2007

In the current Read/WriteWeb poll (see below), we’re asking what ‘search 2.0’ concepts you think stand the best chance of beating Google. The results so far are interesting, because Artificial Intelligence is currently top pick – despite having a history of underachievement in the tech industry and there being no real AI search contenders yet. … Read more

Metalink is a new technology that makes it easier and faster to get large files. It’s kind of like a playlist for such files (they can be FTP, HTTP, or P2P), because it stores multiple file locations in a single file – and then the download proceeds according to a set of rules. The Wikipedia … Read more

Interesting development from Microsoft – and one that makes perfect sense given their media device strengths (a.k.a. stranglehold over the OS). Microsoft has released a Windows Live for TV beta. The project is code-named “Orbit” and it is built on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Windows Live for TV will connect people via a Vista … Read more

div for entry content including hero As we all know, web statistics are an unreliable thing at the best of times. I posted on this issue back in March 2006, noting that Urchin and web server stats can be used by people to grossly exaggerate their statistics. Well now Nik Cubrilovic has posted on a … Read more

Forrester Research has done a usability comparison between RIA (Rich Internet Apps) and HTML apps, in a report entitled Smackdown: Rich Internet Applications Versus HTML. The result: “We looked for examples of rich Internet and HTML applications in each of four categories and compared how well they supported relevant user goals. We found that, on … Read more

When I was looking for submissions for Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2006, a R/WW commenter pointed to a non-profit site called kiva.org – calling it “web 2.0 meets the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize”. Kiva.org lets you loan money to an entrepreneur in the developing world. On the homepage there is a list of … Read more

Disclosure: Eurekster is a sponsor of Read/WriteWeb Eurekster has quietly rolled out an interesting upgrade to their social search service, Swicki. Now users can contribute their own search answers to a swicki, if they feel they have expertise in the topic. This essentially makes Swicki into a ‘read/write’ search engine! The owner of the swicki … Read more

To usher in the new year, we’re very pleased to announce the new Read/WriteWeb Job Board – brought to you in association with JobThread. While there are a few prominent and excellent job boards run by other tech blogs, there are a couple of differentiating factors with ours: 1) It’s less expensive! $100 for a … Read more

Just before Christmas, Mozilla designer Alex Faaborg published some introductory posts on his blog about where Mozilla is headed with microformats. Quick background: Mozilla is of course the developer of the popular open source browser Firefox; and microformats are (in Alex’s words) “adding semantics to markup to take it from being machine readable to being … Read more

Written by Berislav Lopac and edited by Richard MacManus Croatia is a small market for any industry – and especially when it comes to the Internet. It has about 4.5 million citizens, but only 35% of them regularly used the Internet in 2005, according to a recent study by IDC. However, the same study tells … Read more