2007

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Last week while in San Francisco I got the chance to visit Current’s offices, to check out the launch of their new Current.com website. I spoke to Robin Sloan (Online Product Strategist) and Joshua Katz (President of Marketing), who gave me a demo and overview of their strategy. I came away impressed by Current.com’s stunning … Read more

We wrote earlier this morning that Google and Microsoft were competing for a stake in Facebook, the super-hot social networking platform. Earlier, the NY Post was reporting that Google was the frontrunner. But a WSJ report has now confirmed that Microsoft won out: “Microsoft Corp. agreed to invest $240 million for a minority stake in … Read more

Last week I attended the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. This is the third year running I’ve attended – I went to the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference in October 2005, the 2006 Web 2.0 Summit in November 2006 (it was re-named the “Summit” at that point and took on a more business focus), the … Read more

Sponsor: Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web News MySpace Evolves – Developer Platform Details, Partnerships, Growth Figures This week News Corp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, and MySpace CEO and … Read more

I’m here at the Semantic Edge panel at the Summit, moderated by Tim O’Reilly and featuring W. Daniel Hillis (Co-Chairman and CTO, Applied Minds), Barney Pell (Founder and CEO of Powerset), Nova Spivack (Twine – see our review here). The panel starts with demos from each of the three speakers. Freebase Daniel Hillis starts with … Read more

Last night we covered the announcement of Twine, which aims to be the first mainstream Semantic Web application. Twine founder Nova Spivack showed me a demo of the new app, which he described as a “knowledge networking” application. One of the things I asked Nova right at the end of the interview was his definition … Read more

For those of you who couldn’t pay $4000 to get into Web 2.0 Summit – or didn’t want to – the organizers have started to release videos of the main sessions on blip.tv. Below is the Mark Zuckerberg session (the Mary Meeker one is also online). Some quick thoughts on Web 2.0 Summit this year … Read more

On Friday Radar Networks is announcing a new Semantic Web application called Twine. Founder Nova Spivack showed me a demo today of the new app, which he described as a “knowledge networking” application. It has aspects of social networking, wikis, blogging, knowledge management systems – but its defining feature is that it’s built with Semantic … Read more

One of my favorite parts of the Web 2.0 conferences run by O’Reilly/CMP is the 15 minute quickfire presentation done every year by Mary Meeker. There is always a wealth of fascinating data about Web trends and products, which Meeker hits you with at a mllion miles an hour. Luckily in this case her presentation … Read more

This evening News Corp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, and MySpace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe, were the featured speakers at the Web 2.0 Summit. It is the two year anniversary of the News Corp acquisition of MySpace, so there was some discussion on the growth of MySpace and how it is evolving. The pair … Read more

I’m here at the Web 2.0 Summit 2007 in San Francisco, the third year I’ve been to the conference. Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle started out with an overview of web 2.0 now; and one thing they noted is that social networking has moved from an ‘edge’ technology to a center technology. John Battelle then … Read more

Today Microsoft is announcing two strategic partnerships, with enterprise software company Atlassian and RSS solutions vendor NewsGator. The partnerships link togther Microsoft’s SharePoint product with Atlassian’s wiki collaboration product Confluence and a new offering from Newsgator called ‘NewsGator Social Sites’, a collection of site templates, profiles, Web parts and middleware for SharePoint. Microsoft Office SharePoint … Read more

Last week Read/WriteWeb editor Richard MacManus interviewed Satish Dharmaraj, Zimbra co-founder and CEO. The result is a 30 minute podcast available on Read/WriteTalk (transcript included). The following post is highlights from the discussion, which focused on Zimbra’s journey from October 2005 Web 2.0 Conference launch to September 2007 acquisition by Yahoo! for $350M. In September … Read more

It’s been a very busy Monday on Read/WriteWeb – so here’s a recap of the day’s posts, plus Network highlights: Top News – Attention – NewsGator and Bloglines Join APML Workgroup (Marshall) – Discovery Purchasing HowStuffWorks for $250 Million (Josh) – AdBrite: Full Page “Skip This Ad” Units Now Available for Everyone (Marshall) – On … Read more