As a Web (2.0) consultant and analyst (about me), I track a variety of market segments and products. Luckily for me, nowadays I don't have to do as much grunt work on gathering high level product data as I used to. There are a plethora of product lists and data...
Mike Riversdale asked an interesting question in the comments of my previous post:"What, in your (and others) opinion, is the difference (if any) between the "online desktop" (A) (I'm thinking Netvibes and the like) and the "Personal Content Network" (B)."Actually I'm seeing a lot of crossover and cross-pollination in the...
In part 3 of my look at mc aggregators [here are parts 1 and 2], I get stuck into Suprglu. In this post I ask the question: how sticky is this site? But enough puns, let's get down to business. SuprGlu, a production of New York design studio Iridesco, is...
The big news of the night is Yahoo's release of a new technology portal, aimed squarely at non-geeks (see site tour). To make the point it's not for geeks, the site features 4 stereotypical "advisors" (aka bloggers): The Boomer, The Mom, The Working Guy, The Techie Diva.They are described as...
I've been writing a lot recently on the topic of Web Office, over at my ZDNet blog. Some R/WW readers may be interested in checking out those posts too, so here are the recent ones:- Morfik tests browser boundaries - builds Javascript chess app - WebOS market review - XIN...
News Corp has quietly released its own set of blogs, dubbed "Newsblog". The design is rather bland and the actual personalities of the bloggers is not revealed. It all seems a bit too corporate for my tastes, but some of the 'blogs' are getting a large amount of traffic already....
James Governor of analyst firm Redmonk has posted a thoughtful piece on how blogging is changing the analyst and PR landscapes. When he wrote this part, he may as well have been talking about myself and Read/WriteWeb:"Bloggers and emerging non-traditional analyst firms are increasingly influencing technology and product strategies. In...
The BBC has always been at the vanguard of new media in the Web 2.0 era, thanks in part to their public service charter - but also they obviously have a lot of smart, innovative thinkers on board. Today they announced "bbc.co.uk 2.0", which will be a full-on attempt to...
So Russell Beattie has decided to call it a day. I admit his decision surprised me, because I've always enjoyed reading Russ' well-informed commentary on the mobile Web. However it did make me wonder - what would cause other people to give up blogging?Here are the top ten reasons I...
This post was written by Ryan Stewart, who is a R/WW guest blogger on Rich Internet Apps. Edited by Richard MacManus.In the coming months we will see a new wave of Rich Internet Applications that will blend the web application and the desktop application in exciting new ways. There are...
In Part 1 of this series I introduced the concept of Microcontent Design, followed by a case study of BBC's developer network backstage.bbc.co.uk in Part 2. Now let's look at what's being built by external parties, using the BBC Backstage ecosystem. Specifically this post is an in-depth and developer-focused look...
John Hagel has a thought-provoking post about microchunking and media businesses. It follows on from Umair Haque's post, in which Umair said that "unbundling" media (e.g. Disney releasing tv shows for free online) is only half the equation. The other half - the real value - is in "rebundling". By...
Some interesting posts recently on the Internet TV trend, which is really ramping up this year. Mark Cuban, who co-founded Broadcast.com in 1995 and sold it to Yahoo! in 1999, has a great post on his blog outlining some of the pros and cons of rich media on the Net....
It seems a lot of people took my April Fool's post about me moving into the TechCrunch ranch in Silicon Valley seriously, so I'm compelled to put the record straight. I'm still living in New Zealand. :-) I don't think it's a case of foolish people, rather I think my...
Filtering is one of my hot topics in 2006. It's the next step from aggregation, because many of us now have too much information coming at us. Let's face it, even with your favourite blogs or websites, you don't want to read every single post or article that is published....
My introductory post last week about Microcontent Design got such a good response that I need to pause and consider all the feedback, before I move onto Part 2. Basically what I call 'microcontent design' involves:...microchunking your content, taking advantage of open standards, employing microformats, letting users subscribe to all...
First I noticed Paolo's post on 4 years blogging (via Dave), then Phil's post. The bizarre part is I started blogging on the exact same day, 21 March 2002, as my fellow kiwi Phil Pearson - we even blogged about the same topic, RCS (Radio Community Server). I didn't get...
In my latest ZDNet post, I review a recent JupiterResearch Concept Report entitled Understanding Google. Subtitle: Competing and Partnering with the Most Influential Company Online. It costs $750 to purchase this report, so I asked Jupiter's Michael Gartenberg if I could get it for free and blog about it -...
This is the first post in a series in which I will explore microcontent design."...content will be more important than its container in this next phase.That's a big shift for old media to come to grips with. Killer apps, such as search, RSS and video-capture software such as Tivo --...
...you have lunch with The President, er I mean Bill Gates. Mike Arrington as snapped by Robert Scoble:
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