Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus It's no accident that Time magazine choose YOU as their Person of the Year. In 2006, the Web was all Continue reading »

Written by Richard MacManus, Ebrahim Ezzy, Emre Sokullu, Alex Iskold and Rudy De Waele. Also John Milan wanted to contribute, but unfortunately got caught up in the Seattle storm - Continue reading »

Tonight I stumbled upon what appears to be a brand new User Interface for Ask.com. I was doing some searches on Ask.com, when I noticed a link in the top Continue reading »

Last week I was following the De-Portalization of the Internet thread, started by Fred Wilson and then extended by Keith Teare. I was struck by one observation in particular by Continue reading »

Popular social news site Digg has announced a number of new features in anticipation of the new year, including a beta podcasting service and enhanced video on the site. Continue reading »

In a recent blog post, Wenzhi Lai of online listings company edgeio noted that their China operation - called mulu100 - has become the second largest source of traffic for Continue reading »

So Web 2.0 finally goes mainstream.... kind of. Time Magazine has named the Web-powered "You" as its coveted Person of the Year. In the accompanying articles, the term Web 2.0 Continue reading »

Next week we'll publish Read/WriteWeb's annual Best Web Companies and Innovators post. Also coming next week is the 2007 Web Trends post (I'd hoped to do it this week, but

I recently came across a web service called ZCubes, which is one of those browser-based portal apps that lets you do virtually everything under the sun - social networking, develop Continue reading »

A report from the yahoo.confab event on Prediction Markets, held Wed Dec 13 in Silicon Valley. Written by Nitin Karandikar from The Software Abstractions Blog and edited by Richard MacManus. Continue reading »