---
title: "Read/WriteWeb Filter"
date: 2006-02-07
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/WriteWeb Filter

Back to naming this R/WW Filter – there aren’t enough hours in a day sometimes for a ‘Daily’ 🙂

![Pleo](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246im_/http://static.flickr.com/28/97012505_ec4ea796e9_m.jpg)– [DEMO roundups](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/07/a-taste-of-demo-2006/) (TechCrunch and [Jeff Clavier](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://blog.softtechvc.com/2006/02/demo_2006_day_o.html) are the ones I’ve been tracking — I’m liking the sound of [Plum](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://plum.com/) and [Blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.blurb.com/)…)

– [More on Feed Grazing](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/2006/01/do_purple_cows_.html) (“…we’ll always subscribe to a core set of critical feeds but for the vast majority of data blades in our information pasture, we’ll just graze.”)

– [BBC’s Feed Factory](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedfactory/) (BBC’s intro page to its RSS feeds… via [Nooked blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.nooked.com/))

– [An ambitious social media project](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2006/02/06/a-call-for-suggestions) (“…involves blogging, filmmaking, teaching ESL, and producing a Hasidic children’s show”)

– [ John Hagel sounds warning](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2006/02/disney_pixar_an.html) re Disney purchase of Pixar (“Jobs is a product guy at a time when media products need to become platforms.”)

– [ Emily Chang: Design 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.emilychang.com/go/weblog/comments/design-20-minimalism-transparency-and-you/) (comprehensive overview of current web design trends by Emily)

– [Newsgator releases](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.newsgator.com/news/archive.aspx?post=82) Hosted RSS Platform for Media and Content Companies (private label RSS publishing and aggregation)

– [ Shore on Newsvine](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.shore.com/commentary/weblogs/2006_01_01_m_archive.html#113863437172768396) (“Newsvine is in its very early days but it seems to strike the most powerful balance between content from individuals and mainstream sources to date.”)

– [Don Dodge interview Greg Linden of Findory](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/02/findory_persona.html) (“Unlike Memeorandum, Wink, and Digg, every reader sees a different page on Findory, each page personalized to each person’s interests.”)

– [2005 Vaporware Awards](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,70143-0.html) (Microsoft’s Vista and Internet Explorer 7 at number 4 and Google betas at number 3! Duke Nukem Forever was #1)

– [Jakob Nielsen:](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.useit.com/alertbox/cross_site_behavior.html) Users Interleave Sites and Genres (echoing many of the themes Josh and I covered in our May 2005 [Web 2.0 for Designers](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_designers/) article…)

Flickr pic [by philosophygeek](https://web.archive.org/web/20090911085246/http://www.flickr.com/photos/43776406@N00/97012505/)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_fi.php))*