Aggregating and filtering the latest Web Tech and Media news, so you don't have to! (p.s. it'd be great to get some feedback on this new daily feature of mine - is the R/W Filter of any value to folks? How can I improve it? Thanks!) - Chinese internet police...
Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig has a thought-provoking essay on FT.com about the perilous state of what he terms the Read-Write Internet:"We are well on our way to perfecting the “Read-Only” internet – that network in which every bit of culture can be bought in a single click, but bought...
On my ZDNet blog, I discuss social news site reddit.com with co-founder Alexis Ohanian and compare their collaborative filtering system with Digg's. Reddit may have a jump on Digg when it comes to avoiding groupthink and spam, via a user reputation system it calls 'karma'. Check out the full story...
It's not quite a Bloggers and Old Media lovefest yet, but at least people seem to have eased up on the 'us vs them' rhetoric. AdAge.com has a nice article explaining why Blogging vs. Traditional Media has been oversold. Scott Karp's recent post entitled Bloggers Are So Wrong About Media...
Sorry for lack of updates recently, I've been busy getting married :-) I see others have been busy too - Mike Arrington's expanded the Crunch empire with a new mobile blog called MobileCrunch, Susan Mernit's been hired by Yahoo! (does this mean I get my name on the 5ive page...
A USA Today article reveals that MySpace has now reached 47.3 million members. The Blog Herald also reports that MySpace "is growing by an amazing 160,000 new users a day, according to MediaPost".USA Today gives a rundown of numbers for SNS sites, c/o comScore Media Metrix. They note that "in...
Perhaps I ventured a bit too far out of my echo chamber, but today I came across 3 different conspiracy theory articles about popular Web companies. One was about e-commerce giant Amazon.com and the other two related to leading Social Networking sites MySpace and Facebook. The theories namecheck the CIA,...
Yahoo continues to buy up all the great talent, this time they've snagged my blog buddy Lucas Gonze and his innovative music-sharing web app Webjay. As the Yahoo! Music Blog explained [via TechCrunch]:"Webjay is visionary and fantastic, but we are also keenly interested in Lucas the individual. He’s contributed a...
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...
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...
Yahoo will broadcast a reality tv series called "Wow House" on their Web portal within the next few months. The SF Chronicle calls it an early step in Yahoo's ultimate goal to create television of the future. Wow House has a technology focus, as families participating in the show compete...
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...
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...
- 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...
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...
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