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  Web 2.0 Definition and Tagging

  I'm trying to figure out what 'Web 2.0' means to people. These are the reasons why I'm trying to figure this out:* I want to define it so that my...

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  Cut-up Poetry: Ode to Google

  In lieu of a weekly Web 2.0 wrap-up (because nothing much happened this week), I did a cut-up of a recent blog post by ex-Microsoft employee and now Google employee...

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  The Art and Science of Creative Aggregation

  Jay Fienberg wrote a very interesting post regarding the future of RSS aggregators and blogs:"Now (today), it's so easy to publish blogs that there are tons of them, and the...

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  Gillmor Gang Explores RSS and Content Business

  Interesting edition of the Gillmor Gang this week, focusing on RSS and Web content models. The guests were Stephen O'Grady from analyst firm Redmonk and Rafat Ali from the excellent...

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  Making it come alive

  This year I've been focusing on Web 2.0 themes in my posts, but yesterday I received two emails from people responding to a couple of older Read/Write Web posts. Those...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 16-22 January 2005

  Some of the Web 2.0 trends and talk I tracked this week... accompanied by some dodgy Austin Powers subheaders.Tagalicious, baby, yeah!Flickr and del.icio.us made tagging cool, now every social software...

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  Why Topic/Tag/Remix Feeds Are The Future of RSS

  To follow-up on my rather bold prediction for RSS in my previous post: "in the not too distant future, more people will subscribe to topic/tag/remix feeds than feeds of actual...

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  Remixing and Speculation on The Future of RSS

  Amazon DevCon is happening right now and happily the Amazon Web Services Blog is blogging it in "near-real-time" (hat-tip to Greg Linden for linking to it). I haven't browsed through...

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  John Doerr at Web 2.0 Conference

  Here are some notes taken from John Doerr's talk at the Web 2.0 Conference, held October 2004 in San Francisco. Thanks to IT Conversations for recording it!John Doerr is a...

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  Lawyer asks Bloglines to remove his feed

  Looks like the first salvo has been fired in what is sure to be an ongoing controversy over contextual advertising using RSS. Martin Schwimmer, a trademark lawyer, has asked Bloglines...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 9-15 January 2005

  Time for a look back at the week that was in Web 2.0. In no particular order...1. Gizmodo's 4-part interview with Bill Gates ended with Bill insisting that DRM is...

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  More Thoughts on RSS Aggregator Market Share

  Internertnews.com quoted me in their article entitled Benchmark For RSS Client Market Share?, a news story covering Feedburner's RSS Aggregator stats. It's the first time I've been used in the...

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  Feedburner’s RSS Aggregator Market Share stats

  Great news! Prompted by my December post about RSS Reader Market Share, Feedburner (the company I selected as the most promising Web 2.0 company of 2004/5) has just released their...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 2-8 January 2005

  I thought I'd trial a new feature on Read/Write Web, a weekly summary of news and views relating to Web 2.0 (Web as platform). Most of the links will be...

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  Everything has already moved

  Simon Waldman, Director of Digital Publishing for Guardian Newspapers, writes:"Gizmodo gets handed an interview with Bill Gates. Good for them, I say - and a smart move by Microsoft. Now...

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  Content and Containers

  One of my favourite articles of 2004 was a transcript of a speech by Tom Curley, CEO of the Associated Press. In it he said that "...content will be more...

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  43 Things Launches

  Congratulations to The Robot Co-op for releasing their new goal-setting social software app, 43 Things, in time for New Year resolutions. I've only added a few things to my account...

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  Best Web 2.0 Companies of 2004

  In 2005 I'll be sharpening my blog's focus some more, onto the topic of Web 2.0. I'll explore what Web 2.0 means in detail in later posts, but for now...

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  MT 3.14 Upgrade

  Technical note: I've upgraded to Movable Type 3.14, at the request of my web host. They won't host old MT blogs anymore, because it "requires too much server (CPU) resources"....

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  Contextual Ads and Creative Commons

  Still on the topic of business models for RSS Aggregators, Charles Coxhead asked a very interesting question in the comments to my post entitled Contextual Adverts in Bloglines in 2005....