News Web 2.0 Noted John Battelle: "In the Web 2.0 world, it matter less that you have a major media company behind you, what matters is if your voice and point of view are considered valuable by your audience." PaidContent.org: Weekend Readings on Web 2.0 - hey Rafat, since you hate the term 'Web 2.0', I'm available to do this feature for you if you like… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media Media Flows If Information Flow can be likened to a river, then lately I've only had time to occasionally splash water on my face as refreshment. Which is to say, I've been dipping in and out of the Information Flow that is my Bloglines account. This is the reason why the daily Web 2.0 News feature I started last week has since escaped my grasp and quietly… Richard MacManus View comments
web Happy Birthday Read/Write Web! Today dawns in New Zealand as the 20th April 2005, which happens to be the 2nd birthday of Read/Write Web. Yes, two years ago today I posted my first blog post on R/WW (although I'd tinkered with blogging a year or so before that). Over the past 2 years blogging has brought me so much - my writing genes have well and truly flowered and just this… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 11-17 Apr 2005 sponsored by: This week: Aggregators trendy, Yahoo News vs Google News, Rupert Murdoch on the Mount, RSS Readers in bloom, new kinds of Kool-Aid. Aggregators Trending Upwards The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and analyst firm Outsell released a report on the Information Industry this week. They estimate the industry… Richard MacManus View comments
web RSS and The Big 3 I've been following what the 3 big Internet companies have been doing with RSS and I largely agree with Dave Winer's recent assessment: "Yahoo is dashing in front, with Microsoft close behind. Why isn't Google in the race?" Yahoo has been by far the most proactive company of the 3 this year. Microsoft has shown glimpses of what they're plotting… Richard MacManus View comments