--- title: "Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 26 Nov – 2 Dec 2005" date: 2005-12-02 author: "Richard MacManus" categories: - name: "ReadWriteWeb" url: "/category/readwriteweb.md" tags: - name: "2005" url: "/tag/2005.md" --- # Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 26 Nov – 2 Dec 2005 Note: The Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up is back with a new publishing day (Fri) and a new format, a countdown of the Top Ten Web 2.0 issues or news stories of the past week. Also I’m on the lookout for a new sponsor for the Weekly Wrap-Up. It’s had 3 extremely satisfied sponsors over the past 30 weeks, so if you’re interested [send me an email](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/mailto:readwriteweb@gmail.com). Here we go then, with the top ten… 1\. [Yahoo integrates RSS](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2005/11/29/yahoo-mails-full-post-rss-reader/) into Yahoo! Mail and their alerts service. This was the biggest news of the week – see my coverage [on ZDNet](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=70) and analysis [on Read/WriteWeb](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rss_everywhere.php). Why was it important? Mainly because Yahoo has 227 million unique users for Yahoo Mail, [according to Scott Gatz](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.podtech.net/?p=229). It’s a huge, mostly untapped, market for RSS and will introduce millions more people to the benefits of syndication. 2\. Evan Williams’ [Ten Rules for Web Startups](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp) is a must read post for aspiring entrepreneurs. Worth sticking up on your wall. See also Ben Barren’s [10 Rules for a Hollywood Startup](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2005/11/10-rules-for-hollywood-startup.html) (“5. Dont have any idea what an API is or what it is like not to be a VIP.”) 3\. The Great Eyeballs Debate started up again this week, courtesy of an Om Malik article [in Business2](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1135200-1,00.html). By Om’s numbers, BoingBoing is worth a cool $34M. But [Jason Calacanis](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.calacanis.com/2005/11/29/ok-lets-stop-the-bubble-machine-right-now/) did a Good Will Hunting number on Om, saying it’s more like $500k-$3M. [How do you like them apples?](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/calacanis_to_ma.php) 4\. Mashups are a [hot](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=71)[topic](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://glinden.blogspot.com/2005/11/is-web-20-nothing-more-than-mashups.html) right now. Check out my [Top Mashups](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_mashups.php) post, inspired by the ProgrammableWeb [popular mashups](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.programmableweb.com/popular) page. Speaking of mashups, [Ning](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.ning.com/) King Jon Aquino has created yet another interesting app – [Google and Yahoo Maps Side By Side](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://sidebyside.ning.com/). 5\. [Skype released](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/01/427/) the next version of its product ([yes, 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.skype.com/company/news/2005/skype_2.0beta.html)), which includes video calling functionality. Supr.c.ilio.us [had blanket coverage](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://supr.c.ilio.us/blog/2005/12/01/today-in-the-blogosphere/). 6\. Mobile Opportunity: [why Web 2.0 doesn’t cut it for mobile devices](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2005/11/web-30.html). Good post that explains how mobile web applications need a different architecture than PC web apps, because of connectivity issues with mobile. Quote: “they \[mobiles\] need both a local client and a local cache of the client data, so the app can be fully functional even when the user is out of coverage.” 7\. Jeremy Zawodny posted the results of his [30 Day Gmail and Yahoo! Mail Challenge](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005770.html). Showing that he’s certainly not biased, Gmail won (Jeremy works at Yahoo). 8\. [Nick Denton’s Startup kit](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.nickdenton.org/002173.html#2173) is worthy of mention, if only because bizarrely he included two humans in the kit – VC [Fred Wilson](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.unionsquareventures.com/) and Nick’s attorney. 9\. Web browsers were big this week. [Firefox 1.5 was released](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5975880.html) and I wrote [two posts](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/latest_on_web_b.php) about the browser market. [On the PC](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=68) Microsoft is set to continue its dominance with IE7’s release next year, despite Firefox’s rise. However in the growing [mobile market](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=69) it could be the likes of Opera or Mozilla that takes the early lead. 10\. [Flickr and Webshots – A classic web2.0 case](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/). This post charted how Web 2.0 wunderkind [Flickr](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://www.flickr.com/) has over the course of 2005 gained ground on, and now overtaken, Web 1.0 photo-sharing site [Webshots](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://webshots.com/homepage.html). Thomas Hawk also did [an analysis](https://web.archive.org/web/20060110174213/http://thomashawk.com/2005/11/flickr-and-webshots-classic-web20-case.html). Excellent work all round. That’s a wrap for another week! *Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_weekly_w_44.php))*