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| Sep 14, 2009 | TC50: Clicker Wants To Be TV Guide For The Web | More and more television content is making its way online. But because of different deals by various networks, it’s all over the place. Even the huge sites like Hulu, only skim the surface in showing what is out there. Clicker, a service la... |
| Sep 14, 2009 | Live From TechCrunch50 | http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/1/280032Streaming .TV shows by Ustream
And so it begins. The finalists are prepped and double-prepped. The Demopit companies are overflowing in the halls. And we are about to start this year’s TechCrunch50. ... |
| Dec 19, 2008 | Top 10 Alternative Search Engines of 2008 | Editor’s Note: This list was contributed by Charles Knight, editor of AltSearchEngines, a former RWW network blog.
In terms of user experience, the gap between the major search engines and their alternatives continues to widen — a lot. Goog... |
| Dec 9, 2008 | 10 Wish List Websites For The Holiday Shopping Season | It’s coming up to Christmas and for many of us that means buying presents for family. If you’re in this situation, “what to buy?” becomes the most pressing question in your Christmas shopping expeditions. But what if you could take a quick ... |
| Sep 4, 2008 | MeeID: A Simple App For Your Online Identity | Throughout the years, many sites have attempted to organize our online identities. There are people search tools like Spock, Naymz, and Rapleaf, to name a few that can locate your profile across the web and display for others to see. More r... |
| Aug 13, 2008 | WonderHowTo: How-To Videos in Your Sidebar | WonderHowTo aggregates and curates a large database of instructional videos from all over the Internet. It employs a number of editors who search the web for good how-to videos and then categorize them into 36 vertical categories. Thanks to... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | After Cuil, Blekko Will Be More Careful – But Does It Matter? | My first post for ReadWriteWeb, just over 1 year ago, started with the premise that search was “game over”, that Google had won and the only space left was (re)search – what users do after the basic search.
None of the search start-ups sinc... |
| Jul 28, 2008 | Wow, How Did Cuil Get So Much Publicity on Day 1?! | An alternative search engine launched last night. It’s called Cuil and, if you’re a reader of tech blogs and/or the New York Times, you’ve no doubt been hammered with the news all day. We checked Cuil out and had a mixed user experience, as... |
| Jul 3, 2008 | SeeqPod Launches PodLists | The music search engine SeeqPod has just announced a new service for music fans: “PodLists.” Because of the massive amount of playable search results available on the SeeqPod service – 12 million at the moment and ever-growing – it can be d... |
| May 12, 2008 | Powerset vs. Google: The Completely Premature Head-to-Head | As our network blog AltSearchEngines reported this morning, the long-awaited and much hyped natural language processing search engine Powerset launched this morning. Kind of. For now, the search service only uses Wikipedia and Freebase as s... |
| May 3, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 28 Apr – 2 May 2008 | Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side: this week we took a look at our readers’ favorite web apps, we covered the social news space in depth (including posts on digg, Mixx and a... |
| Apr 27, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 April 2008 | This week was a hectic one, with a number of RWW writers present at the annual Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The big Internet news of the week was the launch of Microsoft’s Live Mesh. Yahoo also announced key support for Social Graph and d... |
| Apr 19, 2008 | ReadWriteWeb Turns 5 | On 20 April, 2003, ReadWriteWeb was born. My first post here was appropriately entitled The Read/Write Web and it began: “The World Wide Web in 2003 is beginning to fulfil the hopes that Tim Berners-Lee had for it over 10 years ago when he ... |
| Apr 10, 2008 | Support Group 2.0: Ten Places to Find Help Online | With 1.3 billion people on the web today it’s a safe bet that at least a few of them have shared experiences and the promise of the web as a global support group is something that is finally being realized. There have been specialized web s... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | Google’s US Search Market Dominance Hits All Time High | Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today finding that Google’s marketshare in US searches rose last month to an all time high of 67% of searches performed. Yahoo! Search (20%), MSN Search (5.25%) and Ask.com (4%) trail far behind... |
| Mar 23, 2008 | Thanks Sponsors; Packages Available April-May | Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting ReadWriteWeb’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking & Social Media.
We currently have a couple of sponsor slots available for April-May on R... |
| Mar 15, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 10-14 March 2008 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. It’s been a busy week, with a RWW interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, iPhone analysis aplenty, a special look at Web visualization, reviews of Semantic Apps Twine and R... |
| Mar 7, 2008 | eeggi: The Intelligent Retrieving, Responding and Discovering Engine | This post was syndicated from Alt Search Engines, our alternative and niche search engines blog. Editor’s Note: the style of this post is different to what we’d normally do here, but we think the technology is interesting enough to run the ... |
| Mar 4, 2008 | The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, March | RWW Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment of The Top 100, a popular monthly feature from our AltSearchEngines blog. The list includes the best People search engines, Job, Health, Media, Local, Social, Semantic, Image, and many more ... |
| Feb 24, 2008 | Thanks Sponsors; Packages Available March-April | Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting ReadWriteWeb’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Technology trends and products. We currently have a couple of sponsor slots available for March-April on ReadWriteWeb, so if you would like... |
| Feb 23, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 18-22 Feb 2008 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web Trends
Why Google Apps is a ... |
| Feb 21, 2008 | Comment of the Day: Google Vulnerable, But Not From Lack of Features | We had a lot of great comments today, but the winner is from our post How Vulnerable is Google on Search?. The premise was that Google hasn’t changed search in 7 or 8 years, so they are vulnerable to search innovators – like the companies p... |
| Feb 21, 2008 | How Vulnerable is Google on Search? | A new wrinkle in the search landscape emerged this morning with the announcement that Ask.com is now offering Compete traffic stats inline for the sites on results pages. (Disclosure: Compete is an RWW advertiser.) This move itself may not ... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | The Future of Search: Peter Morville Defines, Shows Examples | I’m at the Webstock conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Currently speaking is Peter Morville, whose topic is “Ambient Findability and the Future of Search”. Peter Morville was co-author of the famous ‘polar bear’ book about Information A... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | Will ManagedQ Be Disruptive to Search? | ManagedQ is a new search search that provides a visual interface to Google’s results (see our full review on AltSearchEngines here). Since ManagedQ’s results come directly from Google, there’s no loss in result quality, but the service adds... |
| Feb 9, 2008 | AltSearchEngines Launches Forum | ReadWriteWeb network blog AltSearchEngines announced this week a partnership with Near-Time to establish a new forum. The forum has three levels. One tier is for CEOs and executives of Alternative Search Engines, the second tier is open to ... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Thanks Sponsors & Readers | We interrupt this broadcast to thank our sponsors for supporting ReadWriteWeb. We have a great line-up of sponsors, all supporting RWW’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Technology trends and products.
Of course we’re also thankf... |
| Jan 25, 2008 | Quintura Launches Site Search – Private Beta Offer for RWW Readers | Russian search engine Quintura (one of our sponsors) has released a private beta of a custom search service for blogs or websites. It’s similar to the Eurekster swicki we use on ReadWriteWeb. The defining feature of Quintura’s service is a ... |
| Jan 5, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 31 Dec 2007 – 4 Jan 2008 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.
Highlights this week: Richard Ma... |
| 2008 | Start the New Year Off Right: A Guide to Online Giving | Karma, as they say, will always come back to get you. So why not start 2008 off on the right foot by giving to some charitable causes online. These days, almost every charity accepts online donations, so with very few exceptions, we won’t b... |
| Dec 29, 2007 | Best of ReadWriteWeb 2007, Editor’s Picks | 2007 has been a very busy year for ReadWriteWeb. We started the year with just one daily writer (yours truly!), a couple of regular feature writers (Alex Iskold and Emre Sokullu) and the occasional guest writer. We ended the year with 2 new... |
| Dec 22, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 17-21 December 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.
Highlights this week: Marshall K... |
| Dec 8, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 3-7 December 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web News
This week the Facebook... |
| Dec 1, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 26-30 November 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web News
This week continued th... |
| Nov 28, 2007 | 10 Semantic Apps to Watch | One of the highlights of October’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of ‘Semantic Apps’ as a force. Note that we’re not necessarily talking about the Semantic Web, which is the Tim Berners-Lee W3C led initiative that touts t... |
| Nov 16, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 12-16 November 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web News
It was a relatively qu... |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Clever Hippo Launches Web-Wide Application Search Engine | As more and more sites launch their own development platforms, we’ve been slowly starting to see a trend of applications trying to make the jump outside of the platform to which they owe their roots and try to make it as standalone sites or... |
| Nov 12, 2007 | Eyealike image search lets you find people that look like your ex | Still obsessed about an ex? What if you could go to a dating site, upload his or her picture and find similar looking people on whom you could exercise that obsession? Thanks to Eyealike, a site that launches its private beta today, your si... |
| Nov 10, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 5-9 November 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.
Note: If you would like to spon... |
| Nov 7, 2007 | TrueKnowledge Demos Its Semantic Search Engine | Venture funded UK semantic search engine TrueKnowledge is unveiling a demo of its private beta today and looks like an interesting site to watch. One cannot help but think of the still-unlaunched Powerset, but it’s also reminiscent of the v... |
| Nov 5, 2007 | Google Search Has 90% Market Share in France – Could This Happen Worldwide? | Our network blog AltSearchEngines reports that Google has around 90% search engine market share in France (well, 89.98% to be exact!). The next biggest is Yahoo ! (3.17%), followed by MSN (2.33%). Over the past year, between August 2006 and... |
| Nov 3, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 29 October – 2 November 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.
Note: If you would like to spon... |
| Oct 26, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 22-26 October 2007 | Sponsor:
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Microsoft In... |
| Oct 21, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 15-19 October 2007 | Sponsor:
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MySpace Evolves – Developer Platform Details, Partnerships, ... |
| Oct 17, 2007 | Code Search Engine Krugle Announces Partnership With Amazon | Krugle, the eponymous code search engine launched by Ken Krugler in June 2006, is announcing today a partnership with Amazon to provide enterprise code search for Amazon’s Web Services developer network. Krugle has recently announced simila... |
| Oct 15, 2007 | Across the Read/WriteWeb Network | It’s been a very busy Monday on Read/WriteWeb – so here’s a recap of the day’s posts, plus Network highlights: Top News
– Attention – NewsGator and Bloglines Join APML Workgroup (Marshall)
– Discovery Purchasing HowStuffWorks for $250 Milli... |
| Oct 13, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 8-12 October 2007 | Sponsor:
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Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC
The week started with some big M&... |
| Oct 6, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 1-5 October 2007 | Sponsor:
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Adobe Acquires Virtual Ubiquity – Enters Web Office Fray
Jos... |
| Sep 22, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 17-21 September 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web News
Yahoo! Drops $350m on Zimbra; an Open Source, Enterprise RIA
The big ... |
| Sep 15, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 10-14 September 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web Products
Google Apps Goes After Enterprise Market
This week Google announc... |
| Sep 8, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 3-7 September 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web Future Week
This week we focused on the future of the Web and here were ou... |
| Sep 1, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 27-31 August 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.
This week Read/WriteWeb introduced a new network blog: a podcasting show calle... |
| Aug 25, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 20-24 August 2007 (Note: Change in Format) | This week we’re trying something new with the format of the Weekly Wrapup. Instead of listing all of the posts we published over the past week, we’ll filter them so you just get the best posts. The idea is that this will make good weekend r... |
| Aug 17, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 13-17 August 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. News
The latter part of this week was dominated by the major outage suffered b... |
| Aug 12, 2007 | Read/WriteWeb Files: Online Music | Every week we have a feature called Read/WriteWeb Files, in which we investigate a current hot topic or company in Web technology. This week we’re going to focus on Online Music, something that is becoming more and more prevelant as broadba... |
| Aug 5, 2007 | Personalizing Google: Read/WriteWeb Files | This week we’re opening a file on Google’s efforts towards personalization, a trend that has become very apparent in Google over the past year. As we did with Yahoo last week, we’ll publish a number of feature articles looking at how Google... |
| Aug 4, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 30 July – 3 August 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Product Reviews
This week’s Web Product of the Week is Iceberg, which Phil But... |
| Jul 27, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 23-27 July 2007 | Sponsor:
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It was a relatively quiet week in terms of Web technology news. ... |
| Jul 26, 2007 | From Search to (Re)Search: Searching For The Google Killer | LetÄôs start from the premise that Search is Äúgame-overÄ?. Google has won. The best explanation of GoogleÄôs dominance is in this Read/WriteWeb post. But if there is a Google-killer out there, the odds are that it wonÄôt be from any o... |
| Jul 20, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 16-20 July 2007 | Sponsor:
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This week was Facebook Week on
Read/WriteWeb. It was a ... |
| Jul 18, 2007 | Competing With Google Search | In a previous
article, we explained that the pivot of the internet is shifting from search to
social interactions. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that search is losing its value.
After all, don’t we still live with previous paradigms lik... |
| Jul 13, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 9-13 July 2007 | Sponsored by:
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After all the iphone buzz of the last couple of wee... |
| Jul 7, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 2-6 July 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can
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| Jul 3, 2007 | 2007 Half-Year Web Technology Report: A’s for Google and Facebook | As it’s halfway through 2007, let’s take a look back on the highlights of the first
half of the year. How is 2007 shaping up in terms of web technology trends and activity?
Which companies have shined from January – June 2007?
Well so far i... |
| Jul 2, 2007 | Top 100 Alt Search Engines, July 2007 | Our sister site AltSearchEngines has just published their latest Top 100 Alt Search Engine list, which is eagarly anticipated every month. This month’s list has ‘gone global’ – from now on there will always be 10 slots reserved for Internat... |
| Jun 29, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 25-29 June 2007 | The Weekly Wrapups have been a feature of Read/WriteWeb since the beginning of January
2005 (when they were called Web 2.0 Weekly Wrapups). Nowadays the Wrapup is designed
for those of you who can’t keep up with a daily dose of RSS. Here th... |
| Jun 22, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 18-22 June 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can
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| Jun 21, 2007 | Google’s Udi Manber – Search is a Hard Problem | Udi Manber, Google’s
VP of Engineering, gave a brief 15 minute presentation at Supernova today entitled
Search is a Hard Problem. He explained that with an audience like Supernova, he
imagines we understand to some extent how difficult a pr... |
| Jun 16, 2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 11-15 June 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the weekly wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email:
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| Jun 8, 2007 | New Ask.com UI Gives 20%+ More User Satisfaction | This week Ask.com released a new user interface, which they nicknamed Ask3D. The vertical layout scheme looks very unusual for a general purpose search engine. However it’s aesthetically pleasant. But as well as the visual enhancements, the... |
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| Jun 4, 2007 | Announcing AltSearchEngines: Second Read/WriteWeb Network Blog | I’m pleased to announce the second network blog under the Read/WriteWeb umbrella, AltSearchEngines. This blog will be focused on search engines, in particular the hundreds of ‘alternative’ search engines that compete with the big guns like ... |
