---
title: "Read/WriteWeb Filter"
date: 2006-02-14
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/WriteWeb Filter

![wow](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556im_/http://readwriteweb.com/images/wow.png)– [The Trendiest Web2.0 Page on the Net!](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://omgheadshot.com/trendyweb/) (it’s funny cause it’s true… apologies to [Fred](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://webreakstuff.com/blog/), who for all I know may’ve invented the ‘big red jagged circle’ effect)

– [ ‘Future of Web Apps’ slides…](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/02/my_future_of_web_apps_slides.shtml) (beautifully designed presentation from Tom Coates, with brilliant content to match. A ‘must read’ if you’re into [Design for Data](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/branding_microc.php) stuff – and I am big time…)

– [The Media Day of a Millennial](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://organic.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/22youthgraphic.jpg) (NYTimes graphic that accompanied a story a month ago on “the millennial generation” – those born between 1980-2000)

– The blog power law [gets the glossy magazine treatment](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://www.nymag.com/news/media/15967/) (“The age of the blog moguls is here. For Pete Rojas, blogging paid off handsomely.”)

– [Marc Canter’s vision of DLAs is becoming reality](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/02/i-see-my-life-come-shining) (“is it me – or am I seeing tons of DLAs emerging all over the place?” — DLA = Digital Lifestyle Aggregator; and disclaimer: I do some work for Marc)

– [Yahoo! Open Sources UIs and Design Patterns](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/02/yahoo_open_sources_uis_and_des.html) (under BSD and Creative Commons licenses – nicely done Yahoo! More info at the [Yahoo UI Blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/02/13/yahoo_patterns_released/))

– More from Nik Cubrilovic on [the IE threat to Firefox](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://www.nik.com.au/archives/2006/02/14/the-firefox-threat-ie7-is-getting-things-right-2/) (see also [my ZDNet post](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=117), in which I hark back to 1997 when Netscape lost the plot)

– [John Musser on cross-platform API portability](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://blog.programmableweb.com/?p=233) (e.g. chicagocrime.org runs on the Google Maps API, but has created a backup running on Microsoft‚Äôs mapping platform… just in case)

– [Kareem: Big Media looking for Creative Technologists](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726014556/http://www.reemer.com/archives/2006/02/13/big_media_is_investing_in_rd_but_will_it_work/) (Oooh, oooh — pick me, pick me!!!)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_fi_2.php))*