Nicholas Carr, a real journalist, has a blog post that argues that Web 2.0 is amoral. That's a relatively uninteresting academic argument though. Of more practical import, is his rage against the "cult of the amateur". But I find it curious that he bases his argument against amateurs on a...
Today The Register's Andrew Orlowski gleefully reported the existence of the first "Web 2.0 worm". Wrote our man in San Francisco: "It's been a rough weekend for Tomorrow's People. A JavaScript exploit that has been called the first "Web 2.0 worm" knocked out MySpace.com - and the $500m-valued website, recently...
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...
This'll be my last post from Silicon Valley for a while. I've been here for two full weeks and I've had a fantastic time! I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Mike Arrington for letting me stay at his house and making me feel so welcome - thanks Mike!...
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...
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...
I'm sensing a backlash about the rising VC interest in Web 2.0. Mike Rundle takes aim at Flock in his post subtitled "The Leaning Tower of Buzz". He thinks Flock is only useful to the blog crowd and doesn't have a viable business model. Bart from Flock disagrees, saying in...
Yahoo! announced two major products this week: a podcasting service and then blog search integrated with Yahoo! News Search. Both of these products are outputs of Yahoo!'s strategy to introduce more user-generated content to their media offerings, as outlined by their CEO Terry Semel at the Web 2.0 Conference. Some...
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...
Tristan Louis did the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal. My blog Read/WriteWeb has 1,938 inbound links on Technorati as of today, so according to Tristan's calculations Read/WriteWeb is worth over $1 million.OK, so there were other factors that contributed to the weblogsinc deal - the value of network effects etc....
Marc Andreessen popped into Alex Barnett's comments to confirm the business goals of Ning. In response to Alex's well-written analysis of what Ning is trying to accomplish, Marc commented:"Alex -- your description of what we are trying to do is very well said. It's an experiment, but those are the...
The conference is over now and so here's a summary of my blog output from it. I was pumping out the real-time notes over the last 3 days! I didn't have much time for analysis - my brain was full to the brim just absorbing everything. I intend to dive...
Shows stats - 36k feeds that really matter; 14k "really really matter", 60 feeds that are Paris Hilton hot; 1 feed is da bomb - slashdot. [will update these stats later]Long tail of searches - 95%. eg head queries: hurricane rita, maps, song lyrics.Long tail of verticals (or categories). Also...
Google just announced their new RSS Reader, called Google Reader. It's browser-based (of course) and has similar look n' feel to Gmail. Very Ajaxy. I'll play with it some more and report back later. For now, here's more info from SEW:"Google Reader is a browser-based application that works with virtually...
Lots of data points. "Korea is goto place to figure out where the Internet is going"Innovation coming out of China - 5,6,7 yrs timewe're at "boom-let" stage now (after boom and bust)market valuations of top 5 companies huge (google, yahoo, ebay, yahoo japan, amazon), compared to 2000.entering 2 most profound...
weblogsinc bought by AOL for between $20-35 million.SocialText (the wiki company) is returning to open source.PubSub has announced an open source structured blogging initiative.Flock, the social browser, is expanding their beta. I went along with Mike and Fred from TechCrunch to check out their office, which is literally in a...
24 Hour Laundry, the secretive start-up of Marc Andresson, has just released their new product - Ning. It's a free online service for "building and using social applications". Basically it's a Web 2.0 development tool aimed at non-developers. Developers too will benefit from it, because it sounds like a Ruby...
This week: Defining Web 2.0, Web-based office, Yahoo media/tv, Google Wifi, Techie Post of the Week: Tim O'Reilly's What is Web 2.0. sponsored by:Defining Web 2.0A lot of online trees were felled this week to write about what Web 2.0 means. Tim O'Reilly's definition is a very comprehensive one and is...
I've written a few times now about being disappointed with Bloglines this year - and their lack of progress since they got bought by Ask Jeeves. Now Russell Beattie has come out and said it too - and he got a response from Bloglines chief Mark Fletcher in the comments....
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