2007

I’m no stock market expert, but Adam Hewison from MarketClub has produced a 9-minute video that even I can follow. It uses stock chart theory to predict the fortunes of Google and Yahoo stocks this year – concluding that Yahoo will probably have the most percentage gain: The chart above is the Yahoo one, which … Read more

The Read/WriteWeb team is a little obsessed with next-generation search, even more so after Charles Knight’s illuminating post outlining 100 alternative search engines. Although Pixsta didn’t make that list (note that Charles is constantly updating the top 100), it is a “visual browse and search” engine that has a unique approach to search. It caught … Read more

A summary of the main Web Tech news today… – del.icio.us now has 1.5 million users, according to the official blog; Also talks about doing “more meaningful joint development work” with its parent company Yahoo, including re-doing the UI. – Amazon Q4 Announcements; sales up 34% including “for the first time, non-Media dollar growth [e.g. … Read more

The Daily Reel has a short interview with the creators of LonelyGirl15, the online video diary of a fake teen which became enormously popular on YouTube last year. The topic was what they think about the monetization of YouTube. If anyone would’ve benefited from a revenue share with YouTube in recent times, it’s these guys … Read more

– Information Super Traffic Jam; “A new assessment from Deloitte & Touche predicts that global traffic will exceed the Internet’s capacity as soon as this year. Why? The rapid growth in the number of global Internet users, combined with the rise of online video services and the lack of investment in new infrastructure.”; for an … Read more

Normally when we discuss mashups, we’re talking about browser-based mashups (and usually they involve Google Maps!). But Proto is a new application for building “desktop mashups”. The desktop/Web hybrid theme is one we’ve been exploring in recent months on Read/WriteWeb, so Proto is an interesting twist on this. The site offers a visual building environment, … Read more

Some interesting Web Tech news out today… – Web giants ask for feds’ help on censorship; mostly relating to US Big Internet Companies (Goog, MS and Y!) trying to do business in China, although this CNET report suggests that about 25 countries around the world are currently engaged in Internet filtering. – Yahoo Planning to … Read more

Our current poll has been causing a bit of water cooler discussion amongst the Read/WriteWeb authors. The question we’re asking in the poll is: 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? After 511 votes so far, an … Read more

A new “3D community” has just been launched, with the unusual name of Teapotters. The name comes from 3D pioneer Martin Newell, who created the first free 3D model in 1974 – a teapot model. The site Teapotters.com aims to popularize 3D displays and sharing across the Web – websites, social networks, blogs and more … Read more

sphereit start In my previous post, I noted how the new Gmail/Google Docs & Spreadsheet integration feature threatens Microsoft. There’s also some high level discussion going on in the tech sphere about how Microsoft’s continued loss of search market share and confusion over the Live branding means they are losing the “web war”. Infamous Dot … Read more

On Monday Google released a relatively minor, but useful, feature. It’s worth examining a bit more closely, because it’s yet another signal that Google is quietly pecking away at Microsoft’s lunch in office software. Now I know that Microsoft Office has a lot of advanced functionality that the online office apps don’t have, but hear … Read more

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus I was reading a Time magazine article online today, entitled Marketing to your mind. This article was very provocative and I enjoyed reading it. But after I was done, something else caught my attention. I was surprised to see a row of ‘web 2.0’ buttons at … Read more

VoIP company SIPphone is at DEMO today, where it is launching Gizmo Call – an online service that makes VoIP phone calls possible from any web browser. It works via a Flash plugin, which enables users to make calls simply by typing a phone number into a text-field in a browser. Users can also use … Read more

Mission Research, a vendor of contact management solutions for the nonprofit sector, has launched a product today at DEMO aimed at the SOHO market. The product is called SalesWorks and is similar to Salesforce.com, in that it’s used to manage contacts or sales leads. In fact it’s being billed as “a Salesforce.com for the SOHO … Read more

Disclosure: Zoho is a sponsor of R/WW. At DEMO today Zoho, the Web Office suite company, will announce an interesting new preview product called Zoho Notebook. I was given a run-through of the product by Raju Vegesna. The obvious competitors to Zoho Notebook are Microsoft’s OneNote application and Google Notebook. This new offering by Zoho … Read more