The trouble with business trips is they play havoc with my blogging rhythms, so I've not been able to post much 'professional' content while I've been in the valley. But if you'll bear with me, I've got some great stuff coming up. Including a re-design of Read/WriteWeb which I hope...
The latest comScore stats for May 2006 show how fast social networking sites are growing, but YouTube in particular is displaying spectacular growth. As comScore noted in its monthly report:"There seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the popularity of social networking sites. Myspace.com surpassed the...
At the Supernova conference last week I had the pleasure of interviewing two of Yahoo's rising stars, VP of Product Strategy Bradley Horowitz and leader of the Technology Development Group Caterina Fake (one of the co-founders of Flickr). They are both part of what is loosely termed an R&D team,...
Earlier this week I noted that widget services are really ramping up now. Indeed over the past couple of days I've noticed lots of action in the burgeoning widgets industry, plus some excellent commentary. At the Connected Innovators program at Supernova last night PostApp revealed the high level of WidgetBox,...
Panelists: Craig Newmark (Craigslist), Saul Klein (Skype), Tina Sharkey (AOL), Mena Trott (Six Apart), Gil Penchina (Wikia)Pic: Dan Farber; from left-to-right: Tina, Mena, Saul (doing a very good Robert Di Niro impression), Gil, CraigPanel Blurb: "Users are becoming active co-creators of their media, commerce, entertainment, and communications experiences. Just how...
This workshop, moderated by Tara Hunt, split into 4 different groups for discussions. This format worked well and the group I joined, about little companies competing against big companies (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc) was an interesting one. The premise: you're a startup launching a product, but just as this happens...
I missed the 'Decentralizing Data' session at Supernova unfortunately (still on NZ time and so slept through my alarm this morn!), but Dan Farber has the story about Yahoo Local's new support for microformats. I spoke briefly to Andy Baio afterwards, so I plan to write a more in-depth post...
The official FIFA World Cup website is run by and co-branded with Yahoo. A Washington Post story today highlights the interactive and multimedia features of the site - including blogs, chat, and three- to five-minute video highlights for all of the 64 games. Also in lieu of live webcasts (not...
It's funny that I posted the PlentyOfFish.com post not long before the Scoble-leaving-Microsoft announcement predictably blanketed Techmeme. Because reading Robert's latest post about his decision made me think about the fundamental reason why 'Web 2.0' is (dare I say it) in bubble phase right now. It's the exact same reason...
Markus Frind is an interesting character, who has left some provocative comments on Read/WriteWeb before. He claims he's earning $10,000 per day from Google Adsense from his dating website, plentyoffish.com. These claims have been vigorously challenged by some, but external data sources (e.g. see this comment thread) do seem to...
Sun Microsystems is a company that doesn't get anywhere near as much attention in the techmeme world as Google, Yahoo or Microsoft. Which is kind of odd for a company whose motto seems highly relevant to this era of the Web - "The Network Is The Computer".I was listening to...
Tim Bray doesn't like Web metaphors:"The Web isn’t a platform or a database or an API or an OS a cloud or a clickstream or any other of those things. In fact, the Web isn’t even a thing, it’s a mesh of agreements with a nice straightforward engineering rulebook. Play...
Jeff Clavier and Paul Kedrosky note that the chmod 777 definition of 'web 2.0' is coming back into fashion. As Jeff nicely put it:"Web 2.0 = chmod 777 webFor those (non-geeks) who donÄôt get the reference, chmod is the Unix command allowing you to change the access control of a...
Ask.com is releasing a new blog search feature on their search engine, as well as integrating search more into their leading web-based RSS Reader Bloglines. You'll recall that Ask.com (or Ask Jeeves as it was known then) acquired Bloglines in February 2005 - and ever since then a lot of...
Business 2.0 has an interesting write-up today on contenders in the mobile phone search industry. They point out that the Mobile Web is still a nascent technology. Well, to be frank it's in the middle of a power struggle between telcos and standards bodies - which doesn't help us users...
According to the Miniwatts Marketing Group's Internet Usage and World Population Statistics (last updated March 31, 2006), worldwide Internet penetration is only 15.7%! So much for the World Wide Web... this is indeed sobering stuff for those of us obsessed with 'web 2.0' technology. Here's the main table of stats:Source:...
Well not really, but it seems you can't get much attention these days without using a controversial headline :-) Yesterday I live-blogged the Webstock conference speeches of Ben Goodger (Lead Engineer on Firefox who also works for Google) and Tony Chor (Group Program Manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team). I...
Today I had the pleasure of attending a web conference in my own hometown, Wellington. The conference is the fantastically named Webstock, a two-day show finishing tomorrow. The Webstock organizers managed to secure some great talent from the other side of the world - including Joel Spolsky, Doug Bowman, Dori...
Recently I posted a meta-list of Web 2.0 lists. My current favorite list is the eConsultant's Web 2.0 Directory. It has "1007 Web 2.0 sites/services/links in 50+ categories". Sacred Cow Dung's is another easily-scannable catagorized list. As I scrolled through these lists today, I wondered which categories are currently underserved...
The Microsoft VC Summit 2006 happened a week or two ago, but I've only just had a chance to review the posts that came out of it. If you're interested in where Microsoft is headed with its product range and general Web strategy, there are some nuggets in the coverage....
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