I've been approved as one of the beta testers for Google's new AdSense for RSS feeds. So I'm going to be running Google ads in my feed for a few weeks at least - purely for research purposes of course ;-)Now before you get all righteous on me, remember this...
Google has just announced a new My Yahoo-like portal page, which they are calling a Personalized Google Homepage. It will be one place for users to access their Google search, news, Gmail, weather, stocks, driving directions, movies - and more. In the Google 'Factory Tour' webcast, Product Manager Marissa Mayer...
sponsored by:This week: Greasemonkey mayhem, Ajax fever, Web Design Minimalism mojo, Blogpoly Fun!, Yahoo Music Engine rave.Greasemonkey gives power to power usersWhat is Greasemonkey? According to the homepage, it's "a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behavior."...
We're nearly halfway through 2005 and there's still no heavyweight competition for Bloglines in the Web-based RSS Aggregator stakes. And I'm not talking about an Aggregation service like MyYahoo and Firefox Live Bookmarks, which aggregate feeds either on a webpage (MyYahoo) or in the browser bar (Firefox Live Bookmarks). Although...
MBAs got top billing in my latest Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up - and there have been some interesting follow-ups. In the comments to yesterday's post, Bud Gibson pointed to "The High Octane Blogging Bootcamp" that his company is doing for MBA students at the University of Michigan, starting this Saturday....
sponsored by:This week: business folk getting interested in Web 2.0, Adam Curry podcasting from 2.0 perspective, cool Web 2.0 'mini-apps', wrap-up of the adverts in RSS debate, Bosworth's Web of Data.From MBA to Master of Web 2.0?I get accused of being too geeky sometimes on Read/Write Web (no argument there!)....
Web 2.0 is coming soon to consumer medical information services, says Gordon Gould. He reckons the most interesting apps won't come from established Web medical players, like WebMD, but rather from startups. Gordon thinks the established companies are too Web 1.0 - "monolithic, closed, and mostly just about info-retrieval". WebMD's mission...
Based on the great comments I received to post.icio.us a week ago, I've been doing some experimenting on R/WW. First I tried out the '5 links to a post' style (again). I don't think it worked, for me or for you. So now what I'm going to do is the...
Jeremy Keith has developed a web app called Adactio Elsewhere, which uses APIs to collect scattered pieces of Web content into one place. It's a nice idea and one that Erik Benson was exploring not so long ago. Erik ended up piping all his content pieces through to his weblog...
sponsored by:This week: Google turns up the heat, Yahoo burns to be a media bigco, Microsoft's 64-bit light at the end of the tunnel, blogging media empires warm their hands by the advertising fire, Craigslist - GoogleMaps make a combustible combo.Google's Preemptive StrikeIn the Mojo Cold War, Yahoo took the...
Summary: Yes Microsoft is a Web 2.0 company, because their goal is to use the Web as a Platform. The difference is they'll use the Web as a Platform via millions of Windows-run 'devices'. That'll be their interface into Web 2.0.The Yahoo Search team has a vision called FUSE -...
Now that I'm part of the new Silicon Valley Watcher network, reporting on RSS, I've got to thinking about how I fit into this new world of blog-journalism. Here's the beginnings of my theory on this... Back in the 70's Tom Wolfe coined a style of news writing called New...
I've been trying to figure out a way to do a daily Web 2.0 update with links - without being, you know... one of those blogs that just links to other blogs. What I'm looking for is something in-between del.icio.us and a 'real' post.My 'Web 2.0 News' posts from 1-2...
sponsored by:This week: Macrobe/Adobemedia, sports RSS feeds, Google and Yahoo MojoWatch, Mobile Web 2.0 woes, Dan Gillmor's Web 3.0.Web Design Bigco: Adobe buys MacromediaThis was all over the Web Tech part of the blogosphere this week and the general feeling was one of surprise that two Web Design heavyweights have...
John Battelle: "In the Web 2.0 world, it matter less that you have a major media company behind you, what matters is if your voice and point of view are considered valuable by your audience."PaidContent.org: Weekend Readings on Web 2.0 - hey Rafat, since you hate the term 'Web 2.0',...
Today dawns in New Zealand as the 20th April 2005, which happens to be the 2nd birthday of Read/Write Web. Yes, two years ago today I posted my first blog post on R/WW (although I'd tinkered with blogging a year or so before that). Over the past 2 years blogging...
I've been following what the 3 big Internet companies have been doing with RSS and I largely agree with Dave Winer's recent assessment:"Yahoo is dashing in front, with Microsoft close behind. Why isn't Google in the race?"Yahoo has been by far the most proactive company of the 3 this year....
A daily shot of Web 2.0 news. Each item will have a main link, one or two lines of commentary from me, and views of the story from other bloggers (if available and if I have time). I'm still fiddling with the format...BBC unveils five-year mobile strategyNMA reports on the...
A daily shot of news from your favourite Web 2.0 blog. Each item has a main link, one or two lines of R/WW commentary, plus views of the story from other bloggers.Start-up building on top of FirefoxZDNet reports that a company called Round Two is building "a new crop of...
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