Weekly Wrap-ups Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 13-19 June 2005 - International Special sponsored by: This week: An International Web 2.0 Special! In this week's Wrap-Up, I'm going to focus on international (read: non-US) Web 2.0 activities. The US and San Francisco in particular will always be the center of Web Technology business, but it's good to take notice of the rest of the world every now and then too. Korea… Richard MacManus View comments
web Good on ya Cambo! Congrats to fellow Wellington boy Michael Campbell for winning the U.S. Open in golf today! A huuuge achievement! And I love this quote from him afterwards: "I thought before the round started, nobody's really taking any special notice of me. Just a quiet kiwi hanging around, there and thereabouts. If I play well, I could win this thing. Here's… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Good Blogs For some reason, three of my favourite blogs posted self-referential reflection posts at pretty much the same time. An excuse for me to pay homage to them (and some other blogs I enjoy). In no particular order: a) PaidContent.org is the most professional blog that I know of and I've been an admirer for a while now. Rafat and Staci have a knack… Richard MacManus View comments
RSS & Feeds AOL the sleeping giant of RSS? Jupitermedia analyst David Card thinks AOL is preparing for a big fattie splash into the RSS pool. He says: 1. The new version of MyAOL is "essentially an RSS reader", albeit not as slick as how Apple does RSS in its Safari browser. 2. "AOL has a deal with Feedster to provide 7 million user-selectable feeds." (what a coup for Feedster!) 3… Richard MacManus View comments
Web Development Google website ranking patent - but does it account for RSS and APIs? On 31 March 2005 a Google US patent was made public that reveals interesting data on how they rank your website. Patent number 20050071741 was actually filed on 30 September 2003, but it was only made public at the end of March. Darren Yates did some analysis on it - some of his observations (mixed with my own): - How long the domain name has been… Richard MacManus View comments