Web 2.0

Front Page News Opinions HowTo Videos Podcasts Photos Subscribe

Opinion: The Emerging Era of Alert Services - For Almost Anything

Wed, Jan 27 | from Read/WriteWeb
Tracking shopping deals is the most immediate commercial application for alert services that go beyond 'topics.' Those examples are just a starter for ten, we can expect more sophisticated alert systems to evolve once Internet of Things ramps up in retail stores and elsewhere.

Recent Opinion

Yelp Brings Location Check-in Data to Its Web Reviews

Yelp also sees check-ins as being a “lightweight” way for people to participate in the site, according to mobile product manager Eric Singley. In other words, you no longer have to write reviews to participate in what’s become a fairly big social network in its own right, you can simply che...
Thu, Jan 21 | from Mashable!

Opinion: Top Tools For Tracking Topics on the Web

Feed and/or Email Services These are services which output RSS and/or other formats, such as email notification. We think this type of topic feed tool is the most flexible, particularly when it outputs RSS. With RSS feed output, you can do further filtering or grouping of the feeds inside a...
Thu, Jan 21 | from Read/WriteWeb

Opinion: Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things: Barcode Scanning

Barcode scanning and its applications will grow during 2010, meaning more and more real world data will be connected to the Internet and accessed on your mobile phone. There are many apps trying to entice consumers to wave their mobile phone in front of products, so let us know your favorit...
Tue, Jan 12 | from Read/WriteWeb

Opinion: Libraries, eBooks, and the Mobile Web: A Long Ways to Go

According to the researchers, libraries that serve colleges should invest in text alerting services, and text reference services instead of mobile web services. With text alerting services, users could receive alerts when books are due, for example, while text reference services wo...
Thu, Dec 31 | from Read/WriteWeb

Opinion: My Wish for 2010: A Personal Dashboard for the Social Web

In some ways, this idea would be an evolution of the ego search. Today we look at how many web pages display our name, and how high we rank on Google. Tomorrow, we could look back at everything we’ve emitted to the web, and where it’s traveled. It would be even neater if this hypothetical dashboar...
Tue, Dec 29 | from GigaOM

Opinion: Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Personalization

Personalization has long been a buzzword on the Internet. With the glut of information on the Web circa 2009, personalization in this era means providing effective filters and recommendations. Ultimately personalization is about websites and services giving you what you want, when yo...
Mon, Dec 28 | from Read/WriteWeb

Opinion: Best LittleCo of 2009 & Most Promising for 2010

If Web 2.0 was about creating data (user generated content, to use the most familiar term for this), then the next generation of the Web is all about using that data. Wolfram|Alpha is premised on using and computing data, so we think it's a product to watch in 2010.
Mon, Dec 21 | from Read/WriteWeb

Opinion: Weekly Wrapup Special: Best Products & BigCo of 2009

The print version is coming soon! Buy Now >> 1. Twitter 2. Google Chrome 3. Google Maps 4. Facebook 7. iPhone platform 8. Google Apps Read more about Google and the other nominees... Top 10 RSS & Syndication Technologies of 2009 Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009
Sat, Dec 19 | from Read/WriteWeb

Opinion: Mobile Web Apps Look Hot - Can They Challenge the iTunes App Store?

NextStop NextStop is a local review site that has positioned itself as "Yelp for Travelers" but needn't be limited to travelers alone. Though it doesn't have the traction that Yelp has yet, its feature set is far superior. The two biggest differentiators of its mobile site are the ability t...
Tue, Dec 15 | from Read/WriteWeb

Top Opinion Sources

1	Read/WriteWeb
2	Mashable!
3	O'Reilly Radar
4	GigaOM
5	LITA
6	WebProNews
7	PBS
8	silkcharm (Blogspot)
9	blogs.msdn.com
10	UgoTrade

Recent Opinion

Hall of Fame Opinion

Top Opinion Sources