The growing ranks of online marketers gathered this week at ad:tech Chicago. Big technology players like Google, DoubleClick, WebTrends, Omniture, and Advertising.com were present, along with email marketing firms, large Continue reading »

In a cheeky move, Netvibes has released a Facebook widget. Both Netvibes and Facebook are leading Web platforms for widgets (i.e. mini web apps that can be plugged into web Continue reading »

Bloggers have long used the blogroll as a way of linking to their compatriots and sharing traffic. But a blogroll has always just been just a static list of links, Continue reading »

A few reports are circulating that Microsoft will offer a free, ad supported version of Microsoft Works, its 'lite' office suite, within the next few months. However the kicker is Continue reading »

The web has a new news aggregation site today with the launch of Newser, a start up with an impressive team behind it. Newser is run by Highbeam CEO Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Yahoo_Buzzlist_versus_Google_Trends'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; As part of this week's Read/Write Web Files, we're looking at what may be on the cards in Yahoo's 100-day Continue reading »

Our network blog last100 has an excellent feature story on Amazon's digital living room product range, including Amazon Unbox (the company‚Äôs digital video download service), "information products" like Internet Movie Continue reading »

Earlier this week the Yahoo! search results pages on my laptop mysteriously began showing a completely new page design. Oddly enough, my other computers -- all logged into the same Continue reading »

I'm at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit reporting for Read/WriteWeb. This afternoon there was an interesting presentation about the state of the venture capital market. Specifically, it started with a presentation Continue reading »

Read/WriteWeb network blog AltSearchEngines has just published the August Top 100 Alt Search Engine list. Here is the excel spreadsheet; the full list is on ASE. This week AltSearchEngines also Continue reading »