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
Our digital lifestyle network blog last100 has a great round-up of the latest announcements at CES. Steve O’Hear is seeing a lot of products that bridge the gap between the PC and TV, or bring Internet content directly to a television. Highlights include the SlingCatcher (Sling Media), D-Link’s newly launched PC-on-TV Player, TiVo Desktop 2.6 … Read more
We have a new author on the ReadWriteWeb team, Sarah Perez, who will become a daily writer in a few weeks time – once she finishes up at her current job. Sarah has started posting here already, so keep an eye out out for her posts. Sarah is from sunny Tampa, Florida where she had … Read more
Yahoo! co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang was on stage today at CES and he showed a fascinating glimpse into the future of Yahoo. Yang outlined a product strategy that takes the simplicity and all-in-one portal approach that Yahoo! is famous for – and pushes it into the digital life arena by utilizing email, social networking, … Read more
Ian Rogers, VP Video and Media Applications at Yahoo! (prior to that GM of Yahoo! Music) has just published an epic post based on a talk he gave at a music industry conference in December. In it he outlines his vision for an open Media Web. It’s very long, but is an excellent overview of … Read more
One of the highlights of CES (Consumer Electronics Show) each year is Bill Gates’ keynote speech, available here as a webcast. Every year ReadWriteWeb analyzes Gates’ keynote, highlighting the main themes and trends that he discusses. This year there were a slew of products and partnerships announced. It was less futuristic vision and more beta … 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: Richard MacManus ended 2007 with a review of the top 10 Web Tech … 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 news and analysis about Web Technology. Of course we’re also thankful for a passionate and smart reader base – and top of our minds this year is to enhance the … Read more
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 a party, which is … Read more
In December we did a number of year end lists about Web technology, which we hope are useful reference points for some of the market segments we cover across the RWW Network. Here is a meta list of those posts, for your current and future reference: Web Office: 2007 Year in Review Consumer Apps: 2007 … Read more
An interesting new online video series, called Open Media Web, debuted today. The first episode is an interview with Yahoo’s Lucas Gonze – who created music playlisting service WebJay, acquired by Yahoo! in January 2006. The interview was conducted by Chris Messina and Brian Oberkirch. In it Gonze discusses his thoughts on the Open Media … Read more
2007 was an eventful year in Web Technology, with the rise of Facebook, some frenzied acquisitions from the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, and of course the iPhone. To round out the year (and put an end to the December lists!) here is a look at what we think were the 10 biggest Web … Read more
2007 has been a very busy year for ReadWriteWeb. We started the year with just one daily writer (yours truly!), a couple of regular feature writers (Alex Iskold and Emre Sokullu) and the occasional guest writer. We ended the year with 2 new lead writers and 3 more blogs (more on that below). Of course … Read more
Our network blog AltSearchEngines has been nominated for 3 Search Blog Awards at Search Engine Journal. ASE is up for: Best Search Engine Research Blog Breakout Blog of 2007 Most Giving Search Blogger (for editor Charles Knight) I’m somewhat biased, but I think ASE should win all 3 😉 You can cast your vote here. … Read more
last100 editor Steve O’Hear has written an informative and thorough overview of the digital music scene in 2007. Steve noted: “Ditching DRM, new mobile offerings, pay-what-you-want and other alternative business models – one word to sum up activity in the digital music space in 2007: “experimentation”.” The post also predicts what will happen in digital … Read more
It’s the end of the year and so time for ‘best of’ and prediction posts, which are a lot of fun. Today I’ve been re-organizing my Firefox bookmarks, which made me reflect on which web apps and sites I’ve used the most this year. I encourage you all to add your own most used web … Read more