By now most of you know that Flock, a trendy new Mozilla-based "social web browser", has gone live. Because it's said to be a quintessential Web 2.0 application, I feel duty-bound to try it out. So I've downloaded it and will give it a go as my main browser for...
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has filed a lawsuit against Google "over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners". I liked how John Battelle summed it up:"I really don't get this. I have been both a publisher and an author, and...
Ben Barren's posts just keep getting better and better. Today he ponders the question: What Connects Richard MacManus + Jessica Alba?. He writes:"we may need a "Post-Valley Intervention" - Since The Father of Web 2.0 has left The Valley he has gone stir crazy. He was last seen walking around...
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...
Microsoft Emerging Business Team member Don Dodge has another thought-provoking post on Internet business. Don notes how so many innovative companies who were market leaders in the 90's have been overtaken by the new era of "fast followers". Here's his list of examples:* AltaVista -> Google * Napster -> iTunes...
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!...
As TechCrunch reported, two more resources have been added to our nascent Web 2.0 Workgroup. Mike wrote:"Podtech.net is a very popular podcast site hosted by John Furrier that is redefining corporate press practices. Recently, for instance, Yahoo gave Podtech an exclusive pre-announcement right to discuss their podcasting service last weekend.SolutionWatch,...
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...
This is the best thing I've written in ages... thanks to Saurier Duval for doing a mash-up of my blog.Some choice extracts:"The stats they released today indicate theyíre well on their way to explain them in the Web as a serviceí concept (which is by no means a new regular...
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...
Mike Arrington has another Ode to Memeorandum on Techcrunch. I'm a big fan of tech.memeorandum too and it's changing the way I read blogs and catch up with the latest tech news. My first rave review of memeorandum was a month ago when it went live and since then I've...
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...
To all those Web 2.0 companies looking to get acquired by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! or eBay, Don Dodge has handily compiled a list of tips. Don works on the Microsoft Emerging Business Team. In his latest post he starts by noting Microsoft's "rich tradition of acquisitions". He points to a...
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...
Mary Meeker called where we're at now a "boom-let". We've gone from boom to bust to boom-let (presumably a precursor to the next boom). She thinks the first 10 years of Web were just the warm-up act for what will happen next. She's particularly bullish on mobile technologies, which definitely...
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