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...
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...
Jupitermedia analyst David Card thinks AOL is preparing for a big fattie splash into the RSS pool. He says:1. The new version of MyAOL is "essentially an RSS reader", albeit not as slick as how Apple does RSS in its Safari browser.2. "AOL has a deal with Feedster to provide...
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...
This post by Matt Webb is worth pondering for those of us who are far away from all the Web 2.0 action. Matt wrote that "The Web is San Francisco circa 2001, writ large." He explained: "The Web's been coasting since 2001. It consists of that which started in SF...
John Battelle's posted details of the second Web 2.0 Conference, to be held in San Francisco on October 5-7. This is something I'd really really love to attend, but it's looking like the travel costs are going to be prohibitive - for a po' kiwi looking to become self-employed this...
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...
My posts about RSS Ripoff Merchants stirred up a lot of controversy and, somewhat surprisingly, it seems I've come out of it as The Bad Guy. I kind of feel like Lars Ulrich of Metellica in the Napster case - defender of artists rights :-) Anyhow, I wanted my posts...
sponsored by:This week: RSS Ripoff Merchants summary, Web 2.0 for teachers, Open Source Radio talks about Web 2.0, EPIC II, search engines with RSS output.RSS Ripoff Merchants summaryWell my follow-up post about RSS Ripoff Merchants certainly struck a few raw nerves, including for me. It attracted 55 comments, before I...
The latest version of Microsoft's Web-based RSS Aggregator, Start.com, has just been released. Microsoft first released a prototype in early March 2005 - my coverage here. Start.com is like a mix between MyYahoo and the new Google Personalized Homepage. It enables users to subscribe to RSS feeds and it is...
To summarise the issue so far... a few nights ago I came across a website called SuperFeedSystem that was written in an overtly Informercial-like manner. The gist of it is they are pitching a product that automagically turns RSS feeds into content for websites. Sounds fine, right? Well yes, except...
Chris Lydon's new public radio show, Open Source, goes live. First show is on Web 2.0!Chris wrote afterwards: "'The revenge of the sources' was a great line from Dave Winerña powerful capsule of the driving energy in Web expressionism."
sponsored by:This week: the future of Web sites in a world of RSS, highlights from ION RSS, new Web 2.0 developments, Techie post of the week.Future of Web sitesMatt McAlister, VP & General Manager, Online for InfoWorld, wrote this week that RSS is disintermediating InfoWorld's Web site. In other words,...
Google has just released its beta book search product Google Print (hat tip Diablo). The new service lets people search within the text of a book. Interestingly, I note that Amazon has a search inside this book feature too (how long has that been live? first time I've seen it)....
I was intrigued by this extract from the Headshift weblog: "The new Web 2.0 tools and services help create an ecosystem of connected people and information - as David Weinberger put it this week: The cure to information overload is more information, only it should become more ambient.We need to...
Jim Cuene gave an excellent presentation to the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association last week, on the subject of Web 2.0. The accompanying powerpoint presentation (3.2MB) is a nice overview of current Web 2.0 trends, delivered in a down-to-earth and businesslike way. I particularly liked Slide 3, a comparison between Web...
Bloglines creator Mark Fletcher opines: "I have over 200 subscriptions in my Bloglines account [...] There's no way I could follow that many sites in My Yahoogle. Sometimes I'm asked if I consider My Yahoogle competition. There's no way that they can compete without completely changing their interface."The Big 3...
sponsored by:This week: Summary of Google Factory Tour, Recruitment 2.0, Rollups, Techie post of the week, Web 1.0 Summit.Google Factory TourThe Factory Tour and accompanying webcast received tons of coverage this week, so I won't re-hash all the details. I'll simply summarise the new things and add my comments. New?...
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