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| Oct 21, 2008 | AOL Sheds Yourminis Personalized Startpage | Eight months after acquiring San Diego-based startup Goowy, AOL has decided to shutter its Yourminis personalized homepage. Notice that the two-year old Flash-based service (which repeatedly wowed us) would be shut down entirely on October ... |
| Jun 18, 2008 | StartForce's Webtop for the Workplace | Services that try to recreate the desktop experience within the browser (so-called “webtops” or “Web OSs”) often lead to head scratching. If you’re already running a real operating system, what’s the point of emulating one with Flash or Aja... |
| Feb 4, 2008 | Widget company Goowy Media acquired by AOL | AOL has proved it’s still alive and kicking with the acquisition of Goowy Media, a widget developer based in San Diego.
Goowy was far from the only option on the table for AOL, with widget companies crawling out of the woodwork — Gydget, Ka... |
| Feb 4, 2008 | AOL buys its way into the widget business | Time Warner's AOL has acquired Goowy, San Diego-based flash widget startup for an undisclosed sum. Widgetized versions of AOL properties could be the next step for the dinosaur ISP.
AOL as an ISP has been on the decline for years, but has b... |
| Feb 3, 2008 | Amid Yahoo Turmoil, AOL Makes An Acquisition | On Monday AOL will announce the acquisition of San Diego-based Goowy, a startup founded in late 2004 and which launched, incidentally, in my living room in late 2006 (we had a TechCrunch party where Goowy, Meebo, Sphere and other startups l... |
| Dec 14, 2007 | Cybercafe Regulars Can Now Manage Their Digital Lives with Jooce | Jooce, the Flash-based web desktop we covered in August with an unfortunate name (Joost, anyone?) , has opened its doors for business.
The Parisian development team behind Jooce seeks to provide the millions of people who use internet cafes... |
| May 24, 2007 | CBS Expands Its Audience Network | As we reported, CBS’ new online strategy is to court web 2.0 sites and allow their content to spread virally across social media sites. The CBS Audience Network initiative already includes deals with AOL, Microsoft, CNET Networks, Comcast, ... |
| Mar 30, 2007 | Desktop On Demand – New WebOS Launches | Desktop On Demand (DOD) is the latest WebOS to come onto the market. It is a free “online desktop service” that lets you access your desktop remotely. DOD comes with 1GB of free disk space, with extra space available for a fee. DOD is aimin... |
| Nov 11, 2006 | The YourMinis Do-It-All Flash Homepage | YourMinis is a Flash-based customizable homepage product that will compete for users with a number of similar products that use Ajax – Netvibes, Pageflakes, Google, Live.com and more. This was launched by a startup called Goowy, which creat... |
| Sep 7, 2006 | Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps | Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard
MacManus. Ebrahim runs a search engine called Qube – which is a webified desktop app.Richard’s Note: In some ways Ebrahim’s conclusions in this article contradict
my own views, but I think that ... |
| Jun 8, 2006 | Rich RSS Readers: best of breed picks | This post was largely written by Ryan
Stewart, a guest blogger on Read/WriteWeb. I’ve added my own Best of Breed picks for
each category.
Feed readers can be divided up
into two general camps: The web based feed readers – such as NewsAlloy,... |
| May 4, 2006 | Web 2.0 market segment mashups | Mike Riversdale asked an interesting question
in the comments of my previous
post:
“What, in your (and others) opinion, is the difference (if any) between the “online
desktop” (A) (I’m thinking Netvibes and the like) and the “Personal Conte... |
| Apr 27, 2006 | Goowy Launches Web Chat and Storage Products | San Diego-headquartered Goowy (a Mark Cuban investment) just publicly launched the enhanced IM and storage products that I tested last month. Goowy users now have Meebo-like IM funtionality built directly into their Goowy desktop, and 1 GB ... |
| Mar 28, 2006 | Testing Goowy Web IM and Online Storage | Goowy is slowly rolling out its new web instant messaging and online storage services to users. I showed screen shots (provided by Goowy) earlier this month, and have now had a chance to use the features directly. My overall impression: Goo... |
| Mar 20, 2006 | AOL’s New Module Playground | AOL has just released a new site called
I Am Alpha, which is their version of Yahoo! Widgets or Microsoft Gadgets. Google has modules and all the smaller players have
similar widget featuresets – PageFlakes calls
them “flakes” and Goowy cal... |
| Mar 15, 2006 | Review of Goowy, a Flash and Ajax desktop suite | by Ryan Stewart
(Richard’s Note: I’m introducing guest bloggers to Read/WriteWeb, to write
about topics that I think will be of interest to R/WW readers – but which I’m not an
expert in myself. Ryan Stewart is the first of my guest bloggers... |
| Mar 8, 2006 | Goowy to add Web IM, File Sharing | Goowy is turning into a lot more than just another ajax/flash home page – its a full on desktop platform that is shaping up to be the best competitor to Microsoft’s Live.com.
I’ve written about Goowy, which is Flash based, a number of times... |
| Oct 19, 2005 | Update: TechCrunch Party This Friday | We are proud to annouce the sponsors of the third TechCrunch party this weekend. Thank You: Edgeio, Flock, Goowy, Loomia, Pandora, Real Travel, Shasta Ventures, Simply Hired, Wink, Zazzle.
If you plan on attending, please sign up on the Wik... |
| Oct 18, 2005 | TechCrunch Party This Friday | We are having our next TechCrunch party in Atherton this Friday (October 21) afternoon and evening. Sign up here. Our last meetup drew about 100 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, bloggers and beer drinkers, and I am hoping this one will d... |
| Oct 17, 2005 | Goowy Charges Ahead | Alex Bard’s flash-based desktop replacement Goowy, based in San Diego, has impressed me from the start. We originally profiled Goowy on August 17, 2005 and again a couple of weeks ago.
Today Goowy released further functionality. First, they... |
| Sep 30, 2005 | Goowy adds Calendar and Other Features | Goowy is a browser based desktop tool built on Flash. See our August 17, 2005 profile of Goowy for additional information.
Until recently, Goowy’s main draw (other than it is extremely fast) was a very nice email application. Goowy also all... |
| Sep 19, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 12-18 Sep 2005 | sponsored by:
This week: eBay-Skype: Web 2.0 Ramifications, The Real World – Katrina
response, Microsoft PDC – Start.com extended, Yahoo Shopping API and Shopify, New apps on
the block. eBay-Skype: Web 2.0 Ramifications
Early this week eBay... |
| Aug 17, 2005 | Profile – Goowy | Company: Goowy
Founded: August 2004
Launched: April 2005
Location: San Diego Overview:
Goowy has rebuilt a number of commonly used applicatons (like email) in Flash. It includes traditional web services such as email, contacts, calendar, ga... |
| Apr 15, 2005 | Geocities Developers Turn to Web Mail | The same Web entrepreneurs that developed the original portal software behind Geocities chat and bulletin board systems are on a mission to turn Web mail on its head. Goowy Mail, which is currently in beta, uses Flash-based software to prod... |