2009

The latest episode of RWW Live, today at 3.30pm PST, will be focused on online travel applications. We have executives from 4 great travel startups on the call: TripIt, Yapta, Dopplr and PlanetEye. In the show we’ll be discussing how the Web is changing the way people travel for work and fun. It promises to … Read more

In this latest installment in our series on recommendation engines, we look at MyBuys – a company purely focused on providing recommendations services to retail websites. We’ve noted in previous posts in this series that each recommendations vendor has a different approach. What distinguishes MyBuys is that it takes a services approach and is not … Read more

We’d like to welcome a new daily writer to our team of Web enthusiasts: Phil Glockner. Phil lives near Austin, Texas, and has been a part of the tech community there for over 10 years. He started his blog, Scribkin, after attending SXSW Interactive 2008. He’s also been a contributer to Louis Gray‘s excellent blog. … Read more

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look into Facebook’s controversial new “principles”, check out the latest OpenID trends, cover Amazon’s public data initiative, analyze Wikipedia’s possible future as a development platform, investigate the future of ‘touch’ apps, and more. Also we cover the highlights … Read more

US retailer Sears today announced the beta launch of ServiceLive.com, an online marketplace specifically for home improvements and repairs. The goal of ServiceLive.com is to connect Sears customers online with local service providers. The core of ServiceLive is an auction system, in which users can name their price for doing home improvement or repair work, … Read more

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we review the action from the Mobile World Congress, find out why many people blacked out their social networking profiles this week, continue our series on recommendation engines, analyze Yahoo’s progress in search innovation, look into the Internet in … Read more

Earlier this week we ran a competition to win a free ticket to Google I/O, Google’s conference for web developers being held May 27 – 28, 2009 in San Francisco. We had 10 tickets to give away and so we asked you to give us your feature requests for current Google products, or if the … Read more

Ben Goodger, who leads the UI team of Google Chrome, presented today at the Webstock conference about browsers. He said that Google decided to build Chrome simply because “browsers suck”. Existing browsers were too slow (especially with javascript heavy apps), there are too many crashes, too easy to get pwned (security issues), and UIs were … Read more

In this latest instalment in our series on recommendation engines, we look at ATG – an e-commerce services vendor which, among other things, provides recommendations technology to retailers such as Tommy Hilfiger and BetterWorldBooks. ATG has a similar “blended” approach to recommendations as richrelevance, whom we profiled last week – in other words it uses … Read more

Google I/O is a now annual event being held this year on May 27 – 28, 2009 in San Francisco. It’s aimed at web developers, to whom Google will showcase “how to develop web applications with Google and open technologies.” ReadWriteWeb has 10 free tickets to give away to Google I/O; and we thought an … Read more

Webstock, a conference for Web professionals, is happening in Wellington New Zealand this week. As usual it’s a classy lineup of speakers and a number of international webheads will be jetting in for the event. They include science fiction author Bruce Sterling, Flickr’s Heather Champ, Social Web designer Joshua Porter, Dopplr’s Matt Biddulph, Institute for … Read more

Social networks are making it increasingly easy to organize and propagate protests. One that caught our eye today is the New Zealand Internet Blackout, which is using a variety of Internet services to protest against a new law in New Zealand – the Guilt Upon Accusation law ‘Section 92A’. This law may have major implications … Read more

The most obvious feature of Apture is that it is a pop-up technology. Apture is a Javascript plug-in for publishers that adds contextual information to links – via pop-ups which display when users hover over or click on them. However, because of its association with pop-ups, Apture thinks it’s gotten a bad rap. Many people … Read more

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look at the latest social networking statistics showing that Facebook has overtaken MySpace, review a product that’s had great success using OpenID, continue our series on recommendation engines, check out the new version of Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader, … Read more

This week we received an email from a reader telling us that he’d tried to add a link to ReadWriteWeb onto a Wikipedia article, only to get the message: “The following link has triggered our spam protection filter: http://www.readwriteweb.com. Either that exact link, or a portion of it (typically the root domain name) is currently … Read more