2007

Read/WriteTalk has an interesting podcast interview with Dan Saffer, Experience Design Director at Adaptive Path. In the podcast, R/WT host Sean Ammirati and Dan discussed the process of designing for new types of Web-enabled devices – such as Nintendo’s Wii, Apple’s iPhone and the new touch iPod. The background is that Saffer wrote a blog … Read more

Web Office suite vendor Zoho is continuing its rapid pace of new product releases, with an online database and reports app called Zoho DB. Zoho is making a habit of one-upping their competition, because as of now none of Google, Microsoft Office Live, or ThinkFree offer a comparable online database product. The closest competitor to … Read more

last100 editor Steve O’Hear has been pondering the future of Internet TV and he sees set-top boxes as key. A set-top box, according to this definition, is “a device used with televisions, allowing users access to enhanced and sometimes proprietary features such as digital channels, video-on-demand, and Internet access”. Here is what last100 had to … Read more

AltSearchEngines has just released its latest Top 100 Alternative Search Engines list. ASE tracks over 1,000 “alts” in all, so choosing the top 10% is a pretty big deal. One trend that ASE editor Charles Knight is beginning to see is that some of the alts are getting larger. Charles noted: “We have always said … Read more

Barnes & Noble.com has launched a re-design, with several new web 2.0 features – including “One on One” podcasts, a large tag cloud on the frontpage, a “See Inside” program that offers a virtual book-reading like experience, and a service called “Live at Barnes & Noble” where you can view webcasts of readings at member … Read more

There’s been a lot of discussion over the past 24 hours on the new Techmeme Leaderboard, which is a list of the top 100 sources for the popular tech news aggregator – calculated over the past 30 days. The Leaderboard updates daily and each site is ranked with a “presence” indicator, defined as “the percentage … Read more

Webmail.us, a business web email service, has just been acquired by leading web hosting company Rackspace for an undisclosed sum. We last covered Webmail.us in August last year as part of an overview of the web email market. At that point Webmail.us provided email hosting services to more than 23,000 small-medium businesses. Currently, over a … Read more

Microsoft has today announced a new online office service called Office Live Workspace, plus re-named its Office Live service to Office Live Small Business. Both moves are attempts to complement Microsoft Office, its dominant desktop office suite – rather than replace functionality present in MS Office. Office Live Workspace will allow users to store, access … Read more

I’ve been away the last half of this week, so this Wrapup is a condensed version. If you’re in catch-up mode like me, here are 10 of our best posts from the past week: Products & News Surprise: MSN Has Built the Video Site of the Future Web Apps Hit the Mainstream FeedHub Launches – … Read more

A quick note that we have a couple of sponsor slots available for October. Read/WriteWeb is currently the 24th ranked blog in the world according to Technorati and is one of the leading web 2.0 blogs. We’re also among the 25 Largest Tech Business Websites, according to eBizMBA. Read/WriteWeb is read by early adopters, analysts, … Read more

Check out the Read/WriteWeb Job Board, for cool jobs in Web technology and new media. Here is a sample of what’s currently available: Nincha is looking for a part-time/freelance PHP developer to develop a prototype for a web startup/application/idea. New Interactive from New York is looking for a Senior Web Designer. Nature Publishing Group is … Read more

Our post a few weeks ago, 10 Future Web Trends, received a lot of excellent feedback. The most interesting was from people offering alternative future web trends to the ones we had chosen. In fact there were some grumblings that our 10 picks were not futuristic enough – so in this post let’s see if … Read more

We cover the trend of Web Office closely here on Read/WriteWeb. Google Apps, Salesforce.com, Zoho, ThinkFree, Zimbra – these are some of the leading vendors of web-based office software. And last week came the big news that Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! for $350M (read our analysis of why), so the market for this software … Read more

Personalization startup mSpoke is launching a new product to mashup and personalize RSS feeds today at DEMO [disclosure: Read/WriteTalk host Sean Ammirati works for mSpoke]. The product is called FeedHub and it creates an “individualized RSS feed” that aims to filter relevant posts from a set of feed sources. Like similar products we’ve profiled before … Read more

Mobile Web expert Rudy De Waele has posted slides of a presentation he did last week in London, at the Mobile Web 2.0 Conference. This is the best and most comprehensive overview of Mobile Web startups and product ecosystem that I’ve yet seen. I particularly liked the following slide, categorizing the main players: Check out … Read more