2008

This week the ReadWriteWeb team was in force at the Web 2.0 Summit, an annual event that covers the state of the Web industry. This year’s theme was ‘Web meets world’. ReadWriteWeb had access to video coverage of the event, via TechWeb (one of the producers of the event along with O’Reilly Media). We’ve got … Read more

A report was released today by pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research, stating that the number of U.S. adults who are Health 2.0 consumers has risen to over 60 million. Manhattan Research defined Health 2.0 consumers as those who have conducted one of the following activities in the past 12 months: read health-related … Read more

Thanks to our partners at TechWeb, co-hosts of the Web 2.0 Summit along with O’Reilly Media, ReadWriteWeb is pleased to present ongoing video coverage of the event. You can select sessions in the widget below, as they are released on video to ReadWriteWeb over the next couple of days. We will also be highlighting some … Read more

One of our favorite parts of the annual Web 2.0 Summit is Mary Meeker’s rapid fire data deluge about the Internet economy. You can view her PDF slides here. She started off by discussing the recession, which she said was “a long time coming” – but wondered “how long will it last?”. Meeker noted that … Read more

Four years ago, I was among many people who were blown away by a speech that Barack Obama made at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Then in November 2004, exactly four years ago to this day, I blogged about Obama’s interview with CNN after he had won his race for Senator. “Wow, this guy should … Read more

Admin announcement: ReadWriteWeb has made a strategic decision to disband our network, meaning that our two separately branded network blogs AltSearchEngines and last100 are going independent. The reason ReadWriteWeb has made this decision is to focus on building and extending our core ReadWriteWeb brand. The first fruits of this strategy were the Enterprise Channel (launched … Read more

In a couple of reports released today, Forrester Research makes projections on the future of enterprise web technologies. Forrester predicts that social networking tools and internal wikis “will have the greatest impact on workplace collaboration”. It is bullish too on forums and RSS, which Forrester claims “have a future in the enterprise but are currently … Read more

It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, Microsoft had two major Web announcements: 1) the release of Azure, a cloud computing OS; and 2) browser-based versions of four Office products. Google was also active this week, releasing the third beta of its new browser Chrome … Read more

Our friends at Gigaom are running the second annual NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on November 13, 2008. It’s an event focused on the online video arena and we have one free ticket to giveaway. To be in to win, all you need to do is leave a comment here telling us what your … Read more

Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. These will be “lightweight versions”, but Microsoft told us yesterday that they’ll still have rich functionality and will be comparable to Google’s … Read more

I’m at the Microsoft PDC in Los Angeles, where I was among a small group of bloggers and analysts who had a roundtable today with Microsoft executives Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect), Bob Muglia (Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business) and Amitabh Srivastava (Corporate Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Services). The topic of … Read more

Ray Ozzie opened the Microsoft PDC ’08 this morning with a keynote speech. In it he announced Windows Azure, Microsoft’s “Windows in the cloud”. It is a new service based operating environment. He described it as a massive highly scalable service platform. What is being released today is just a fraction of what it will … Read more

It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side this week, we analyzed why platforms such as Facebook and Open Social have been a let-down, we looked at a new (perhaps under-appreciated) platform from AOL, reported on the latest ‘web 3.0’ moves by Yahoo!, and more. On … Read more

A new report by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research states that usage of social technologies increased markedly in 2008: three in four US online adults now use social tools to connect with each, up from 56% in 2007. According to the report, the largest growth came from ratings and reviews, “voting” on websites, and user-generated … Read more

Today at 11am PT/2pm ET, ReadWriteWeb is presenting an online product strategy roundtable featuring Sramana Mitra and using Dimdim‘s open source web conferencing platform. During the 60-minute session, entrepreneurs will pitch Sramana their product ideas in a 3-minute presentation. She will review the material in real-time and provide 3-minutes of feedback on each plan. The … Read more