Google Docs and Spreadsheets Interview

Interesting podcast interview by Gizbuzz, with Jen Mazzon and Sam Schillace of the Google Docs and Spreadsheets team (both ex-Writely). They start off by saying that D&S is aimed at “people who need to collaborate and share their stuff online”. To the question of whether people are using it instead of desktop apps (such as … Read more

Poll: Will Google develop a GoogleOS?

Our post this week about GoogleOS led to some vigorous and fascinating discussion in Read/WriteWeb. 87 mostly thoughtful comments were left here, plus many more on Slashdot and Digg. To get a final, more succinct, picture of whether R/WW readers expect to see a GoogleOS – here is a poll for you. I hope there … Read more

Top Web Apps in Serbia

Written by Dejan Bizinger, a web manager at Serbian media company B92.net, and edited by Richard MacManus Serbia is a country located in Southeast Europe with around 9 million people. Around 1.5 million Serbians use the Internet and the majority of them are still dial-up users. The main reasons for the small broadband penetration are … Read more

Microsoft vs Google Heats Up

I know, a predictable (almost tabloid-y) blog headline. But in this case, there really is some interesting back and forth going on between Microsoft and Google currently – especially with regards to office software. Firstly Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote an article for The Economist, in which he takes aim at Microsoft with this: “In … Read more

Web Office Widgets and Intranet Dashboards

On my ZDNet blog last night I took a look at the evolving world of Web Office widgets. I noted that the personalized start page Pageflakes has just introduced a couple of new office “flakes” – a Calendar Flake and a Notepad Flake. They also have an existing Mail Flake, as well as flakes for … Read more

ChinesePod – Great Example of a Small Niche Web Business

Along with the increasing internationalization of the Web, comes the language challenge. China is obviously a key Web and business market going forward, so there is currently a lot of interest in learning Mandarin. As one solution to this, Ken Carroll recently contacted me to tell me about ChinesePod – the site he co-founded a … Read more

3 Trumpets Mobile Web Breakthrough with X-Series

The BBC wonders if British mobile operator 3 has “discovered the holy grail of the mobile phone industry”, simply by bundling some mobile web services together and making it flat rate pricing. Mobile Web expert Ajit Jaokar is very bullish on this news. 3’s new package is called X-Series and here’s what’s in it: Skype … Read more

Myfabrik – The YouTube and Flickr of Online Storage?

Today Silicon Valley company Fabrik launched its myfabrik online storage and file-sharing service, after a 4 month beta period. It’s also releasing a new service called myfabrik lite, that lets users share large multimedia files (up to 1GB at a time). The aim with the Lite product is twofold: as a solution to sending huge … Read more

Top Web Apps in Hungary

In the latest in Read/WriteWeb’s coverage of international Web markets, we explore Hungary – a central European country of 10 million people. The information in this post was supplied by Hírbehozó, a professional journalist for online media company Index.hu. Hírbehozó told me there are not too many startups in Hungary. The big companies like Sanoma … Read more

Demand Media aims to Capitalize on Web Content

Bambi Francisco from MarketWatch has an interesting interview with Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media. Rosenblatt was chairman of MySpace at the time it was sold to News Corp and it appears as if he’s aiming just as big with Demand Media. According to MarketWatch: “Rosenblatt has raised more than $200 million in the past few … Read more

uGenie: Meta-Middleman for Online Shopping

While I was in San Francisco, I met up with uGenie co-founder and President Harish Abbott. uGenie is a comparison shopping service that not only finds the best price on a single product, but on groups of products which it calls a ‘bundle’. uGenie computes the bottom-line price (including shipping, taxes, and discounts) and claims … Read more

About.com: The King of SEO

While at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I caught up with About.com CEO Scott Meyer. About.com is the long-standing network of how-to websites, purchased in March 2005 by the New York Times Company for $410 Million. Since that time About.com has continued to flourish – it has 31 Million people visiting it each month … Read more