The Structured Blogging website has
been upgraded and went live tonight. I re-designed the website and did the writing for
it, under the employ of Marc Canter’s Broadband Mechanics and with the help of
others in the Structured Blogging community such as Conor O’Neill. PubSub supplied the stylesheets and php code. Indeed
PubSub and BBM are the…
Some interesting posts
recently on the Internet TV trend, which is really ramping up this year. Mark Cuban, who
co-founded Broadcast.com in 1995 and sold it to Yahoo! in 1999, has a great post on his blog
outlining some of the pros and cons of rich media on the Net. He notes:
“The reality of TV viewing is that people watch the same 15 to 20…
It seems a lot of people took my April Fool’s post about me moving into the TechCrunch ranch in Silicon Valley seriously, so I’m compelled to put the record straight. I’m still living in New Zealand. 🙂 I don’t think it’s a case of foolish people, rather I think my April Fool’s post was a bit too subtle – which is kind of how my sense of humour…
A lot of people have been seeing new Google Base
verticals popping up – and indeed the Google Base homepage has suddenly had a number of
new categories added to it. As I noted on ZDNet, the full list is now:
Blogs
Coupons
Clinical trials
Events and activities
Housing
Jobs
Mobile content
News and articles
People…
This post was written by Ajit
Jaokar, who is a R/WW guest blogger on Mobile Web 2.0 and digital
convergence.
In my last post, I spoke
of the differences between browser applications on the web and on the mobile device. This
topic is important because the Mobile Web is all about extending the concept of web
applications to mobile devices…
In May 2005 the BBC launched a new developer network site initially called BBC Backstage, since re-named
backstage.bbc.co.uk. In doing so they put the call out for people to remix their content,
using their content RSS feeds and in future APIs. It marked a turning point for the BBC’s
already impressive online efforts, because with…
This *isn’t* an April Fool’s joke 😉 I’ve joined up with John Battelle’s Federated Media Publishing network, which is a great collection of blogs and sites – such as Boing Boing, TechCrunch, digg and others. I’m really honoured to have been chosen, because of the criteria for being invited:
“FM looks for passion, integrity, authority, and…
Filtering is one of my hot topics in
2006. It’s the next step from aggregation, because many of us now have too much
information coming at us. Let’s face it, even with your favourite blogs or websites, you
don’t want to read every single post or article that is published. You ideally want to
filter every piece of information that comes at you…
[Update: This is an April Fool’s Joke – and yes some people fell for it. I’m still in NZ :-)] I can’t take the isolation of running a successful web tech blog from New
Zealand any longer. As of today, I’m writing my blog exclusively from Mike
Arrington’s ranch house in Atherton. I flew in yesterday (hence the 3-4 day lack
of posting) and I will…
My introductory post last week about Microcontent Design
got such a good response that I need to pause and consider all the feedback, before I
move onto Part 2. Basically what I call ‘microcontent design’ involves:
…microchunking your content, taking advantage of open standards, employing
microformats, letting users subscribe to all kinds of RSS…
First I noticed Paolo’s post on 4 years blogging (via Dave), then Phil’s post. The bizarre part is I started blogging on the exact same day, 21 March 2002, as my fellow kiwi Phil Pearson – we even blogged about the same topic, RCS (Radio Community Server). I didn’t get to know Phil until a couple of years after that, so it was total coincidence…
In my latest ZDNet post, I review a recent JupiterResearch Concept Report entitled Understanding
Google. Subtitle: Competing and Partnering with the Most Influential Company Online.
It costs $750 to purchase this report, so I asked Jupiter’s Michael Gartenberg if
I could get it for free and blog about it – as I did almost 1 year ago with their…
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…
The online classifieds edge
player edgeio has released an update tonight, that
points to the future of Structured Blogging. Now edgeio users don’t need to physically do
tagging on their blogs, or in fact even be a blogger, in order to post a classifieds
advert. How does that work, seeing as edgeio is positioning itself as the antithesis to
the…
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…
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…
…you have lunch with The President, er I mean Bill Gates. Mike Arrington as snapped by Robert Scoble:
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…
Sometimes we all get so
wrapped up in the latest Web 2.0 calendar, rss reader or search product, that we forget
that some things labeled ‘Web 2.0’ are actually doing social good in the world.
This is the case with NetSquared, which is a
non-profit organization that aims to
“increase nonprofit effectiveness through the use of web-based social…
Rojo,
the web-based RSS Aggregator I’ve used ever since I gave up hope of Bloglines ever
stepping up its functionality, has just come out with some more enhancements.
About a month ago, they re-designed their site and now they’ve done another overhaul and
added 3 new features – one of which (relevance) I will drill down into below. In a
nutshell…
