2008

Yesterday we questioned whether Yahoo is focusing enough on its core products. We wrote that “Yahoo’s key properties remain yahoo.com, email, myyahoo, and even Answers can be considered special. In short, content is what continues to drive Yahoo and those core properties are still enormously popular.” A leaked Yahoo memo has come to light today … Read more

Due to demand in the comments, 3 new IM clients have been added to the poll. You can now vote for Pidgin, Miranda, and Apple’s iChat. Apologies for omissions! Our poll this week focuses on IM clients. This weekend Corvida wrote that interoperability between popular IM clients is happening, albeit slowly. One thing that Corvida … Read more

There’s been a lot of hand wringing in the media over the weekend about Yahoo’s rejection of Microsoft’s takeover bid. Most of the coverage has focused on the (very serious) financial and people issues that Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is now facing. But let’s turn some attention to Yahoo’s product line for a moment. How … Read more

ReadWriteWeb is looking for a new blogger to join our team. Ideally we’re after a blogger based in Silicon Valley, who can attend the local events on our behalf and meet with startups. However we’ll consider non-Valley bloggers too. The role description is basically: cover breaking web tech news and product reviews. So don’t worry, … Read more

One of the most interesting aspects of Web 2.0 these days is how it’s beginning to create change in ‘the real world’. While geek-friendly apps like FriendFeed, Twitter and Google Reader get a lot of attention in our little world, there is a whole other world out there in which the Web is making a … Read more

Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we covered the iPhone 2.0 announcement, reviewed 6 Adobe AIR apps for work, checked out the new MySpace and Last.fm re-designs, looked at Coke’s social media play, and interviewed the co-founder of Mobile Web startup Skydeck. On … Read more

Earlier this week we ran a poll about the latest version of the iPhone announced at Apple’s WWDC event in San Francisco. The results were a little surprising, in that only half (52%) of respondents thought iPhone 2.0 was a solid release — just over 1 in 5 of those thought it was revolutionary. But … Read more

In Web 1.0 there were a number of browser-based website creation platforms – e.g. Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod, Homestead and Brinkster (I myself used nearly all of those, back in the day). These apps were very popular in the mid to late 90’s, because they made web publishing relatively easy. The most successful one, Geocities, was … Read more

The Rensselaer interactive debate on the future of the Web is just starting now and is being webcast live here (note: Silverlight required). You can watch the debate and submit questions – including while it is happening – by clicking here. Update: The debate is now over, see our comprehensive notes below… Here’s a screenshot … Read more

ReadWriteWeb is the exclusive Media Partner for an interactive debate on the future of the Web, which kicks off in a couple of hours time. The debate features Tim Berners-Lee and will be webcast live. You can watch the debate and submit questions – including while it is happening – by clicking here. Semantic Web … Read more

My favorite online music service Last.fm is currently ungoing a semi-public re-design, available to Last.fm subscribers ($3 per month) at beta.last.fm. Bearing in mind that last.fm is now owned by mega media company CBS, it is great to see last.fm continuing to evolve fast. In this post we review the new design and see if … Read more

Tech blogs have been literally stampeding over the top of each other today to report on the latest version of the iPhone, announced at Apple’s WWDC event in San Francisco. Our network blog last100 has an excellent overview of the news. Personally I’m a huge iPhone fan and so I was looking forward to this … Read more

Earlier today we covered a mobile social network called Buzzd, which will be featured at the music festival Bonnaroo. In this post we outline 10 mobile social networks to keep your eye on. It’s a developing field – and there are issues such as hardware compatibility to overcome – but we expect some of these … Read more

Back in February we reported that Buzzd, a Mobile Web social networking service used at bars, clubs and restaurants, had won a bunch of awards at the MobileMonday Peer Awards. We noted that Buzzd is a great example of how location-based services will be the killer app for the Mobile Web. Today Buzzd announced that … Read more

Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we analyzed Adobe’s new Web Office suite, investigated a worrying exodus of sellers from eBay, looked some more at Yahoo’s Search Monkey, and showed you 6 tools to save links with. On the trends side we explored … Read more