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Chrome Not Ready For Enterprise
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 05 Sep. 2008
We've covered the launch of Google's new browser Chrome extensively this week. But as we near the end of the week, one of the questions yet to be answered is how Chrome will fare in the enterprise. As we all know Google is making a strong push into the readmore
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Report: Hulu a More Successful Business Than YouTube
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
Online video ad network LiveRail (our profile) has just released a 'State Of The Industry Report' for Q3 2008. It reports that video ad spending currently only represents 2.36% of all online advertising, but that it is ex readmore
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Video of Google Chrome Announcement
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
Google has just released a video of their announcement of Chrome, their new open source browser. It's embedded below, via YouTube. We've been all over this story for the past few days, so here is a summary of our coverage so far: - readmore
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Google Video for Business Launches: YouTube for Enterprise
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Today Google is launching a new product for the enterprise market, Google Video for business. It's a new application in the Google Apps office suite, enabling workers to upload and share videos inside their organizations. Videos can be shared on an individual, group or company-wide ba readmore
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Poll: Which Word Processing Tool Do You Mostly Use?
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 01 Sep. 2008
We ran a poll a year ago asking which word processing tool you used the most. What we were really driving at was: how many of you are using an online word processing service (Googl readmore
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Comparing Web Platforms
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Sun, 31 Aug. 2008
It's great to hear that Marc Canter is writing a book, called 'How to build the Open Mesh'. He's been working for years on this vision with his product PeopleAggregator. He's just readmore
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Weekly Wrapup, 25-29 August 2008
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Sat, 30 Aug. 2008
It's the weekend, so time to review the Web tech news, reviews and analysis we brought you this week on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we reported on Facebook hitting 100 million users, checked out 10 great web apps for school, looked at the state of online accounting, and reviewed the latest in lifestreaming. On the trends readmore
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Statistics: Online Music Apps
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 29 Aug. 2008
To complement the poll we ran this week about streaming music sites, we sourced data from comScore about the Internet Radio industry. comScore's data shows that the big Internet companies still dominate, readmore
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Future of Online Music - Industry Players Discuss
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
In yesterday's episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, our topic was online music and we had 3 very special guests on the show: Dalton Caldwell, founder a readmore
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Amazon Buys Shelfari and it's Innovative UI
Richard MacManus via Read/WriteWeb News on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Shelfari, a small book sharing startup, was acquired today by Amazon (an existing investor in the company). Shelfari is known for its innovative user interface, something which we've discussed a readmore
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RWW Live: Online Music (Special Guests From Imeem, Yahoo Music, Rhapsody)
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
The latest episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, is set to begin shortly at 3.30pm PST (6.30pm EST). This week's topic is online music and we have 3 very special guests on the show to discuss this: readmore
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Online Accounting: State of the Market
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
Accounting software for small business and personal use is increasingly moving from the desktop to online. However, compared to other office software, this transition to online has been relatively slow. Partly that's due to user reticence: writing a document online and sharing it with others (via Google Docs, Office Live, Zoho, readmore
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Poll: Streaming Music Services
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
This week's RWW Live podcast show (Monday 3.30pm PST) is on the topic of online music. We have 2-3 very special guests (so far we have representatives from Yahoo and Imeem, please email me if you're interested in coming on the show, we have 1 final place to confirm). We've readmore
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Weekly Wrapup, 18-22 August 2008
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Sat, 23 Aug. 2008
It's the weekend, so time to review the week's web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at the first reported Android phone, checked out the winners of the Firefox 3 Extensions contest, reviewed Microsoft's new 3D online photo app, dabbled with screencasting, and reported on Pandora's readmore
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10 Promising Web Platforms - ReadWriteWeb
Richard MacManus via www.readwriteweb.com on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
In this post we review 10 promising developer platforms for the Web. We're not talking about the obvious ones either, like Facebook, iPhone, OpenSocial or even Twitter. Those ... readmore
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Imeem Taking Off - Before MySpace Music Has Even Launched - ReadWriteWeb
Richard MacManus via www.readwriteweb.com on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
It's not necessarily all rosy. According to a recent CNN article, Imeem may struggle to earn a decent revenue. It estimates that Imeem is getting an average CPM of $4 per page, which CNN thinks is insufficient to pay the record labels. readmore
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Most Popular Websites For Kids
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
Continuing our coverage of the mainstream web, in this post we look at some of the most popular websites for kids. We've gathered information from a recent report (pdf) from Nielsen Online, readmore
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What Three Web Apps Excite You Most?
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 19 Aug. 2008
One of our favorite Australians, Lachlan Hardy, twittered an interesting question today: What are the three things online that are exciting you most? Lachlan was asked this question as part of a newspaper article readmore
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Weekly Wrapup, 11-15 August 2008
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Sat, 16 Aug. 2008
It's the weekend, so time to review the week's web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at rising music social network Imeem, reported on Yahoo's Fire Eagle project, checked in on the latest Web Office developments, and covered some new iPhone apps. On the trends side we looked into t readmore
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How Web Technology is Boosting Productivity in Organizations
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 14 Aug. 2008
ReadWriteWeb is a partner with Defrag, a conference about web innovation. Defrag's Eric Norlin has lately been blogging about enterprises and organizations starting to move beyond mere 'cost containment' (although that's still a big driver) readmore
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