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
What Web applications and trends will make it big in 2008? In this post the RWW authors ruminate on the current trends in Web technology and look forward to what 2008 might bring us. Topics include Google, semantic web, online advertising, recommendation systems, Facebook, digg, open standards, Mobile Web, search engines, and much more! So … Read more
Last Monday we rolled out a new design on ReadWriteWeb and we received a lot of feedback on it, both positive and negative. Thank you to everybody who commented on the new design, particularly those of you who left detailedcritiques. I’ll address some of the feedback below, as well as update you on our comments … 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 Kirkpatrick tells us how sexy librarians and YouTube will be linked in … Read more
Thanks to our sponsors for supporting ReadWriteWeb. We have an amazing line-up of sponsors, all supporting RWW’s mission to provide quality news and analysis about Web Technology. If you would like to enquire about sponsoring ReadWriteWeb and/or our network blogs last100, AltSearchEngines and ReadWriteTalk, please email the editor for a Media Kit. Pageflakes is a … Read more
The finalists have now been announced for the Crunchies, the awards show we’re co-hosting with Techcrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat. Voting will be live through to midnight PST Thursday, January 10. You can vote here, once a day. There are bound to be startups disappointed not to have made the cut – and indeed a few … Read more
I’m very pleased to announce a brand new design for ReadWriteWeb, including a new look n’ feel and new logo. The design was created and implemented by San Francisco design firm Ideacodes – specifically Emily Chang, Max Kiesler and Bryan Collick. Personally I’ve been a big fan of Ideacodes for a long time, so I … Read more
Here is a quick wrapup 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. This week on ReadWriteWeb we did our annual review of Web companies and most promising … Read more
Earlier this week we announced our Best BigCo of 2007 as Facebook and our Best LittleCo of 2007 as Twitter. In this post we’ll give you our pick for Most Promising for Web in 2008. Originally we planned to pick the most promising Web company for 2008. But in the end the ReadWriteWeb team decided … Read more
A tipster informed us today that online storage solution Omnidrive has been having technical difficulties; and that the CTO has just left the company. Omnidrive’s forums, both the official one and the Tangler one, are filled with messages complaining that the service is up and down – messages which the company doesn’t appear to be … Read more
Earlier this week we announced our Best BigCo of 2007, Facebook. In this post we’re announcing our pick for Best LittleCo. We’re also asking for your nominations for Most Promising Web Company for 2008. These picks are something we do every year, this being the 4th year. Last year’s Best LittleCo was YouTube, with Sharpcast … Read more
Back in October Read/WriteWeb got the scoop that social network Bebo was about to announce a developer platform. This was pre-OpenSocial, which Bebo joined at the beginning of November. Then in mid November Bebo announced Open Media, which we described as not terribly open and “like a white listing of professionally produced, big media content.” … Read more
Today Six Apart is officially making its Movable Type publishing platform open source, just under four months after the launch of Movable Type 4 and six months after the open sourcing announcement in June. This means that as of today, MT users can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose they choose. … Read more
Web Office vendor Zoho continues its rapid pace of product upgrades and new releases, with the next version of Zoho Show – its browser-based presentations software. The app has a brand new user interface and a bunch of new features. The UI changes focus mainly on improving the editing of presentations, which Zoho says now … Read more
On our network blog last100, Daniel Langendorf writes: “The Internet is not just a place to get the latest scores and follow your favorite team in the standings. The Web has evolved so well that it has displaced traditional media as the first-stop source for all your major-sports needs. Except for local coverage, there’s no … Read more
I love The Economist magazine. 164 years old, intelligent reporting, objective to the point where the writers aren’t even allowed to display their names (poor bastards). This is serious journalism. It’s almost the opposite of what blogging and social media in general is about, because there are no personalities and trivial topics don’t get covered. … Read more