2009

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter where the top stories of the week are summarized, we present highlights from our coverage of the Web 2.0 Expo (held this week in San Francisco), review the new Skype app for iPhone, discuss the local / mobile Web with a panel of experts in our … Read more

One of the big trends on the web is more and more location aware / sensitive web applications. Increasingly powerful mobile devices are enabling this. In the latest episode of RWW Live, today at 3.30pm PST, we’ll talk about how the Web is evolving to include more location aware applications and what barriers are still … Read more

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we discuss web apps that have stood the ’30 day test’ for our writers, analyze the past, present and future uses of the Twitter platform, look into the phenomenon of “ghost twittering”, review the latest changes to the Facebook … Read more

In yesterday’s post about my recent trip to Mozilla HQ, we looked at where Mozilla’s Chief Innovation Officer, Chris Beard, thinks Firefox is heading. Mozilla’s vision for Firefox is for the browser to help users navigate and manage an increasingly complex world – something akin to the concept of intelligent agents. Part of this vision … Read more

In my recent visit to Silicon Valley, I got the chance to visit the Mozilla headquarters. Among others at the organization, I spoke to Chris Beard – Mozilla’s Chief Innovation Officer and the person overseeing its efforts to bring new concepts to the browser, a.k.a. Mozilla Labs. We discussed where Firefox is heading and how … Read more

In this latest installment in our series on recommendation engines, we look at ChoiceStream – a recommendations vendor which counts Overstock, Borders and AT&T among its high profile clients. ChoiceStream has recently turned its attention to using recommendations in online advertising, and in this post we look at how the company is doing this. The … Read more

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we cover the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement, review the highlights from Microsoft’s MIX event, look at Facebook’s new privacy controls, check out some cutting edge web-based books, analyze the latest social media and Twitter stats, and more. Also we … Read more

One of the most pleasing Web trends we’re seeing in 2009 is the increasing penetration of web apps into the real world. Web applications for healthcare is one example. We wrote about a new Web-based Radiology Theatre built by IBM yesterday and today we discuss an iPhone app that helps people with diabetes. At yesterday’s … Read more

IBM has announced an online “radiology theatre” product, currently at the prototype stage, which allows teams of medical experts to “simultaneously discuss and review patients’ medical test data using a Web browser.” The project is being run in collaboration with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Boston and is built on IBM’s next-generation browser platform … Read more

At ETech today members of the InSTEDD team spoke about how they have been building SMS and mapping applications, in the Mekong Delta in the jungles of South East Asia. InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters) was organized in 2006-2007 and aims to harness technology to help with early warning, prevention and response … Read more

Nick Bilton from The New York Times R&D Labs was at ETech today, talking about how NYT is preparing for the future of news delivery. His presentation explored how “sensors in every part of our lives [are] helping us aggregate smart content that is relevant to the device we are using”. Bilton said that New … Read more

Mike Kuniavsky from ThingM Corporation spoke this morning at ETech about merging machine-readable identification with pervasive networking. Kuniavsky said that when a digital representation of an object is accessed through a unique ID, it is the object’s “information shadow”. Nowadays, he said, these information shadows are attached to just about everything. One of the consequences … Read more

Tim O’Reilly spoke tonight at ETech in San Jose, on a theme he has been talking about for the past 6 months or so: working on things that matter in the web world. In this talk though he went into a lot of actual examples, as well as strategies people can deploy to work on … Read more

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look into Facebook’s homepages, check out Yahoo’s answer to Facebook Connect, review the new iPhone version of Amazon’s eReader Kindle, analyze the ‘Smarter Web’ trend that came out of the DEMO conference this year, and more. Also we … Read more

Loomia is a content recommendations service, used on sites such as the Wall Street Journal and PC World. We’ve profiled Loomia’s Facebook app before, which tracks what you and your Facebook friends are reading on Loomia-supported sites and then shows you what content is most popular among your social circle. Loomia has recently started to … Read more