Despite grumbling from big-name artists and record labels around rampant P2P 'piracy', there's never been a better time to make money from creating music tracks of your own. There are dozens of useful websites - some completely free to use - that serve budding musicians and seasoned tourers alike. In...
Emotions are everywhere you look on the Web. They're bursting from blogs, coursing through comments, and flooding forums the world over. An with the rise of microblogging apps like Twitter and Tumblr, more people are wearing their hearts on their homepages, so to speak, than ever before. But on the...
Udi Manber, Google's VP of Engineering, gave a brief 15 minute presentation at Supernova today entitled Search is a Hard Problem. He explained that with an audience like Supernova, he imagines we understand to some extent how difficult a problem it is, but it's probably a harder problem then we...
Big blocks of text just aren't very interesting. That's why we usually dress up our posts with images, diagrams, or videos. It's a fairly common occurrence, both on this blog and in other web development work I do, that I need a stock photo of something specific. Searching Google Images...
Yesterday we ran a story about remarks made by Yahoo!'s VP of Front Doors, Tapan Bhat, at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam. Bhat said that the dominant web paradigm was shifting from search to personalization. "The future of the web is about personalization," he said. "It's about weaving the...
At the Next Web conference in Amsterdam over the weekend, Tapan Bhat, the Yahoo! vice president of Front Doors, told attendees that search would not dominate the web in the future. "The future of the web is about personalization. Where search was dominant, now the web is about 'me.' It's...
The Next Web Conference happened today in Amsterdam. It was a one day event hosted by Scott Rafer of MyBlogLog fame and was a mix of presentations from startups and keynotes from various people in the industry. Marc Canter from Broadband Mechanics and Jeff Clavier a VC from the valley...
The OpenCoffee Club is "a place for people who love startups to hang out and meet" according to their recently launched social site on Ning.com. From Cork to Capetown, Seattle to Sydney, and Paris to Palo Alto, people are getting together on a weekly basis to discuss all things startup...
I wrote a piece back in January called IBMÄôs Entry Into Social Networking, where I discussed the potential for applying web 2.0 techniques in the enterprise. Subsequently, I have written extensively about Enterprise 3.0 and the Extended Enterprise trends. A company from England contacted me after reading the IBM piece....
Written by Phill Midwinter, a search engineer from the UK. This is a great follow-up to our article last Friday, Hakia Takes On Google With Semantic Technologies.What is a Semantic Engine?Semantics are said to be Äòthe next big thingÄô in search engine technology. We technology bloggers routinely drum up articles about...
Written by David Lenehan of Polldaddy and edited by Richard MacManus. David also covered the Future of Web Apps event [1, 2] in London this week. Photos from Route79, via Flickr. I went down to the Mashup event in London tonight, which was organized by Vecosys and eTribes. The topic...
Written by David Lenehan of Polldaddy and edited by Richard MacManus. This is David's account of the second and final day of the Future Of Web Apps 2007 conference in London.Adobe Today started with Mark Anders, Adobe's senior principal scientist. Mark previously had worked on the Microsoft .NET project from...
By guest author Jawad Shuaib, the founder of Shuzak.com: The social network for geeks.Startups have been multiplying like rabbits over the past three years. Due to the added competition, many startups are beginning to narrow their focus to a much smaller demographic. The year 2007 will mark the transition from...
Written by Rudy De Waele from m-trends.org and edited by Richard MacManus. We are entering an era of broadband being available anywhere, on any device - and this will happen all 'over IP' (Internet Protocol). So we are looking at an all-IP world where choice of applications, devices and platforms...
This afternoon Firefox 2 will be officially launched. In anticipation of the unveiling, here is an in-depth interview with Chris Beard (Mozilla Vice President of Products). Subjects discussed in the interview include the growing enterprise usage of Firefox, the importance of user experience and security, Mozilla's theory behind Web feeds...
The Museum of Modern Betas is an excellent resource for finding out trends in (beta) web apps. A new list that caught my eye recently was the Beta Quotient for Germany - i.e. a list of 100 web 2.0 apps from Germany (betas and non-betas).Germany has a beta quotient of ...
Gotuit Media, an established player in on-demand video, today announced the launch of its new broadband video portal - Gotuit.com. I got a sneak peak of the new portal and spoke with Mark Pascarella (president of Gotuit Media) and David Laubner (Director of Product Marketing) about the launch. Gotuit.com is a...
Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This 2-part series of posts is adapted from Ebrahim's research material in developing Qube. [update Part 2 is here]Let's start be defining what...
According to the Miniwatts Marketing Group's Internet Usage and World Population Statistics (last updated March 31, 2006), worldwide Internet penetration is only 15.7%! So much for the World Wide Web... this is indeed sobering stuff for those of us obsessed with 'web 2.0' technology. Here's the main table of stats:Source:...
Nothing like a Slashdotting to bring out the warm fuzzies. Marc and Lucas both have nice things to say about my interviewing style:Marc: "The process is fascinating - an interview where you get to decide what's talked about, an intelligent discourse happens at your pace and you even get to...
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