Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the weekly wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email:
This week was dominated, at least on the Read/WriteWeb Network, by the Day Without Google - and its results. The idea was to last a whole day without using Google search; to experiment with alternative search engines and perhaps find something better than the default Big 5 search engines (Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask, AOL). AltSearchEngines editor Charles Knight launched the Day Without Google (inspired by Larry Dignan from Between The Lines). Charles' wrapup of the day is great reading - basically he breaks the results down into 5 groups. Also see Josh Catone's results. Unfortunately some of us were, ahem, not masters of our domains!
In digital lifestyle news, last100 has a wrapup - including a fill review of RealPlayer 11 and news from Apple's World Wide Developer conference, where CEO Steve Jobs talked about the company's policy on third-party development for the iPhone.
In other news this week:
Josh Catone wrote a great Web Office post this week, showing how to Roll Your Own Online Office. As well as the many products mentioned by Josh, the comments are also full of suggestions. As someone who runs a small business virtually, this post was required reading for me!
This week Alex Iskold explored a concept called The Implicit Web. Alex explained the theory and then wrote about how companies like Last.fm, Amazon, Google, Attention Trust are putting that into practice. This is an important piece to read if you want to understand what is driving a lot of innovation on the Web today.
Jitendra Gupta wrote about how Open Source economics is driving Web 2.0 innovation. Again, must read for aspiring web 2.0 entrepreneurs.
This week we continued our coverage of Web Apps all around the world, with an excellent write-up from Mircea Goia. Check out Top Web Apps in Romania - the comments to this are nearly as feisty as the Russia post (I'm still recovering from that one!). I love running this series, because I am learning so much about Web innovation in parts of the world I know little about. Also, the high level trends to come out of this series are very valuable, no matter where you hail from.
Finally in the Analysis section, for a bit of sci-fi Web tech check out this Future of Media Video. It prophesies that Google will take over the world by 2050!
Startup of the Week is Todoist, which makes Task Management Simplified. Lachlan Hardy wrote an excellent review of Todoist and many of the comments and feedback to the article indicated that Todoist is a compelling offering - e.g. it can integrate with Gmail.
Here are the other startups we profiled this week:
Our poll this week got an awesome response, with nearly 1,600 people voting. The poll asked: Which online collaboration platform do you use?. Here are the results:
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Google Apps 47% (743 votes)
Microsoft Office Groove 2% (29 votes)
Microsoft Office Live 2% (37 votes)
Basecamp 18% (290 votes)
Zoho 10% (165 votes)
ThinkFree 8% (132 votes)
Zimbra 2% (33 votes)
Central Desktop 1% (22 votes)
Atlassian 1% (23 votes)
SocialText 0% (6 votes)
goowy 1% (16 votes)
gOFFICE 1% (10 votes)
Other (please comment below) 6% (88 votes)
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As we noted mid-week, Google Apps is far and away the most used online collaboration platform according to our poll. Basecamp and Zoho were the only other two platforms to get into double figures - with 18% and 10% respectively. ThinkFree was not far behind Zoho, with 8%. But Microsoft online office products didn't feature, with just 2% each.
That's a wrap for another week! Enjoy your weekend everyone.
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As a first time reader and poster I would like to thank Richard MacManus in advance for the insight I will draw from my future association with this blog.
To be perfectly honest, I have no clue how I landed myself on the Read/WriteWeb website, but what I do know is that I will be a frequent reader after just a few hours of reading and searching through posts.
Since I am an amateur to the group I'm just going to freelance and learn as I go.
Alright, I am quickly going to introduce myself and my vision. I plan to found or be apart of the founding team of one of the Worlds Fastest Growing Companies. I plan to create high levels of change within at least 2 different industries in the process. I plan to focus on creativity, intuition, culture, and inspiration as pillars of success. I plan to fail at least twice. I am 22 years old, I am a Business Administration and Finance Graduate, and entrepreneur at heart, and my name is Matt Beltrano.
As we all know and have heard so many times "I would rather an A team with a B idea, over a B team with an A idea". Now in order to found the idea that I believe has the potential to just FLY, I need to be "A Team calibre". In order to develop myself and my potential team-mates into an A Team we are planning to get our feet with a stepping stone venture. (yes I have lots of Ideas) Anyways, after reading many of the posts on this blog I am beginning to think that maybe the tech industry is the best place to get our feet wet. I hope I can respectfully say this, it seems to be that the tech industry is the easiest to penetrate. The ability to bootstrap and fly through the lifecycle of a tech venture is very attractive to young teams such as mine to learn and build our skills. For example, many of the businesses in the STARTUP section of the blogs focus on delivering a value added service to a niche, such as the UrbanSeeder. It is startups such as the UrbanSeeder that encourage me to seriously consider pursing my ideas within the tech industry.
So by now you are probably thinking that I am just some crazy kid who thinks that he can just one day wake up and start a tech company, well then someone get me some Prozac because I think it can be done.
I have an idea for an online service that is very similar to the UrbanSeeder in terms of how the service will add value to a specific aspect in the lifestyle of a niche demographic.
So what the heck do I want, why I am rambling, well I am looking for some advice, some insight, and some wisdom. I have read many start-up books and I find that there is too much page filling, I feel like a 300 page book can be summed up in 5 lines, so I want real life advice from sheer recollection, experience, and intuition.
Since I am the inexperienced amateur I am just going to leave it up to anyone who reads this to respond however they feel to my post. Alright, cool, let's hear it.
Posted by: Matt Beltrano | June 17, 2007 9:58 PM
For the iPhone one, Jobs might be just over-feared about the VoIP thing, what I am really concerned about it whether iPhone supports Flash and Ajax.
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