At the risk of going off-topic, I'm currently deeply into IMHO the best album I've heard in years - Green Day's American Idiot. It's a concept album and I often wonder how such a thing could be done in blogging. It's common wisdom that a focused blog is the best...
Seb Paquet notes from Information Architecture Summit in Montreal, March 2005. This from Brett Lider:"Defining the Future - The Web 2.0 article on Wikipedia was clearly written by an engineer. Look at those acronyms!Some components of Web 2.0. Social networks, desktop information, browser history, tastes and preferences - getting them...
This week: Microsoft's RSS Aggregator, mobile web 2.0, open source web 2.0 (stats, adverts, topics), Structured Blogging, ETech.Well this week has been a blur of activity for me and my server. First off I launched an RSS statistics project with Jon Udell and Feedburner, then later in the week I...
SiliconBeat has a scoop. They point to a sandbox version of a working web-based RSS Aggregator - from Microsoft! I had a very quick play-round (note it doesn't work in Firefox) and it's similar to MyYahoo, but what's most interesting is the strong integration with MSN Search. Hmmmm.Click to enlargeNB:...
A collaborative stats project using Feedburner data was launched on this blog yesterday. It's an informal project, but I really hope the blogosphere gets behind it. I've even brought out the old Uncle Sam Needs You! image :-) Basically we need: a) your Feedburner data, and/or b) your analysis. It...
Time for your weekly dose of Web 2.0. This week: Yahoo yahoo yahoo (is there an echo in here?), Wikipedia, Web 2.0 start-ups, AutoLink (I know, but bear with me...), Ruby on Rails. btw what's the best time of the week to publish this regular feature of R/WW? OK let's...
Tomorrow, 2 March 2005, marks the 10-year anniversary of Yahoo. According to a recent AP article:"Yahoo already has amassed an audience of 345 million, including 165 million registered users who rely on the company's Web sites for e-mail, e-commerce, news, entertainment, driving directions, matchmaking, weather forecasts, job leads and search...
This week: AP's RSS feeds, Enterprise RSS developments (Newsgator, Nooked), professional bloggers (Kottke, Darren Rowse), Odeo (podcasting), Ajax. p.s. headers in honour of the Oscars.Best Use of RSS Feeds by a News CollectiveAnd the winner is: Associated Press! ...um, or Reuters. Because they both have RSS feeds. Hmm, seems the...
First, some context...Jay Rosen, in the "after matter" of his article on the New York Times purchase of About.com, posts an email response from Jakob Nielsen. Nielsen said:"The real secret of About.com is that they have figured out a way to get 500 domain experts to work for peanuts, in...
A look back at the week that was in the world of Web 2.0. This week: Google's AutoLinks feature, IE7, NY Times buys About.com, more Big Media blogging coverage, Bloglines hacks.AutoLinks and AnnotationEver since Google made it big, many people have been looking for a chance to pin the 'evil'...
It's been a while since I've published a book review on R/WW, so I'm going to briefly review 5 books that I've read during the past few months. Four of them are Web Technology-related and the other was an eBook that I bought. The Nudist on the Late Shift :...
Andrew Nachison from The Media Centre raises some interesting issues regarding RSS content aggregation. He boils it down to these 3 questions:1. Machines vs. humans? [in regards to aggregation]I agree with Andrew's conclusion: "This isn't an “either/or” theory but a “both/and” reality." P.S. also check out The Media Center Matrix....
What's been happening in the world of "Web two dot oh" (as Jeff Bezos pronounces it) this week? Let's find out.Bloglines Sale (my last comment on it, I promise)The Bloglines sale to Ask Jeeves continued to generate chatter in the blogosphere, including from yours truly. To sum up: Bloglines got...
Andrew Watson suggests that my post about Bloglines being scared off its advertising strategy would make a great Oliver Stone movie :-) Heh, I won't sell my screenplay to Stone for less than a cool million! ;-) Seriously though, it's possible my post did sound like a Conspiracy Theory, but...
You may be getting sick of '2.0' being stuck onto the end of everything, but I can't resist pointing to this excellent post by VC Fred Wilson. He characterises the mid-to-late 90's era of Web content creation companies like About.com (ex-The Mining Company), Geocities and Tripod as "blogging 1.0". The...
Provocative post by Jason Calacanis on the Bloglines sale. He says it's "a horrible business and it will never make money." The reason? He reckons "95-99% of the RSS reader market" will belong to the Big 3 of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google within 2 years. That's the 'bigco will crush...
Here's my summary of what went on in the Web 2.0 world this past week. Headlines inspired by tabloid newspapers.Bloglines Shocker! Butler Buys Master of the Blog Universe!The big news of the week was Mary Hodder's scoop that Bloglines has (probably) been bought by Ask Jeeves, the genial but non-trendy...
Mary Hodder has the scoop, which if true is huge news in the Web 2.0 world. Also quite eerie given what I wrote yesterday! Here's what Mary blogged:"Ask Jeeves Buys Bloglines(Updated 12:30pm. This was apparently going to be announced Tuesday, not Monday.)That's the scoop. Ask Jeeves is integrating Bloglines into...
Richard Koman over at SiliconValleyWatcher gets the scoop from Flickr CEO Stewart Butterfield, on whether Google will replicate Flickr's photo-sharing service (as suggested by Om Malik). Stewart is quoted as saying:"Given our growth, the technologies cooking in the lab, and that we're still completing the feature set and infrastructure build...
Anybody with an interest in the publishing industry will be familiar with the dream of Print On Demand, whereby you order a book from a kiosk or similar service and a paper book is custom printed before your eyes. Former publishing honcho Jason Epstein is the person most commonly associated...
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