Analysis Towards the Attention Economy: Will Attention Silos Ever Open Up? We have written extensively at Read/WriteWeb about Attention and the Attention Economy. As a concept attention makes sense to anyone who is online today. We know when we are paying attention and we know what we are paying attention to. The problem is that the information about our attention is not readily available to us afterwards. The premise of… Alex Iskold View comments
Yahoo 100 Days For Yahoo: Read/WriteWeb Files Following the success of Facebook Week, every week on Read/WriteWeb we are going to focus on a particular Web Technology topic and investigate it. We'll write 4-5 feature posts on each topic, run a poll, and also revisit past R/WW posts on the subject. We're calling this new feature the Read/WriteWeb Files. This week we've opened up a file on a… Richard MacManus View comments
web Facebook App, Lending Club, Passes Half a Million Dollars in Loans Lending Club is an online lending community where people can borrow and lend money, bypass the banks, and supposedly get better rates. What's really interesting about this is that Lending Club operates entirely via Facebook. It is a Facebook community and does not operate as a standalone website (although they have plans to). Read/WriteWeb listed… Richard MacManus View comments
Events Guide What Web Conferences to Attend Alex Iskold wrote a great post on his company's blog, outlining conference tips for startups. It is written from a vendor or sponsor's point of view and makes for interesting reading. Alex definitely recommends ETech, SXSW. He gives a firm "maybe" to TechCrunch Party, Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0 Summit, Defrag, Blog World, AJAXWorld. His… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis IM Most Valuable Web 2.0 Tool for Enterprise A new Forrester report states that Instant Messenging (IM) is by far the most valuable 'web 2.0' tool for enterprises: "Web 2.0 tools and technologies are the latest in a long line of technologies that have taken root with consumers who then smuggle them into the business world. IM is one notable example. To this point, the Web… Richard MacManus View comments