2008

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It’s time to wrap up the week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we reviewed a super-hyped new search engine called Cuil, analysed the BT acquisition of web telephony platform Ribbit, looked at why Google bought video startup Omnisio, and investigated why popular Facebook app Scrabulous was shut down. … Read more

I’m very pleased to announce that Marshall Kirkpatrick has joined ReadWriteWeb in a full-time capacity, as our new Vice President of Content Development. The grand title reflects Marshall’s senior position within ReadWriteWeb, where he will be responsible for driving a lot of our upcoming content developments. These include premium content, publishing system enhancements, and more … Read more

One of the conferences we’re supporting this year is Defrag. The topics that Defrag explores are very close to our hearts – OpenSocial, Attention, Next-Level Discovery, The Implicit Web, and more. One of this year’s Defrag sessions that caught my attention is entitled: Fixing Foundational Information Channels — Email, Calendars, RSS, etc. On the Defrag … Read more

The selection process for DEMOfall 08 (RWW is a media partner) is coming to a close and Chris Shipley has been blogging her thoughts about it. She’s identified a number of trends in the ‘class of DEMOfall 2008’, one of which is this claim: the Web 2.0 cycle has come to a close. She also … Read more

Online reputation company Rapleaf has released a new study of 49.3 million people, revealing gender and age data about social network users. On most of the main social networks – including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 – women outnumber men by a considerable amount. On Facebook, the 18-24 age group is largest, with 1,685,029 women in … Read more

An alternative search engine launched last night. It’s called Cuil and, if you’re a reader of tech blogs and/or the New York Times, you’ve no doubt been hammered with the news all day. We checked Cuil out and had a mixed user experience, as did most of the commenters in the post. So it’s a … Read more

If there’s a hot new social media trend happening, you can bet that companies are trying to find a way to use it too. It happened of course with blogging, it happened with Twitter, and it is now happening with FriendFeed and other lifestreaming apps. UPDATE: On August 16, 2008 ReadWriteWeb was sent a letter … Read more

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the changing face of the blogging landscape. On one hand many bloggers have turned to the likes of FriendFeed and Twitter to express themselves, instead of their blogs. On the other hand we have a group of professional blogs that are becoming more and more like … Read more

It’s time to review the week that was on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we compared Nokia and Apple in the Internet mobile phone market, explored the new-look Facebook, checked out MySpace’s moves to open up, and reviewed new products from Google and Microsoft. On the trends side we looked at what’s beyond the API, … Read more

We received an interesting email from the social network Multiply, saying that Facebook’s new design is “the latest in a series of enhancements that bear striking resemblance to innovations made by Multiply months earlier.” Multiply accuses Facebook of copying it, saying that it has evidence of “a pattern of Multiply’s social networking innovations being implemented … Read more

Earlier today Corvida set a difficult challenge for RWW readers, based on a new service called 12Seconds.tv. The challenge is to say “ReadWriteWeb” 5 times really fast in 12 seconds or less. Now, it’s well known that the name ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is a tongue twister – even I have trouble pronouncing it at times, and I … Read more

Our network blog last100 has an interesting interview with Nicolas Gramlich, founder of anddev.org – an online community for Android developers. As editor Steve O’Hear notes in his intro, there have been issues with Google’s mobile OS of late – an incomplete and buggy SDK, favoritism towards select developers, lack of transparency, and concerns that … Read more

We’ve been as excited as everyone else about the iPhone 3G. But it’s easy to forget that the iphone is just a tiny player in the mobile phone market. Even if it hits Steve Jobs’ target of 10 million iphone sales by end of 2008, that will still be less than 1% of the mobile … Read more

Today’s big news is that Amazon’s S3 online storage service has experienced significant downtime. Allen Stern, who hosts his blog’s images on S3, reported that the downtime lasted3.5 over 6 hours. Startups that use S3 for their storage, such as SmugMug, have also reported problems. Back in February this same thing happened. At the time … Read more