Yahoo! announced two major products this week: a podcasting service and then blog search integrated with Yahoo! News Search. Both of these products are outputs of Yahoo!'s strategy to introduce more user-generated content to their media offerings, as outlined by their CEO Terry Semel at the Web 2.0 Conference. Some...
During my time in Silicon Valley I've been staying in the TechCrunch house with Michael Arrington and Frederico Oliveira (Gabe Rivera of memeorandum fame is also here currently). Mike, Fred and I all blog on the topic of Web 2.0 - so we thought why not create a Web 2.0...
This week: Web 2.0 Conference Specialsponsored by:The past week has been an amazing one for me. My first trip to America and I've met so many people that I'd previously only known via the Web (blogs, email, etc). The Web 2.0 Conference was held in San Francisco from Wednesday 5th...
Tristan Louis did the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal. My blog Read/WriteWeb has 1,938 inbound links on Technorati as of today, so according to Tristan's calculations Read/WriteWeb is worth over $1 million.OK, so there were other factors that contributed to the weblogsinc deal - the value of network effects etc....
Marc Andreessen popped into Alex Barnett's comments to confirm the business goals of Ning. In response to Alex's well-written analysis of what Ning is trying to accomplish, Marc commented:"Alex -- your description of what we are trying to do is very well said. It's an experiment, but those are the...
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...
Kim, CEO of SpikeSource: "the world has completely changed for building a software company."Joe: talking about Jotspot, "DIY publishing" - wikis next step after blogs for web publishing. Jotspot heading towards "DIY apps".Joe talking about Jotspot mistakes this year - not focusing on revenue. "Jotspot was in beta for way...
Google just announced their new RSS Reader, called Google Reader. It's browser-based (of course) and has similar look n' feel to Gmail. Very Ajaxy. I'll play with it some more and report back later. For now, here's more info from SEW:"Google Reader is a browser-based application that works with virtually...
John starts by grilling Jonathan: "are you talking to Microsoft?" [crowd roars]. Jonathan replies that AOL is in transition from proprietary mindset/business model to more open model - like Web 2.0. John tries again: AOL is an important player in platform market, Microsoft wants to create a partnership with AOL.Jonathan:...
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...
weblogsinc bought by AOL for between $20-35 million.SocialText (the wiki company) is returning to open source.PubSub has announced an open source structured blogging initiative.Flock, the social browser, is expanding their beta. I went along with Mike and Fred from TechCrunch to check out their office, which is literally in a...
Yahoo! has bought upcoming.org, Andy Baio's events service:"In just a few years, most of it spent on nights and weekends, the Upcoming team has built an excellent site with a loyal and growing following. Now that theyíve joined Yahoo!, together weíll build a social events platform that will integrate with...
Lycos, search engine portal and owner of Wired Magazine, has announced its intention to rebrand as a media company. According to the press release Lycos has released a service called Planet, which enables its users to create "mini sites" that include photos, blogs, slideshows, animation, special effects and other multimedia....
My post yesterday asking if Bloglines has dropped the ball in the web-based RSS Aggregator market provoked some interesting responses. Among them were a couple of comments from Jim Lanzone, Senior VP of Search Properties at Ask Jeeves. In his second comment Jim asked for more feedback from people who...
24 Hour Laundry, the secretive start-up of Marc Andresson, has just released their new product - Ning. It's a free online service for "building and using social applications". Basically it's a Web 2.0 development tool aimed at non-developers. Developers too will benefit from it, because it sounds like a Ruby...
Yahoo! is teaming up with The Internet Archive to help build a digital archive of "globally sourced digital collections, including multimedia content". I understand this means books, academic material, audio and video media. Question: does this crossover with OurMedia.org - or will there be arbitary boundaries between 'professional' and amateur...
This week: Defining Web 2.0, Web-based office, Yahoo media/tv, Google Wifi, Techie Post of the Week: Tim O'Reilly's What is Web 2.0. sponsored by:Defining Web 2.0A lot of online trees were felled this week to write about what Web 2.0 means. Tim O'Reilly's definition is a very comprehensive one and is...
I've written a few times now about being disappointed with Bloglines this year - and their lack of progress since they got bought by Ask Jeeves. Now Russell Beattie has come out and said it too - and he got a response from Bloglines chief Mark Fletcher in the comments....
I arrived in San Francisco yesterday, in preparation for the Web 2.0 Conference next week. I'm spending two weeks in Silicon Valley, kindly hosted by TechCrunch's Mike Arrington, Keith Teare and Frederico Oliveira. They're having a great time with my accent ("yeeeeeaa"). I'm having a great time in general and...
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