RWW Job Board Highlights

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 … Read more

Poll: Are You Using the Mobile Web?

The NY Times has another of those ‘Mobile Web isn’t living up to the hype’ articles that have become so familiar since, oh, the late 90’s when WAP came onto the scene. The NYT quotes statistics from Rethink Research, stating that data will make up only 12 percent of average mobile phone revenue per user … Read more

Weekly Wrapup, 19-23 November 2007

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. Note: This is a shortened version of the Wrapup, due to Thanksgiving in the US. Here … Read more

Live Documents Enters Web Office Market With PR Bluster – Embrace & Extend its Motto

Indian company InstaColl today formally launchedLive Documents, a mini-office suite of products similar to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Live Documents has already received plenty of press coverage, mainly because it was co-founded by Sabeer Bhatia – the man who famously sold web mail service Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million in 1998. Live Documents was … Read more

Social Graph & Beyond: Tim Berners-Lee’s Graph is The Next Level

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, today published a blog post about what he terms the Graph, which is similar (if not identical) to his Semantic Web vision. Referencing both Brad Fitzpatrick’s influential post earlier this year on Social Graph, and our own Alex Iskold’s analysis of Social Graph concepts, Berners-Lee went on … Read more

Let’s Focus on Web Innovation Again!

We’ve discussed before on Read/WriteWeb about how we’ve entered The Digestion Phase of the Web, a term that Alex Iskold coined. He defined it as “a period of time for us to reflect, to integrate, and to understand recent technologies and how they fit together.” Tim O’Reilly has also been reflecting on how innovation has … Read more

Polldaddy Gets Serious

Our friends from Polldaddy, the online polling service we use here at RWW, have launched a new version of their site. The new features: New online survey tool; Addition of pro account for $20 per month – gives users more access to the site and allows removal of the link to PollDaddy in their polls; … Read more

Thanks Sponsors

A big Thanksgiving thank you to our sponsors for supporting Read/WriteWeb. We have an amazing line-up of sponsors, all supporting RWW’s mission to provide quality analysis about Web Technology. Quintura uses advanced visualization techniques to enhance the search engine user experience. Check out the Quintura Cloud on our network blog AltSearchEngines as an example (where … Read more

Weekly Wrapup, 12-16 November 2007

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 It was a relatively quiet week in Web news, after all the kerfuffle the … Read more

RWW Must Reads

It’s the weekend – another hectic week has gone by. In this era of quick news fixes, PR regurgitation on tech blogs, and the ‘quantity over quality’ maxim most tech publishers follow, the blogosphere usually overlooks the longer, more meaningful blog posts. So with that in mind, here are 5 ‘must read’ blog posts from … Read more

5 Essential Mobile Web Apps

This week we ran a contest asking you to tell us your favorite Mobile Web apps. We got over 50 comments and there were 5 Mobile Web apps that clearly stood out, with multiple mentions. Here then is the top 5, which will be useful to people new to the Mobile Web and wondering what … Read more