2007

This week we’ll be exploring RSS products. To complement this focus, our poll is asking: how do you primarily read your feeds? We asked a similar question in January, so we’re looking to see if the trends have changed since then. But this time we’re also asking what is your primary means of reading RSS, … Read more

Media Temple, which hosts Read/WriteWeb, is announcing a brand new product at Hosting Con in Chicago this coming Tuesday evening PST. It’s called the Nitro and Read/WriteWeb is the first to bring you this news. Nitro is a Dedicated Physical Virtual Server (dpv), but it comes with the same virtualization technology that powers their virtual … Read more

Last week the personalized start page Pageflakesannounced its latest version, nicknamed Blizzard. It introduces social networking functionality, themes, a slick Ajax UI, and more. What struck me about the new look was how much it reminded me of Facebook, or at least how much it wants to be like Facebook. The same can be said … Read more

At the beginning of this week we introduced a new comments feature on Read/WriteWeb, called SezWho. Basically it introduces comment rating, reputation and filtering to this blog. SezWho was created by one of our occasional writers, Jitendra Gupta – whose team installed it onto R/WW. You can check out the full list of features in … Read more

Sponsor: 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. Facebook Week This week was Facebook Week on Read/WriteWeb. It was a huge success, even if by the end of the week a few … Read more

Daniel Langendorf has an excellent post on last100, analyzing comments made by Vincent Dureau, Google’s head of TV technology, in his opening keynote at iTV Con – a trade show conference dedicated to Internet TV. It seems that Google is aiming to create versions of search and Adsense for InternetTV, to match what they did … Read more

This week is Facebook Week on Read/WriteWeb. Here we’ll re-cap the week so far and see what else is happening on other blogs. Firstly the Read/WriteWeb Facebook Group already has over 400 members, after just a few days. It’s open to anyone and you can join here. We’re currently looking at what apps to implement … Read more

last100 has the scoop on the rebirth of the open source Internet TV application as Miro: Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) is an open-source Internet TV application that combines a media player and library, content guide, video search engine, as well as podcast and BitTorrent clients. Developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation, Miro aims … Read more

In our introductory post on Citizen Journalism (CJ), we reviewed Newsvine – an innovative and well-designed citizen journalism web site. In this post we’ll review two examples of ‘localized’ CJ: Buffalo Rising (Buffalo, New York) and PerthNorg (Perth, West Australia). A note for our Canadian readers: NowPublic is coming in a future post 🙂 Buffalo … Read more

When Facebook announced their “open platform” in May 2007, it suddenly became all the rage. Third party web app developers rushed to integrate their apps into this increasingly popular social network platform – and who could blame them? It makes sense for startups to have a presence on a platform that has tens of millions … Read more

I noticed a small, but perhaps significant, change in Facebook tonight. Usually when you add more friends to your Facebook account, you need to land on 3 separate pages for each friend: 1) the Requests page; 2) a Request Confirmation/Skip This Step page (I always click ‘Skip This Step’), and finally 3) back to the … Read more

This week is Facebook Week on Read/WriteWeb. Over the next 5 days we’re going to focus on the most impressive Web Company of 2007 – analyzing it and reporting on its top third party apps. To ‘launch’ Facebook Week, let’s review how this company turned itself into the leading web app platform on the Internet, … Read more

One aspect of Web 2.0 that continues to entertain is the strange, sometimes awful, names that startups come up with to promote themselves. Some of them turn out to be successful – e.g. del.icio.us – but others prove to be ineffective. Some web 2.0 names have been compared to Star Wars characters and there’s even … Read more

4 years ago today, 15 July 2003, AOL Time Warner disbanded Netscape Communications Corporation – the company that sparked the Dot Com Internet boom in the mid-90’s with its 1995 IPO. Also 4 years ago today, The Mozilla Foundation was established. mozillaZine reported at the time: “It has been learned through public and private sources … Read more

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. Top Web News After all the iphone buzz of the last couple of weeks, it was a relatively quiet week of web tech … Read more