Posts Tagged with ‘read/writeweb’

Today Streamy Co-Founder Donald Mosites provided the catalyst for further discussion about the “Digg Killer” phenomenon we touched on last night. Streamy is a news networking service that has been swept into this “Digg Killer” maelstrom. However this superbly designed platform should be classified as “Alt Digg” because it is just an alternative. I doubt CBS news or ABC news were ever dubbed the “NBC News Killer”, and Streamy's founders really have no such claims either. Donald and I chatted earlier today [...]

We got some great news from Powerset today, that the much awaited “natural search” engine will be operating Powerlabs to get feedback and inform the Internet community. Co-founder Steve Newcomb provided us with the first look inside their Powerlabs program, which will be an ongoing feedback and information portal. Steve sent us a couple of exclusive screenshots revealing the Powerlabs interface and a search result (only the second ever seen outside Powerset’s doors). Powerlabs looks like it will be the [...]

Veoh continues its steady ascent to the top of online television and video ladder. Today at the Facebook f8 event Veoh announced the Veoh Favorites Player which is an application built on the Facebook Platform. Veoh CEO Dmitry Shapiro and his developers continue to incrementally add one excellent aspect after another in an obvious quest to become one, if not the premier Internet television network.
The new Veoh Favorites Player will allow Facebook members to view their favorite videos on their [...]

This is our first in a series of profiles about people of Web 2.0, and perhaps this kind of post is the most appropriate after all. In our excursions across the blogosphere we run across some of the most interesting people, but too often we take them for granted or lose track of the fact that Web 2.0 really IS people. So here is my first installment in recognition of the famous and semi-famous of Web 2.0.
Requiem for a [...]

Yahoo! just launched two initiatives in an effort to establish their position as a major resource for Web 2.0 environmental leadership. The major component of this initiative has been dubbed Yahoo! Green, an information portal to deal with global warming issues, environmental news, information and help guides for people to live a more environmentally conscious life.
The new Yahoo! Green initiative launch is being accompanied by the very first competition to find the most eco-friendly city in America called Be [...]

Hakia recently initiated “The Search for Better Search” initiative via a focused poll taken from some of Web 2.0's best technical blogs. The results reveal an overwhelming and compelling need for a better search capability. Make no mistake about it; raising the bar for the people at hakia has nothing to do with hype or beating Google really, but about the art of transcendence. The vision there is about elevating the world's expectations and thinking so that search and the Web can transcend [...]

Think Web 2.0 is a lotta hype backed up by little realism? The Web 2.0 Expo held last week (April 15-18) proved the exact opposite. Well, maybe not the exact opposite (there was still a fair amount of hype). But it was all very real. If not, 30,000 feet of space was a lot to fill with hot air and no substance.
Good thing there was a lot of substance at the Expo, where dozens of exhibitors showed off the [...]

I wrote an article a short time back about hakia, a semantic based search engine that I found fascinating. The reason I found it so fascinating is because I have a normative mind set. This is a function of a human mind trained to accept empirical evidence, but compelled more by the feeling or nature of the universe. Neither empiricists nor normative people are either superior or inferior, but do often betray their natures on the Web and in the physical [...]