2007

An interesting new online video series, called Open Media Web, debuted today. The first episode is an interview with Yahoo’s Lucas Gonze – who created music playlisting service WebJay, acquired by Yahoo! in January 2006. The interview was conducted by Chris Messina and Brian Oberkirch. In it Gonze discusses his thoughts on the Open Media … Read more

2007 was an eventful year in Web Technology, with the rise of Facebook, some frenzied acquisitions from the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, and of course the iPhone. To round out the year (and put an end to the December lists!) here is a look at what we think were the 10 biggest Web … Read more

2007 has been a very busy year for ReadWriteWeb. We started the year with just one daily writer (yours truly!), a couple of regular feature writers (Alex Iskold and Emre Sokullu) and the occasional guest writer. We ended the year with 2 new lead writers and 3 more blogs (more on that below). Of course … Read more

Our network blog AltSearchEngines has been nominated for 3 Search Blog Awards at Search Engine Journal. ASE is up for: Best Search Engine Research Blog Breakout Blog of 2007 Most Giving Search Blogger (for editor Charles Knight) I’m somewhat biased, but I think ASE should win all 3 😉 You can cast your vote here. … Read more

last100 editor Steve O’Hear has written an informative and thorough overview of the digital music scene in 2007. Steve noted: “Ditching DRM, new mobile offerings, pay-what-you-want and other alternative business models – one word to sum up activity in the digital music space in 2007: “experimentation”.” The post also predicts what will happen in digital … Read more

It’s the end of the year and so time for ‘best of’ and prediction posts, which are a lot of fun. Today I’ve been re-organizing my Firefox bookmarks, which made me reflect on which web apps and sites I’ve used the most this year. I encourage you all to add your own most used web … Read more

What Web applications and trends will make it big in 2008? In this post the RWW authors ruminate on the current trends in Web technology and look forward to what 2008 might bring us. Topics include Google, semantic web, online advertising, recommendation systems, Facebook, digg, open standards, Mobile Web, search engines, and much more! So … Read more

Last Monday we rolled out a new design on ReadWriteWeb and we received a lot of feedback on it, both positive and negative. Thank you to everybody who commented on the new design, particularly those of you who left detailedcritiques. I’ll address some of the feedback below, as well as update you on our comments … Read more

Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. 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. Highlights this week: Marshall Kirkpatrick tells us how sexy librarians and YouTube will be linked in … Read more

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The finalists have now been announced for the Crunchies, the awards show we’re co-hosting with Techcrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat. Voting will be live through to midnight PST Thursday, January 10. You can vote here, once a day. There are bound to be startups disappointed not to have made the cut – and indeed a few … Read more

I’m very pleased to announce a brand new design for ReadWriteWeb, including a new look n’ feel and new logo. The design was created and implemented by San Francisco design firm Ideacodes – specifically Emily Chang, Max Kiesler and Bryan Collick. Personally I’ve been a big fan of Ideacodes for a long time, so I … Read more

Here is a quick wrapup of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. 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. This week on ReadWriteWeb we did our annual review of Web companies and most promising … Read more

Earlier this week we announced our Best BigCo of 2007 as Facebook and our Best LittleCo of 2007 as Twitter. In this post we’ll give you our pick for Most Promising for Web in 2008. Originally we planned to pick the most promising Web company for 2008. But in the end the ReadWriteWeb team decided … Read more

A tipster informed us today that online storage solution Omnidrive has been having technical difficulties; and that the CTO has just left the company. Omnidrive’s forums, both the official one and the Tangler one, are filled with messages complaining that the service is up and down – messages which the company doesn’t appear to be … Read more