2009

It’s been nearly 4 years since news aggregation site Techmeme (or tech.memeorandum, as it was called back then) launched to the world. Since then it’s grown to be the leading aggregator of tech news in the blogosphere. There have been no shortage of pretenders to the throne over the years, particularly from startups hoping to … Read more

We all love to flip through a glossy, interesting magazine on the plane, in the dentist’s waiting room, or stretched out on the sofa in the evening. However magazines have not been isolated from the troubles that print media are having due to the online world. Many magazines are struggling to survive and some of … Read more

Last week we looked at the emerging world of real-time cellphone data, via the projects of the MIT SENSEeable City Lab. This lab has been producing interesting analysis and visualizations of cellphone data in urban centers, a.k.a. “digital footprints.” We also spoke to Andrea Vaccari, a research associate at SENSEable City Lab, about a project … Read more

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we have one of the very first hands-on reviews of Google Wave, we check out the new Microsoft Bing search engine, analyze another new Google product called Squared, look at what applications will be built on top of real-time … Read more

At ReadWriteWeb we’ve been following with interest the projects of the MIT SENSEeable City Lab, which is producing some excellent analysis and visualizations of cellphone data in urban centers. MIT refers to this data as “digital footprints,” because it essentially tracks the movement and sometimes actions of people in an environment. Our most recent post … Read more

Semantic technology company TopQuadrant announced today that NASA is using its semantic application platform, the TopBraid Suite, to “model, organize, integrate and exchange data” within the NASA Constellation Program. The goal of the NASA Constellation Program, announced in 2004, is to explore the solar system – starting with a return to the Moon and ultimately … Read more

Microsoft’s new search engine Bing unexpectedly went live tonight, including a re-direct from http://www.live.com – previously Microsoft’s ‘personalized start page’ destination. So search has usurped a Netvibes-like start page as Microsoft’s default homepage for its web services. In last week’s launch announcement, Bing was being bandied about as Microsoft’s latest attempt to steal market share … Read more

Today we’re debuting two new writers on ReadWriteWeb. Steven Walling is our new writer for the Enterprise channel, while Dana Oshiro takes the reigns of ReadWriteStart. Both of these fantastic new hires will be focused on our channels. Steven becomes lead writer for the still nascent ReadWriteEnterprise, which unfortunately had a false start a month … Read more

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we report on Google’s announcement of a new communications and collaboration platform called Google Wave, look at Microsoft’s latest challenger in the search market with Bing, analyze the current trends we’re seeing on the Web, look at the latest … Read more

A new PricewaterhouseCoopers Technology report explains how the Semantic Web and Linked Data can help enterprises manage their large-scale data better. The PwC Center for Technology and Innovation team spent several months researching and analyzing the problem of data silos in enterprises – and what solutions are being developed to help with that problem. The … Read more

The latest implementation of OpenCalais, the Semantic API by media company Thomson Reuters, has just been announced. It’s with ‘new media’ stalwart CNET, which has signed up to use OpenCalais for semantic analysis of its tech product reviews, news, and blog posts. CNET has also joined Thomson Reuters as one of the first commercial media … Read more

A couple of weeks ago we launched our first premium report, on the topic of Online Community Management. In an era of the Web where separating signal from noise is difficult, there seems to be a market for in-depth commercial content that goes beyond the daily free news cycle. Our friends at GigaOM launched a … Read more

The MIT SENSEable City Lab recently released visualizations of mobile phone call activity over the week of President Obama’s inauguration on January 20, 2009. The visualizations are of course stunning, but they also aim to answer the questions: Who was in Washington, D.C. for President Obama’s Inauguration Day, when did they arrive, where did they … Read more

Last week we discussed some of the new trends we’re seeing on the Web in 2009: open data, structured data, apps that filter content effectively, real-time, personalization, mobile (especially location-based), and Internet of Things (the Web in real-world objects). We asked for your thoughts on these trends, along with your suggestions on what we should … Read more

Mir:ror is an Internet of Things app from the company Violet (follow on Twitter @violetOS). As the name suggests, it is literally a mirror – but an Internet-connected one which detects the objects you show it, triggering applications and multimedia content on your computer. It works via RFID stamps, known as “ztamp:s” in the company’s … Read more