2008

Our network blog has just announced an annual ‘Day Without Google’, starting tomorrow April 1st. ASE editor Charles Knight writes: “All we’re asking is that for One Day you try one of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines”. He implores us to “Choose one, choose several, but for One Day give the Alternative search engines … Read more

Following on from our Q&A; with Benjamin Joffe about how Facebook compares to top Asian social networks, Kaiser Kuo from Ogilvy China Digital Watch reported today that Facebook users in China “received a message on their main pages this morning asking them to help out with the translation of the site into simplified Chinese”. Kaiser … Read more

When it comes to keeping track of Mobile Web trends and products, Rudy De Waele has his finger constantly on the pulse. This month Rudy gave a presentation at the Plugg Conference in Brussels about Mobile 2.0. It was an update to the one we featured in September ’07 and as usual it is a … Read more

One of my co-presenters at this month’s Media 08 event in Sydney was Benjamin Joffe, Managing Director at Asia Internet consultancy +8* and Co-Founder of MobileMonday Beijing. At Media 08 Benjamin discussed the leading social networks in Asia. In particular he compared global leader Facebook with Cyworld, Mixi and QQ. According to Benjamin, Facebook is … Read more

Today’s winning comment comes from Alex Iskold’s must-read post Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies. In the post Alex identifies the patterns that are beginning to emerge in the Semantic Web, classifies the different trends, and examines what the future holds. One of the comments to the post introduced us to the term … Read more

The big news today was the announcement of the OpenSocial Foundation, a joint effort by Google, Yahoo! and MySpace’s Newscorp. As we reported earlier today, the creation of an open, non-profit organization will assuage concerns about whether Google is exercising leadership or control with OpenSocial. But there are other concerns. In the press call, which … Read more

We’re pleased to announce a new monthly feature on ReadWriteTalk, ReadWriteWeb’s podcast show. There’s a new podcast gang in town and it’s called The Semantic Web Gang. The group is led by Paul Miller of Talis and includes our own Alex Iskold. Indeed we just published a monster post about Semantic Web Patterns, written by … Read more

Today’s winning comment comes from our post about a Facebook security flaw that allowed people to access private photos – including some from Paris Hilton at the Emmys and others from Facebook founding CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vacation in November of 2005. In an excellent example of crowdsourced fact checking and research, Mark Jaquith noted that … Read more

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We have another 2 Comment of the Day prizes to give away and both of them relate to the mainstreaming of online media (specifically video and audio). The first is from our post Is Oprah Going to Save the Internet?, in which Marshall Kirkpatrick noted that Oprah Winfrey’s use of podcasting, Silverlight and Skype could … Read more

Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. This week includes social networks and lifestreaming analysis (Facebook, FeedFriend and more), a look at new Semantic Apps, and a new service from Amazon. And don’t forget to click through to our website and leave a comment on our posts, for … Read more

last100 is reporting that Joost (last100 review) is planning to let viewers access its Internet TV service via a Web browser, rather than requiring them to download and install the current Mac/Windows application. last100 editor Steve O’Hear notes that “though no specific launch date is mentioned (Joost has a track record of stating that it … Read more

Today we have 2 prizes to give away. They both come from a very appropriate post from Sarah Perez: The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere. In it, Sarah noted that “a lot of new aggregation services and lifestreaming applications [have] come into play recently”, which may be dragging discussions off blogs and onto the likes … Read more

Aggregate Knowledge, which operates a content discovery network under the brand name Pique, today announced a deal with BusinessWeek to deliver “user-driven content suggestions” on their website. It’s the latest in a string of similar deals – Aggregate Knowledge powers “discovery” of both editorial content and product recommendations for over 100 websites, with a particular … Read more

In our post Social Networks Will Be Tomorrow’s iTunes, Sarah Perez reported on new research indicating that social networks have the potential to be the content distribution platforms of tomorrow. “MySpace the next iTunes?”, said Sarah, “It’s coming.” However commenter Rian from DailySplice.com thinks it should be the other way round: iTunes to become social … Read more