Posts Tagged with ‘Webware-100’

There is nothing worse than attempting to read a live blog of an event. NOTHING. It's painful and slow to constantly have to refresh the page to see what completely non-newsworthy information may have been added, and in the case of you, Engadget, add scrolling through the post to the BOTTOM for the newest information.
I would gladly pay money to whomever and for whatever can alleviate this pain, both from the blogger's perspective as well as the reader's, and Shift [...]

It's been a while since I looked to see how Zooomr was doing. They recently received their second Webware 100 nomination, so I thought it was time to revisit the site.
The good news is that Zooomr is still around. After their problems with launching Mark III last spring, they've managed to keep the site running, relocate their servers (albeit with an issue or two), and even start to monetize the site with ads and a freemium model, where [...]

The more that I've been following the development of Web operating systems, the more I've come to realize that the concept shouldn't really be that difficult. For a Web OS to be successful, there are only a few simple things it really needs to have. It needs to have a slick and attractive interface, especially for those of us spoiled by Mac OS X. It needs to be able to store all types of files. It needs to have a [...]

Our friends at Me.dium and 99 other companies have won awards in Webware's Top 100. Me.dium and a prestigious list of finalists were chosen by the editors of Webware/CNET. The final winners have now been chosen by the site's users and visitors and Me.dium was one of 10 winners in the “Community” category chosen by readers from among the finalists. Webware editors reviewed more than 5000 entries before narrowing the field to 250 in 10 categories so that Web 2.0 [...]

Me.dium has just announced receiving $15 million in series B funding from various venture partners. According to our communique with Me.dium this round of investing was led by Commonwealth Venture Partners. Me.dium's existing investors Spark Capital, Appian Ventures and Brad Feld also took part in what is to be the driving push to open the doors to one of the year's most anticipated betas. This latest round brings Me.dium's total funding to $20 million since their June, 2006 founding.
Me.dium is a [...]

Vyew, one of the Webware Top 100 finalists will be releasing version 2.5 on Monday. This browser based collaborative - conferencing platform enables users to share and create in real time. Version 2.5 will further enable users to create Vyewbooks to share, present, and interact with a wide range of content from MS Office documents to images, video and more. With the release of this version Vyew becomes more business ready and portable as well.
Vyew currently has over 25,000 active [...]