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...
After my phone-throwing incident earlier this week, I think I've calmed down enough now to do the equivalent of going on the Letterman show and saying sorry to anyone I offended. My friend Mike Arrington called me a traitor and others baled me up about what I wrote. My position...
- Dan Gillmor is building a non-profit 'Center for Citizen Media', moving on from his previous (for-profit) project called Bayosphere. [via SiliconBeat]- The much-anticipated Pegasus News has released their first product, a music and entertainment news site called TexasGigs. It started as a music blog by Cindy Chaffin in 2002...
This image from a Scott Gatzpresentation sums it up:2005 was about introducing RSS to the products listed in Scott's picture. 2006 will surely be about how to organize all those RSS feeds, for mainstream people in particular.
Feedster has named Read/WriteWeb one of their Feeds of the Year. Their summary of my blog is pretty funny, given the controversy over the past few days. Russell Shaw, whose post was the final straw which led me to declaring myself fed up with all the Web 2.0 hype and...
Well my declaration that Web 2.0 is dead set the cat amongst the pigeons. Let me give a bit of background...I've been thinking for a while now about re-focusing Read/WriteWeb onto more media-related Web technologies. Many of the things I'm interested in are being done by Yahoo!, which by now...
Ben Barren's written an excellent series of posts about his favorite features to flip. Here's his top ten:#1 - Podcasting Ratings #2 - Better Blogging Tools #3 - MySpace meets Linkedin #4 - Non-Text RSS Reader #5 - RSS Search/Reader Attention Glue #6 - Images for Adsense #7 - Podcasting...
Here's the Top Ten web technology and new media memes, issues or news stories of the past week.1. Yahoo buys del.icio.us. Yahoo! continues its buying spree of cool Web app companies, after also buying Flickr and konfabulator this year. Bubblegeneration had a nice summary: "Yahoo, I think, is rolling up...
Toni Schneider, who runs the Yahoo Developer Network, just announced the addition of JSON support for various Yahoo APIs and a new Javascript Developer Center. This is designed for people who "eat, sleep and breathe JavaScript" :-0. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. According to the Wikipedia entry, JSON's simplicity...
Liked this quote from the recent Reuters Media and Advertising Summit in New York:"The media plan of the future will look like the tiles of your bathroom floor ... a number of component pieces fitted together very precisely, but lots of pieces," said David Verklin, chief executive of media buyer...
Phil Pearson, Marc Canter and others have been burning the midnight candle getting Structured Blogging up and running. It's live now and Phil has a round-up of all the action. Structured blogging basically means publishing different kinds of information - like events, reviews and classified ads - in a 'structured'...
John Battelle just posted that Amazon is opening up its Alexa search data and tools to the world! According to John, Alexa has about 5 billion documents in its index, which is about 100 terabytes of data. With this move anyone will be able to use Alexa's index to develop...
Joshua Porter has written a nice balanced introduction to Web 2.0 on Squidoo.Meanwhile I'm having a running battle with some idiots on the Wikipedia Web 2.0 page. One or more of these clowns keeps deleting any and all references to my websites and articles. Now I know what Dave Winer...
Feedburner has integrated Web services with feeds, in a new product released just now called FeedFlare. I got a sneak preview of FeedFlare and it's currently activated in my RSS feed. You may have noticed some new active and contextual links at the bottom of each of my posts, in...
I've noticed some excellent techie posts lately, so I feel duty-bound to point them out.Phil Pearson, XML expert Kimbro Staken and Movable Type consultant Chad Everett have been working on a Structured Blogging plugin for Wordpress and MT. This is to enable ordinary folks (like me) to publish "new microcontent...
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,...
As TechCrunch reported, Joshua Schachter has announced the sale of Del.icio.us to (who else) Yahoo. Personally I'm thrilled Yahoo got del.icio.us, but I'm hoping they don't make it into a walled garden like they did with the My Web 2.0 product. Currently a user can export their data from del.icio.us,...
Here's the Top Ten Web 2.0 memes, issues or news stories of the past week, as judged by me.1. Lightnet: open up your media, the Lightnet revolution is here. Lucas Gonze is leading the charge of the lightnet brigade: "The strength of lightnet is that everybody who's not a media...
The Wall St Journal has a great write-up of Gabe Rivera's tech.memeorandum, although tragically the WSJ misspelled the link! I also enjoyed the comparison made between Mike Arrington of TechCrunch and The Great Gatsby:"Consider a blog like TechCrunch, which chronicles the new breed of Internet start-ups known as Web 2.0...
Fred Wilson has been thinking about the Web as a Platform concept. Like me, Fred sees this phrase as central to understanding the current era of the Web - known as Web 2.0. I liked how he put it:"I believe the web is a platform. And that everything we need...
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