Zlio Launches in US – Build Your Own Online Shop

French startup Zlio.com, a service that enables any Internet user to start a virtual store, has just launched in the US and also has plans for a UK version. It’s a free template-based system and you select the products you want to sell from a list of pre-approved merchants. There are 75 merchants in France, … Read more

Yahoo Launches Pipes, an RSS Remixer

RSS feed remixing has been a pet topic of mine for quite some time, so tonight it was a pleasure to discover Yahoo’s new Pipes service (hat-tip Thejesh). It’s a beta service from Yahoo and the name, which pays tribute to Unix pipes, betrays that it’s designed for geeks and early adopters to experiment with. … Read more

Change.org: Social Network For Social Activism

Yet another social network launched publicly today, but this one called Change.org caught my eye for a couple of reasons. Firstly it’s for a great cause – enabling people to form communities around social issues like global warming and Net Neutrality. But it’s also a very well designed site that makes excellent use of ‘web … Read more

Admin: R/WW Does Tabs

Rather than spending the night writing posts, I’ve been wrestling with CSS and various other design issues – the result is a new menu and content tab structure for Read/WriteWeb. The design work on all the tabs was done by the amazing Mike Rundle (he also did the logo a couple of months ago). There … Read more

Steve Jobs Asks Record Labels To Abolish DRM

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has posted his Thoughts on Music in the ‘Hot News’ section of the Apple website. He starts off by explaining the background to Apple’s DRM on iTunes: “Since Apple does not own or control any music itself, it must license the rights to distribute music from others, primarily the “big four” … Read more

30 Boxes Turns One: Review of a Best of Breed Web App

The 30 Boxes blog celebrated today the first anniversary of their product launch. The online calendar space has been a tough one, ever since Google released its calendar app in April last year. But right from the start 30 Boxes has been recognized as an innovative app and not just your usual Outlook clone. 30 … Read more

Weekly Wrapup

It’s a bit late, sorry, but here is a summary of last week’s action on Read/WriteWeb…. Faking it Our poll last week was an eye-opener. We asked: in your current Web activities where an identity is required (i.e. you can’t be anonymous) do you ever fake all or part of your identity? In the end … Read more

Live 3D Cricket at Cricinfo.com

Tonight there’s a crucial cricket game on in the international Tri-Series involving Australia (the world champions), New Zealand and England. My team, New Zealand, is playing Australia tonight at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Sadly I don’t currently have TV access to the sports channel that televises cricket games here in NZ, so I have to … Read more

Yahoo Launches OurCity and Re-designs Sports

Yahoo has rolled out a new portal-type service called OurCity, a beta product that aggregates content about cities from across the Yahoo network and Wikipedia. It’s rolled out to just 2 cities so far, Bangalore and Delhi. It is described on the TechMag blog (who brought this to my attention) as a “mashup of yahoo … Read more