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...
Last night Yahoo! announced they are integrating RSS into their web mail and alerts products. As Scott Gatz explained in an interview with PodTech: Yahoo's plan, which started in January 2004 when they launched RSS in the My Yahoo portal, is to "bring RSS to the masses". I liked how...
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...
In my previous two ZDNet posts, I've been exploring the Web browser market. Here are brief highlights from those posts:Mobile Web browsers - Microsoft's downfall?: As we begin to use mobile devices more and more to access the Web, Microsoft's browser dominance may begin to ebb away. 2008-09 is predicted...
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...
ProgrammableWeb has released a list of 'popular' mashups, which John Musser calculated from a mix of click-throughs and user 'votes' based on a 1 to 5 scale rating system. Here are the top 10 mashups according to ProgrammableWeb:1. Virtual Places 2. Weather Bonk 3. Diggdot.us 4. Flash Earth 5. Adactio...
In an article entitled The Return of Monetized Eyeballs, Om Malik values BoingBoing at $34 million - calculated at $38 per unique monthly website visitor (the average purchase price per unique user of acquisitions during the past year). John Battelle, who manages BoingBoing, thinks that figure is off because it'd...
Interesting little post from Jason Calacanis, who wrote:"TIRED: Subscribing to Fred's blog: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/WIRED: Subscribing to Fred's Del.icio.us feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/fredwilsonNote: On Bloglines Fred has 383 subscribers to his blog and 9 to his del.icio.us RSS feed... I prefer to read what Fred is *considering* blogging about :-)Question: What's more interesting to...
Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo has just posted what I think is a milestone post for RSS and Web 2.0: How feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued, and consumed. In it he expounds on the future direction of his company Feedburner, which I've long considered to be the...
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...
In the third and final part of my series of ZDNet columns about Yellowikis as a Web 2.0 case study, I look at some of the design principles that can be applied by other Web 2.0 companies and services.Following is a summary of principles that Yellowikis demonstrated. Be sure to...
Forgive me, it's time for an introspective blog post. Lately I feel I've been in a bit of a blog slump with Read/WriteWeb. My numbers are still good, but I'm not happy with the quality of my recent posts here. I set very high standards for myself and I get...
In another great sign for blogs becoming a mainstream news and entertainment source, Nick Denton's blogging empire has struck a distribution deal with Internet media giant Yahoo. Reuters reported:"Yahoo said it will post "dozens" of stories per day from Gawker Media's blogs, including New York-media gossip blog Gawker, U.S. political...
TechCrunch has the scoop about Yahoo's new e-commerce web app, Yahoo! Shoposphere. Mike's taken it for a test run already and here's his description:"Yahoo is making a major push into search personalization and recommendations - the overall project is called "Shoposphere" and the major feature being released is called "Pick...
The Hard Man of 2.0, Ben Barren, takes out his nutcracker and starts crunching the numbers of Internet companies. Wielding financial methodologies, Ben intends to get some REAL analysis happening in the hot-air-o-sphere. Things like profit, revenue and unique user multiples relative to market cap. Not for the faint-hearted then.Ben's...
Alan Taylor and Anil Dash report that Amazon is rolling out tags in a big way. In a discussion board message, Amazonian Blake Scholl announced that 50% of Amazon customers will see the tagging features at this time. You will be able to apply tags to any item on the...
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...
In my ZDNet column today I took a look at the top websites in the world according to Alexa. You might be surprised by what I found. Here is the current top 10 in terms of traffic:1. Yahoo! 2. Microsoft Network (MSN) 3. Google 4. Yahoo! Japan 5. Baidu.com 6....
Irina Slutsky of Geek Entertainment TV interviewed Ryan and Eran of supr.c.ilio.us about Web 2.0 at their launch party last night. Unfortunately they let slip about the Web 2.0 Conspiracy - and what's worse, they named names. It was very tough questioning by Irina and she basically bullied the supr.c.ilio.us...
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