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  Yes, I will go to the Web 2.0 Conference

  Ok, this morning's post was silly. Now here's a serious one. I will go to San Francisco this October, for two reasons. Firstly to attend the Web 2.0 Conference (why...

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  Spread this meme: I am the Father of Web 2.0

  Now that Web 2.0 is all the rage and wholewebsites are being devoted to it, I feel it's time to get my due as being the first blogger in this...

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  There’s a world outside San Francisco

  This post by Matt Webb is worth pondering for those of us who are far away from all the Web 2.0 action. Matt wrote that "The Web is San Francisco...

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  Web 2.0 Conference 2005

  John Battelle's posted details of the second Web 2.0 Conference, to be held in San Francisco on October 5-7. This is something I'd really really love to attend, but it's...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 6-12 June 2005

  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...

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  Bloglines switches strategy – reasserts blog cred

  Bloglines latest press release left me a bit puzzled at first. In the press release Bloglines congratulates itself on having reached half a billion blog and news feed articles in...

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  Copyright and Web Content – Practical Solutions

  My posts about RSS Ripoff Merchants stirred up a lot of controversy and, somewhat surprisingly, it seems I've come out of it as The Bad Guy. I kind of feel...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 30 May – 5 June 2005

  sponsored by:This week: RSS Ripoff Merchants summary, Web 2.0 for teachers, Open Source Radio talks about Web 2.0, EPIC II, search engines with RSS output.RSS Ripoff Merchants summaryWell my follow-up...

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  Microsoft’s Start.com – new version released

  The latest version of Microsoft's Web-based RSS Aggregator, Start.com, has just been released. Microsoft first released a prototype in early March 2005 - my coverage here. Start.com is like a...

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  RSS Ripoff Merchants: SuperFeedSystem Responds

  To summarise the issue so far... a few nights ago I came across a website called SuperFeedSystem that was written in an overtly Informercial-like manner. The gist of it is...

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  RSS Ripoff Merchants

  NB: This is a re-posting, slightly edited.What would you do if someone was ripping your RSS feed off - that is, copying every single post into their website? And what...

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  How To Roll Out An Open API

  Excellent techie tips from O'Reilly Radar: "A longer-term solution is to build your business model into the API. In my mind the most successful APIs for the company providing the...

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  Web 2.0 for Teachers

  Always good to read how non techies are using Web 2.0: Teachers need to give Web 2.0 tools "to students and to members of our community, to stop speaking only...

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  Amazon gearing up to be book publisher?

  kuro5hin.org: "By acquiring a Print-on-Demand (POD) company and an ebook software company, Amazon.com is retooling itself to offer a complete publishing solution to authors disenchanted with the current state of...

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  Open Source Radio goes live, first show on Web 2.0

  Chris Lydon's new public radio show, Open Source, goes live. First show is on Web 2.0!Chris wrote afterwards: "'The revenge of the sources' was a great line from Dave Winerña...

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  Chandler Progress

  Mitch Kapor demos Chandler at the D ConferenceChandler is an Open Source PIM (Personal Information Mgmt) app. I've been following its progress for at least 3 years now. Progress has...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 23-29 May 2005

  sponsored by:This week: the future of Web sites in a world of RSS, highlights from ION RSS, new Web 2.0 developments, Techie post of the week.Future of Web sitesMatt McAlister,...

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  Google Search in Books goes live – And Amazon has it too

  Google has just released its beta book search product Google Print (hat tip Diablo). The new service lets people search within the text of a book. Interestingly, I note that...

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  Ads in RSS should be measured by branding value, NOT click-through

  I have a theory about ads in RSS. It's based on my assumption that people won't click on ads in feeds enough for publishers to make much money. So I...

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  Aggregator Ambience: The cure for Information Overload?

  I was intrigued by this extract from the Headshift weblog: "The new Web 2.0 tools and services help create an ecosystem of connected people and information - as David Weinberger...