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| May 9, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Real Time Web, Larger Kindle, CloneCloud, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we analyze the Real Time Web, interview the founder of a venture tech firm, report on a new and larger version of Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader, lo... |
| Apr 25, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: State of the Smartphone, Google Me, Oprah on Twitter, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at the state of the smartphone industry, study new stats showing Facebook’s international market penetration, review ‘The Oprah Effect’ on... |
| Apr 18, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Social Media Monitoring, Future of Firefox, eBay Sells StumbleUpon, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at the latest in social media monitoring tools, investigate how cloud computing is being used in scientific research projects, review some... |
| Apr 3, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Web 2.0 Expo, Skype for iPhone, Local Web, And More… | 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, discu... |
| Mar 28, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Ghost Twittering, Last.fm Charges, Future of Firefox, And 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 int... |
| Mar 21, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: iPhone 3.0, Facebook Privacy Controls, Web-based Books, And 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... |
| Mar 19, 2009 | 12 Companies Targeting Tech Early Adopters | At ReadWriteWeb our mission is to explore the latest web technology products and trends. We’re fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So once a week we write a post about them; here’s who they are, what they do a... |
| Mar 7, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: New Facebook Homepages, Kindle for iPhone, DEMO Smarter Web, And 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... |
| Feb 28, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Principles, Amazon Public Data, Times Open, And 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 Wikiped... |
| Feb 21, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Mobile World Congress, Yahoo Search, Internet in Cars, And 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... |
| Feb 14, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Overtakes MySpace, OpenID Success, Kindle 2, And 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 Op... |
| Feb 7, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Latitude, Facebook Sentiment Engine, The Goverati, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we continue our series on recommendation technologies with a special RWW Live podcast and a review of Baynote; we analyze a new Google product cal... |
| Jan 31, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Recommender Systems, Social Media Trends, State of Blog Search, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we continue our series on recommendation technologies, outline 10 ways that social media will change in 2009, look at 8 mobile technologies to wat... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | The Services that Power ReadWriteWeb | At ReadWriteWeb our mission is to explore the very latest web technology products and trends. We like to test out all the new web apps and spot the trends before others, and we’re fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this... |
| Jan 24, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Obama Inauguration on the Web | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we take a special look at how President Obama’s inauguration was covered, analyzed and celebrated via the Internet. Also this week we began a new ... |
| Jan 17, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Product Purge, Jailbroken iPhones, Enterprise RSS, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at Google’s product line adjustments, explain why you should jailbreak your iPhone, analyze the world of Enterprise RSS, and tell you how ... |
| Jan 12, 2009 | Explore the Smart Companies That Sponsor ReadWriteWeb | At ReadWriteWeb our mission is to explore the very latest web technology products and trends. We like to test out all the new web apps and spot the trends before others, and we’re fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: 2009 Web Predictions, iTunes Drops DRM, Twitter Security Scare, And More… | Welcome to the first Weekly Wrapup of 2009 – and a very happy new year to all of our readers! First up we look back at our top web products of 2008, then we look forward to 2009 with our annual Web Predictions. In product news this week, Ap... |
| Dec 13, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Top Web Products of 2008, Shopping 2.0, MySpaceID, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, we continued our Best Products 2008 series with two more lists: Best Consumer Web Apps and Best RSS/Syndication Products. We also reported on... |
| Nov 29, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Health 2.0, Tips for Web BigCos, Jobwire Graphs, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we gave you an overview of health 2.0 and followed up with a RWW Live podcast on the topic. We also looked at the state of the art in recommen... |
| Nov 22, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Search Wiki, Semantic Apps, Mozilla Addons, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we pondered the future of YouTube, analyzed mobile messaging trends, looked into a new search innovation from Google, and more. On the product... |
| Nov 15, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: MySpace Profiles, IBM Blue Spruce, Windows Live, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we analyzed the significance of MySpace’s new profiles, looked at how Google is tracking flu trends, explored a partnership between an online ... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Look Out Google Site Search, Lijit Says It’s Right On Your Heels | Innovative search startup Lijit has done study of search widgets on pages around the web and says its widget is very close to becoming as popular as Google’s own “site search”. We think Lijit is quite interesting and we’re not surprised to ... |
| Nov 1, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Microsoft Azure, Google Chrome, iPhone Apps, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side, Microsoft had two major Web announcements: 1) the release of Azure, a cloud computing OS; and 2) browser-based versions of four Office produc... |
| Oct 25, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Platform Blues, Web 3.0, Android Apps, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side this week, we analyzed why platforms such as Facebook and Open Social have been a let-down, we looked at a new (perhaps under-appreciated) plat... |
| Oct 18, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: After Web 2.0, Newsfeeds, Recommendation Technologies, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side this week, we had a great discussion about what’s next after web 2.0, celebrated the success of the newsfeed, looked at enterprise use of socia... |
| Oct 11, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Mobile Web, Google RSS, Social Shopping, and More | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side this week, Google said it would provide RSS feeds of search results, Yahoo updated its calendar app using Zimbra, Mozilla released Geode, Micr... |
| Oct 4, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Nokia’s iPhone Competitor, Netflix API, RDF Apps, and More | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. This week Nokia launched an iPhone competitor called the Tube, Netflix released an API, Google Blog Search re-designed, and we ran a poll about Flash coming to iP... |
| Sep 27, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Phone, MySpace Music, and More! | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. This week we had two big product launches: the Google Phone and MySpace Music. We also looked at Favtape, a new startup aiming to shake up the online music market... |
| May 22, 2008 | Trouble at Eurekster? Things Don’t Look Good | Social/wiki search engine provider Eurekster has been down for the past two days and users are wondering if the company will return to provide the site search functionality that many have come to depend on. Things look rough for the company... |
| Apr 9, 2008 | Nsyght tries to crack the social search nut | The trend of searching your social network for information is going to be with us for a while. Facebook is clearly interested in improving its own search engine to provide a relevant social graph for each individual. And others in this spac... |
| Apr 9, 2008 | Nsyght launches public beta for social search | Now in public Beta, I covered Nsyght back in October when it was still in early Alpha. This tiny boostrapped startup from West London wants to take your bookmarks and social network and use that to create more relevant search results. The i... |
| Feb 27, 2008 | Eurekster Debuts Improved Swicki Results Pages | Site-specific search provider Eurekster is today releasing a new version of its Swicki product that features a set community features on its results and home pages.
The free Swicki search widget, used here on TechCrunch in the right-hand co... |
| 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 6, 2008 | Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google? | [Update: See our subsequent post here, which includes a deeper look, after Search Wikia gets slammed by other initial reviews]
Search Wikia, a new search engine site, has launched publicly after two weeks of private testing.
The search engi... |
| Dec 12, 2007 | Mahalo delves into social search | updated
Mahalo, the controversial search engine that pays people to produce search results for top search terms, is now letting anyone submit links for inclusion.
Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis hails this new development as “social search” ... |
| May 28, 2007 | The Top 60 Web 2.0 Applications in Australia | Editor’s Note: This post was written by Ross Dawson, CEO of Advanced Human Technologies and Chairman of Future Exploration Network. Ross is holding a Web 2.0 event in Sydney, Australia on June 6, which I will be a speaker at. In preparation... |
| Mar 12, 2007 | Eurekster Gets $5.5 Million Series B for Social Search | Eurekster, known for their Swicki community-driven search platform, has just announced $5.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Technology Venture Partners of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan.
Eurekster’s most po... |
| Mar 12, 2007 | Eurekster raises $5.5M for custom search engine | Eurekster, a San Francisco company that tailors search engines for bloggers and other publishers to put on their sites, has raised $5.5 million in a second round of financing.
Eurekster’s search engines are more social than Google’s, becaus... |
| Jan 20, 2007 | Next TechCrunch Event | The last two TechCrunch parties were a great success, and I particularly enjoyed meeting people that I knew only through blogging at the New York event last November. We’re in the planning stages of the next TechCrunch event, to be held mid... |
| Jan 3, 2007 | Swicki Upgrade: Write Your Own Search Results | Disclosure: Eurekster is a sponsor of Read/WriteWeb
Eurekster has quietly rolled out an
interesting upgrade to their social search service, Swicki. Now users can contribute their own search
answers to a swicki, if they feel they have expert... |
| Nov 16, 2006 | Let's Get This Party Started! | The TechCrunch New York Party kicks off in three hours, 7 PM EST, at BED in Manhattan.
The final guest list is here, although it doesn’t include sponsor attendees and press. All attendees should have received an email confirmation of the pa... |
| Oct 27, 2006 | Update on TechCrunch NY Event: Wait List Opened | The 450 slots we opened up for the TechCrunch New York party on November 16, 2006 were sold out in about four hours. We know a certain number of people won’t show up, so we are now opening up a wait list for additional guests.
Here’s the co... |
| Oct 24, 2006 | Google's Choice of the Word "Eureka!" | As an addendum to our coverage of Google’s new Co-op customizable search product that launched yesterday – Google officially announced the news on their blog today with a post titled “Eureka! Your own search engine has landed!”
I wonder if ... |
| Oct 24, 2006 | Google provides search engine customization | Google is offering bloggers and other Web site owners a way to produce a customized search engine for their own needs.
This could hurt start-ups like Rollyo and Eurekster, which have been trying to make a business out of this.
Google’s ince... |
| Aug 8, 2006 | Web 2.0: The 24 Minute Documentary | A couple of weeks ago Michael Arrington got together with a number of startup CEOs and executives to video a discussion about Web 2.0. Participating in the discussion were Aaron Cohen (Bolt), Scott Milener and Steven Lurie (Browster), Keith... |
| Aug 8, 2006 | Yahoo Unveils 'Build Your Own' Search | Yahoo on Monday released a Search Builder tool for creating customized search engines based on a select group of Web sites or specific search parameters. The new service is designed to compete with personal search upstarts including Eurekst... |
| Aug 7, 2006 | Yahoo Launches Personalized Search | Yahoo made a strong competitive move against personal search startups like Eurekster and Rollyo today with the announcement of Yahoo Search Builder, a customizable search engine tool.
A custom search engine can be created that searches just... |
| Aug 2, 2006 | Update on TechCrunch Party at August Capital | The August 18 TechCrunch/August Capital party is just a couple of weeks away. We’ve made some changes to the wiki, changing it from our old provider to a Socialtext hosted site, here. More details will follow, but this is going to be a real... |
| Feb 16, 2006 | Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party Tomorrow | I’m pretty excited about the Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party tomorrow night starting at 7 pm.
We’ve been working hard for weeks to get the event together and, thanks to our sponsors, this should be the best one so far. A huge tent is u... |
| Jan 18, 2006 | Naked Conversations Party at TechCrunch | UPDATE: This event is now full. I apologize to everyone who did not get on the wiki list.
The fifth TechCrunch Meetup is on Friday, February 17, 2006 at the TechCrunch house in Atherton, California. We will celebrate the launch of Naked Con... |
| Nov 16, 2005 | Hyper-Contextual Search Results with Swicki | Eurekster’s Swicki search service officially launches later today (November 16, 2005).
Eurekster, a twenty person company located in San Francisco and New Zealand, has a profitable business (called Search Publisher) that provides customized... |
| Sep 27, 2005 | Really Simple Web 2.0 | Mike
Arrington thinks Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 meme map should be simpler and Dave Winer responds,
saying it’s a complicated self-serving meme and pointing out that the map doesn’t include
RSS. I’ve been looking at the meme map closely, while... |