| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.05.2015 | Here are 9 Super Fun DIY Projects, Tech Style | Nothing beats doing a DIY project. Nothing. It doesn’t matter if you dedicate your entire weekend to it or sporadically build something. The only thing that matters is the creativity and art: you could have bought something, but you chose t... |
| 29.05.2015 | It’s the network, not the ‘things,’ that will make IoT revolutionary | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gartner estimates that the number of connected objects will reach 25 billion by 2020. And that figure came long before this month’s ann... |
| 11.02.2015 | NetVibes evolves to become your dashboard and connector for the Internet of Things | NetVibes has come a long way. In a world where business leaders, entrepreneurs, and developers shout the word “pivot” at a moment’s notice, NetVibes has stuck to its original plan throughout its (relatively, in Internet terms) long history.... |
| 11.02.2015 | NetVibes evolves to become your dashboard and connector for the Internet of Things | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
NetVibes has come a long way. In a world where business leaders, entrepreneurs, and developers shout the word “pivot” at a moment’s not... |
| 01.11.2013 | iGoogle’s Demise May Toll The Bell For The Personalized Home Page | Google’s iGoogle home page service is no more. Despite protests from hordes of iGoogle users, the personalized home page vanished today, traveling to that great multi-colored Google place in the sky, leaving only a link that now redirects t... |
| 13.08.2013 | iGoogle has an Australian replacement | iGoogle will be dead in November. Now Australia has an alternative (kinda).
For the uninitiated, iGoogle is a homepage or web portal that was launched in 2005 and can to some degree be customised to your personal requirements with data feed... |
| 30.06.2013 | Google Reader goes away tomorrow. Here’s what you need to do now | You can’t say you haven’t been warned: Google announced in March that it would be shutting down Google Reader, its popular RSS newsfeed reader, on July 1.
That’s tomorrrow, and you won’t be able to access the site after that.
If you’re a Go... |
| 30.06.2013 | Google Reader goes away tomorrow. Here’s what you need to do now | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
You can’t say you haven’t been warned: Google ann... |
| 03.05.2013 | Social media monitoring smack down: Feedly vs. Netvibes | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is a guest post by Eric Schwartzman, a socia... |
| 03.05.2013 | Social media monitoring smack down: Feedly vs. Netvibes | This is a guest post by Eric Schwartzman, a social media training expert.
In just a few weeks, Google Reader goes down for the count.
Before you migrate your feeds, let’s look at how Feedly and Netvibes — my favorite Google reader alternati... |
| 14.03.2013 | 8 Google Reader alternatives | In a surprise shakeup, Google has announced that it will be shutting down Google Reader on July 1, 2013. This move comes as Google tries to consolidate its services — to put more wood behind fewer arrows, as its CEO says. This consolidation... |
| 13.03.2013 | RIP, Google Reader: Here’s what to use instead | So Google is shutting down Google Reader, and the Twitterati are up in arms. What’s a old-fashioned RSS-loving web geek to do?
Move to another product, unfortunately, and suck it up: Most transitions are painful, will result in your feed or... |
| 13.03.2013 | RIP, Google Reader: Here’s what to use instead | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
So Google is shutting down Google Reader, and the Twitterati are up in arms. What’s a old-fashioned RSS-loving web geek to do?
Move to ... |
| 17.10.2012 | Jolicloud Pivots Again, Now As A Start Page For Cloud Services — Have they Cracked It This Time? | “Never give up, never surrender” is the pull out quote from Galaxy Quest, and it’s an actual phrase Jolicloud founder Tariq Krim used to describe the re-launch of the re-launch of the pivot of the cloud-based ‘social aggregation service. Ok... |
| 09.02.2012 | Netvibes is finally acquired by French engineering giant Dassault Systèmes | It’s been a long and winding road since Tariq Krim created and eventually left Netvibes, but today Netvibes has been acquired by huge French engineering giant Dassault Systèmes for an undisclosed amount. Krim continues to pursue his origina... |
| 08.02.2012 | Analytics Dashboard Netvibes Sold To Dassault Systèmes | Netvibes has just been acquired by European product design company Dassault Systèmes (sure this isn’t the type of thing I usually write, but I like the founder Tariq Krim so bear with me here … ).
French startup Netvibes is a sentiment anal... |
| 08.02.2012 | Remember Netvibes? It’s Finally Acquired By Engineering Giant Dassault Systèmes | It’s been a long and winding road since Tariq Krim created and eventually left Netvibes, but today Netvibes has been acquired by huge French engineering giant Dassault Systèmes for an undisclosed amount. Krim continues to pursue his origina... |
| 02.11.2011 | Ex-Google Reader Product Manager Posts Scathing Review Of Reader Redesign | Former Google Reader Product Manager Brian Shih has posted a scathing, but fairly accurate, review of the update to Google Reader. The update, which removed Reader’s own social sharing features in favor of Google+, was unpopular among Googl... |
| 08.07.2011 | Netvibes Debuts Powerful Social Analytics Platform For Brands And Agencies | Netvibes, a company that provides social media dashboards and news aggregators for brands and agencies, is debuting a powerful new analytics platform tonight. Netvibes’ new social analytics and monitoring platform is launching in private be... |
| 13.05.2011 | 5 Cloud-based Operating Systems That Are Still Standing | The announcement of the official Google Chromebooks has rekindled interest in Google’s Chrome OS. But you don’t need to wait to rent a Chromebook if you want to use the operating system. People have been running Chromium OS on netbooks for ... |
| 05.05.2011 | Build Cross-Platform Widgets in the Cloud with Netvibes Studio | Dashboard software-as-a-service provider Netvibes and enterprise Java platform builder eXo have teamed up to create Netvibes Studio, a cloud-based development environment for building cross-platform widgets. Widgets built with Netvibes Stud... |
| 22.02.2011 | Got an Old Computer? Jolicloud OS Can Now Make it a Zippy Cloud Machine | Jolicloud, the Operating System that primarily serves netbooks, today expanded its support to include computers as many as 10 years old. If you’ve got an old desktop computer with as little as 348MB of RAM, it could be fun and useful again ... |
| 04.10.2010 | 4 must-have social-media dashboards for your business | While big brands and agencies have the luxury of resources and money, local businesses don’t. What they need is a social-media dashboard — an all-in-one, Web-based monitoring tool for Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites where customer... |
| 04.10.2010 | 4 must-have social-media dashboards for your business | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
While big brands and agencies have the luxury of ... |
| 02.09.2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Paris | If you’re capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you’ll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country – more so in some areas. Not only does the country... |
| 06.08.2010 | Jolicloud 1.0 "the (free) iPhonesque OS for netbooks" goes live | It’s been roughly a year since Jolicloud‘s alpha release and the company founded by Netvibes founder, Tariq Krim, has just launched Jolicloud 1.0 to the public.
The iPhonesque open source OS oriented towards netbooks has more than just an i... |
| 27.07.2010 | The Decline of Startpages Like Netvibes & iGoogle (POLL) | 2-3 years ago, so-called “startpages” were all the rage – online dashboards where users could store links and quickly scan important news feeds. Startpages were also an evolving platform for “widgets,” mini web apps inside of a web page. Th... |
| 03.07.2010 | Did Google Blow It with the Google News Redesign? | Update: The previous version can still be accessed at news.google.ca (Thanks Bob!).
Earlier in this week we covered the new version of Google News. It’s normal to see a backlash against a redesign (see the reaction to Facebook redesigns for... |
| 03.06.2010 | Netvibes Is Prepping An iPad (Web) App, And We Have Some Early Screenshots | Netvibes, which has been making start pages more personalized and more ‘real-time’ for users for years now, is working on an iPad application website.
The alpha version of the site will be available later today (screenshot below), but users... |
| 02.06.2010 | Netvibes Launches iPad-Friendly Custom Feed Reader | Since the device’s release 2 months ago, many have praised the iPad for its media consumption capabilities while admitting that media creation is not its strong suit. It may not be the best device to compose a day’s worth of emails, but wat... |
| 20.05.2010 | France's Doyoubuzz launches in the US to crush word-processed resumes | For Nantes-based Doyoubuzz, the days of the Microsoft Word-based resumes are numbered. So what better to do than set-up shop in San Francisco in hopes of conquering the US web 2.0 generation with its online resume service and personal brand... |
| 04.05.2010 | HelloCotton targets US with social platform for women's blogs | Paris-based HelloCotton (HelloCoton en Français), a French social platform for discovering and sharing women’s blog content, is launching in the US today.
Initially launch in France in April 2008, the platform counts roughly 3 million month... |
| 13.04.2010 | NetVibes Launches A Realtime Tracking Platform With Instant Dashboards | On the heels of announcing profitability, startup NetVibes is announcing a new feature today to help users monitor the realtime web. NetVibes is launching a personal dashboard monitoring platform, called Instant Dashboards. The new feature ... |
| 31.03.2010 | Netvibes Makes It To Profitability By Appealing To Businesses | Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini announced today that the startup founded five years ago has finally made it to profitability. The site has seen a lot of changes since then. It began as one of the original Web 2.0 personalized homepages, became a d... |
| 24.03.2010 | Jolicloud Relaunches its Cloud OS, Now Built on Chrome | Jolicloud, one of the original standouts in the field of cloud-based operating systems, has just released their new Chrome-based web application platform as promised earlier this month. The company’s operating system now features 600+ web a... |
| 04.03.2010 | Netvibes and Orange team up to bring world’s largest widget collection to 130M mobile users | Netvibes — one of the leading personalized home page providers — is partnering with Orange — the world’s fifth largest telecom operator — to deliver widgets to 130 million mobile users. The partnership will bring Netvibe’s catalog of some 2... |
| 04.03.2010 | Netvibes and Orange team up to bring world’s largest widget collection to 130M mobile users | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Netvibes — one of the leading personalized home page providers — is partnering with Orange — the world’s fifth largest telecom operator... |
| 17.02.2010 | Genieo launches automatically generated personal homepages to the public | There’s a host of companies offering personalized homepages for web users. However, personalizing these sites can take time and energy. Users often have to upload preferences such as RSS feeds or widgets.
Israel based startup Genieo is look... |
| 30.12.2009 | How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic | Let’s say you’re a butcher, a baker or a candlestick maker. You want to get up to speed on the social media activity in your market, as fast as you can. Or perhaps you want to sell things to candlestick makers online, or you’re a journalist... |
| 10.12.2009 | Netvibes Launches Ultimate News and Lifestyle Dashboard | In late November, ReadWriteWeb asked the question, Can Netvibes pull off integration of real-time feeds into its existing dashboard product?. At the time, early testers were just gaining access to Wasabi beta. As of today the service will g... |
| 09.12.2009 | Top 10 Real-Time Technologies of 2009 | The real-time web was hot this year and it’s likely to become a standard expectation on sites all around the world next year. We’ve tracked this trend extensively with a face-to-face summit of industry leaders and an 84-page research report... |
| 03.12.2009 | Netvibes Premium Dashboards help marketers track brand information | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Netvibes, the service that lets users build custo... |
| 03.12.2009 | Netvibes Premium Dashboards help marketers track brand information | Netvibes, the service that lets users build customizable home page with widgets to track news feeds, social networks, and more, is now offering a premium version aimed at public relations and marketing agencies.
Freddy Mini, the San Francis... |
| 20.11.2009 | Fingertips, a personalised online newspaper that's not so personal | [UK] London-based Fingertips.net lets users create their own personalised online newspaper “from the publications they want”. Or at least that’s the claim.
The reality is that the RSS-driven service isn’t nearly as customisable as its many ... |
| 02.11.2009 | Netvibes Goes From Web 2.0 To Enterprise 2.0 In Partnership With Sage Software | In the Web 2.0 heyday, Netvibes had that star appeal that few companies ever experience. Their platform for creating personal dashboards rocketed in growth. Web innovators sang its praises. But you know the story. Netvibes struggled to find... |
| 02.11.2009 | New Netvibes Will Be World’s Biggest Real-Time Feed Reader | The next version of popular web dashboard service Netvibes will push “near real-time” updates from feeds to the browser, a dramatic change in how the service works. Those feeds will be served up along with the standard suite of functional w... |
| 13.10.2009 | Netvibes Allows Publishers To Push Updates At You, But You Can Shove Them Back | If you run a website that others are going to use, there’s probably a desire to find a mixture between user-customization and putting forth your content. For simple sites, that’s easy enough, but what if you want to change the design of pag... |
| 01.10.2009 | 2010 Olympics calling all student social media reporters | Article content
Scoring a stint covering the Olympics has to be boost for any reporter’s resume and in Vancouver it’s a chance being offered to high school students who would like to cover the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Twenty-four ... |
| 31.08.2009 | Netvibes Re-sells Tech To Germany's T-Online In Its Race To Make A Buck | Recently NetVibes, the startup that lets you create a widget-filled customizable homepage, rolled out a free feature allowing users to create widget-based web pages, dubbed Theme Publishing. Ostensibly aimed at users, it also has one eye on... |
| 31.08.2009 | Netvibes re-sells tech to T-Online in its race to hit profit | Recently NetVibes, the startup that lets you create a widget-filled customizable homepage, rolled out a free feature allowing users to create widget-based web pages, dubbed Theme Publishing. Ostensibly aimed at users, it also has one eye on... |
| 26.08.2009 | NetVibes Gets Into Website Design | NetVibes, the startup that lets you assemble all your favorite widgets, feeds, social networks, email, videos and blogs onto a customizable homepage, is rolling out a new feature today that lets users create personalized widget-based web pa... |
| 16.07.2009 | Feed aggregator Netvibes launches new tools to become real-time dashboard | Netvibes, the service that lets users customize a homepage with their RSS, social network, Twitter and email feeds, among other widgets, has introduced several new tools in a push to become a real-time dashboard for users’ online lives.
Sta... |
| 15.07.2009 | NetVibes Adds Drag And Follow Search Widgets For Twitter, Facebook And MySpace | NetVibes, the startup that lets you assemble all your favorite widgets, feeds, social networks, email, videos and blogs onto a customizable homepage, is rolling out helpful “drag and follow” widgets for Facebook, MySpace and Twitter tomorro... |
| 08.07.2009 | Nice timing: Netbook OS startup Jolicloud raises $4.2M | Jolicloud, the company created by Netvibes founder Tariq Krim to build an operating system for netbook computers, just announced it has raised $4.2 million in a first round of venture funding.
As you may have heard, Google announced last ni... |
| 22.06.2009 | Don't Have Enough Widgets In Your Life? Netvibes Adds Recommendations. | For those of you who need more information widgets in your life, Netvibes is adding widget recommendations to its homepage service. It just started rolling this feature out today, and all Netvibes users should see it within the next two or ... |
| 07.06.2009 | Hands-On Review Of Jolicloud, The iPhonesque OS For Netbooks | Founder and former CEO of Netvibes Tariq Krim is moving forward with his ambitious Jolicloud project, looking to build a better operating system for web workers with netbooks (or smartbooks or cloud computers, whichever term you prefer). A ... |
| 22.05.2009 | Streamy Gets More Social, Instantly Becomes My New Start Page | Streamy is downright awesome. When our own Leena Rao wrote a review following their launch two months ago, she nailed it when she wrote it was essentially a ‘personalized news service and social network that combines elements of Google Read... |
| 21.05.2009 | Manage multiple online lives with Netvibes’ multiple home pages | Netvibes helps users organize their online activity by customizing a home page with RSS feeds, social networks, email, and more. The thing is, people use the web for different needs at different times — to use an obvious example, during the... |
| 15.04.2009 | Customize your home page with Netvibes Labs | Netvibes, a company that lets users personalize their home page by pulling in things like their RSS feeds, social networks, and email on a single page, is letting users do even more customization with a new area called Netvibes Labs. In Lab... |
| 06.03.2009 | Netvibes Appears to Be Dying | Popular start-page service Netvibes may be in its final days as a viable product. The service has been suffering frequent, extended downtime, hasn’t been fully functioning even when up and can’t possibly be making as much money as its backe... |
| 29.01.2009 | Netvibes: The new social media dashboard | Monitor your brand; Create a social media dashboard If you're a corporation or marketer who uses social media for marketing purposes, you need to be able to listen and monitor your surroundings for conversation about your brand. A lot of co... |
| 22.01.2009 | FeedBurner is too broken for its biggest fan | Update: See this comment from Feedburner co-founder Dick Costolo for more on the progress the service is making.
Before Jason Shellen left Google and started Plinky (which launched earlier today), he helped develop products like Blogger and... |
| 23.12.2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| 08.12.2008 | Netvibes Adds Slick Magazine Layout Options; Supports OpenSocial | The widget is ready for its closeup. Today at the LeWeb conference in Paris, Netvibes announced a major step forward in how widgets are presented on a start page. Instead of the standard jumble of boxes filled mostly with text-only feeds, N... |
| 05.12.2008 | Top 10 International Products of 2008 | We live in a technologically rich and increasingly Web-savvy world. In this post, we celebrate the World Wide Web by selecting our top 10 international products of 2008. What do we mean by ‘international’? We looked for products that were d... |
| 14.11.2008 | Now Share Anything From Netvibes Via Facebook Connect, Twitter | Netvibes, one of the many personalized homepage products available today, has just announced a new feature which allows users to share anything from their Netvibes pages – not just tabs, but also articles, widgets, and RSS feeds. This new f... |
| 22.10.2008 | Social Desktop Aggregator Sobees Launches Public Beta | Switzerland-based deskNET is debuting the public beta version of Sobees today, an application that aims to bring the web to a personalized desktop environment. We first came across Sobees when they presented their project in the DemoPit at ... |
| 06.10.2008 | Netvibes Partners With Russian Web Portal Rambler.ru | Netvibes, the site that lets users customize their homepages with a variety of widgets, has partnered with Rambler.ru to bring its widgets to the massive Russian web portal. Rambler is the Yahoo of Russia, with an estimated 40 million users... |
| 24.09.2008 | Start Page Schmedley Pre-Launches With 5000 Invites | If Netvibes is getting old and you’re tired of looking at your desktop to find all your favorite apps, Schmedley might be a worthwhile alternative.
Leading up to its public beta next week, Schmedley is offering 5,000 private beta invites fo... |
| 22.09.2008 | Alltop Launches Redesign To Cover More Topics With Less Clutter | It wasn’t too long ago that Guy Kawasaki announced Alltop, a news aggregation site that tries to make it easy to find the top stories on a slew of topics (212 at last count) from some of the better sources on the Web. One of the biggest pro... |
| 07.09.2008 | CollectiveX Groupsites 2.0 Makes Group Organization Sexy | CollectiveX, a bootstrapped startup located in Maryland, will roll out version 2 of it’s year old social network collaboration platform today. Full disclosure: the company is a TechCrunch50 Exhibitor (which is a sponsor).
We first wrote abo... |
| 07.08.2008 | News in brief | • UK-based The Filter has been nominated for ‘The Industry Standard’s‘ Innovation awards, as has Alert Thingy, BBC iPlayer and a few other European players including Netvibes, Xing, Babbel (not bad for a brand new startup), mydeco and Sooci... |
| 16.07.2008 | Amiando makes event pages viral and modular | It might not seem like there’s much room for cool ideas when it comes to selling tickets, but the executives of a startup called Amiando disagree. They’re rolling out some smart new features that should make it easier to promote events.
Lik... |
| 30.06.2008 | Netvibes Gets All Digg-Like With Buzz | Personalized home page service Netvibes has quietly rolled out a new social feature called Buzz. The Buzz section tracks what links are getting starred the most throughout Netvibes network of home pages.
Netvibes users can star any of the l... |
| 02.06.2008 | One-Stop Accounts Manager PageOnce Launches | PageOnce, the personalized homepage for account management that I put up against more traditional homepages like Netvibes and PageFlakes in February, has opened its doors to the public.
Its launch comes after a private beta period where it ... |
| 29.05.2008 | Netvibes CEO leaves for new project | Tariq Krim, founder and CEO of Paris-based Netvibes, is stepping down work on a “new project.” He remains on the board of the company and as a non-executive strategic adviser. Netvibes COO Freddy Mini takes over as CEO.
Krim says his work t... |
| 28.05.2008 | Netvibes CEO Steps Down; Widget Platform Will Open Up | The founder of Netvibes is moving on. Tariq Krim is stepping down as CEO of Netvibes to “spend less time day-to-day” at the company and work on a “new project,” he tells me. (More details on that project later). He will remain on the board ... |
| 13.05.2008 | Netvibes to Share Items With ReadBurner | The RSS Aggregation niche has been very busy this week. Numerous changes and enhancements were recently made to RSS aggregator RSSmeme.
However, another service that was once exclusively for Google Reader users is expanding to give users a ... |
| 09.05.2008 | 5 Tools Everyone Working Online Should Have (IMHO) | The number of people whose work is touched by the internet these days is hard to imagine. Many of us have been working full-time online for a while, but for the vast majority of people online today that’s not the case. Here at RWW we commun... |
| 06.05.2008 | Forrester: Enterprise Mashups to Hit $700 Million by 2013 | A new report from Forrester Research predicts that mashups will be coming to the enterprise in a big way — to the tune of a $700 million market by 2013. Mashup platforms that make it easier for consumer to create mashup applications, such a... |
| 01.05.2008 | News Fiends Can Get Their Fix With Addictomatic | Rollyo founder Dave Pell is taking another stab at the search engine space with his just-launched news/media aggregator Addictomatic.
The site can act as both an RSS search engine for user-submitted queries, or a constantly updated newsfeed... |
| 20.04.2008 | Enterprise 2.0 To Become a $4.6 Billion Industry By 2013 | A new report released today by Forrester Research is predicting that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is going to increase dramatically over the next five years. This increase will include more spending on social networking tools... |
| 18.04.2008 | Pageflakes Acquisition Confirmed | The personalized start page is dead. Long live the personalized start page. Pageflakes, a nice-looking but perennial also-ran in the world of start-page startups, has been officially acquired by Brad Greenspan’s Live Universe, a deal we rep... |
| 17.04.2008 | SocialText Putting A Little Social Into…Enterprise Wikis | Palo Alto based Wiki startup SocialText, founded way back in 2002, is announcing version 3.0 of its software this morning. The upgrades are designed to put a little “social” into the enterprise (and to sidestep, as much as possible, the rec... |
| 24.02.2008 | The Personalized Homepage War: Who Matters | It’s time for an update on the personalized homepage wars – Netvibes and Pageflakes tend to get most of the press attention, and they are certainly pushing the envelope and trying to find new ways to make their services useful to users. But... |
| 13.02.2008 | PageOnce to Put All Your Online Accounts in One Place | Personal content aggregators are nothing new. We recently covered the latest of many services that consolidate your social networking activity into one place. But PageOnce, a company that was on this year’s Israel Web Tour, wants to become ... |
| 08.02.2008 | Alltop Thinks My Boss Has a Big Ego | Guy Kawasaki has just launched a news aggregation site called Alltop that displays headlines from a preselected set of “top” sources. The headlines are broken into categories such as celebrities, gaming, and politics.
Which category display... |
| 22.01.2008 | 500 Invites for Netvibes Ginger Beta | Netvibes is opening up the beta for its Ginger release, and 500 invites have been reserved for the first TechCrunch readers to sign up here (enter code: “TCGINGER500”). Ginger will become the default interface for all Netvibes members in mi... |
| 19.01.2008 | 2007 Crunchies: Winners, video and pictures | Paris and London-based Netvibes has won the Best International startup at the first annual Crunchies Awards, a joint production between Read/Write Web, VentureBeat, GigaOm and TechCrunch. Tariq Karim and Freddy Mini’s Netvibes has made wave... |
| 18.01.2008 | 2007 Crunchies: The Winners | A great evening was had by all tonight as some of the leading startups gathered for the first annual Crunchies, a joint production between Read/Write Web, VentureBeat, GigaOm and TechCrunch.
The ceremony went (mostly) smoothly with a couple... |
| 18.01.2008 | And the Crunchies award winners are…. | Here are the winners, in no particular order:
Best technology innovation / achievement:
Earthmine is building a geospatial platform that will provide a database of in-depth 3D data into Web map applications, so that you can drive virtually ... |
| 16.01.2008 | Toolbar Company Conduit Raises $8M More | Conduit, a service that enables web publishers to easily create their own toolbars for Internet Explorer and Firefox, has raised $8M in a Series B round with Benchmark Capital.
We covered Conduit a couple of times early last year when the c... |
| 01.01.2008 | What’s Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008 | Some people say that the bubble’s going to take a downturn in the next year or two – that huge numbers of copycat startups are going to shut down, people are going to be out of work and Web 2.0 cheerleaders are going to eat their (our) word... |
| 01.01.2008 | 2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without | This will be the third annual post on “Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without.” The first post, for 2006, is here. The 2007 post, written a year ago, is here.
This is a list of the products I tend to use daily. Some are for work (WordPre... |
| 31.12.2007 | 5 Ways You Can Fall in Love With Tagging Again | Tagging content online is something that doesn’t seem to have taken off the way some people expected it to.
Is it too complicated for widespread adoption? Is it too arbitrary to have the impact that formal taxonomies offer? Is it just too m... |
| 25.12.2007 | Top Web Apps & Sites of 2007 | It’s the end of the year and so time for ‘best of’ and prediction posts, which are a lot of fun. Today I’ve been re-organizing my Firefox bookmarks, which made me reflect on which web apps and sites I’ve used the most this year. I encourage... |
| 24.12.2007 | Europe's startup culture gets the Business Week treatment | Business Week’s Sarah Lacy pens an interesting piece on Europe’s startup climate following her visit to Le Web 3 in Paris a couple of weeks ago. Although relatively fair-minded, it has the faint whiff of disdain. I can imagine her saying “E... |
| 05.12.2007 | A look at Google’s new iPhone portal | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 29.11.2007 | Google Reader’s New Recommendations Exciting, but Insufficient | The Google Reader team announced tonight that the wildly popular online feed reader now recommends additional feeds to users based on our subscription lists, web browsing history and “more.”
It’s a very big day for one reason – simple recom... |
| 06.11.2007 | Netvibes launches "Ginger" social widgets platform | [UPDATE: Tariq got in touch to say that social features like flow (the Netvibes news feed which can be public or private) will run natively with Google’s OpenSocial and Facebook and be launched in private beta for developers in a couple wee... |
