sponsored by:This week: Google turns up the heat, Yahoo burns to be a media bigco, Microsoft's 64-bit light at the end of the tunnel, blogging media empires warm their hands by the advertising fire, Craigslist - GoogleMaps make a combustible combo.Google's Preemptive StrikeIn the Mojo Cold War, Yahoo took the...
Now that I'm part of the new Silicon Valley Watcher network, reporting on RSS, I've got to thinking about how I fit into this new world of blog-journalism. Here's the beginnings of my theory on this... Back in the 70's Tom Wolfe coined a style of news writing called New...
I thought I'd post this before Phil Pearson gets to it ;-) A New Zealander, Chris Liddell, has just been appointed to the job of Chief Financial Officer at Microsoft, making him the third most powerful person there (behind Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer). Mr Liddell commented:"Obviously it’s a great...
sponsored by:This week: Macrobe/Adobemedia, sports RSS feeds, Google and Yahoo MojoWatch, Mobile Web 2.0 woes, Dan Gillmor's Web 3.0.Web Design Bigco: Adobe buys MacromediaThis was all over the Web Tech part of the blogosphere this week and the general feeling was one of surprise that two Web Design heavyweights have...
John Battelle: "In the Web 2.0 world, it matter less that you have a major media company behind you, what matters is if your voice and point of view are considered valuable by your audience."PaidContent.org: Weekend Readings on Web 2.0 - hey Rafat, since you hate the term 'Web 2.0',...
I've been following what the 3 big Internet companies have been doing with RSS and I largely agree with Dave Winer's recent assessment:"Yahoo is dashing in front, with Microsoft close behind. Why isn't Google in the race?"Yahoo has been by far the most proactive company of the 3 this year....
A daily shot of news from your favourite Web 2.0 blog. Each item has a main link, one or two lines of R/WW commentary, plus views of the story from other bloggers.Start-up building on top of FirefoxZDNet reports that a company called Round Two is building "a new crop of...
I'm pleased to announce the first Read/Write Web sponsor: ThePort Network. They will be sponsoring my Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up for the next 3 months, which I'm thrilled about! ThePort Network has an exciting Web 2.0 product that is currently in the process of being launched. I've had a walk-through...
Here's a new feature I'm trialing on Read/Write Web. It'll be a daily shot of Web 2.0 news. Each item will have a main link, one or two lines of commentary from me, and views of the story from other bloggers (if I have time).It'll take a while to settle...
This is my final post on the JupiterResearch report entitled RSS Readers: Addressing Market Opportunities with an Innovative News Medium (here are Part 1 and Part 2). I've enjoyed this chance to analyse the analysts and I'm keen to do it again. I wonder if other Analyst companies would be...
Kevin Donahue posts some RSS Aggregator stats for his FanBlogs network of sites - and I was taken aback to see who is number 1, by a long shot. No it's not Bloglines, as it is for most of the geek set. For football fans, a staggering 64.8% of FanBlogs.com...
This week: ETech notes, Yahoo love-in, Web 2.0 acquisition deals continue, Hacking Web 2.0, ubiquitous storage. ETech TakeawaysI was on holiday the week ETech occurred, so I've been spending the past week catching up. My food-themed notes are here. Also during that week the next Web 2.0 conference was announced -...
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft's new web-based RSS Aggregator prototype was discovered. I wrote then (also in my weekly wrap-up) that even though technically the prototype wasn't that special, it did reveal Microsoft's business strategy for RSS. Which is that Microsoft intends to integrate RSS Aggregation with its MSN...
At the risk of going off-topic, I'm currently deeply into IMHO the best album I've heard in years - Green Day's American Idiot. It's a concept album and I often wonder how such a thing could be done in blogging. It's common wisdom that a focused blog is the best...
Seb Paquet notes from Information Architecture Summit in Montreal, March 2005. This from Brett Lider:"Defining the Future - The Web 2.0 article on Wikipedia was clearly written by an engineer. Look at those acronyms!Some components of Web 2.0. Social networks, desktop information, browser history, tastes and preferences - getting them...
SiliconBeat has a scoop. They point to a sandbox version of a working web-based RSS Aggregator - from Microsoft! I had a very quick play-round (note it doesn't work in Firefox) and it's similar to MyYahoo, but what's most interesting is the strong integration with MSN Search. Hmmmm.Click to enlargeNB:...
A collaborative stats project using Feedburner data was launched on this blog yesterday. It's an informal project, but I really hope the blogosphere gets behind it. I've even brought out the old Uncle Sam Needs You! image :-) Basically we need: a) your Feedburner data, and/or b) your analysis. It...
Time for your weekly dose of Web 2.0. This week: Yahoo yahoo yahoo (is there an echo in here?), Wikipedia, Web 2.0 start-ups, AutoLink (I know, but bear with me...), Ruby on Rails. btw what's the best time of the week to publish this regular feature of R/WW? OK let's...
Tomorrow, 2 March 2005, marks the 10-year anniversary of Yahoo. According to a recent AP article:"Yahoo already has amassed an audience of 345 million, including 165 million registered users who rely on the company's Web sites for e-mail, e-commerce, news, entertainment, driving directions, matchmaking, weather forecasts, job leads and search...
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