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
Voting is now closed for the Best Technology Blog, but there is a potential vote rigging controversy afoot. The site currently states: “RESULTS ARE NOT FINAL FOR THIS POLL! This poll is still being checked for excessive voting from individual machines. If excess voting is found it will be noted and the votes will be … Read more
This week’s poll asks: will Facebook join Google’s OpenSocial? The results so far: Yes 45% No 46% Open What? 9% From the comments on our original post, the ‘Yes’ camp thinks the benefits include Facebook getting more widgets and developers. Other comments: Timoth√©e said that “Web 2.0 needs normalisation”. MikeB asked: “how long can it … Read more
Roger Thompson at Exploit Prevention Labs has discovered multiple hacked MySpace pages, including MySpace’s #4 most popular major music artist Alicia Keys. Other bands hit include Greements of Fortune (a French funk band) and Dykeenies (a rock band from Glasgow). Roger noted that “attacks on MySpace seem to be on the rise.” He says that … Read more
Big computing company HP was promoting a strange concept at the Web 2.0 Summit in October: Print 2.0. At first I couldn’t figure out what this meant. Web-based printers? Some new form of inkless paper? Curious to know more, while I was at the Summit I met up with HP’s Antonio Rodriguez – formerly of … Read more
Charles Knight from AltSearchEngines is blogging up a storm at Defrag. Here are his latest posts from the conference: Disruptive Technologies & Innovation Google and OpenSocial Next-Level Discovery Panel Enterprise 2.0 (Andrew McAfee) Web 2.0 ‘Made of People’ù (Ross Mayfield) Customer Reach vs. Vendor Grasp (Doc Searls) Discussing Attention (Esther Dyson) Defragging Identity (Dick Hardt) … Read more
ReadWriteWeb is proud to be a partner of the first annual Crunchies, a competition and award ceremony for the best startups of the year. It is being run by TechCrunch, Read/WriteWeb, GigaOm and VentureBeat. As the name indicates, TechCrunch is the driving force behind the awards and event – but it is a collaborative effort … Read more
Last week we told you about some upcoming Web Conferences. We also gave away a ticket to Defrag, which is on right now. The winner was Kevin Cawley, so hope he is having a good time 🙂 R/WW has a few people at Defrag – Sean, Alex and Charles Knight (of AltSearchEngines) are all there. … Read more
Gartner recently released a couple of reports on how web 2.0 technologies are being used in e-Government. The reports are entitled The E-Government Hype Cycle Meets Web 2.0 and Government and Web 2.0: The Emerging Midoffice. Both are about how modern e-government efforts are moving away from the ‘one stop shop’ portal approach that characterized … Read more
Last week was all about OpenSocial, Google’s project that will tie together Google, MySpace and many other social networks in a common developer environment. The goal: one common set of code to create widgets from. This strikes at the very heart of Facebook’s platform, which is not open and forces developers to use proprietary languages … Read more
Our network blog AltSearchEngines reports that Google has around 90% search engine market share in France (well, 89.98% to be exact!). The next biggest is Yahoo ! (3.17%), followed by MSN (2.33%). Over the past year, between August 2006 and August 2007, Google has gone up by 3.76%. Whereas its 4 main competitors have all … Read more
We’re honored to be nominated for Best Technology Blog in the 2007 Weblog Awards. Voting closes November 8, 2007 and you may vote once every 24 hours, determined by IP address. R/WW is up against some very strong competition: Engadget, Gizmodo, Lifehacker and The Apple Blog are all a long way ahead of us at … 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
We’re hearing of more and more startups using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) for their storage needs; and this stat will please both them and their users. Webmetrics reported today that Amazon S3 maintained more than 99.99 percent uptime for the month of October, exceeding the performance requirement of its recently introduced SLA. Webmetrics monitored … Read more
NYTimes.com has today launched a new version of its technology section, which includes more aggregation of news from around the Web. Of most interest perhaps is that its Techmeme-like news aggregator, Blogrunner, has been fully integrated into the Tech frontpage. It has the headline “Technology Headlines From Around the Web” and is positioned in the … Read more
The big news of the day is that MySpace, the leading social networking platform, has joined Google’s OpenSocial project as a partner. OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web – and it will be officially released tonight here. The press release today states that the MySpace/Google partnership “spearheads … Read more