Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond: Update

Today I gave a presentation at the XMediaLab event in Wellington New Zealand, entitled: What’s Next on the Web? Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond. It was an update of a presentation I gave in Sydney in March. It covers some of the top trends we track on ReadWriteWeb; such as Websites becoming web … Read more

What Google Looks For in Potential Acquisitions

Today I attended the XMediaLab event in Wellington New Zealand (my hometown). Tom Duterme, who is in the New Business Development group at Google in Mountain View, was here talking about innovation. Tom’s job is to travel around the world looking for acquisitions for Google, so it was interesting to hear what things he looks … Read more

Google’s Android: How Will it Compare to iPhone?

RWW network blog last100 has coverage of the latest Android news coming from Google’s I/O conference. Dan Langendorf writes that “as you would expect from the company that brings you search and Google Maps, Android handles information delivery, location and navigation extremely well — or so we think. There’s still no actual Android phones to … Read more

Mobile 2.0 Europe: RWW Has 5 Free Tickets

The next Mobile 2.0 Conference is happening in Europe, on July 4 in Barcelona, Spain. ReadWriteWeb is a media partner, because we support what Rudy De Waele and team are doing to promote the Mobile Web across the world. I myself attended the last event in San Francisco last October and learned a lot. We … Read more

Why Google is Wooing Web Developers

Google I/O is the first event for web developers that Google has run. It happens later this week on 28/29 May and Google is expecting 2,500 people to attend. The I/O stands for “Innovation/Open” (i/o is also a programmer term input/output). Recently I spoke with Tom Stocky, a Director of Product Management at Google, to … Read more

Results: Data Portability’s Future

A couple of weeks ago we ran an interactive game on the topic of Data Portability. We had a great response, with 680 people playing the game. Here now are the results, showing how RWW readers think 5 of the major players – Google, Microsoft, MySpace, Facebook, and the non-profit Data Portability Project – will … Read more

Thanks RWW Sponsors; Packages Available June-July

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, please email us for a Media Kit. We are currently booking June and July spots; and we offer discounts for signing up for 2 or more months. ReadWriteWeb is ranked … Read more

Book Review: Inside Steve’s Brain

Inside Steve’s Brain, a book about Steve Jobs written by Leander Kahney, is a fascinating look at the thought processes and inspiration behind Apple’s products and branding. It has a particular and much welcome focus on the current era – iPod/iTunes, the latest iMacs, the Apple Store and more. The central theme of the book … Read more

Weekly Wrapup, 19-23 May 2008

Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we explored: next gen apps outside the browser, uses for wikis, Facebook’s usefulness (or lack thereof), the public launch of Google Health, and 4 promising mobile social networks. On the trends side we analyzed: the Mobile Web, … Read more

Interactive Debate on Web’s Future, Featuring Tim Berners-Lee

ReadWriteWeb is the exclusive Media Partner for an interactive debate on the future of the Web, featuring Tim Berners-Lee. The event is June 11 and is being run by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The debate will address questions such as: Is net neutrality essential for democracy? What role does AI have in the future of … Read more

RWW Live: Episode 1

Today we’re pleased to announce a new biweekly feature on ReadWriteTalk, our podcast show. It’s a live discussion with the ReadWriteWeb Network authors that we’re calling RWW Live. On this first episode, host Sean Ammirati is joined by myself (Richard MacManus) and Alex Iskold from ReadWriteWeb, along with Steve O’Hear from Last100 and Charles Knight … Read more

last100 Competition: Name Your Top 5 Digital Lifestyle Products, Win a Computer!

ReadWriteWeb network blog last100, which focuses on digital lifestyle products and services, is currently running a competition where you could win a top of the line HP HDX Dragon Entertainment Notebook valued at around $5,000. To be in to win, leave a comment on last100listing your top five digital lifestyle products and/or services. They don’t … Read more

comScore: Yahoo! Buzz Overtakes Digg in April

Digg is in big trouble. We already know that Yahoo! Buzz, a beta social news service by Yahoo!, can drive a large amount of traffic and comments to websites. We also know the ongoing problems at competitor digg, which continue to be skated around by digg management. Now we have proof that Yahoo! Buzz is … Read more