Announcing Our Third Country Channel: ReadWriteWeb Brazil

We’re very pleased to announce the launch of ReadWriteWeb’s third country channel: ReadWriteWeb Brazil. It joins our existing two country channels, France and China. ReadWriteWeb Brazil is written in the Portuguese language, one of the world’s major languages with up to 230 million native speakers. Brazil has by far the largest online population in Latin … Read more

Pachube Adds Real-Time Notifications – More Power to The Internet of Things

Earlier this year we profiled Pachube, (pronounced “PATCH-bay”), a service which stores and shares real-time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments. The uses for Pachube are only beginning to be discovered in 2009, but for example it could in future power automation of lighting and alarm systems in your home. The Internet of … Read more

Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies

As part of our lead-up to The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, which is just over two weeks away, in this post we’re listing 50 leading companies of the Real-Time Web. Like any list, it is bound to be missing some worthy companies – so we invite you to list more in the comments. Our aim … Read more

Report: The Future of RFID Smart Cards Looks Bright

This post is sponsored by IBM’s A Smarter Planet blog, where it has also been cross-posted. In recent posts we’ve looked at three of the world’s leading RFID-powered Smart Cards: Japan’s cutting edge Suica Card, London’s Oyster Card and Hong Kong’s long-running Octopus Card. The most conservative of those three, the Oyster card, can only … Read more

How to Use Tumblr, Posterous & Other Light Blogging Services

Last week we took a poll asking for your favorite ‘light’ blogging service. These are blogging services that make it very easy for you to share content and media. While old-school blogging service Blogger.com got the most votes in our poll, newer slicker services such as Tumblr, Soup.io and the recently trendy Posterous are popular … Read more

Weekly Wrapup: The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we announce our first event: The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit on October 15th in Mountain View, California. It’s a 1-day event that will bring together some of the smartest minds doing real-time work for an industry-changing, face-to-face … Read more

Poll: Which Light Blogging Service Do You Use?

Earlier today we reported that Posterous, a popular minimalist blogging service, had added the ability for its users to import their Tumblr content. Tumblr is a competing ‘light blogging’ service – the market leader in fact. Other similar services include Soup.io, Noovo, Vox, Profilactic and even WordPress.com and Blogger.com are used for this purpose (although … Read more

ReadWriteWeb’s Top 5 Web Trends of 2009

Last week we ran a series of posts outlining the 5 biggest Internet trends of this year: Structured Data, Real-Time Web, Personalization, Mobile Web / Augmented Reality, Internet of Things. Effectively this was ReadWriteWeb’s State of the Web 2009. We’ve now compiled the main points into a single presentation, available on Slideshare and embedded below. … Read more

Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Internet of Things

This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. So far we’ve explored these trends: Structured Data, The Real-Time Web, Personalization, Mobile Web / Augmented Reality. The fifth and final part of our series is about the Internet of Things, when real world objects (such as fridges, … Read more

Facebook Lite Goes Live – More Twitter Imitation

A month ago we reported that Facebook was beta testing a ‘lite’ version of its popular social networking site. http://lite.facebook.com has just become available to U.S. users. The lite version offers users a “faster, simpler version of Facebook.” Judging from what we have seen so far, Facebook Lite turns Facebook into a very Twitter-like experience. … Read more

Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Mobile Web & Augmented Reality

This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. So far we’ve explored these trends: Structured Data, The Real-Time Web, Personalization. The fourth part of our series is on Mobile Web. We’re including Augmented Reality in this category, as we think it’s a key element of where … Read more