Web Culture ZDNet: Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005 I've just published a list of the top ten defining moments of Web 2.0 this year. Here's a taster, but please click through to ZDNet to read the whole post. It's been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in Silicon Valley and an incredible number of new web applications. In a sense it all started with Google's IPO in August 2004, the… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media Media plan of the future Liked this quote from the recent Reuters Media and Advertising Summit in New York: "The media plan of the future will look like the tiles of your bathroom floor ... a number of component pieces fitted together very precisely, but lots of pieces," said David Verklin, chief executive of media buyer Carat Americas. Digging a bit more into that... in… Richard MacManus View comments
Web Development Structured blogging is here Phil Pearson, Marc Canter and others have been burning the midnight candle getting Structured Blogging up and running. It's live now and Phil has a round-up of all the action. Structured blogging basically means publishing different kinds of information - like events, reviews and classified ads - in a 'structured' format, so that aggregators can… Richard MacManus View comments
RSS & Feeds FeedBurner makes RSS interactive, with FeedFlare Feedburner has integrated Web services with feeds, in a new product released just now called FeedFlare. I got a sneak preview of FeedFlare and it's currently activated in my RSS feed. You may have noticed some new active and contextual links at the bottom of each of my posts, in your RSS Aggregator. Things like 'Email this', 'Email the author… Richard MacManus View comments
Amazon Alexa turned into web service - Amazon back to its innovative best John Battelle just posted that Amazon is opening up its Alexa search data and tools to the world! According to John, Alexa has about 5 billion documents in its index, which is about 100 terabytes of data. With this move anyone will be able to use Alexa's index to develop their own services. As John wrote: "Anyone can also use Alexa's servers… Richard MacManus View comments