Richard MacManus is the Founder and CEO of ReadWriteWeb, as well as the Editor. He is from Wellington New Zealand. Prior to RWW Richard did research, analysis and product development work for companies in Silicon Valley and beyond. He has
also worked for some of New Zealand's top organizations as a Web Manager.
Richard co-founded the Web 2.0 Workgroup and from September 2005 – December 2006 he started and ran the Web 2.0 Explorer blog at ZDNet. Richard also co-founded and was Executive Editor of Micro Media Corporation, a multi-channel leadership program in Web and Media 2.0 that operated under the brand name TransMission.
Richard was profiled by The Dominion Post in July 2007 and The NZ Herald in February 2007. You can contact him at editor@readwriteweb.com. NOTE: Story ideas and product pitches should be emailed to tips@readwriteweb.com. This address reaches the editor and the main writers of ReadWriteWeb.
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09/ 6/08: Weekly Wrapup: Special Chrome Edition (3)
09/ 5/08: Word Processing: Most of You Still Use Desktop Software (18)
09/ 5/08: Chrome Not Ready For Enterprise (26)
09/ 3/08: Report: Hulu a More Successful Business Than YouTube (11)
09/ 3/08: Video of Google Chrome Announcement (5)
09/ 1/08: Google Video for Business Launches: YouTube for Enterprise (17)
09/ 1/08: Poll: Which Word Processing Tool Do You Mostly Use? (39)
08/31/08: Comparing Web Platforms (1)
08/30/08: Weekly Wrapup, 25-29 August 2008 (0)
08/29/08: Statistics: Online Music Apps (6)
08/26/08: Future of Online Music - Industry Players Discuss (9)
08/26/08: Amazon Buys Shelfari and its Innovative UI (10)
08/25/08: RWW Live: Online Music (Special Guests From Imeem, Yahoo Music, Rhapsody) (2)
08/24/08: Online Accounting: State of the Market (37)
08/24/08: Poll: Streaming Music Services (16)
08/23/08: Weekly Wrapup, 18-22 August 2008 (3)
08/20/08: 10 Promising Web Platforms (26)
08/19/08: Most Popular Websites For Kids (9)
08/19/08: What Three Web Apps Excite You Most? (79)
08/16/08: Weekly Wrapup, 11-15 August 2008 (0)
08/14/08: How Web Technology is Boosting Productivity in Organizations (3)
08/11/08: RWW Live: Future of Blogging (2)
08/11/08: Imeem Taking Off - Before MySpace Music Has Even Launched (5)
08/10/08: Online China Overview (5)
08/ 9/08: Weekly Wrapup, 4-8 August 2008 (0)
08/ 7/08: Winners: Web 2.0 Expo NY Competition (0)
08/ 6/08: The Olympics & Social Media Marketing (15)
08/ 5/08: Practice Fusion: 'Google Apps For Doctors' Ramps Up (5)
08/ 4/08: 'Web Meets World' Competition: Win Tickets to NYC Web 2.0 Expo (40)
08/ 4/08: Mainstream Web Watch: The Olympics & Online Video (38)
08/ 3/08: Thanks RWW Sponsors; Email Us For Media Kit (0)
08/ 2/08: Weekly Wrapup, 28 July - 1 August 2008 (0)
07/31/08: Marshall Kirkpatrick Joins RWW as VP Content Development (40)
07/31/08: Defrag: Fixing Foundational Information Channels (0)
07/30/08: Has The Web 2.0 Cycle Come to a Close? No (15)
07/29/08: Study: Women Outnumber Men on Most Social Networks (18)
07/28/08: Wow, How Did Cuil Get So Much Publicity on Day 1?! (77)
07/28/08: Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who's Doing It? (44)
07/27/08: Mixed Messages in The Blogging Landscape (24)
07/26/08: Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 July 2008 (1)
07/25/08: Multiply Accuses Facebook of Copying its Design (27)
07/25/08: The ReadWriteWeb 12 Second Challenge (9)
07/24/08: Android Is For The Masses, iPhone For The Rich (14)
07/21/08: Nokia vs Apple in The Internet Mobile Device Market (34)
07/20/08: More Amazon S3 Downtime: How Much is Too Much? (46)
07/19/08: Weekly Wrapup, 14-18 July 2008 (1)
07/18/08: DEMOfall 08 Sessions Announced (1)
07/17/08: Last.fm Re-Design Goes Live, With New Lick of Paint (Literally) (20)
07/15/08: Defrag: The Implicit Web and More (0)
07/14/08: RWW Live: iPhonemania (0)
07/14/08: RWW Predictions: iPhone Sales in 2008 (5)
07/12/08: Weekly Wrapup, 7-11 July 2008 (1)
07/11/08: Results: RWW Predictions & Polls (FriendFeed, Bigcos, Google Docs) (0)
07/10/08: iPhone 3G In The Flesh (12)
07/ 8/08: New: ReadWriteWeb Companies (13)
07/ 8/08: Telco Greed Overshadows iPhone 3G Launch (21)
07/ 8/08: Vodafone NZ Charges "Like a Wounded Bull" For iPhone 3G (19)
07/ 7/08: ReadWriteWeb Predictions: Twitter vs FriendFeed (18)
07/ 7/08: Poll: Best Internet Bigcos of 2008 (2)
07/ 6/08: Thanks RWW Sponsors; Email Us For Media Kit (0)
07/ 5/08: Weekly Wrapup, 30 June - 4 July 2008 (0)
07/ 3/08: ReadWriteWeb Integrates FriendFeed Into Our Comments (41)
07/ 1/08: Adobe Makes Flash Searchable - The Holy Grail of Website Usability? (22)
06/29/08: Best of RWW: Making Facebook Useful (10)
06/28/08: Weekly Wrapup, 23-27 June 2008 (0)
06/26/08: Why iYomu, a Social Network for Old People, Expired (23)
06/25/08: Mainstream Web Watch: OleOle Football (5)
06/24/08: Nokia Acquires Symbian; Takes on Google's Android (16)
06/23/08: Mainstream Web Watch: InfiniteHoops.com (7)
06/21/08: New ReadWriteWeb Bloggers: Frederic Lardinois & Corvida (6)
06/21/08: Weekly Wrapup, 16-20 June 2008 (1)
06/20/08: Josh Catone Leaving ReadWriteWeb (22)
06/19/08: Accoona, Once Pretender to Search Throne... Now Niche B2B Service (4)
06/19/08: Mainstream Web Watch: NBA.com (9)
06/17/08: DivShare Security Scare - More Trouble in Online Storage Space (6)
06/16/08: Yahoo Clings to Its Leading Web "Starting Points" (0)
06/16/08: UPDATED! Poll: Which Instant Messaging Client(s) Do You Use? (115)
06/15/08: Yahoo: 'Everything But The Kitchen Sink' Approach Not Paying Dividends (15)
06/15/08: Wanted: News & Product Reviews Writer (2)
06/15/08: How The Web is Enabling Consumer-Driven Healthcare (7)
06/14/08: Weekly Wrapup, 9-13 June 2008 (0)
06/14/08: Poll Result: 52% Like or Love iPhone 2.0 (3)
06/12/08: Geocities 2.0: Website Creation Tools for The Social Web (12)
06/11/08: Live Blogging Future of the Web Debate (5)
06/11/08: Future of the Web Debate - Starts in 2 Hours! (8)
06/10/08: Last.fm Re-design: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (18)
06/ 9/08: iPhone 2.0 Big in Bubbleland, But 2-3 Years Behind the Times in The Real World? (73)
06/ 9/08: 10 Mobile Social Networks to Check Out (27)
06/ 9/08: Bonnaroo Mobile: Buzzd Brings Mobile Social Networking to Music Festival (5)
06/ 7/08: Weekly Wrapup, 2-6 June 2008 (1)
06/ 6/08: Future of the Web Debate: Submit Your Questions Here (5)
06/ 5/08: Obama vs McCain Website Smackdown (6)
06/ 4/08: Survey: 48% of Bank Customers Want Web 2.0 Gadgets (12)
06/ 2/08: Eurekster Back Up After 10 Days Offline; Rumors That Google Behind its Decline (1)
06/ 1/08: Future of the Web Debate: Needs Your Votes! (5)
05/31/08: Weekly Wrapup, 26-30 May 2008 (0)
05/29/08: Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond: Update (4)
05/29/08: What Google Looks For in Potential Acquisitions (10)
05/29/08: Google's Android: How Will it Compare to iPhone? (6)
05/27/08: Mobile 2.0 Europe: RWW Has 5 Free Tickets (28)
05/27/08: Why Google is Wooing Web Developers (17)
05/26/08: Results: Data Portability's Future (4)
05/25/08: Thanks RWW Sponsors; Packages Available June-July (0)
05/25/08: Book Review: Inside Steve's Brain (18)
05/24/08: Weekly Wrapup, 19-23 May 2008 (0)
05/23/08: Interactive Debate on Web's Future, Featuring Tim Berners-Lee (7)
05/22/08: RWW Live: Episode 1 (5)
05/21/08: Reality TV Show for Startups Announced; RWW Editor a Judge (19)
05/19/08: Google Health Launches - Cautious, Non-Innovative Entry into Health 2.0 (3)
05/18/08: last100 Competition: Name Your Top 5 Digital Lifestyle Products, Win a Computer! (27)
05/13/08: comScore: Yahoo! Buzz Overtakes Digg in April (17)
05/13/08: What's Next for Data Portability & Why is Facebook Still Holding Back? (0)
05/ 8/08: Yahoo.com Sends a Ton of Talkative Traffic (22)
05/ 5/08: Omnidrive CEO Nik Cubrilovic: We're Not Dead. Again. (24)
05/ 5/08: Thanks Sponsors (0)
05/ 4/08: Semantic Web Gang: Wikipedia for Data (6)
05/ 3/08: Weekly Wrapup, 28 Apr - 2 May 2008 (1)
05/ 2/08: The Favorite Web Apps of RWW Readers (25)
05/ 1/08: Interview: How Will Live Mesh Integrate With Windows Live? (1)
04/30/08: Nevermind The Recession, The Web Will Change The World! (16)
04/29/08: Strands Acquires Expensr, Launches moneyStrands (1)
04/28/08: Report: Social Media Challenging Traditional Media (7)
04/28/08: Early Stats Show Twitter Taking Off in Japan (8)
04/27/08: Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 April 2008 (1)
04/23/08: Tim O'Reilly: Tackle Big, Hard Problems With Web 2.0 (10)
04/23/08: Full Text of Ray Ozzie Mesh Memo (6)
04/23/08: Bungee Labs Evolves to Compete With Salesforce & Others (0)
04/22/08: Ray Ozzie Memo Explains Live Mesh Strategy (2)
04/21/08: Alternative Search Engines Day - Call For Alts to Band Together (8)
04/19/08: ReadWriteWeb Turns 5 (64)
04/19/08: Weekly Wrapup, 14-18 April 2008 (1)
04/17/08: Web 2.0 Expo Competition Winners (9)
04/16/08: Competition: Win a Free Pass to Web 2.0 Expo (113)
04/16/08: The Decline and Fall of Tech on Digg (41)
04/15/08: Facebook Lexicon Launches - Google Trends for Facebook (4)
04/14/08: TwitLinks: The Techmeme of Twitter? (11)
04/13/08: Conferences: Web 2.0 Expo, Structure 08, Google I/O, SemTech 08 & More (24)
04/13/08: AltSearchEngines Get Together: Monday 21 April, San Francisco (3)
04/12/08: Weekly Wrapup, 7-11 April 2008 (3)
04/11/08: What is Music 2.0? (3)
04/10/08: Windows "Collapsing" - 2011 Tipping Point For Web Apps In The Enterprise (25)
04/10/08: Qitera - Stealth Semantic App Sounds Like Twine Competitor (7)
04/ 9/08: Play The News: Google App Engine (6)
04/ 9/08: Using Semantic Search to Cure Disease, Prevent Animal Testing (2)
04/ 8/08: Google Takes Down HuddleChat After Complaints About 37Signals Ripoff (23)
04/ 8/08: Google App Engine: Cloud Control to Major Tom (25)
04/ 6/08: Office Live Workspace: Will Microsoft's "Bridging" Strategy Work? (7)
04/ 6/08: Thanks Sponsors (0)
04/ 6/08: Weekly Wrapup, 31 Mar - 4 Apr 2008 (0)
04/ 1/08: Announcing: The Search Race (2)
03/31/08: April 1st, The Annual Day Without Google - Can You Live Without It For One Day? (16)
03/31/08: Facebook to Crowdsource Chinese Translation - China Launch Imminent? (10)
03/30/08: Mobile Web Trends & Products, March '08 Update (14)
03/30/08: Facebook vs Asia's Top Social Networks (18)
03/26/08: Comment of the Day: Semantic Marketing (4)
03/25/08: Comment of the Day: Despite Concerns, OpenSocial Foundation a Positive Move (1)
03/25/08: Introducing The Semantic Web Gang (5)
03/25/08: Comment of the Day: Facebook Security Lapse is Weeks Old (2)
03/23/08: Thanks Sponsors; Packages Available April-May (0)
03/23/08: Comment of the Day: Oprah, Jericho, & The Mainstreaming of Online Media (2)
03/22/08: Weekly Wrapup, 17-21 March 2008 (2)
03/21/08: Joost Coming to The Browser (3)
03/21/08: Comment of the Day: Lifestreaming Helps Blog Comments (2)
03/19/08: Aggregate Knowledge's Content Discovery - How Good is it, Really? (20)
03/19/08: Comment of the Day: Time For iTunes to Become More Social (6)
03/19/08: New Facebook Privacy Options Go Live - May Overwhelm Users (10)
03/19/08: Comment of the Day: WiMax is The Future of Web Access (1)
03/18/08: Exclusive: Blogdigger Acquired by Odeo (3)
03/18/08: Hakia Licenses its Semantic Search Technology (3)
03/17/08: Comment of the Day: Reading (and Writing) Online (3)
03/17/08: Slideshare Ramping Up - Leading Online Presentations App? (10)
03/16/08: Poll: Are You Using FriendFeed? (15)
03/16/08: Comment of the Day: OpenEMR (Electronic Medical Record) (6)
03/16/08: Yahoo Buzz is a Game Changer for Social Media; And Spells Trouble for Digg! (16)
03/15/08: Comment of the Day: More Sites for Finding Wonderful Things (1)
03/15/08: Weekly Wrapup, 10-14 March 2008 (2)
03/14/08: Internet TV Update: Hulu, Joost, TiVo (3)
03/13/08: Comment of the Day: Visualizing the Real Time Web (3)
03/13/08: AOL + Bebo = Still No Market Differentiation (3)
03/12/08: Comment of the Day: Could Sting Play Ray Ozzie? (5)
03/12/08: MyStrands Offers $100k for Best Recommender Start-up (3)
03/12/08: YouTube Expands API Set - Including Upload, Player APIs (8)
03/12/08: Comment of the Day: All We Are Saying is Give Twine a Chance... (4)
03/11/08: On Alltop and RSS For The Masses (25)
03/11/08: Reuters Open Calais Update: Apps Progress, Interview (9)
03/11/08: Comment of the Day: iPhone No Match For Windows Mobile on Exchange Features (9)
03/10/08: Grooveshark $1000 Giveaway; News: Analytics Suite Will Launch Soon (2)
03/10/08: Poll: iPhone Exchange Support; Did Microsoft Make a Mistake? (18)
03/ 9/08: 3 Comment of the Day Winners (0)
03/ 7/08: Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond (13)
03/ 6/08: Comment of the Day: IE8 As Much About Google as Firefox (5)
03/ 5/08: Comment of the Day: GoogleLookUp is "Wow" (9)
03/ 4/08: Comment of the Day: Family Twitters (2)
03/ 3/08: Poll: Will Your Mom & Dad Ever Use Twitter? (20)
03/ 3/08: AllPeers Closes - What Happened to the Glorious Future of P2P? (9)
03/ 2/08: Bitstrips Launching at SXSW: "YouTube For Comics" (14)
03/ 1/08: Comment of the Day: Socialthing! Could be SXSW Breakout App (2)
03/ 1/08: Weekly Wrapup, 25-29 Feb 2008 (3)
03/ 1/08: Comment of the Day: Lifestreaming Irony (4)
02/28/08: Comment of the Day: Google Apps Still Needs the IT Dept (3)
02/27/08: Comment of the Day: First Base With Semantic Web (2)
02/27/08: Comment of the Day: Bee-ware of Freeconomics (3)
02/26/08: Comment of the Day: Build an Offline Browser (1)
02/25/08: 10 Recommended Recommendation Engines (21)
02/24/08: Thanks Sponsors; Packages Available March-April (0)
02/23/08: Comment of the Day: Health 2.0 Web Apps (2)
02/23/08: Weekly Wrapup, 18-22 Feb 2008 (0)
02/22/08: Comment of the Day: "Google Docs is Chock Full of Fail" (35)
02/22/08: Digg Townhall To Address Censorship, Inequality (1)
02/21/08: Top Health 2.0 Web Apps (23)
02/21/08: Comment of the Day: Google Vulnerable, But Not From Lack of Features (0)
02/20/08: Comment of the Day: Castro News... Ho Hum (1)
02/20/08: Buzzd Cleans Up at Mobile Web Awards (0)
02/19/08: Comment of the Day: Medical Diagnosis via Internet Coming Soon (7)
02/19/08: Digg Gets More Mainstream; But Are Their News Sources Too Narrow Now? (35)
02/19/08: Web 2.0 Meets Medicine: Focused on Communication (6)
02/18/08: Comment of the Day: Hey You, Back Up My Cloud! (2)
02/18/08: Top 10 Last.fm Mashups (9)
02/17/08: Weekly Wrapup, 11-15 Feb 2008 (1)
02/17/08: Comment of the Day: Semantic Web "Great For Diddling" (6)
02/15/08: Comment of the Day: R.E.M. Video = Open Source As In Linux (3)
02/14/08: Comment of the Day: Sync Kindle With iPhone (2)
02/14/08: Tom Coates: Web of Data (7)
02/14/08: PR Wire Service to Journalists & Bloggers: We Don't Need You (9)
02/13/08: Comment of the Day: Facebook's Lip Service to Data Portability (0)
02/13/08: The Future of Search: Peter Morville Defines, Shows Examples (7)
02/12/08: Comment of the Day: OpenSocial is a "Social Cloud" For Developers, Not Users (5)
02/12/08: The State of Mozilla and Open Source in Asia (3)
02/12/08: Google's Kevin Marks Introduces "The Social Cloud" (6)
02/11/08: Comment of the Day: Advice for Big Media (1)
02/10/08: Comments Competition: Win a Daily Prize! (25)
02/10/08: GPhone Prototype Expected at Mobile World Congress (6)
02/10/08: Upcoming Conferences: Webstock, WebVentures, Under The Radar, Graphing Social Patterns (3)
02/10/08: Weekly Wrapup, 4-8 Feb 2008 (0)
02/10/08: Thanks Sponsors (0)
02/ 8/08: When Facebook Ads Go Wrong (11)
02/ 4/08: miVitals Takes Aim at Tough Online Health Market (1)
02/ 3/08: Poll: Has Google Lost The Plot By Attacking Microsoft's Bid For Yahoo? (5)
02/ 2/08: Weekly Wrapup, 28 Jan - 1 Feb 2008 (0)
01/30/08: OnlinePrimary: Towards an Internet Election System (4)
01/29/08: Thanks Sponsors & Readers (0)
01/28/08: Chandler: No Version 1.0 After 7 Years - Can it Survive Post-Kapor? (6)
01/28/08: Al Gore's Current Files For $100M IPO (1)
01/27/08: Meta 2008 Web Trends (2)
01/26/08: Yahoo! Mobile: Claims Ubiquity, But What About Innovation & Speed to Market? (1)
01/25/08: Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 Jan 2008 (0)
01/25/08: Quintura Launches Site Search - Private Beta Offer for RWW Readers (3)
01/19/08: Weekly Wrapup, 14-18 Jan 2008 (0)
01/19/08: Crunchies - Thanks All (& An Apology) (3)
01/17/08: Semantic Wave 2008 - Free Summary Report for RWW Readers (10)
01/16/08: Exclusive: Sharpcast Launches SugarSync - Full Sync Between Web, PCs & Mobile (6)
01/14/08: Brand Squatting: What To Do About It? (61)
01/14/08: Google Unveils Slicker, Faster iPhone Interface (1)
01/14/08: Lifestreaming: a ReadWriteWeb Primer (19)
01/12/08: Weekly Wrapup, 7-11 January 2008 (3)
01/11/08: Best Technology Innovation / Achievement - Review of the 5 Crunchies Finalists (11)
01/11/08: Last Batch of Crunchies Tickets (0)
01/10/08: Poll: What Will Be Announced at Macworld? (4)
01/10/08: Bebo Opens Up 100% in Bid For More Third Party Apps (3)
01/ 9/08: Virtual Worlds Poised to Become Valuable Work Tools (2)
01/ 9/08: Latest Web Jobs and Events (2)
01/ 8/08: CES Highlights: PC-to-TV Devices, Internet-connected TVs (2)
01/ 8/08: Welcome Sarah Perez to the RWW Team (13)
01/ 7/08: Yahoo! Go 3.0 Announced at CES - is Yahoo! Back in '08? (2)
01/ 7/08: How Web Media is Usurping Old Media - Music, Video, More (1)
01/ 7/08: Bill Gates at CES: No Web Fridges, But You Can Watch TV on Your Xbox 360 (3)
01/ 5/08: Weekly Wrapup, 31 Dec 2007 - 4 Jan 2008 (3)
01/ 5/08: Thanks Sponsors & Readers (4)
01/ 3/08: Get Yer Crunchies Tickets (And Will Richter Scales Add RWW to Their Song?) (0)
01/ 3/08: 2007 Year in Review: RWW Network Meta List (0)
12/31/07: Open Media Web: Online Music (0)
12/31/07: Top 10 Web Tech Stories of 2007 (10)
12/30/07: Best of ReadWriteWeb 2007, Editor's Picks (3)
12/29/07: AltSearchEngines Nominated for 3 Search Blog Awards (5)
12/27/07: Digital Music in 2007- All About Experimentation (2)
12/26/07: Top Web Apps & Sites of 2007 (31)
12/23/07: 2008 Web Predictions (79)
12/23/07: New RWW Design: Update (15)
12/22/07: Weekly Wrapup, 17-21 December 2007 (4)
12/21/07: Thanks Sponsors (0)
12/21/07: Finalists Announced for Crunchies Awards (6)
12/17/07: New Design For ReadWriteWeb (81)