2008

ReadWriteWeb is the exclusive Media Partner for an interactive debate on the future of the Web being held this coming Wednesday 11 June. The debate features Tim Berners-Lee and will be webcast live. You can submit questions for the debate – and vote on existing questions – by clicking here (see below for other options). … Read more

This week Barack Obama won the Democrat nomination for US President, pitting him against Republican candidate John McCain. At the same time both candidates have ramped up their web efforts, with Obama’s camp calling for web developers to “Write Software, Change Washington” and McCain’s camp launching a new-look website. In this post we check out … Read more

WorkLight, a startup that offers enterprise 2.0 products, recently did a survey among Facebook users to find out their willingness to use Web 2.0 tools for secure banking. The survey was conducted among 1000 Facebook users between the ages of 18-34. The fact that the survey was conducted among Facebook users gives it a bias … Read more

On May 22 we reported that Eurekster, a custom search engine provider, had been down for the past two days and users were wondering if the company would be back. Tonight an alert RWW reader spotted that Eurekster has returned to the land of the living. A blog entry dated May 30 from Eurekster states … Read more

As we blogged recently, ReadWriteWeb is the exclusive Media Partner for an interactive debate on the future of the Web being held by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Tetherless World Research Constellation. In this post we check in to see what the top questions are so far – and we encourage RWW readers to … Read more

Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we covered announcements by Google about Gears and App Engine, we looked at some compelling Yahoo! Pipes apps, we checked out Strands Lifestreaming, and we reviewed promising Semantic Apps Faviki and Freebase. On the trends side we … Read more

Today I gave a presentation at the XMediaLab event in Wellington New Zealand, entitled: What’s Next on the Web? Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond. It was an update of a presentation I gave in Sydney in March. It covers some of the top trends we track on ReadWriteWeb; such as Websites becoming web … Read more

Today I attended the XMediaLab event in Wellington New Zealand (my hometown). Tom Duterme, who is in the New Business Development group at Google in Mountain View, was here talking about innovation. Tom’s job is to travel around the world looking for acquisitions for Google, so it was interesting to hear what things he looks … Read more

RWW network blog last100 has coverage of the latest Android news coming from Google’s I/O conference. Dan Langendorf writes that “as you would expect from the company that brings you search and Google Maps, Android handles information delivery, location and navigation extremely well — or so we think. There’s still no actual Android phones to … Read more

The next Mobile 2.0 Conference is happening in Europe, on July 4 in Barcelona, Spain. ReadWriteWeb is a media partner, because we support what Rudy De Waele and team are doing to promote the Mobile Web across the world. I myself attended the last event in San Francisco last October and learned a lot. We … Read more

Google I/O is the first event for web developers that Google has run. It happens later this week on 28/29 May and Google is expecting 2,500 people to attend. The I/O stands for “Innovation/Open” (i/o is also a programmer term input/output). Recently I spoke with Tom Stocky, a Director of Product Management at Google, to … Read more

A couple of weeks ago we ran an interactive game on the topic of Data Portability. We had a great response, with 680 people playing the game. Here now are the results, showing how RWW readers think 5 of the major players – Google, Microsoft, MySpace, Facebook, and the non-profit Data Portability Project – will … Read more

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Inside Steve’s Brain, a book about Steve Jobs written by Leander Kahney, is a fascinating look at the thought processes and inspiration behind Apple’s products and branding. It has a particular and much welcome focus on the current era – iPod/iTunes, the latest iMacs, the Apple Store and more. The central theme of the book … Read more

Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we explored: next gen apps outside the browser, uses for wikis, Facebook’s usefulness (or lack thereof), the public launch of Google Health, and 4 promising mobile social networks. On the trends side we analyzed: the Mobile Web, … Read more