2008

Join us now for our weekly review of Web Technology news. This week was dominated by the launch of Google’s new open source browser Chrome. As the Ed tweeted during the week: how often does a major Internet company launch a brand new browser? Check out our extensive coverage and analysis below. This week we … Read more

This week we ran a poll asking which word processing tool you primarily use. We wanted to see if things had changed much since we ran the same poll one year ago. So are ReadWriteWeb readers, many of whom are early adopters of Internet technology, using online word processing services now instead of desktop software? … Read more

We’ve covered the launch of Google’s new browser Chrome extensively this week. But as we near the end of the week, one of the questions yet to be answered is how Chrome will fare in the enterprise. As we all know Google is making a strong push into the enterprise with Google Apps, which received … Read more

Online video ad network LiveRail (our profile) has just released a ‘State Of The Industry Report’ for Q3 2008. It reports that video ad spending currently only represents 2.36% of all online advertising, but that it is expected to grow over 55% next year. Right now only 20.95% of internet video streams are being monetized. … Read more

Google has released the video of its announcement of Chrome, the company’s open source browser. It’s embedded below, via YouTube. We’ve been all over this story for the past few days, so here is a summary of our coverage so far: – Google to Offer its Own Browser: Chrome (Marshall’s initial story) – Chrome: Test … Read more

Today Google is launching a new product for the enterprise market, Google Video for business. It’s a new application in the Google Apps office suite, enabling workers to upload and share videos inside their organizations. Videos can be shared on an individual, group or company-wide basis. Google sees it being used for such things as … Read more

We ran a poll a year ago asking which word processing tool you used the most. What we were really driving at was: how many of you are using an online word processing service (Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree, etc) as your main tool, instead of a traditional desktop one (MS Word, OpenOffice, etc). The results … Read more

It’s great to hear that Marc Canter is writing a book, called ‘How to build the Open Mesh’. He’s been working for years on this vision with his product PeopleAggregator. He’s just posted the four Appendices that conclude the book in his blog. It’s a great overview of the major web platforms: Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft … Read more

It’s the weekend, so time to review the Web tech news, reviews and analysis we brought you this week on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we reported on Facebook hitting 100 million users, checked out 10 great web apps for school, looked at the state of online accounting, and reviewed the latest in lifestreaming. On … Read more

To complement the poll we ran this week about streaming music sites, we sourced data from comScore about the Internet Radio industry. comScore’s data shows that the big Internet companies still dominate, specifically AOL Radio and Yahoo Music. In contrast, our poll – the second annual time that we’ve run it – shows that last.fm … Read more

In yesterday’s episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, our topic was online music and we had 3 very special guests on the show: Dalton Caldwell, founder and CEO of Imeem; Lucas Gonze, founder of Webjay and until recently a senior member of the Yahoo Music team; and Rob Williams, Senior VP of Music … Read more

Shelfari, a small book sharing startup, was acquired today by Amazon (an existing investor in the company). Shelfari is known for its innovative user interface, something which we’ve discussed a few times on ReadWriteWeb. Shelfari’s competitors include GoodReads and LibraryThing. The relationship with the latter has been frosty, with LibraryThing writing on its site today … Read more

The latest episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, is set to begin shortly at 3.30pm PST (6.30pm EST). This week’s topic is online music and we have 3 very special guests on the show to discuss this: Dalton Caldwell, founder and CEO of Imeem; Lucas Gonze, whose startup Webjay was acquired by Yahoo … Read more

Accounting software for small business and personal use is increasingly moving from the desktop to online. However, compared to other office software, this transition to online has been relatively slow. Partly that’s due to user reticence: writing a document online and sharing it with others (via Google Docs, Office Live, Zoho, or whatever you use) … Read more

This week’s RWW Live podcast show (Monday 3.30pm PST) is on the topic of online music. We have 2-3 very special guests (so far we have representatives from Yahoo and Imeem, please email me if you’re interested in coming on the show, we have 1 final place to confirm). We’ve been writing a lot about … Read more