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
At the risk of reporting rumors (ahem), I can’t resist making a note of this one. For the past couple of weeks we have been analyzing LinkedIn and comparing it to Facebook. When I say ‘we’, I mean Bernard Lunn. But it’s a topic a fewof us have written about in the past here at … Read more
Blog search engine Feedster has had the following notice on its frontpage for at least a few weeks now: There is no sign of life on the site and the Feedster blog has already been killed off (the big 404 in the sky). In terms of the blog search market in general, Feedster has been … Read more
We’ve discussed before on Read/WriteWeb about how we’ve entered The Digestion Phase of the Web, a term that Alex Iskold coined. He defined it as “a period of time for us to reflect, to integrate, and to understand recent technologies and how they fit together.” Tim O’Reilly has also been reflecting on how innovation has … Read more
I used to write a blog about ebooks – some of you may remember eBook Culture (alas I let the domain name slip and so it was gobbled up by a squatter). Anyway, as a lover of both books and the Web, the vision of an Internet-connected eBook Reader has been one of my obsessions … Read more
Our friends from Polldaddy, the online polling service we use here at RWW, have launched a new version of their site. The new features: New online survey tool; Addition of pro account for $20 per month – gives users more access to the site and allows removal of the link to PollDaddy in their polls; … Read more
Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. 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. Web News It was a relatively quiet week in Web news, after all the kerfuffle the … Read more
A big Thanksgiving thank you to our sponsors for supporting Read/WriteWeb. We have an amazing line-up of sponsors, all supporting RWW’s mission to provide quality analysis about Web Technology. Quintura uses advanced visualization techniques to enhance the search engine user experience. Check out the Quintura Cloud on our network blog AltSearchEngines as an example (where … Read more
It’s the weekend – another hectic week has gone by. In this era of quick news fixes, PR regurgitation on tech blogs, and the ‘quantity over quality’ maxim most tech publishers follow, the blogosphere usually overlooks the longer, more meaningful blog posts. So with that in mind, here are 5 ‘must read’ blog posts from … Read more
This week we ran a contest asking you to tell us your favorite Mobile Web apps. We got over 50 comments and there were 5 Mobile Web apps that clearly stood out, with multiple mentions. Here then is the top 5, which will be useful to people new to the Mobile Web and wondering what … Read more
On our network blog last100, Natalie Fonseca is covering the NewTeeVee Live event. One of the panels today featured VCs talking about funding for the Internet TV market. Depending on who was talking – and the panel included VCs who have backed online video startups like Veoh and Heavy.com – the outlook for VC investments … Read more
It’s time to announce the winners of our contest this week. Congratulations to AJ (comment 32) and Anne Helmond (comment 13), who won a free ticket to Under the Radar | Mobility event and a Microsoft software pack, respectively. We got a lot of great comments on your favorite Mobile Web apps in the contest … Read more
Online reputation company Rapleaf sent us some interesting statistics about the most prominent OpenSocial companies, along with Facebook. Rapleaf gathered data on users of MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Plaxo, and Hi5′ five social networks on the OpenSocial platform’ and also gathered data on Facebook users. Some highlights, followed by full details below: The greatest overlap between … Read more
The Under the Radar | Mobility event is coming up this week. It’s on November 15, 2007, at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, California. Read/WriteWeb has a couple of giveaways for our readers: 1) One free ticket to the event, valued at $695.00; 2) And for those of you who won’t be in California … Read more
Read/WriteWeb has a couple of jobs open currently: Silicon Valley-based Writer: we’re looking for a writer based in San Francisco or Silicon Valley, to cover news and events happening in the Valley. We need someone who can attend all the Web tech events and maybe even go schmoozing at the parties on our behalf. We … Read more
Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. 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. Note: If you would like to sponsor the Weekly Wrapup – which gives you a banner … Read more