Sometimes we all get so wrapped up in the latest Web 2.0 calendar, rss reader or search product, that we forget that some things labeled 'Web 2.0' are actually doing social good in the world. This is the case with NetSquared, which is a non-profit organization that aims to "increase...
Rojo, the web-based RSS Aggregator I've used ever since I gave up hope of Bloglines ever stepping up its functionality, has just come out with some more enhancements. About a month ago, they re-designed their site and now they've done another overhaul and added 3 new features - one of...
by Ryan Stewart(Richard's Note: I'm introducing guest bloggers to Read/WriteWeb, to write about topics that I think will be of interest to R/WW readers - but which I'm not an expert in myself. Ryan Stewart is the first of my guest bloggers, writing on the topic of Flash and 'rich...
Developing a mashup can be a lot of fun and it's usually low cost, because you're using (semi) open tools and data. Forget fun though for a minute - is there a business in mashups? There are obvious benefits for the data providers, for example both Google and craigslist benefit...
Niall Kennedy is on a roll, having this week published an informative series of posts on the RSS platform and the 'state of the aggregator':NewsGator APIGoogle Reader platformWindows RSS PlatformFeeds as a platformState of the aggregator I don't really have anything to add, being busy in the middle of other...
My NZ 2.0 buddy Ben Nolan is selling one of his web apps, bubbletwo, on eBay. There he is pictured on the left, pretending he's zooming down the Silicon Valley highways in a Ferarri (which may yet happen if he sells his mapping startup zoomin.co.nz).Ben whipped up bubbletwo recently and...
Google has acquired what I chose as the 'best of breed' Web-based word processing app in my recent ZDNet post Web Office Suite [news via TechCrunch] The Writely blog is rightly chuffed:"...everyone told us it was crazy to try and give people a way to access their documents from anywhere...
Yahoo has announced four new APIs for its Developer Network: Photos, Calendar, MyWeb and Shopping. The Shopping 2.0 API is available now, while the Photos, Calendar and MyWeb read/write APIs will be available soon [updated - thanks Jeffrey]. While they'll be free to use for non commercial purposes, Ash Patel...
The Register investigates. [via]Full whiteboard image hereI knew Google was up to something big. It's always the quiet ones you need to watch...
Today I spoke to JotSpot co-founder and CEO Joe Kraus about their latest product release, pre-packaged "wiki applications". We also discussed the Web Office, which I will post about separately on ZDNet. JotSpot's latest product is a prebuilt wiki. Basically it's a wiki with set templates and functionality, making it...
ETech 2006 has started and it's the one conference this year which people kept telling me I should be at (but oddly, no one offered to pay my airfare...). Oh well, luckily I have my finger on the blogosphere pulse and so I'm going to post updates of my virtual...
The big news in my part of the world today is that trademe.co.nz, a virtual clone of eBay that has risen to dominance in the eBay-less New Zealand market, has been sold to Aussie media company Fairfax for a staggering NZ$700 million [news via Dave]. Mr Barren thinks Fairfax would've...
The Google Analyst Day presentation makes for interesting reading. Thanks to Greg Linden for providing the early analysis and text from the now withdrawn powerpoint presentation (only available now as a 10MB PDF - sans the ppt notes unfortunately). Greg provided the notes to slide 19, which are fascinating for...
The NYTimes reports that Yahoo! is backing off its big plans to create television-style original content for the Web. Fears that Yahoo original content will alienate movie studios and television networks appears to be behind this shift in strategy. In that sense, I can understand Yahoo focusing more on the...
I've been tracking the development of all the personalized start pages that have flowered up over the past year. Live.com, Google Personalized Homepage, Netvibes, PageFlakes, et al. These are services that don't just offer a place to store all your content and links - but house your widgets, gadgets and...
Seems reporting new media news gets a bit dreary sometimes. This from PaidContent.org:"BlogMedia Acquires The Blog Herald [by rafat] : Blog blog blog blog blag blag blah...blah. [by rafat] [Feb.27, 06]"I have to admit, the press release Rafat linked to made me yawn too. Oh well, at least the blogosphere...
Summary: While full-text feeds are under-valued today, they will be an integral part of the content ecosystem in the near future. And that's when their true value will be recognized.James Gross from the Feedster blog has an interesting post about how full-text feeds will provide much more value in future...
Quote from Rod Drury, founder and CEO of kiwi web email company AfterMail (which was acquired by Quest Software for US$45 million in January 2006): "We demonstrate globally from our office in Wellington, install our products remotely and receive funds electronically. We have US phone numbers in our office. The...
Excellent quote from Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us:"Aggregation is often a focus of attention (latest, most active, etc.)As the population gets larger, the bias drifts; del.icio.us/popular becomes less interesting to the original community members. Work out ways to let the system fragment in to different areas of attention."This sums up why...
After my post about Personalized Megite, I got taken to task by both Gabe Rivera from Memeorandum and Nik Cubrilovic from OmniDrive - two developers who have had a lot of experience trying to develop such systems. As Gabe wrote in Scoble's comments:"I agree with Nik that there’s a huge...
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