2008

We interrupt this broadcast to thank our sponsors for supporting ReadWriteWeb. We have a great line-up of sponsors, all supporting RWW’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Technology trends and products. Of course we’re also thankful for a passionate and smart reader base. We’ve made improvements to our commenting system over the past month, … Read more

Chandler is an open source, cross platform PIM (Personal Information Manager) product that has been in development since 2001, but has yet to get to a 1.0 version. It is being built by the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) and has been funded to date by Mitch Kapor, who is famous for founding the first … Read more

Current Media, the parent company of Current TV and Current.com, has filed for a $100 Million IPO on NASDEQ. Current was famously co-founded by ex Vice President Al Gore. IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) have been thin on the ground in the Web 2.0 era, but in Current’s case the money will be used for expansion … Read more

The excellent Trendsspotting blog has compiled a meta list of 2008 Web trends, by selecting “a group of 10 web/tech influencers suggesting their trends forecast for 2008.” ReadWriteWeb is one of the 10 influencers selected – using our 10 Future Web Trends post as our contribution. But see also 10 More Future Web Trends and … Read more

The latest podcast at ReadWriteTalk is an interview with Adam Taggart, the Director of Product Marketing in the Yahoo! Mobile Group. In the podcast, Taggart discusses with RWT host Sean Ammirati “an overall uber-message” that Yahoo! is currently pushing for Mobile Web. Taggart emphasized that Yahho’s approach to mobile is all about scale: “…we are … 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: Marshall explores the viability of a web with decentralized, open standards-based IM at … Read more

Russian search engine Quintura (one of our sponsors) has released a private beta of a custom search service for blogs or websites. It’s similar to the Eurekster swicki we use on ReadWriteWeb. The defining feature of Quintura’s service is a tag cloud that moves fluidly when you click it – see it in action on … 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: we covered the big news coming out of Apple’s annual conference, Macworld; ReadWriteWeb … Read more

The Crunchies event last night in SF was a blast. Thanks to everyone involved, but especially Michael Arrington, Heather Harde and the team from TechCrunch – who put in a lot of behind-the-scenes work to make this a success. I also must apologize for publishing the list of winners at 7.30pm PST, just as the … Read more

Project10X has just released a 400-page study of semantic technologies and their market impact, entitled Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities. The report discusses the emergence of semantic technologies for consumer and enterprise applications, and the evolution from Web 2.0 to the so-called “Web 3.0”. A free 27-page … Read more

Today Sharpcast is launching an invite-only private beta of it’s much-anticipated Project Hummingbird product, with full public launch to follow this Spring. The product has been re-named SugarSync and with it you will be able to sync and backup your files and media across all of your computers, the web and mobile phone. Sharpcast CEO … Read more

A couple of days ago I received the following email, from a Mr Vladislav Sobolev, who I’d never heard of before: “Hi, I am going to launch ReadWriteWeb.mobi, the mobile version of ReadWriteWeb optimized for viewing on a mobile phone. I am also launching a number of other mobile sites including buzzmachine, craphound, crunchboard, deadspin, … Read more

According to our network blog last100, Google unveiled a new user interface today for its iPhone Web apps. Daniel Langendorf reports: “With Google for the iPhone, users will get an improved UI optimized for the touch screen, customization of default tabs (easy access to favorite applications), faster Gmail (email automatically show up, no refreshing needed), … Read more

Lifestreaming, according to Wordspy, is “an online record of a person’s daily activities, either via direct video feed or via aggregating the person’s online content such as blog posts, social network updates, and online photos.” In this post we review some of the top lifestreaming web apps: Onaswarm, Lifestrea.ms, Soup, Jaiku (the service Google bought), … Read more

Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb, the first full working week of 2008! Highlights this week: Our coverage of CES, including Web product and strategy announcements from Microsoft and Yahoo!; Google and Facebook join DataPortability Workgroup; a review of the latest Web adventure for television show Lost; an analysis … Read more