2008

It’s the weekend, so time to review the week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at the first reported Android phone, checked out the winners of the Firefox 3 Extensions contest, reviewed Microsoft’s new 3D online photo app, dabbled with screencasting, and reported on Pandora’s imminent demise. … Read more

In this post we review 10 promising developer platforms for the Web. We’re not talking about the obvious ones either, like Facebook, iPhone, OpenSocial or even Twitter. Those have been covered extensively already. The list below features some of our favorite ‘lesser known’ web developer platforms. There are bound to be other excellent developer platforms … Read more

Continuing our coverage of the mainstream web, in this post we look at some of the most popular websites for kids. We’ve gathered information from a recent report (pdf) from Nielsen Online, via Marketingvox, which studied the online habits of Britons under the age of 23. We also polled friends of RWW via Twitter. The … Read more

One of our favorite Australians, Lachlan Hardy, twittered an interesting question today: What are the three things online that are exciting you most? Lachlan was asked this question as part of a newspaper article in the Sydney Morning Herald. His own answers were interesting, but he also got a great response from commentors on his … Read more

It’s the weekend, so time to review the week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at rising music social network Imeem, reported on Yahoo’s Fire Eagle project, checked in on the latest Web Office developments, and covered some new iPhone apps. On the trends side we looked … Read more

ReadWriteWeb is a partner with Defrag, a conference about web innovation. Defrag’s Eric Norlin has lately been blogging about enterprises and organizations starting to move beyond mere ‘cost containment’ (although that’s still a big driver) and into using web technologies to boost productivity. Eric points out that “taming the data” is one of the challenges … Read more

The latest episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, is set to begin in less than an hour at 3.30pm PST (6.30pm EST). We’ve changed the format a bit: each week we’ll invite a special guest or two and have a discussion on a specific theme. We’re hoping that as it’s a live show, … Read more

Music-based social networking site Imeem is getting a lot of the right kind of press currently, based on strong traffic growth and key deals with record labels. We last wrote about Imeem in March, when they launched a developer platform that enabled read/write access to user information and more. As we explained then, Imeem is … Read more

The TrendsSpotting blog has produced a thorough overview of Online China, collected from a variety of sources such as Universal McCann, CNNIC, Pew Internet, Hitwise, comScore and more. The report focus on three key themes: 1) China as an online leader, 2) the competitive landscape in Search, IM & Web 2.0, and 3) Business in … Read more

It’s the weekend, so time for our review the past week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we showed you how to create a custom search engine using social bookmarks, found out why online video is set for a boost at the Olympics, analyzed a new mainstream RSS Reader, … Read more

Earlier this week we ran a competition for 2 full tickets to the New York Web 2.0 Expo conference 16-19 Sept. The tickets are valued at over $1000 each and we also have a consolation prize of a free Expo hall pass (value $100). To be in to win one of the 3 prizes, we … Read more

This week we’re looking at how Web technology is being used in the Beijing Olympics. In today’s post we check out how some of the world’s leading brands are using social media tools in their Olympics campaigns. Our first post discussed how online video will be a big part of this Olympics, which is great … Read more

Practice Fusion is a startup making waves in the health 2.0 market. The product is a free, web-based EMR (electronic medical record) system for physicians. It runs in the browser and has been marketed as a ‘Google Apps for doctors’, providing patient management, scheduling, secure email and more. The business model is largely serving ads, … Read more

This year the Web 2.0 Summit conference (5-7 Nov) is hosting an auction to benefit a few innovative organizations that are solving big problems. To show our support for this initiative, ReadWriteWeb is running a competition in this post. We have 2 full conference passes to give away to the New York Web 2.0 Expo … Read more

The Beijing Olympics starts in a few days and what better test of the mainstream web is there than the world’s biggest sports event. This is the first in a series of posts that will look at the Web technologies powering this year’s Olympics. One of the most obvious ways the Web will be utilized … Read more