There's been a ton of CES news to digest these past few days, especially in the past 12 or so hours. Yahoo released Go and CEO Terry Semel made a speech at CES; Google released Google Pack, Google Video Player and Google Video Store; Larry Page did a speech at...
Yahoo! Go is being advertised as "a new suite of products and services for your PC, mobile phone and even your TV". The main aim is to enable people to connect with their content (e.g. email, photos, music) across a range of devices. Right now the Go product range is limited....
This week will be awash with coverage from the CES 2006 show in Las Vegas (International Consumer Electronics Show). I'll be quaffing down any interesting news about Web-based media and gadgets, along with feasting on my staple Internet bigco diet of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Apple. Bill Gates (MS), Terry Semel...
The Internet Stock Blog asks: "Is it possible that if Yahoo is the new Internet media leader with RSS, etc. and Google is the leader in search, that Apple will own rich media?"Well 'own' is too strong a word, but I do know I'll be paying much more attention to...
Looking at the media year ahead, the LA Times christens Google the new 800-pound gorilla - and also the Big Bad Wolf - of the media business. It's an extraordinary article that predicts mega-billion dollar wheeling and dealing in the media industry in 2006. Here are some highlights relating to...
It's technically New Years Eve where I am, as I write this. I haven't done much blogging over the past week, because I've been re-charging my batteries and making plans for 2006. In this post I reflect on the year that's past and tell you a bit about my plans...
William Slawski has compiled two very useful lists of acquisitions, first by Google and now by Yahoo (see also The Guardian's list). I'll add the third, Microsoft's acquisitions as listed on their corporate site. From 2003 on:Nov. 3, 2005: FolderShare Nov. 3, 2005: media-streams.com AG Aug. 30, 2005: Teleo Inc. ...
On 9 January 2005, I published the first of my Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-ups. When I launched it I described it as "a weekly summary of news and views relating to Web 2.0 (Web as platform)." I pumped out one a week for the rest of 2005. In many ways...
Last year about this time I did a post celebrating the best Web companies of 2004. I was planning on doing a mega version of that this year, extending it to software and services. But then Dion came up with his excellent list of best Web software of '05, as...
After my phone-throwing incident earlier this week, I think I've calmed down enough now to do the equivalent of going on the Letterman show and saying sorry to anyone I offended. My friend Mike Arrington called me a traitor and others baled me up about what I wrote. My position...
- Dan Gillmor is building a non-profit 'Center for Citizen Media', moving on from his previous (for-profit) project called Bayosphere. [via SiliconBeat]- The much-anticipated Pegasus News has released their first product, a music and entertainment news site called TexasGigs. It started as a music blog by Cindy Chaffin in 2002...
Feedster has named Read/WriteWeb one of their Feeds of the Year. Their summary of my blog is pretty funny, given the controversy over the past few days. Russell Shaw, whose post was the final straw which led me to declaring myself fed up with all the Web 2.0 hype and...
I've published a post on ZDNet that details how the Web was used for good in 2005, in very bad situations. It was actually something I wrote for the book I'm working on with Joshua Porter, but it will almost certainly not be used (due to the book having a...
Well my declaration that Web 2.0 is dead set the cat amongst the pigeons. Let me give a bit of background...I've been thinking for a while now about re-focusing Read/WriteWeb onto more media-related Web technologies. Many of the things I'm interested in are being done by Yahoo!, which by now...
Ben Barren's written an excellent series of posts about his favorite features to flip. Here's his top ten:#1 - Podcasting Ratings #2 - Better Blogging Tools #3 - MySpace meets Linkedin #4 - Non-Text RSS Reader #5 - RSS Search/Reader Attention Glue #6 - Images for Adsense #7 - Podcasting...
The inventor of the World Wide Web is now blogging:"In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute. The first browser...
Here's the Top Ten web technology and new media memes, issues or news stories of the past week.1. Yahoo buys del.icio.us. Yahoo! continues its buying spree of cool Web app companies, after also buying Flickr and konfabulator this year. Bubblegeneration had a nice summary: "Yahoo, I think, is rolling up...
I've had enough of the hype. I've had enough of cynicism. I've had enough of hate blogs. The nail in the coffin was this post on ZDNet, by Russell Shaw. The thing is, I agree with Russell. The term 'Web 2.0' is distracting from the real value going on in...
Toni Schneider, who runs the Yahoo Developer Network, just announced the addition of JSON support for various Yahoo APIs and a new Javascript Developer Center. This is designed for people who "eat, sleep and breathe JavaScript" :-0. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. According to the Wikipedia entry, JSON's simplicity...
I've just published a list of the top ten defining moments of Web 2.0 this year. Here's a taster, but please click through to ZDNet to read the whole post.It's been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in Silicon Valley and an incredible number of...
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