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 a big week coming up in the Mobile Web world. The annual Mobile World Congress is being held in Barcelona, 11-14 February. The early buzz is around Google’s much (and oft) rumored GPhone. According to the Times Online, Google “is expected to produce a prototype mobile handset” at the show. Even if Google itself … Read more
There are some excellent Web conferences happening soon, including a great one in my neck of the woods. The awesomely named Webstock is on this Thursday and Friday, in my home city of Wellington New Zealand. There are a number of Web stars coming from overseas for this event, including Molly Holzschlag, Tom Coates from … Read more
Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Highlights this week: Josh explores Super Tuesday on the Web and pinpoints why Obama and Paul … Read more
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Social ads have social consequences. Josh Kopelman, Managing Director of VC firm First Round Capital, recently found that out. Kopelman, a very savvy web 2.0 investor who got in early with StumbleUpon, Odeo, LinkedIn, and others, tried an experiment with Facebook’s controversial SocialAds advertising system. He spent $50 to test the platform, with an advertisement … Read more
miVitals is a new Australian startup that has an ambitious goal: to enable individuals to manage their personal health data via a web application. miVitals describes itself as “a secure online storage system for health and lifestyle records”. The company says that “most people have about 5 professionals involved in their health management: GP, dentist, … Read more
While I was flying halfway across the world, a huge story developed that I am just now catching up on: Microsoft launched a takeover bid for Yahoo valued at $44.6 Billion. In a frankly stunning move today, the Official Google Blog has published a post raising questions about “Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo!.” David Drummond, … Read more
Here is a summary of the week in Web technology on ReadWriteWeb. Reminder to PR people and startups: If you would like ReadWriteWeb to consider covering your product, you should email us at tips@readwriteweb.com. This address is monitored daily by all our main bloggers. Pitch emails sent to my personal email address almost always get … Read more
During my current trip to the US, I’ve been following the US presidential primaries – it’s hard not to, with the blanket coverage on CNN and in newspapers. Coincidentally while trying to hail a taxi after the Crunchies ceremony, I bumped into a man who is building an Internet version of the primaries. Called OnlinePrimary, … Read more
We interrupt this broadcast to thank our sponsors for supporting ReadWriteWeb. We have a great line-up of sponsors, all supporting RWW’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Technology trends and products. Of course we’re also thankful for a passionate and smart reader base. We’ve made improvements to our commenting system over the past month, … Read more
Chandler is an open source, cross platform PIM (Personal Information Manager) product that has been in development since 2001, but has yet to get to a 1.0 version. It is being built by the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) and has been funded to date by Mitch Kapor, who is famous for founding the first … Read more
Current Media, the parent company of Current TV and Current.com, has filed for a $100 Million IPO on NASDEQ. Current was famously co-founded by ex Vice President Al Gore. IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) have been thin on the ground in the Web 2.0 era, but in Current’s case the money will be used for expansion … Read more
The excellent Trendsspotting blog has compiled a meta list of 2008 Web trends, by selecting “a group of 10 web/tech influencers suggesting their trends forecast for 2008.” ReadWriteWeb is one of the 10 influencers selected – using our 10 Future Web Trends post as our contribution. But see also 10 More Future Web Trends and … Read more
The latest podcast at ReadWriteTalk is an interview with Adam Taggart, the Director of Product Marketing in the Yahoo! Mobile Group. In the podcast, Taggart discusses with RWT host Sean Ammirati “an overall uber-message” that Yahoo! is currently pushing for Mobile Web. Taggart emphasized that Yahho’s approach to mobile is all about scale: “…we are … Read more
Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Highlights this week: Marshall explores the viability of a web with decentralized, open standards-based IM at … Read more