Ted Gilchrist pointed to a new text-to-voice service he's running called Botcast Network. He's created a special podcast feed for my blog, so you can regularly listen to my blog posts being spoken in a robot voice.I actually already had a text-to-voice service running on Read/WriteWeb, Talkr, so I thought...
This week: Explaining Web 2.0 to normal people, Google Base, Yahoo Shoposhere, Amazon tags, Hypertext and the next 15 years.Sponsor OpportunityThe Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up has had 3 excellent sponsors over the past 30 weeks and now I'm looking for the next great sponsor. If you'd like to associate your...
While pondering my Midblog Crisis, I remembered a fortune cookie I received during the spicy noodles dinner in Palo Alto on 12 October (when I was in the US for the Web 2.0 Conference). Present at the meal were Dave Winer, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira, Gabe Rivera and myself. At...
This week: International Web 2.0, Mainstream Media Meltdown, Microsoft "Leaked" docs, Web 2.0 poster children rebel, 2.0 Post of the Week - samy conquers myspace.sponsored by:Web 2.0 - Rockin' All Over The WorldThis week we've seen evidence that Web 2.0 is taking over the world reaching out to other parts...
Last night my friends in Melbourne held a Long Tail BBQ, as part of the worldwide Long Tail Camp. Seeing as I live across the ditch in New Zealand, I participated virtually via a Skype call - which Cameron Reilly from The Podcast Network recorded. The MP3 is here (10MB...
Tristan Louis has compiled some excellent comparison charts of products across the Big 4 Internet companies - Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL [nb: Tristan's site was down when I checked, but you can also access his post here on Google cache]. The charts are worth poring over, but the crux...
This week: Microsoft Live, Flash Maps and the Mechanical Turk, Web 2.0 meet-ups all over the world, 2.0 Blog of the Week - Supr.c.ilio.us.sponsored by:Microsoft Live wrap-upThe big news of the week was Microsoft's announcement of Windows Live and Office Live. My post entitled Microsoft Livens Up Web 2.0 summarized...
Interesting NY Times article about Yahoo!. Some key quotes:"The idea that human judgment can improve a search engine's automatic findings is hardly new. From the dawn of the Web's history - that is, over the last 15 years - companies have invented tools to help users assess the quality and...
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...
Microsoft just announced its new Web-based Windows and 'software as a service' strategies. After first announcing the Xbox 360 will be released on Nov 22 in North America, Gates talked about their new "Live" brand (thanks Mike from TechCrunch for the news - he has pictures too). The "Live" era...
Lots to eat today in Dot Oh Cafe. Here are some of the tasty tidbits that caught my eye as I perused the tech.memeorandum and Rojo menus:Google's smorgasbord classifieds serviceGoogle Base is eating the lunch of many a hungry 2.0 start-up. Here are some of the mouth-watering dishes in Google...
Gabe Rivera's memeorandum got a great write-up in Wired News today. Also TechCrunch reported that memeorandum has a new feature, a news widget that bloggers can include on their site. As I was looking at tech.memeorandum again this morning (as I do multiple times a day), it struck me that...
Microsoft Emerging Business Team member Don Dodge has another thought-provoking post on Internet business. Don notes how so many innovative companies who were market leaders in the 90's have been overtaken by the new era of "fast followers". Here's his list of examples:* AltaVista -> Google * Napster -> iTunes...
This week: Geeks being creative, Yahoo! RSS research, Reading Lists, Making money with Mash-Ups, Techie Post of the Week - Dave Winer on Nerd TVsponsored by:Geeks being creativeI'm now back in my home of New Zealand, after spending two fantastic weeks in Silicon Valley. As I look back on my...
Whether you love or hate the Web 2.0 meme, you have to admit it's gained a lot of traction in both tech and business circles. Now we're beginning to see cultural and sociological posts about Web 2.0, although Danah Boyd and Barb Dybwad have both written great posts on similar...
For the record, I have actually read Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland. Indeed just over a year ago I wrote on my blog that Microserfs is my favourite Douglas Coupland book. I wasn't in the room when Dave Winer talked to the others about it, leading him to write this:"I'm over...
Mike Arrington has another Ode to Memeorandum on Techcrunch. I'm a big fan of tech.memeorandum too and it's changing the way I read blogs and catch up with the latest tech news. My first rave review of memeorandum was a month ago when it went live and since then I've...
The Web 2.0 Workgroup has expanded to 4 blogs (and more to come!), with the addition of Dave Winer's Two-Way Web blog. This is awesome news, because the Two-Way Web site was a defining influence on me when I first started blogging.Dave was around at the TechCrunch house later in...
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...
Very interesting John Battelle-hosted conversation with Terry Semel, Yahoo CEO, at the conference. The difference between outlook and attitude between Semel and Barry Diller is stark. On the one hand, Diller's conversation yesterday was very much old-media, 20th century thinking. Semel on the other hand very much impressed me with...
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