New Media Learn by writing Mark Pilgrim: "I take in a lot of raw data, synthesize it, and spit it back out in ways that many people can understand." Mark Pilgrim and Neil Deakin are two very smart web developers, but more importantly they both have the ability to document complex web technology in laymans language - so that wannabes can learn it… Richard MacManus View comments
Web 2.0 Save the Web Dave Winer posts a link to a DaveNet from 2 years ago: "If it were not possible to read my words without annotation, we'd have to invent a medium that allowed that. But in 2001 we already have such a medium, it's called the Web. We have tools and servers and all kinds of runtimes on all kinds of operating systems. We don't need or want… Richard MacManus View comments
Web 2.0 Apple and the Universal Canvas Micah Alpern asked via my Comments form: "Wasn't this term [universal canvas] first popularized by Apple with their failed OpenDoc program?" Only one way to find out and that's pay a visit to Google. I found a definition of OpenDoc, but I didn't see anything that had OpenDoc and Universal Canvas in the same sentence. Anyone know of a… Richard MacManus View comments
Web 2.0 The Universal Canvas System Last night I wrote about the Universal Canvas. Today in my RSS newsreader, what should appear but a great post from Steve Gillmor on the same topic. Of course being a pro, Steve made his point way better than me. Microsoft has all the pieces, says Steve, to "create a browser-hosted read-write tool for sharing and routing information." But the… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Scobleized I've been Scobleized. Now I really am part of the blogosphere...yay :-) Richard MacManus View comments