WebOS Wars: eyeOS vs MyBooo

Last week we profiledeyeOS, which had just launched its 1.0 version. This week the eyeOS team contacted me to claim that a new competitor, MyBooo, has broken the Open Source license of eyeOS 0.9.x and is using it as a base for their project. The WebOS space is made up of a number of small … Read more

Read/WriteWeb Editor in Close-Up

If you ever wanted to know what I look and sound like, here I am courtesy of Ross Dawson and One Minute World, a neat new service that specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices. And to preempt the comments – yes I do sometimes smile; and no, I don’t know … Read more

Future of Media Video: Google Takes Over the World by 2050

Davide Casaleggio sent a tip to Read/WriteWeb about a video his company produced exploring the future of media. It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and imaginative) guesses at how the Web and media will evolve over the next 40-50 years. In the short movie, Google, Amazon.com and Second Life are … Read more

RealPlayer 11: Download Video From The Web

Last month at the D conference, Real Networks announced the next version of RealPlayer, which features one-click downloading and saving of online video. This week last100 editor Steve O’Hear got his hands on RealPlayer 11 and thoroughly tested it. Steve reported that RealPlayer 11 has a cleaner installation process, a UI similar to iTunes, and … Read more

Day Without Google: Were you ‘master of your domain’?

Yesterday was the Day Without Google, a one-day blog event organized by AltSearchEngines. A lot of people tried to last a day without using Google’s ubiquitous search engine, and in this post we take a look at the results. TheRegister has already covered the event, in an article provocatively entitled Blog calls for Google boycott. … Read more

Flickr Goes Multi-lingual

Today Flickr is launching in seven additional languages, including French, German, Spanish, Japanese and the Hong Kong dialect of Chinese. I spoke with co-founder and head of Flickr, Stewart Butterfield, about the news – and also found out the meaning behind the “loves you” label currently on Flickr’s logo! More on that below. Flickr now … Read more

Day Without Google Begins!

Are you ready to spend a whole day, today (Tuesday), without using Google? There are literally hundreds of alternative search engines to choose from. Once again here are the ‘ground rules’, as prepared by AltSearchEngines editor Charles Knight: 1. All day Tuesday, June 12th, don’t use any of the 5 major search engines. 2. Avoid … Read more

Babelgum Invites

Babelgum, an Internet TV competitor to Joost, is in limited beta and has started to send out invites. You may’ve seen them already on other sites, but if you haven’t got an invite yet then click here to go to the Read/WriteWeb/last100 Babelgum signup page. Note: the app is Windows only. last100 has covered both … Read more

Poll: Which online collaboration platform do you use?

This week’s poll was requested by a reader, who wanted to find out what online collaboration platforms R/WW readers used. The email I received noted: “While mass services such as myspace and facebook get a lot of coverage, there’s not a lot of data showing how well collaborative platforms do. I think that your audience … Read more

Tumri Advertiser Launched – Aims to be Adsense 2.0

Last week I was briefed on the new online advertising platform that Tumri is launching today. Flush with $16.5 million in investment and already well covered by business tech blogs, Tumri is building out a widget-based Merchandising Network that it hopes will be The Next Big Thing in online advertising – after Google Adsense. Tumri … Read more

This Tuesday: A Day Without Google

AltSearchEngines is asking everyone to go one day, this Tuesday (whatever your timezone may be), without using one of the major search engines; Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, or Ask. This was inspired by a similar Between The Lines experiment. AltSearchEngines editor Charles Knight wants everyone to try one of the alt search engines in his … Read more

Weekly Wrapup, 4-8 June 2007

The R/WW Weekly Wrapup is sponsored by: Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the weekly wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email: Note: The Weekly Wrapup is looking for its next sponsor, so if you’d like to support a quality … Read more