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
Russian search engine Quintura (one of our sponsors) has released a private beta of a custom search service for blogs or websites. It’s similar to the Eurekster swicki we use on ReadWriteWeb. The defining feature of Quintura’s service is a tag cloud that moves fluidly when you click it – see it in action on … 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: we covered the big news coming out of Apple’s annual conference, Macworld; ReadWriteWeb … Read more
The Crunchies event last night in SF was a blast. Thanks to everyone involved, but especially Michael Arrington, Heather Harde and the team from TechCrunch – who put in a lot of behind-the-scenes work to make this a success. I also must apologize for publishing the list of winners at 7.30pm PST, just as the … Read more
Project10X has just released a 400-page study of semantic technologies and their market impact, entitled Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities. The report discusses the emergence of semantic technologies for consumer and enterprise applications, and the evolution from Web 2.0 to the so-called “Web 3.0”. A free 27-page … Read more
Today Sharpcast is launching an invite-only private beta of it’s much-anticipated Project Hummingbird product, with full public launch to follow this Spring. The product has been re-named SugarSync and with it you will be able to sync and backup your files and media across all of your computers, the web and mobile phone. Sharpcast CEO … Read more
A couple of days ago I received the following email, from a Mr Vladislav Sobolev, who I’d never heard of before: “Hi, I am going to launch ReadWriteWeb.mobi, the mobile version of ReadWriteWeb optimized for viewing on a mobile phone. I am also launching a number of other mobile sites including buzzmachine, craphound, crunchboard, deadspin, … Read more
According to our network blog last100, Google unveiled a new user interface today for its iPhone Web apps. Daniel Langendorf reports: “With Google for the iPhone, users will get an improved UI optimized for the touch screen, customization of default tabs (easy access to favorite applications), faster Gmail (email automatically show up, no refreshing needed), … Read more
Lifestreaming, according to Wordspy, is “an online record of a person’s daily activities, either via direct video feed or via aggregating the person’s online content such as blog posts, social network updates, and online photos.” In this post we review some of the top lifestreaming web apps: Onaswarm, Lifestrea.ms, Soup, Jaiku (the service Google bought), … Read more
Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb, the first full working week of 2008! Highlights this week: Our coverage of CES, including Web product and strategy announcements from Microsoft and Yahoo!; Google and Facebook join DataPortability Workgroup; a review of the latest Web adventure for television show Lost; an analysis … Read more
One of the categories at next week’s Crunchies awards show, which ReadWriteWeb is co-hosting, is Best technology innovation / achievement. The 5 finalists in that category are: Earthmine, Like, Move Networks, Twine, Viewdle. Here’s a look at what each of these startups does and what makes them “innovative”. Among the 5 finalists, there is 1 … Read more
The third batch of tickets for the Crunchies startup awards ceremony and party are available now for purchase. The event is a collaboration between ReadWriteWeb, GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch and it will be held on January 18 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. The ceremony starts at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by … Read more
Many of us are wondering what Apple has in store for their annual expo, Macworld, which begins this Monday. Last year it was the iPhone, two years ago it was the Intel iMac, the year before that the iPod shuffle and the Mac mini. Earlier this week Josh Catone wrote an excellent post, listing 9 … Read more
Following the December announcement that social network Bebo was aligning itself to the Facebook platform, the company announced today that the Bebo Open Application Platform is “100% open” – meaning that any 3rd party developer can deploy their applications on Bebo. Previously the Bebo platform was only available to a select group of media and … Read more
Forrester has released a new report into the use of virtual worlds in the workplace. The report makes the big claim that “within five years, the 3-D Internet will be as important for work as the Web is today”. But before we get too carried away, the report also notes that right now virtual worlds … Read more
The ReadWriteWeb Job Board provides job opportunities for Web Technology and New Media professionals, at startups and tech firms all over the world. If you’re looking for the smartest and most innovative staff, people who are one step ahead of the rest, then you’ll find those people in the ReadWriteWeb community! Here are just a … Read more