Technorati has gotten a little bit of heat recently from Marc Canter and Dave Winer, which prompted me to take a look at how Technorati stacks up against its competition in the blog search space. Hat-tip also to Josh Hallett, who pointed me to a relevant post of his the...
sponsored by:This week: Grokking Yahoo! My Web 2.0, What is Where 2.0, Entrepreneurs start your engines, RSS VC fund fever, Techie Post of the Week - Attention.Thoughts on Yahoo! My Web 2.0Yahoo's unveiling of a "social search engine" called My Web 2.0 got almost as much tech blogger coverage as...
Good, Dave Winer has returned to text format (at least for today) for his morning coffee notes. That means I can link to it. He wrote this morning:"Every company, not just tech companies, needs to have a presence in the blogging world, someone whose feet are planted both in the...
In my podcast with Alex Barnett the other day, I mentioned that the Read/Write Web (the theory, not my site) isn't just about writing as we usually think of it on the Web - blogs, wikis, etc. It can also be interacting or transacting with websites and apps. Participating in...
I'm doing the rounds on the podcasting circuit. Tonight I did an impromptu podcast with Microsoft International Program Manager Alex Barnett. We were chatting via Skype and it kind of just turned into a podcast. Skype can record calls, which I didn't know until Alex told me - he has...
Yahoo has a beta "Social Search Engine" called (woo!) My Web 2.0. According to the Yahoo Search Blog, it "enables people to search the expertise of their friends and community". It hooks into Yahoo 360 (which opened up to the general public last week), and it's got "personalized search", sharing...
sponsored by:This week: Wrap of Microsoft RSS news, reblog/reblg, Attention, Yahoo 360 go-live, Late Show style Top Ten for Web 2.0.Microsoft RSS WrapThe biggest story of the week, probably even the year, was Microsoft's bearhug embrace of RSS. They got Dave Winer's blessing and they made all the right sounds...
There has been a lot of coverage already about Microsoft's RSS in Longhorn announcements, so my aim here is to distil it and get to the essence of it. I'm doing this for my own benefit really, but hopefully my notes help others grok it too.The obvious place to start...
In the tradition of David Letterman, I've come up with my own topic-focused Top Ten list. Top ten signs you spend too much time thinking about Web 2.0:10. When arranging to meet with your friends in town, you suggest a "point of presence" instead of a meeting place.9. Your child...
MediaPost reports that Microsoft's MSN portal is advertising for bloggers. At first glance, this is right up my street. I've been trying to get an ongoing and secure 20 hour/week writing gig for months, with no success - i.e. I'm still at my day job! So my first thought was:...
I have a feeling this is going to be hugely significant. Dave Winer wrote today:"On Friday you'll see how deeply integrated RSS is in the architecture of the browser. But that's just the tip of what may turn out to be a very big iceberg. The people at Microsoft noticed...
Apparently tiny font size means more Adsense revenues. Sad... and how the heck this promotes "greater Reader participation" is beyond me, unless by that they mean squinting to read the blog's content and shading one's eyes to avoid the glare of the ads. [via]
Morenews is filtering through about AOL's re-design. AOL is probably second behind Yahoo in terms of the number of users it has, although it's far behind Yahoo in terms of marketing itself as a media company. If you look at AOL.com's homepage right now, for example, you'll see it still...
sponsored by:This week: An International Web 2.0 Special!In this week's Wrap-Up, I'm going to focus on international (read: non-US) Web 2.0 activities. The US and San Francisco in particular will always be the center of Web Technology business, but it's good to take notice of the rest of the world...
Congrats to fellow Wellington boy Michael Campbell for winning the U.S. Open in golf today! A huuuge achievement! And I love this quote from him afterwards:"I thought before the round started, nobody's really taking any special notice of me. Just a quiet kiwi hanging around, there and thereabouts. If I...
For some reason, three of my favourite blogs posted self-referential reflection posts at pretty much the same time. An excuse for me to pay homage to them (and some other blogs I enjoy). In no particular order:a) PaidContent.org is the most professional blog that I know of and I've been...
On 31 March 2005 a Google US patent was made public that reveals interesting data on how they rank your website. Patent number 20050071741 was actually filed on 30 September 2003, but it was only made public at the end of March. Darren Yates did some analysis on it -...
Ok, this morning's post was silly. Now here's a serious one. I will go to San Francisco this October, for two reasons. Firstly to attend the Web 2.0 Conference (why should I miss out on all the fun!). Secondly to get a job in America, so my family and I...
sponsored by:This week: 9-to-5 Web 2.0, Google Maps is where it's at, Caught between two worlds, Web 2.0 spreading its wings, New apps on the block.Web 2.0 in the 9-5 WorldI found a couple of posts this week about using Web 2.0 technologies in the workplace - a worthy topic.In...
Bloglines latest press release left me a bit puzzled at first. In the press release Bloglines congratulates itself on having reached half a billion blog and news feed articles in their database, concluding that it makes them "the strongest blog resource on the Internet." Fair enough, but I wonder why...
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