mobile Mobile web applications - do they need the browser? by Ajit Jaokar (Richard's Note: Ajit is the second of my guest bloggers on Read/WriteWeb and he will be writing on Mobile Web 2.0 and digital convergence. Ajit runs a book publishing company called futuretext, which specializes in these topics. He also chairs Oxford university's next generation… Mobile Richard MacManus View comments
Admin 5 copies of 37Signals' Getting Real book to give away Web design firm 37Signals has kindly given me 5 copies of their 171-page PDF book, Getting Real, to give away. Retailing for $19 on the 37Signals website, the book is sub-titled 'The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application'. Given that I named 37Signals my Best Web LittleCo of 2005, I think it's a must-read for Web 2.0… Richard MacManus View comments
Microcontent Microcontent Design, Part 1 This is the first post in a series in which I will explore microcontent design. "...content will be more important than its container in this next phase. That's a big shift for old media to come to grips with. Killer apps, such as search, RSS and video-capture software such as Tivo -- to name just a few -- have begun to unlock content from any… Richard MacManus View comments
web You know you've hit the big time when... ...you have lunch with The President, er I mean Bill Gates. Mike Arrington as snapped by Robert Scoble: Richard MacManus View comments
Start Pages AOL's New Module Playground AOL has just released a new site called I Am Alpha, which is their version of Yahoo! Widgets or Microsoft Gadgets. Google has modules and all the smaller players have similar widget featuresets - PageFlakes calls them "flakes" and Goowy calls them minis. All of these things are basically little web apps that can be integrated into your desktop or a… Richard MacManus View comments