2007

Earlier this week we announced our Best BigCo of 2007, Facebook. In this post we’re announcing our pick for Best LittleCo. We’re also asking for your nominations for Most Promising Web Company for 2008. These picks are something we do every year, this being the 4th year. Last year’s Best LittleCo was YouTube, with Sharpcast … Read more

Back in October Read/WriteWeb got the scoop that social network Bebo was about to announce a developer platform. This was pre-OpenSocial, which Bebo joined at the beginning of November. Then in mid November Bebo announced Open Media, which we described as not terribly open and “like a white listing of professionally produced, big media content.” … Read more

Today Six Apart is officially making its Movable Type publishing platform open source, just under four months after the launch of Movable Type 4 and six months after the open sourcing announcement in June. This means that as of today, MT users can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose they choose. … Read more

Web Office vendor Zoho continues its rapid pace of product upgrades and new releases, with the next version of Zoho Show – its browser-based presentations software. The app has a brand new user interface and a bunch of new features. The UI changes focus mainly on improving the editing of presentations, which Zoho says now … Read more

On our network blog last100, Daniel Langendorf writes: “The Internet is not just a place to get the latest scores and follow your favorite team in the standings. The Web has evolved so well that it has displaced traditional media as the first-stop source for all your major-sports needs. Except for local coverage, there’s no … Read more

I love The Economist magazine. 164 years old, intelligent reporting, objective to the point where the writers aren’t even allowed to display their names (poor bastards). This is serious journalism. It’s almost the opposite of what blogging and social media in general is about, because there are no personalities and trivial topics don’t get covered. … Read more

Every year in December Read/WriteWeb does a Best Web Companies round-up. This is the 4th time and, like last year, we’re splitting it over two posts. In this post we’ll announce the Best Web BigCo of 2007 and later in the week we’ll announce Best Web LittleCo and Most Promising Web Company or Innovator. These … Read more

In July 2006 Read/WriteWeb posted the first in what was to be a long and fruitful series on International web apps. The first post was on Germany, inspired at the time by The Museum of Modern Betas. This was when German social bookmarking site Mr Wong had a controversial cartoon logo! [they recently announced the … Read more

The Read/WriteWeb Job Board provides job opportunities for Web Technology and New Media professionals, at startups and tech firms all over the world. If you’re looking for the smartest and most innovative staff, people who are one step ahead of the rest, then you’ll find those people in the Read/WriteWeb community! Here are just a … Read more

In a comment on our recent post The Digg Effect, C. Weng pointed to an e-book he has written called The Web: Hidden Games. It is available for free on Lulu.com. Weng commented that his book reveals “how websites such as Digg, Youtube and Facebook can be viewed as games (even though they weren’t designed … Read more

Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. 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. Web News This week the Facebook Beacon saga came to an end, after the company added … Read more

The NY Times reports today about Coca-Cola’s new virtual world website. Coke has set up an island called CC Metro in the virtual world There.com (a similar site to SecondLife, but with more controls). NYT reports that at CC Metro, Coca-Cola customers can set up avatars, and “buy clothing and accessories for their avatars using … Read more

Yesterday I requested some comparative data from Compete about Web Office products, as a follow-up to our 2007 review of the Web Office space. Specifically I wanted to know how Google Docs & Spreadsheets compared to Zoho or ThinkFree’s word processing and spreadsheeting products. Also how Google Apps compared to Zoho, ThinkFree and others. The … Read more

MingleNow, the nightlife-focused social network that launched last October, is closing down on 7 January according to a statement on their blog. No reason was given, but Read/WriteWeb has learned that Yahoo may be behind the closure. Yahoo bought BlueLithium, an ad network, in September this year – and BlueLithium owns MingleNow.com. So our source … Read more

Email just received from a PR agency: “Dear Richard, Below, please find a press release from Hyster Company presenting the HysterÆ FortisÆ line of lift trucks. The Hyster Fortis product line represents a transformation in the way lift trucks are designed, built and acquired. Incorporating proven design processes and systems, each Fortis lift truck is … Read more