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January 2005 Archives

Monday, 31st January 2005

Cut-up Poetry: Ode to Google

In lieu of a weekly Web 2.0 wrap-up (because nothing much happened this week), I did a cut-up of a recent blog post by ex-Microsoft employee and now Google employee Mark Jen. This is the guy who recently started a job at Google and is blogging about his experiences there. He pulled his blog off-air this week, after it got discovered and dissected…

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Thursday, 27th January 2005

Web Development

The Art and Science of Creative Aggregation

Jay Fienberg wrote a very interesting post regarding the future of RSS aggregators and blogs: "Now (today), it's so easy to publish blogs that there are tons of them, and the effort to aggregate them is beginning to again attract editor-like and writer-like functions, i.e., merely mechanical aggregation of sites is seeming too…

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Wednesday, 26th January 2005

Gillmor Gang Explores RSS and Content Business

Interesting edition of the Gillmor Gang this week, focusing on RSS and Web content models. The guests were Stephen O'Grady from analyst firm Redmonk and Rafat Ali from the excellent PaidContent.org. Event-driven Jon Udell launched into an interesting spiel around the 18 minute mark. He talked about some of the usage scenarios for RSS in the…

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Tuesday, 25th January 2005

Making it come alive

This year I've been focusing on Web 2.0 themes in my posts, but yesterday I received two emails from people responding to a couple of older Read/Write Web posts. Those emails reminded me of the personal nature of blogging and that it's about keeping it real. The first email was from Debi Smith, in response to my review of Bob…

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Monday, 24th January 2005

Weekly Wrap-ups

Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 16-22 January 2005

Some of the Web 2.0 trends and talk I tracked this week... accompanied by some dodgy Austin Powers subheaders. Tagalicious, baby, yeah! Flickr and del.icio.us made tagging cool, now every social software app is doing it. Technorati, The Robot Co-op and Metafilter were among the companies braggin' about taggin' this week. There was also a fair…

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