenSocial, Attention, Next-Level Discovery, The Implicit Web, and more. One of this year’s Defrag sessions that caught my attention is entitled: Fixing Foundational Information Channels — Email, Calendars, RSS, etc. On the Defrag … Read more
The selection process for DEMOfall 08 (RWW is a media partner) is coming to a close and Chris Shipley has been blogging her thoughts about it. She’s identified a number of trends in the ‘class of DEMOfall 2008’, one of which is this claim: the Web 2.0 cycle has come to a close. She also … Read more
Online reputation company Rapleaf has released a new study of 49.3 million people, revealing gender and age data about social network users. On most of the main social networks – including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 – women outnumber men by a considerable amount. On Facebook, the 18-24 age group is largest, with 1,685,029 women in … Read more