Browsers ZDNet: Is Firefox dropping the ball, like Netscape in 97? Lately I've been noticing a number of people criticising the performance of the latest versions of Firefox, since 1.5. With IE7 coming very soon, with many of the features that Firefox has (tabs, RSS integration, etc), now is not a good time for Firefox to lose developer support. I don't mean to sound alarmist, but remember when Netscape got… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media Megite Testing Personalized Meme Tracker One of Memeorandum's new competitors, Megite, is testing out a Personalized version of their product. You will be able to upload your OPML file and a personalized news cluster will be created for you, based on the RSS feeds you already track. Here's the demo page for my Personalized Megite. In many ways, this is the next evolutionary step for… Richard MacManus View comments
Admin Media 2.0 Workgroup I've joined the Media 2.0 Workgroup, which isn't associated with the Web 2.0 Workgroup which I co-founded - but was I believe inspired by it. I see the two workgroups as very complementary and so I'm trying to get the two groups to connect. On a personal level, the intersection of Web technologies and Media is what I'm all about this year - as… Richard MacManus View comments
Design New Web Development and Design Techniques Came across two great articles today that nicely summarize recent web development and design trends. Marc Hedlund from O'Reilly wrote a post entitled Web Development 2.0. Despite the YA2.0N title (Yet Another 2.0 Name, pronounced "YAWN"), the article is a useful overview of software development practices that Marc has been seeing in… Richard MacManus View comments
Lists Read/WriteWeb Filter - Edgeio Edges Toward Launch (Keith, Mike and team are just about ready to eat eBay's lunch...) - Fox getting set to monetize MySpace (another excellent analysis by Umair..."you're about to see a very expensive attempt at building edge competencies unfold (or implode) in real time.") - Bill Grosso: "Microsoft is focused on changing the… Richard MacManus View comments