RememberNing.com, the service for building and using social applications? I've been waiting for a really interesting app to come out of that - and this may be it. Anytown Marketplace is the creation of the exceedingly clever Jonathan Aquino. Jon described it as "a Craigslist-like app that you can clone...
Looks like the Web 2.0 Naysayers are starting to drown out those of us who've been preaching the 2.0 Gospel.Joel on Software, who has a lot of influence in the programming world, comes down hard with his post entitled Architecture Astronauts Are Back:"The term Web 2.0 particularly bugs me. It's...
Gmail Engineer Paul Buchheit has a lovely post in which he explains why he created Gmail for Google. He begins by noting that email has just turned 34 - only one or two months younger than me as it happens. He goes on to say that Gmail gave him "the...
This'll be my last post from Silicon Valley for a while. I've been here for two full weeks and I've had a fantastic time! I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Mike Arrington for letting me stay at his house and making me feel so welcome - thanks Mike!...
This is the best thing I've written in ages... thanks to Saurier Duval for doing a mash-up of my blog.Some choice extracts:"The stats they released today indicate theyíre well on their way to explain them in the Web as a serviceí concept (which is by no means a new regular...
Mike Arrington has another Ode to Memeorandum on Techcrunch. I'm a big fan of tech.memeorandum too and it's changing the way I read blogs and catch up with the latest tech news. My first rave review of memeorandum was a month ago when it went live and since then I've...
I arrived in San Francisco yesterday, in preparation for the Web 2.0 Conference next week. I'm spending two weeks in Silicon Valley, kindly hosted by TechCrunch's Mike Arrington, Keith Teare and Frederico Oliveira. They're having a great time with my accent ("yeeeeeaa"). I'm having a great time in general and...
Phil Wainewright wrote an excellent post recently entitled The great Web 2.0 application (s)mash-up. He starts by quoting Mohan Sawhney, professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management: "Five years from now, the concept of an application will be obsolete," Sawhney said. "They will all be services, combined, mixed, matched and reused...
Mike Arrington thinks Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 meme map should be simpler and Dave Winer responds, saying it's a complicated self-serving meme and pointing out that the map doesn't include RSS. I've been looking at the meme map closely, while working on the latest chapter of Josh's and my O'Reilly...
Tim O'Reilly has posted a meme map of Web 2.0, from the "What is Web 2.0?" brainstorming session at FOO Camp 2005. Hat-tip Josh for the link. It's kind of a business model map:Click here for full imageThe orange box in the middle and brown ovals at the bottom cover...
Summary: 2006 may well be Microsoft's year, with upgrades to its flagship Vista OS and Office 12 products. But only if Google lets it be their rival's year. We don't yet know what Google has up its sleeve - when will they release their own browser, or their web-based Office...
James MacAonghus from Aqute is writing a series of posts analysing BBC Online, which I highly recommend you check out. In Part 1 James wrote that BBC's online reach has been steadily growing. In Part 2 he drills down into the details. Although BBC has more than one online strategy,...
Interesting podcast conversation today between Steve Gillmor and Rafat Ali (of paidcontent.org). Steve labelled paidcontent.org "an emerging force in the new media" and this theme was explored during the podcast. My ears pricked up when Steve talked about blogs like Om Malik's, John Battelle's and Engadget becoming media properties in...
The Not Web 2.0 discussion has legs. Dave Winer pointed to Dare Obasanjo's post, specifically this bit:"The problem with 'Web 2.0' and other over hyped buzzwords is that 90% of the stuff you hear or read about it is crap."I agree, provided my blog is in the top 10% of...
Doc Searls grabs the Web 2.0 meme by the horns and gives it a good shake. He's posted a thought-provoking piece in which he frames Web 2.0 in the following way:"I propose a goal: Make Web 2.0 the best possible commons for supporting free markets and free culture."I'm glad Doc...
sponsored by:This week: Wrap of Microsoft RSS news, reblog/reblg, Attention, Yahoo 360 go-live, Late Show style Top Ten for Web 2.0.Microsoft RSS WrapThe biggest story of the week, probably even the year, was Microsoft's bearhug embrace of RSS. They got Dave Winer's blessing and they made all the right sounds...
sponsored by:This week: 9-to-5 Web 2.0, Google Maps is where it's at, Caught between two worlds, Web 2.0 spreading its wings, New apps on the block.Web 2.0 in the 9-5 WorldI found a couple of posts this week about using Web 2.0 technologies in the workplace - a worthy topic.In...
sponsored by:This week: Greasemonkey mayhem, Ajax fever, Web Design Minimalism mojo, Blogpoly Fun!, Yahoo Music Engine rave.Greasemonkey gives power to power usersWhat is Greasemonkey? According to the homepage, it's "a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behavior."...
sponsored by:This week: Google turns up the heat, Yahoo burns to be a media bigco, Microsoft's 64-bit light at the end of the tunnel, blogging media empires warm their hands by the advertising fire, Craigslist - GoogleMaps make a combustible combo.Google's Preemptive StrikeIn the Mojo Cold War, Yahoo took the...
sponsored by:This week: Macrobe/Adobemedia, sports RSS feeds, Google and Yahoo MojoWatch, Mobile Web 2.0 woes, Dan Gillmor's Web 3.0.Web Design Bigco: Adobe buys MacromediaThis was all over the Web Tech part of the blogosphere this week and the general feeling was one of surprise that two Web Design heavyweights have...
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