2007

Microsoft today announced the launch of ZenZui, an independent Mobile Web company. ZenZui offers a patented (by Microsoft) “Zooming User Interface” for mobile phones. The technology was initially developed by the Microsoft Research lab in Redmond, then acquired by ZenZui – who also got venture capital funding from Microsoft IP Ventures to help launch its … Read more

MusicPlusTV.com launched a revamped website today. As well as a new look, it has doubled the resolution of its flagship 24/7 television broadcast stream, added social networking capabilities, and more. MusicPlusTV.com is an interesting blend of online video/music and a traditional TV network – only with a niche audience. It reminds me of Revision 3, … Read more

The hot topic today is offline web apps, with Zimbra having just released an offline version of its web collaboration suite. As Dan Farber noted, Zoho and ThinkFree are two other Web Office vendors to have either released offline access or have plans to. Also Stan at franticindustries has a nice post explaining how offline … Read more

Zimbra, one of the Web Office vendors we’ve been tracking for a while, will later today announce the launch of Zimbra Desktop – which enables offline access to Zimbra’s Ajax-powered collaboration suite. Zimbra will unveil Zimbra Desktop on stage today (Monday PT) at the ETech Conference in San Diego. It’s a growing trend amongst Web … Read more

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sphereit start Charles Knight, Read/WriteWeb’s search engine authority, has provided another list of weird search engines. We’re interested in getting your opinion on this, as a bit of weekend geeky fun. So which one of these 10 really alt search engines do you think is the silliest/funniest/oddest? Here is the list, with the poll right … Read more

Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb, with the results of our poll at the end. Top Web News Much of the discussion in the blogosphere this week revolved around two pieces of big news. Firstly Google announced that it is beta testing a new CPA (Cost Per Action) online … Read more

We had a great response to the ETech Caption Contest, with the winner receiving a free ticket to O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference next week – March 26-29, in San Diego. And the winner is… [drum roll] Kevin Jones, with this caption: “You navigated through Vista’s new security and accessed MySpace! Good job!” Congratulations Kevin, you’ve … Read more

This week I spoke to Hakia founder and CEO Dr. Riza C. Berkan and COO Melek Pulatkonak. Hakia is one of the more promising Alt Search Engines around, with a focus on natural language processing methods to try and deliver ‘meaningful’ search results. Alex Iskold profiled Hakia for R/WW at the beginning of December and … Read more

Our current poll asks which ‘personalized homepage’ do you use? After a false start, the current results are very interesting. Google Personalized Homepage is most popular with 31%, followed by two of the innovative startups – Pageflakes 21% and Netvibes 20%. Interesting that two of the bigcos are lagging – My Yahoo 6% and Live.com … Read more

The big news today is News Corporation and NBC Universal launching what they claim will be “the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled”, with AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! as the site’s initial distribution partners. It will launch this summer (US). The benefits obviously work both ways – News Corp and NBC get 4 … Read more

One of the big pieces of news this week was Google announcing their CPA (Cost-Per-Action) product, or as they’re calling it – PPA (Pay-Per-Action). There are good analysis posts about the news from Techcrunch and Microsoft’s Don Dodge. It’s been expected for some time now that Google will move into CPA, as a lot of … Read more

Forrester Research has just released two reports concerning ‘web 2.0’ in the enterprise. Forrester recently surveyed 119 CIOs on the topic and their answers illustrate what IT honchos want’ and don’t want’ from social software technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, and content tagging. According to the report entitled CIOs Want Suites … Read more

Earlier this week we gave away a free ticket to Office 2.0 and today we have a a free ticket to next week’s ETech to offer as a prize. ETech is O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference and it’ll be held next week, March 26-29, in San Diego. An important note about the prize – the Etech … Read more

NOTE: Please see important update about this week’s R/WW Poll below, on the topic of Personalized Homepages. We had to re-set it and so are asking for you to re-submit your vote. Today Google launched 6 new themes for its Google Personalized Homepage. The themes to choose from include: a beach, a city, a sweet … Read more