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  Yahoo Acquires Webjay

  Yahoo continues to buy up all the great talent, this time they've snagged my blog buddy Lucas Gonze and his innovative music-sharing web app Webjay. As the Yahoo! Music Blog...

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  Google OS = Moby Dick

  I used to think the Semantic Web was the Moby Dick of the Web. But now I think the Google OS and Office is. In the famous novel, Moby Dick...

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  Main Themes of Internet Companies at CES

  There's been a ton of CES news to digest these past few days, especially in the past 12 or so hours. Yahoo released Go and CEO Terry Semel made a...

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  Yahoo! Go – A Portal That Spans Devices

  Yahoo! Go is being advertised as "a new suite of products and services for your PC, mobile phone and even your TV". The main aim is to enable people to...

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  Admin: Moving Web Hosts

  Apologies for light posting over the past few days, as I had to move web hosts (not once, but twice!) at very short notice. Comments have been down and you...

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  CES 2006: Web Companies and Internet-connected Gadgets Poised For Action

  This week will be awash with coverage from the CES 2006 show in Las Vegas (International Consumer Electronics Show). I'll be quaffing down any interesting news about Web-based media and...

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  Yahoo and the Future of Television

  Yahoo will broadcast a reality tv series called "Wow House" on their Web portal within the next few months. The SF Chronicle calls it an early step in Yahoo's ultimate...

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  LA Times Goes Ape With Media Industry Predictions

  Looking at the media year ahead, the LA Times christens Google the new 800-pound gorilla - and also the Big Bad Wolf - of the media business. It's an extraordinary...

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  Apple to own rich media in ’06?

  The Internet Stock Blog asks: "Is it possible that if Yahoo is the new Internet media leader with RSS, etc. and Google is the leader in search, that Apple will...

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  2005 reflections and plans for 2006

  It's technically New Years Eve where I am, as I write this. I haven't done much blogging over the past week, because I've been re-charging my batteries and making plans...

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  Acquisitions and The Big 3

  William Slawski has compiled two very useful lists of acquisitions, first by Google and now by Yahoo (see also The Guardian's list). I'll add the third, Microsoft's acquisitions as listed...

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  A Year of Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Ups

  On 9 January 2005, I published the first of my Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-ups. When I launched it I described it as "a weekly summary of news and views relating...

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  Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005

  Last year about this time I did a post celebrating the best Web companies of 2004. I was planning on doing a mega version of that this year, extending it...

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  Phone-throwing kiwi explains

  After my phone-throwing incident earlier this week, I think I've calmed down enough now to do the equivalent of going on the Letterman show and saying sorry to anyone I...

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  Lots going on in Citizen Journalism

  - Dan Gillmor is building a non-profit 'Center for Citizen Media', moving on from his previous (for-profit) project called Bayosphere. [via SiliconBeat]- The much-anticipated Pegasus News has released their first...

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  RSS everywhere in 2005 – RSS organized in 2006?

  This image from a Scott Gatzpresentation sums it up:2005 was about introducing RSS to the products listed in Scott's picture. 2006 will surely be about how to organize all those...

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  Thanks Feedster

  Feedster has named Read/WriteWeb one of their Feeds of the Year. Their summary of my blog is pretty funny, given the controversy over the past few days. Russell Shaw, whose...

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  Disaster Response and the Web in 2005: The Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina

  I've published a post on ZDNet that details how the Web was used for good in 2005, in very bad situations. It was actually something I wrote for the book...

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  Cat eats pigeons: why Web 2.0 has jumped the shark

  Well my declaration that Web 2.0 is dead set the cat amongst the pigeons. Let me give a bit of background...I've been thinking for a while now about re-focusing Read/WriteWeb...

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  Web 2.0 is dead. R.I.P.

  I've had enough of the hype. I've had enough of cynicism. I've had enough of hate blogs. The nail in the coffin was this post on ZDNet, by Russell Shaw....