2007

On our network blog last100, Natalie Fonseca is covering the NewTeeVee Live event. One of the panels today featured VCs talking about funding for the Internet TV market. Depending on who was talking – and the panel included VCs who have backed online video startups like Veoh and Heavy.com – the outlook for VC investments … Read more

It’s time to announce the winners of our contest this week. Congratulations to AJ (comment 32) and Anne Helmond (comment 13), who won a free ticket to Under the Radar | Mobility event and a Microsoft software pack, respectively. We got a lot of great comments on your favorite Mobile Web apps in the contest … Read more

Online reputation company Rapleaf sent us some interesting statistics about the most prominent OpenSocial companies, along with Facebook. Rapleaf gathered data on users of MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Plaxo, and Hi5′ five social networks on the OpenSocial platform’ and also gathered data on Facebook users. Some highlights, followed by full details below: The greatest overlap between … Read more

The Under the Radar | Mobility event is coming up this week. It’s on November 15, 2007, at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, California. Read/WriteWeb has a couple of giveaways for our readers: 1) One free ticket to the event, valued at $695.00; 2) And for those of you who won’t be in California … Read more

Read/WriteWeb has a couple of jobs open currently: Silicon Valley-based Writer: we’re looking for a writer based in San Francisco or Silicon Valley, to cover news and events happening in the Valley. We need someone who can attend all the Web tech events and maybe even go schmoozing at the parties on our behalf. We … Read more

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: If you would like to sponsor the Weekly Wrapup – which gives you a banner … Read more

Voting is now closed for the Best Technology Blog, but there is a potential vote rigging controversy afoot. The site currently states: “RESULTS ARE NOT FINAL FOR THIS POLL! This poll is still being checked for excessive voting from individual machines. If excess voting is found it will be noted and the votes will be … Read more

This week’s poll asks: will Facebook join Google’s OpenSocial? The results so far: Yes 45% No 46% Open What? 9% From the comments on our original post, the ‘Yes’ camp thinks the benefits include Facebook getting more widgets and developers. Other comments: Timoth√©e said that “Web 2.0 needs normalisation”. MikeB asked: “how long can it … Read more

Roger Thompson at Exploit Prevention Labs has discovered multiple hacked MySpace pages, including MySpace’s #4 most popular major music artist Alicia Keys. Other bands hit include Greements of Fortune (a French funk band) and Dykeenies (a rock band from Glasgow). Roger noted that “attacks on MySpace seem to be on the rise.” He says that … Read more

Big computing company HP was promoting a strange concept at the Web 2.0 Summit in October: Print 2.0. At first I couldn’t figure out what this meant. Web-based printers? Some new form of inkless paper? Curious to know more, while I was at the Summit I met up with HP’s Antonio Rodriguez – formerly of … Read more

Charles Knight from AltSearchEngines is blogging up a storm at Defrag. Here are his latest posts from the conference: Disruptive Technologies & Innovation Google and OpenSocial Next-Level Discovery Panel Enterprise 2.0 (Andrew McAfee) Web 2.0 ‘Made of People’ù (Ross Mayfield) Customer Reach vs. Vendor Grasp (Doc Searls) Discussing Attention (Esther Dyson) Defragging Identity (Dick Hardt) … Read more

ReadWriteWeb is proud to be a partner of the first annual Crunchies, a competition and award ceremony for the best startups of the year. It is being run by TechCrunch, Read/WriteWeb, GigaOm and VentureBeat. As the name indicates, TechCrunch is the driving force behind the awards and event – but it is a collaborative effort … Read more

Last week we told you about some upcoming Web Conferences. We also gave away a ticket to Defrag, which is on right now. The winner was Kevin Cawley, so hope he is having a good time 🙂 R/WW has a few people at Defrag – Sean, Alex and Charles Knight (of AltSearchEngines) are all there. … Read more

Gartner recently released a couple of reports on how web 2.0 technologies are being used in e-Government. The reports are entitled The E-Government Hype Cycle Meets Web 2.0 and Government and Web 2.0: The Emerging Midoffice. Both are about how modern e-government efforts are moving away from the ‘one stop shop’ portal approach that characterized … Read more

Last week was all about OpenSocial, Google’s project that will tie together Google, MySpace and many other social networks in a common developer environment. The goal: one common set of code to create widgets from. This strikes at the very heart of Facebook’s platform, which is not open and forces developers to use proprietary languages … Read more