New Media NY Times Futurist On Paperless Reading Newly appointed Futurist-in-residence at the New York Times, Michael Rogers, spoke with Patrick Phillips from iwantmedia.com. I was particularly interested in what Rogers had to say about Times Reader, the hybrid web/desktop app built with Microsoft technology that aims to give a paper-like reading experience to the screen. He said that he… Richard MacManus View comments
web The Future of the Internet (sounds like my favorite sci fi books and movies) Pew has released its analysis of how the Internet will evolve over the next 14 or so years (2020). I'm inclined to agree with Om Malik that the conclusions about the technology are rather obvious: "a global, low-cost network will be thriving in 2020", which will bring about a "'flattening' of the world". You don't need to be Stanley Kubrick to… Richard MacManus View comments
Social Web In Search Of The Valley: DVD movie released today A new documentary on Silicon Valley premieres today on DVD. It was directed by my friend Steve O'Hear, who I met over the Web earlier this year and now work with on my corporate blogging project called Micro Media Corp. 'In Search of the Valley' is a movie which tells the story of three friends' personal journey in September of 2004 into the psyche… Social Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrap-up Another busy week of Web Tech news and analysis. Here is what we covered on Read/WriteWeb during the week (number of comments in brackets)... OneWebDay: In Celebration Of The Web (2) - looks like this didn't take off in a big way, judging by the lack of blogosphere love for it. I still think it's a great idea though, a day to celebrate… Richard MacManus View comments
Google Googleyness: Inside The Google System For some great weekend reading, check out this Fortune magazine article that gets inside the great Google brain. Some extracts that I enjoyed... "What emerges from months of interviews with employees ranging from fresh-out-of-college hires to the CEO is that Google firmly believes it has a framework for figuring out the future. It should… Richard MacManus View comments