Posts Tagged with ‘read/writeweb’

We do seem to be talking too much about women in technology lately but given the latest Playboy poll and the BlogHer conference I think it is not surprising. So ReadWriteWeb came up with a list of favorite female bloggers compiled by its bloggers. Obviously, it was a pleasure to have two Profy bloggers included in the list. After that Orli Yakuel (who was obviously on the list as well) created a slideshow of 50 blogs written [...]

Odds are that any additional articles I write today will be site reviews, because today is my least favorite day of the year as a tech blogger. Beyond my usual schedule of getting Rick rolled at least once a day by someone, I am now stuck with sifting through my feeds trying to determine what's actual news and what's an April Fool's Day prank.
Of course, since this has become a tech blogosophere tradition, many blogs are determined to get out [...]

If you pay any attention at all to the tech blogosphere, you'll notice that there have been several recurrent themes lately. One is the concept of A-listers in any community. While Guy Kawasaki shares the CNET study which feels that information has more of a diamond shape than a pyramid, which information trickling down from the A-listers at the point, Alex Iskold over at ReadWriteWeb notes that the 80-20 rule is in play on Twitter, with 80% of the [...]

Everyone is all excited about the new Yahoo offering called Yahoo Buzz. ReadWriteWeb has talked about how they love it not once, but twice. TechCrunch seems pretty happy as well, and Duncan Riley spent most of the weekend Tweeting about the number of comments he was receiving on his article that made the site.
ReadWriteWeb had statistics from Yahoo on the wonders they've done in feeding pageviews to the featured sites, with success stories listed as Salon.com, The Smoking Gun, [...]

Fifth Generation Systems announced today that the have just completed a series B financing round in the amount of $5.3 million. 5G is best know for creating the social computing platform Zude , which I covered both here and on ReadWriteWeb back in September of 2007. Back then I called Zude "An end all creativity site" and the creativity continues.
Investors in this round included: Irwin Lieber and Barry Rubenstein of Wheatley Partners, Persistency Capital and [...]

In a surprising change of plans, RSS company NewsGator has today announced that all of its highly-acclaimed RSS reader clients will be offered free of charge to anyone who wishes to download them.
Via the official NewsGator site, web surfers will have free access to download of FeedDemon (Windows client), NetNewsWire (Mac client), mobile RSS reader NewsGator Go! (including the Blackberry edition), as well as News Gator Inbox, which allows users to manage RSS content from within Microsoft’s Outlook email client. [...]

I received my much anticipated invitation to Powerset's Powerlabs the other day, and was excited to finally get an inside peek one of the years most interesting startups. I have covered Powerset many times since my first article back in January. The brainchild of Barney Pell, Steve Newcomb and Lorenzo Thione held great potential in providing natural language search relevance for the Web. Powerlabs does indicate some significant developments toward natural search, but the larger issue to me is: "Where [...]

AdaptiveBlue, the smart browsing company, just announced that SmartLinks for blogs and websites now provide more relevant information from the best sites on the Web. SmartLinks are inserted next to links of supported sites like Yahoo! , CitySearch , Amazon and others. These automatic additions are intelligent contextual shortcuts to related sites and services that allow users to browse and discover more efficiently.
Smartlinks add value and discoverability for visitors to Web sites by intuitively analyzing each link and [...]

In case you are overtaxed with ad revenue stories and Google posturing, I thought it was about time for another installment of the people of Web 2.0. It has been a while since we looked at the individuals who make up our interesting virtual world, so I selected someone how is a quiet and interesting fixture among us. Steve De Chellis, or HMTKSteve across the Web, is a blogger, programmer and social networking guru that you may have noticed a [...]