ReadWrite: May 2005 Archives – ReadWrite

May 2005 Archives

Wednesday, 25th May 2005

Web Development

Web Apps are the new black

Rands in Repose has written the best post about web apps I've read this year. I'll pick out the highlights here and finish with some thoughts on re-inventing the page metaphor. Also you may want to check out the Web Apps Compendium v1.0, a great attempt at listing out all the main web apps on the Web today. What is a web app? Simply defined…

Richard MacManus comments

Tuesday, 24th May 2005

Bringing Web 2.0 to The People

Jim Cuene gave an excellent presentation to the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association last week, on the subject of Web 2.0. The accompanying powerpoint presentation (3.2MB) is a nice overview of current Web 2.0 trends, delivered in a down-to-earth and businesslike way. I particularly liked Slide 3, a comparison between Web 1.0 and 2.0…

Richard MacManus comments

Monday, 23rd May 2005

On Interfaces: Rojo, Bloglines, My Yahoogle

Bloglines creator Mark Fletcher opines: "I have over 200 subscriptions in my Bloglines account [...] There's no way I could follow that many sites in My Yahoogle. Sometimes I'm asked if I consider My Yahoogle competition. There's no way that they can compete without completely changing their interface." The Big 3 and Bloglines He's talking…

Richard MacManus comments

Weekly Wrap-ups

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

sponsored by: This week: Summary of Google Factory Tour, Recruitment 2.0, Rollups, Techie post of the week, Web 1.0 Summit. Google Factory Tour The Factory Tour and accompanying webcast received tons of coverage this week, so I won't re-hash all the details. I'll simply summarise the new things and add my comments. New? Google Personalized…

Richard MacManus comments

Saturday, 21st May 2005

Testing Google AdSense for feeds

I've been approved as one of the beta testers for Google's new AdSense for RSS feeds. So I'm going to be running Google ads in my feed for a few weeks at least - purely for research purposes of course ;-) Now before you get all righteous on me, remember this is a test. If the ads aren't contextual enough, or they detract from my writing, or…

Richard MacManus comments

Previous
1
2
3
4
5
Next