web Exciting Times I've resigned from my day job, so in 4 weeks time I will be fully self-employed. I'll be doing freelance analysis and writing work, plus an exciting project which I will advise you of soon. I've been extremely busy lately, hence the relative lack of blogging. But soon I'll be back into it and writing regular thoughtful posts again. This is a great… Richard MacManus View comments
Lists Points of Presence - Google does RSS... sort of (you can now add RSS feeds to your Personalized page by clicking 'Create a Section'. It's made with cool Ajax, but this is no RSS Aggregator folks... come on Google, you can do much better!)- Attention Trust is a project led by Steve Gillmor and others that is the next evolution of his Attention idea (TechCrunch breaks… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 18-24 July 2005 sponsored by: Onfolio is offering R/WW readers a coupon code entitling the bearer to $30 off a purchase of Onfolio Professional before August 31st (a 30% saving off the normal $99.95 price). To use the coupon, enter it at the time of purchase. Coupon Code: RM857202 This week: Thoughts on what News Corp will do with MySpace, New RSS… Richard MacManus View comments
Lists Points of Presence - IDG CEO quoted in Wired: "Every blogger is a rock band without a record contract." (I guess I'm supposed to dislike that comparison, but strangely it agrees with me... because indeed I am looking for "a record contract", to use that analogy) - Jason Dowdell and Pete Freitag created two mashups using Findory's API (excellent work! see also Greg… Richard MacManus View comments
Lists Web 2.0 Sampler - There are 1.12 million feeds in Bloglines that "matter", says Ask Jeeves Blog (meaning at least 1 person subscribes to it. nb: SEW and Niall both point out that some blogs have multiple feeds) - Feedburner begins to expand into "major media accounts and global relationships" (fulfilling all the hype I lavished onto them in my Best Web 2.0… Richard MacManus View comments