2007

As noted last week, a group of startups promoting themselves at Mobile 2.0. Part 1 was in the morning. Here now is the afternoon session (note it was just 5 minutes per speaker, so we only got brief overviews of each service). Webwag Mobile We’ve written before about Webwag, a personalized start page. Webwag Mobile … Read more

Taptu is a new kind of search engine for mobile phones, being launched today at the Mobile 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Taptu uses a new technique which they call “Social Assisted Search” (SAS) – it combines algorithms with human feedback (from which it derives “social relevancy scores”) to deliver the results. Taptu’s aim is … Read more

As noted last week, a group of startups are launching today at Mobile 2.0. Here are the first lot: heysan heysan describes itself as a “mobile meebo” – it’s a meta IM service for mobile phones. It is mobile browser based and works on the iPhone. The service is free and features include one single … Read more

I’m at the second annual Mobile 2.0 event in San Francisco. Rudy de Waele of mTrends starts with an overview of Mobile 2.0: an all-IP environment and application mashups are two features. Rudy has been a guest author on Read/WriteWeb before and his Understanding Mobile 2.0 post from December is one of the best introductions … 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 Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC The week started with some big M&A news in the Citizen Journalism space – Newsvine was acquired by … Read more

Our poll this week asks what you’d be prepared to pay for the download version of Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows. In the comments to the original post, someone pointed to a Gizmodo report stating that Radiohead will sell In Rainbows via CD early next year, through one of the ‘big four’ record companies. The … Read more

A new Forrester report analyzes how the big IT vendors are utilizing Web 2.0 products in the enterprise. As with most Forrester reports, it overlooks the many innovative startups in the ‘Web Office’ space – focusing instead of the big fish such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle. However there is a new report coming soon that … Read more

Being a big Radiohead fan, I was quick to go and buy their new album ‘In Rainbows’ via their website. As has been reported, there is no set price for the album – you input your own price, or get it for free. I mulled it over in my head what I should pay and … Read more

Next week I’ll be in San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Summit. I’m also attending the Mobile 2.0 Conference on Monday 15 October, and will pop my head into the Widget Summit event being held by Niall Kennedy on the same day. Today Read/WriteWeb is the first to announce the Mobile Launch Pad demo companies … Read more

Our digital lifestyle Network blog last100 has been tracking the upheavals in the music industry over the past couple of weeks. First Radiohead released their new album entirely via their website (I got it and it’s awesome!), then Nine Inch Nails (a band which has experimented with the Internet a lot before) announced it has … Read more

We’ve heard from a couple of reliable sources that social network Bebo is about to announce a developer platform very soon. Apparently it will be a “platform API”. The source of these rumors is a Bebo investor, so we think it’s on the mark. Bebo is one of the largest social networks in the world … Read more

MoFuse is a new service that many publishers today have a need for. MoFuse stands for “Mobile Fusion” and it enables you to create a mobile version of your website. It’s similar to Winksite, a mobile conversion and community service that counts BoingBoing among its customers. However MoFuse is simpler, in that it doesn’t offer … Read more

Tim O’Reilly and team have done some interesting research into the rise of Facebook as an application platform. They released a report entitled The Facebook Application Platform, which we’ve been looking at in the virtual offices of Read/WriteWeb. One of the findings in the report is that Facebook apps follow the now familiar power law … Read more

Today Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson contacted Read/WriteWeb to announce that his citizen journalism startup Newsvine has been acquired by MSNBC, the Microsoft/NBC joint venture, for an undisclosed sum. Davidson told us that “Newsvine will continue operating independently, just as it has been since launching in March of 2006.” He also indicated there would be little … 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 Adobe Acquires Virtual Ubiquity – Enters Web Office Fray Josh Catone was at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago this week, … Read more