Spotted on the Google homepage today, using the IE browser, was this blazing advertisement for Firefox: (click image for full screenshot) While Google has advertised Firefox on its homepage before, Continue reading »

Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus. Paul Graham, as a combination of investor and uber geek, is a unique figure in the web industry. There's an increasing Continue reading »

Adam Carstens from the Attention Company emailed today to tell me about some new research they've just published. It's a report entitled “Out There” and surveys the attitudes of people Continue reading »

Web metrics firm Compete has an interesting post, outlining the top 20 websites (for US traffic). According to Compete, all 20 of them got over 20 million unique visitors in Continue reading »

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. There has been a lot of talk lately about 2007 being the year when we will see companies roll out Semantic Continue reading »

While looking through Mary Meeker's 2006 Web 2.0 Summit presentation, I was struck by the figures on page 19: "Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic was 60% (and rising) of Internet traffic in Continue reading »

Today Microsoft released a beta of Live Search Books, its competitor to Google Book Search. The content inside Live Search Books isn't that modern - it basically only includes Continue reading »

Online video sharing sites are a dime a dozen these days, but a newly launched one caught my eye this week. Coull.tv promises to enable users to search inside videos Continue reading »

Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus. Images by Jon Cornforth. This is the second article of a two-part series - see Part 1 here. Turning the Tide Continue reading »

Zoho recently released a set of APIs that lets anyone write their own program to use Zoho Writer and Zoho Sheet data [disclosure: Zoho is a sponsor of Read/WriteWeb]. Continue reading »