Babelgum Invites

Babelgum, an Internet TV competitor to Joost, is in limited beta and has started to send out invites. You may’ve seen them already on other sites, but if you haven’t got an invite yet then click here to go to the Read/WriteWeb/last100 Babelgum signup page. Note: the app is Windows only. last100 has covered both … Read more

Poll: Which online collaboration platform do you use?

This week’s poll was requested by a reader, who wanted to find out what online collaboration platforms R/WW readers used. The email I received noted: “While mass services such as myspace and facebook get a lot of coverage, there’s not a lot of data showing how well collaborative platforms do. I think that your audience … Read more

Tumri Advertiser Launched – Aims to be Adsense 2.0

Last week I was briefed on the new online advertising platform that Tumri is launching today. Flush with $16.5 million in investment and already well covered by business tech blogs, Tumri is building out a widget-based Merchandising Network that it hopes will be The Next Big Thing in online advertising – after Google Adsense. Tumri … Read more

This Tuesday: A Day Without Google

AltSearchEngines is asking everyone to go one day, this Tuesday (whatever your timezone may be), without using one of the major search engines; Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, or Ask. This was inspired by a similar Between The Lines experiment. AltSearchEngines editor Charles Knight wants everyone to try one of the alt search engines in his … Read more

Weekly Wrapup, 4-8 June 2007

The R/WW Weekly Wrapup is 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: Note: The Weekly Wrapup is looking for its next sponsor, so if you’d like to support a quality … Read more

Web 2.0 Forum, Sydney

Today I traveled to Sydney, Australia for a Web 2.0 forum. Most of the top Aussie web 2.0 startups were in attendance, as well as an interesting mix of Australian business people and executives in the audience. I got the sense that Australian big business is interested in utilizing new web technologies, and I made … Read more

Movable Type 4.0 Announced – Becomes Social Media Platform

Six Apart is announcing today the beta release of Movable Type 4, a much anticipated upgrade to a blog platform that has two distinct user bases nowadays – consumer base (like R/WW, which uses MT) and Enterprise. Of equal interest is that Six Apart is also announcing the Movable Type Open Source Project, a move … Read more

Ask3D: Ask.com One-Ups Google Universal Search

Ask.com has just announced the next stage in its evolution as a major search engine. It is called Ask3D, a name which had me expecting an amazing new leap in Web UI (3D search!!) and then got me reminiscing about the time I saw that Jaws sequel in 3D… Turns out Ask3D isn’t quite as … Read more

Announcing AltSearchEngines: Second Read/WriteWeb Network Blog

I’m pleased to announce the second network blog under the Read/WriteWeb umbrella, AltSearchEngines. This blog will be focused on search engines, in particular the hundreds of ‘alternative’ search engines that compete with the big guns like Google and Yahoo. AltSearchEngines is edited by Charles Knight, author of the very popular Top 100 Alt Search Engines … Read more

eyeOS 1.0 Launches

I’ve had a thing for WebOS products for quite some time. I first reviewed one of their number, EyeOS, in August 2006. Recent WebOS reviews I’ve done on Read/WriteWeb include DesktopOnDemand and Blake Ross of Firefox fame’s Parakey. Also Emre Sokullu wrote a popular article on the still mythical GoogleOS, last November. eyeOS hails from … Read more

Amazon Comes to Twitter

The use cases for Twitter, the IM/blogging hybrid that has taken the blogger world by storm, continues to grow. Tonight I spotted Amazon.com using Twitter to announce Gold Box deals. I found out about this via (what else) Twitter, when bloggersblog pinged it – noting that Amazon has “a long way to go to catch … Read more

Weekly Wrapup, 28 May – 1 June 2007

The R/WW Weekly Wrapup is 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 (see the sidebar on our website). Top Web News It was a big news week for Google, which … Read more