2008

I’m at the Webstock conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Currently speaking is Peter Morville, whose topic is “Ambient Findability and the Future of Search”. Peter Morville was co-author of the famous ‘polar bear’ book about Information Architecture – which was like a bible to many of us who started our careers as webmasters or designers. … Read more

Our second daily Comments Competition winner is theharmonyguy, for an insightful explanation of Googler Kevin Marks’ “Social Cloud” theory. Congratulations theharmonyguy, you’ve won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their Amazon WishList Widget. theharmony guy argued that both OpenSocial and Facebook are “mainly creating a cloud for developers, not users.” … Read more

One of the speakers at the LIFT conference – where Kevin Marks from Google also presented – was Gen Kanai, Mozilla’s Director of business development in Asia. In his presentation Kanai talked about Mozilla’s market share in Asia, plus the perception that Asia isn’t contributing enough to open source projects. Firstly there were some interesting … Read more

Interesting video presentation from Kevin Marks, Google’s main evangelist for the OpenSocial project. Marks explains more about the theory behind OpenSocial, in what he calls “the social cloud”. This seems to be a variation of the Social Graph concept, which Alex Iskold analyzed for ReadWriteWeb last September. See also Sarah Perez’s post today on a … Read more

Our first daily Comments Competition winner is Dan from BlogMinistry, who left this comment on Josh Catone’s post CNN to Launch Completely User Generated News Site. Congratulations Dan, you’ve won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their SmartLink Widgets. Here is Dan’s comment, with some great advice for big media … Read more

As many of you know, we recently underwent a re-design at ReadWriteWeb and upgraded our publishing system at the same time. Unfortunately that resulted in some frustrating technical glitches with our comments system. However, we’re now pleased to report that ReadWriteWeb’s comment system is back running 100% — and it’s a heck of a lot … Read more

It’s a big week coming up in the Mobile Web world. The annual Mobile World Congress is being held in Barcelona, 11-14 February. The early buzz is around Google’s much (and oft) rumored GPhone. According to the Times Online, Google “is expected to produce a prototype mobile handset” at the show. Even if Google itself … Read more

There are some excellent Web conferences happening soon, including a great one in my neck of the woods. The awesomely named Webstock is on this Thursday and Friday, in my home city of Wellington New Zealand. There are a number of Web stars coming from overseas for this event, including Molly Holzschlag, Tom Coates from … Read more

Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Highlights this week: Josh explores Super Tuesday on the Web and pinpoints why Obama and Paul … Read more

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Social ads have social consequences. Josh Kopelman, Managing Director of VC firm First Round Capital, recently found that out. Kopelman, a very savvy web 2.0 investor who got in early with StumbleUpon, Odeo, LinkedIn, and others, tried an experiment with Facebook’s controversial SocialAds advertising system. He spent $50 to test the platform, with an advertisement … Read more

miVitals is a new Australian startup that has an ambitious goal: to enable individuals to manage their personal health data via a web application. miVitals describes itself as “a secure online storage system for health and lifestyle records”. The company says that “most people have about 5 professionals involved in their health management: GP, dentist, … Read more

While I was flying halfway across the world, a huge story developed that I am just now catching up on: Microsoft launched a takeover bid for Yahoo valued at $44.6 Billion. In a frankly stunning move today, the Official Google Blog has published a post raising questions about “Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo!.” David Drummond, … Read more

Here is a summary of the week in Web technology on ReadWriteWeb. Reminder to PR people and startups: If you would like ReadWriteWeb to consider covering your product, you should email us at tips@readwriteweb.com. This address is monitored daily by all our main bloggers. Pitch emails sent to my personal email address almost always get … Read more

During my current trip to the US, I’ve been following the US presidential primaries – it’s hard not to, with the blanket coverage on CNN and in newspapers. Coincidentally while trying to hail a taxi after the Crunchies ceremony, I bumped into a man who is building an Internet version of the primaries. Called OnlinePrimary, … Read more