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 goal to create television of the future. Wow House has a technology focus, as families participating in the show compete...
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 to Web 2.0 (Web as platform)." I pumped out one a week for the rest of 2005. In many ways...
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 to software and services. But then Dion came up with his excellent list of best Web software of '05, as...
Yahoo! has joined forces with the Seven Network, one of Australia's leading television and media companies. A new 50-50 holding company will be formed that will own Yahoo Australia & NZ and operate under a new name, to be announced in January. A PDF presentation about the deal is here,...
Note: The Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up is back with a new publishing day (Fri) and a new format, a countdown of the Top Ten Web 2.0 issues or news stories of the past week. Also I'm on the lookout for a new sponsor for the Weekly Wrap-Up. It's had 3...
Thinking Outside the VC Box is a fantastic, almost Philip K. Dick-like, essay by an unnamed SOA Web Services Journal writer. It's on one of my favourite themes, the virtual office. Among the things discussed is "the momentary enterprise", defined as a temporary business that leverages "pervasive data". It seems...
The UK has its own Web 2.0 Conference on 11 November in Brighton, in the form of d.Construct:"d.Construct 2005 is the UKís first grassroots Web 2.0 conference. It is an affordable, one-day event aimed at those building the latest generation of web-based applications. The event will discuss how new technology...
Summary: My Day 1 impressions of Windows/Office Live are positive and I think Microsoft is taking up the challenge of an increasingly Web-based software world, while at the same time sticking to their desktop software knitting. I'm particularly intrigued by the Xbox 360 relationship and I think we'll see a...
For me the Web 2.0 conference has been really exciting and the air has been full of energy. But I'm new in the Silicon Valley, so I've been curious to listen to what other conference attendees have been saying. A lot of them share my enthusiasm, but there's also a...
Open source client platform for messaging, communications. Shows email interface with links embedded in each message - with web services calls to various apps/services. e.g. mouse over for Google map, appointment, events, fedex package updates. Lots of mash-ups. Impressive.APIs are open, can write mash-ups. Has the ajax magic going on....
This is a Show Me of new technologies. Rolf Herken talking, founder of mental images. 3D visualization component software. mental ray photorealism - worked on The Matrix, Alexander, 2046. "Rendering the imagination visible".Thinks there's need for 3D on the Web. e.g. 3D online entertainment, e-commerce, product stuff, mobile.Very heavy data...
Mary Meeker called where we're at now a "boom-let". We've gone from boom to bust to boom-let (presumably a precursor to the next boom). She thinks the first 10 years of Web were just the warm-up act for what will happen next. She's particularly bullish on mobile technologies, which definitely...
Lots of data points. "Korea is goto place to figure out where the Internet is going"Innovation coming out of China - 5,6,7 yrs timewe're at "boom-let" stage now (after boom and bust)market valuations of top 5 companies huge (google, yahoo, ebay, yahoo japan, amazon), compared to 2000.entering 2 most profound...
NewsGator Technologies will be announcing "a MAJOR acquisition" at the Web 2.0 Conference on October 5-7. Hmmm, I wonder who it is. Looking at my RSS Spacespreadsheet, Newsgator is one of the leading vendors in the Reader Services category. They also have a presence in the Search space. I wouldn't...
This week: Microsoft vs Google, Web 2.0 coverage galore, Web 2.0 Conference, The Real World: yoga blogging, Techie post of the week: Mini-Microsoft. Microsoft vs Google Over the last week the number of stories about Microsoft vs Google has reached a crescendo. The best one was a story by CNET...
I love reading old books about the Web and Internet. I'm in the middle of Stewart Brand's classic book from the 80's, The Media Lab, right now. Anyway I came across this 2001 web article from devx called The Future of Web Apps and Services, on the subject of Futurist...
sponsored by:This week: eBay-Skype: Web 2.0 Ramifications, The Real World - Katrina response, Microsoft PDC - Start.com extended, Yahoo Shopping API and Shopify, New apps on the block.eBay-Skype: Web 2.0 RamificationsEarly this week eBay confirmed its acquisition of Skype for between $2.6 - 4.1 billion. On my ZDNet blog I looked...
That's the title of my latest post on ZDNet. I'm pointing to it here because Bloglines is for some reason not fetching the Web 2.0 Explorer feed, so the 56 people who've subscribed already in Bloglines (in just a couple of days - wow!) have not yet been notified of...
sponsored by:This week: Social tools in disasters, VC trends, Custom Web 2.0 Business Plans, Web-based Office, Techie post of the week - APIs and control.Social tools help in Katrina HurricaneFirst things first. We've all been shocked by the Hurricane Katrina devastation. Dina Mehta has a couple of great posts that...
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