2006

If you’ve visited R/WW over the past week you’ll have noticed a new design has been rolled out. The designer was Kevin Hale of Particletree, who did a superb job. I want to thank Kevin very much for his hard work on the design and for the end result, which I’m delighted with! There are … Read more

RealNetworks is announcing today an enhanced set of Rhapsody Web services APIs and RSS feeds, along with a 3-month competition aimed at getting developers to build on their platform. Rhapsody is one of the biggest music subscription services on the Web. It has over 2 million tracks in its library, which users can listen to … Read more

Written by Ken Yarmosh, a Read/WriteWeb Guest Blogger On average, I hear a Match.com commercial on the radio about once a day. In referring to their user base, their catch phrase goes something like, “there are over 15 million reasons to use Match.com.” Well, they may want to re-think this selling point because MySpace has … Read more

Yahoo has issued a rather hoity-toity response to Hitwise’s stats that claimed MySpace is now the number 1 domain on the Web. Sniffs Yahoo in its official statement: “The report that Hitwise released today with the headline “MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites” is misleading. The Yahoo! network is made up of … Read more

Ex-Yahooligan Ravi Dronamraju noted a couple of months ago (I’ve only just seen it) a subtle but important point about Yahoo’s new Ajaxified homepage: “This homepage dropped the concept of website directory completely. I guess the transformation is complete. Yahoo! is now more about showing people in and around yahoo! network and not about showing … Read more

– List of Social Networking Systems (including their target audiences; very useful resource from Sid Yadav) – MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites (according to Hitwise, www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users) – Rise of the Socially-Integrated Media Empire (Robert Young … Read more

Today Microsoft re-announced their on-demand CRM solution, Microsoft Dynamics CRM – including a new software-as-a-service offering called Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live. According to salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, once again Redmond is reacting to the success of service-based companies like salesforce.com and Google. In an internal email, Benioff riffs on the state of the online business … Read more

First the obligatory disclaimer: I work as a part-time freelancer for Broadband Mechanics, the creators of PeopleAggregator. I’ve actually done analysis and writing work on the PeopleAggregator project itself. So bear in mind that I’m heavily biased 🙂 Even so, I think it’s in my Read/WriteWeb remit to take a high-level look at the concept … Read more

The NY Times reports that old media won out over new media when it came to World Cup coverage. The Times notes that television and newspapers benefited from the World Cup, but seems to overlook (or at least downplay) that Internet services did well too. While the Times article stated that live video feeds were … Read more

Over the past couple of days I’ve gotten 170 comments (and still going!) on a post I wrote last week entitled Netscape Community Backlash. I’ve actually gotten more comments than the official Netscape story on this topic. The general gist of the feedback is that existing Netscape users dislike the new digg-like Netscape and want … Read more

The latest issue of Wired magazine has a useful profile of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which Wired has elevated to number 9 in its latest Wired 40 list (it didn’t even make the list last year). The article focuses on News Corp’s $580 million acquisition of MySpace last year, which has not only shown dividends … Read more

Interesting article from PingMag, detailing the most popular web apps and services in Japan. The highlights… – SNS: “In Japan, social networking is represented mainly by Mixi, with GREE following a distant second.” – Video: “To my knowledge there is no direct competitor to YouTube in Japan but there is an interesting little mashup* from … Read more

My third trip to the US is almost over, as I’m flying back to good old NZ tomorrow. I thought I’d write a quick post about my experiences from this trip. In particular about the 3 conferences I went to: Supernova, BloggerCon and Gnomedex. In reverse chronological order… Gnomedex The most enjoyable conference for me … Read more

I’ve been tracking the release of the new Digg-style community news site Netscape.com, because there is a lot of backlash within the Netscape community about it. A story called Netscape’s Blunder!!! was number 1 on Netscape.com for a while and the latest post on the homepage is entitled A Request by the Netscape Community to … Read more

The new digg-like Netscape has gone out of beta and is now on the main netscape.com domain. I’m currently seeing some great comments coming through on my initial post about the new Netscape. Seems like the existing Netscape user base is not overly impressed – and remember there were some 811 million page views per … Read more