2007

Recently a Forrester report was released stating that the iPhone “signals the beginning of the end for the mobile Web as we know it today”. The report suggested that re-designing sites for the small screens of mobile phones would become “a thing of the past”, because of the iPhone’s advanced technology such as zooming. Some … Read more

It’s fascinating watching different Web platforms utilizing each other, for various reasons. First it was Netvibes with its Facebook widget, which was mostly a cheeky move to get Facebook users to switch to Netvibes for their homepage. Now Firefox has gotten into the act with an Add-ons sharing app called Rock Your Firefox. In this … Read more

Based on log file evidence from a friend who runs a personal website, Rich Skrenta claims that only 11 search startups are actually crawling the web. He wonders where all the alt search engines are? For some reason, Rich doesn’t link to Charles Knight’s Top 100 Alt Search Engine List in asking that question, but … Read more

This week’s poll is part of our R/WW Files on Personalizing Google. We’re asking if you’ve noticed much difference in your Google search results, now that Google claims you can “get more relevant search results” when signed into Google Accounts. Let us know what you think. Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

This week we’re opening a file on Google’s efforts towards personalization, a trend that has become very apparent in Google over the past year. As we did with Yahoo last week, we’ll publish a number of feature articles looking at how Google is implementing personalization into its products – and how it effects you, the … Read more

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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. Product Reviews This week’s Web Product of the Week is Iceberg, which Phil Butler profiled for Read/WriteWeb. Iceberg is a private beta startup that provides … Read more

Interesting news tidbit today that Billboard is adding online music streaming to its ‘algorithm’ for compiling the Weekly Billboard Top 100. As a Gen X person who grew up listening to the weekly American Top 40 (by Casey Kasem and then Shadoe Stevens), this struck a chord with me. According to the press release, in … Read more

A new online video show about web technology debuted this week, called WebbAlert. It is already making some waves in the blogosphere. Hosted by Morgan Webb, it’s a daily 5-minute show on the latest web tech news. I watched the debut episode yesterday and immediately added the RSS feed to my start page. Then today … Read more

When Yahoo’s next-generation online advertising system was launched on 5 February this year, it was expected to be a panacea for Yahoo’s ailing fortunes. Yahoo’s Panama ad system is designed to take ad quality and other factors into consideration in determining how ads are ranked on search results pages. Panama includes a new search ranking … Read more

In a cheeky move, Netvibes has released a Facebook widget. Both Netvibes and Facebook are leading Web platforms for widgets (i.e. mini web apps that can be plugged into web pages and sites). So Netvibes is neatly trying to entice Facebook users to use Netvibes instead of Facebook as their homepage. Here is an example … Read more

A few reports are circulating that Microsoft will offer a free, ad supported version of Microsoft Works, its ‘lite’ office suite, within the next few months. However the kicker is that it won’t be a browser-based offering – as the rumor was back in September 2006. The free version of Microsoft Works will be a … Read more

Our network blog last100 has an excellent feature story on Amazon’s digital living room product range, including Amazon Unbox (the company’s digital video download service), “information products” like Internet Movie Database (IMDB) and Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com), and how it could all be integrated via ‘cloud services’?. The digital living room market is fiercly competitive … Read more

Read/WriteWeb network blog AltSearchEngines has just published the August Top 100 Alt Search Engine list. Here is the excel spreadsheet; the full list is on ASE. This week AltSearchEngines also published a 3 part series defining a) What is a Search Engine? (an article by Nitin Karandikar), b) What is Not a Search Engine? (by … Read more

This week’s Read/WriteWeb Files is investigating the 100 Days For Yahoo. In a recent earnings conference call, new Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said that “the next 100 days or so” will be spent mapping out Yahoo’s strategic plan. So we thought we’d help with the strategic analysis. Yesterday I listed 10 top Web properties that … Read more