Start Pages Google and MSN's Web 2.0 Homepages Google has just announced a new My Yahoo-like portal page, which they are calling a Personalized Google Homepage. It will be one place for users to access their Google search, news, Gmail, weather, stocks, driving directions, movies - and more. In the Google 'Factory Tour' webcast, Product Manager Marissa Mayer said they'll offer "Universal… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 9-15 May 2005 sponsored by: This week: Greasemonkey mayhem, Ajax fever, Web Design Minimalism mojo, Blogpoly Fun!, Yahoo Music Engine rave. Greasemonkey gives power to power users What is Greasemonkey? According to the homepage, it's "a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behavior." In laymans… Richard MacManus View comments
web Competition for Bloglines? We're nearly halfway through 2005 and there's still no heavyweight competition for Bloglines in the Web-based RSS Aggregator stakes. And I'm not talking about an Aggregation service like MyYahoo and Firefox Live Bookmarks, which aggregate feeds either on a webpage (MyYahoo) or in the browser bar (Firefox Live Bookmarks). Although they are hefty… Richard MacManus View comments
Mashups Aunty Remix The BBC has launched a new beta site called BBC Backstage, which is their new developer network. They've put the call out for people to remix their content, using their APIs and content RSS feeds. Although over the years the BBC has been understandably "cautious" about "letting go of control of so much of our content", it's a good sign they've… Richard MacManus View comments
Business MBA and Web 2.0 Symbiosis MBAs got top billing in my latest Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up - and there have been some interesting follow-ups. In the comments to yesterday's post, Bud Gibson pointed to "The High Octane Blogging Bootcamp" that his company is doing for MBA students at the University of Michigan, starting this Saturday. More details here. Interestingly, they're using… Richard MacManus View comments