web 2005 reflections and plans for 2006 It's technically New Years Eve where I am, as I write this. I haven't done much blogging over the past week, because I've been re-charging my batteries and making plans for 2006. In this post I reflect on the year that's past and tell you a bit about my plans for R/WW in 2006. A year ago I set myself a goal to convert my hard work on Read/WriteWeb… Richard MacManus View comments
web Acquisitions and The Big 3 William Slawski has compiled two very useful lists of acquisitions, first by Google and now by Yahoo (see also The Guardian's list). I'll add the third, Microsoft's acquisitions as listed on their corporate site. From 2003 on: Nov. 3, 2005: FolderShare Nov. 3, 2005: media-streams.com AG Aug. 30, 2005: Teleo Inc. Jul. 20, 2005… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups A Year of Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Ups On 9 January 2005, I published the first of my Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-ups. When I launched it I described it as "a weekly summary of news and views relating to Web 2.0 (Web as platform)." I pumped out one a week for the rest of 2005. In many ways I viewed the Wrap-Up as the anchor for my blog. Currently the Weekly Wrap-Up is on a break - as I… Richard MacManus View comments
2005 in Review Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005 Last year about this time I did a post celebrating the best Web companies of 2004. I was planning on doing a mega version of that this year, extending it to software and services. But then Dion came up with his excellent list of best Web software of '05, as close to definitive as you'll get. So I'm going to focus once again on companies and… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Phone-throwing kiwi explains After my phone-throwing incident earlier this week, I think I've calmed down enough now to do the equivalent of going on the Letterman show and saying sorry to anyone I offended. My friend Mike Arrington called me a traitor and others baled me up about what I wrote. My position hasn't changed, but I think I can do a better job of… Richard MacManus View comments