---
title: "Read/WriteWeb Filter"
date: 2006-02-28
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/WriteWeb Filter

![ipod hifi](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951im_/http://static.flickr.com/43/105915807_25b619181c_m.jpg)– [ Apples rolls out new Intel Mac Minis, iPod Hi-Fi](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://news.com.com/Apple+launches+new+Intel+Mac+Minis,+iPod+Hi-Fi/2100-1041_3-6044111.html?tag=nefd.top) (the iPod Hi-Fi described by Steve Jobs as “a home stereo reinvented \[…\] for the iPod age”)

– [ MediaPost: Mainstream Media Warms To ‘Web 2.0’](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=40280) (WashingtonPost guy: “We’re trying to lengthen the interaction between reader and content.” NYTimes calls it a “nexus of content and community”)

– [BubbleGen on tools and audiences](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2006/02/industry-note-are-vcs-real-chasm-in-2.cfm) (Umair says WSJ, WaPo, NYT and Economist audiences could give him content of relevance and depth, but they haven’t been given the tools to connect and create)

– [Can MySpace be Beaten?](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://gigaom.com/2006/02/26/can-myspace-be-beaten/) (great analysis on how MySpace/News Corp has “essentially captured the entirety of Americas youth” (!). Also check out [Marc Canter’s response](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/02/ajax-home-pages), in which he says open standards could be the answer)

– [BusinessWeek on social networking systems](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060227_274552.htm) (thinks niche-oriented networks is the future, because ” advertisers may have an easier time reaching such a targeted audience.”)

– [Here Come the Edge Aggregators!](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://mashable.com/2006/02/27/here-come-the-edge-aggregators/) (interesting overview from Pete Cashmore of some of the other ‘edge aggregators’ out there, apart from [edgeio](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://edgeio.com/))

– [Jason Fried on Web 2.0 thinking](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/russell_makes_sense_this_time.php) (“It’s about value — something the new web set seems afraid to 1. create, and 2. charge for.”)

– [Union Square Ventures: Web services and devices](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2006/02/web_services_an.html) (“When web services integrate with devices in a open architecture, we believe that the consumers’ interest in innovation and integration will trump the vendors’ interest in preserving control over limited proprietary channels.”)

– [Kevin Marks on Internet generations](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://epeus.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_epeus_archive.html#114086100019819301) (“My generation draws the Internet as a cloud that connects everyone; the younger generation experiences it as oxygen that supports their digital lives.” — [via Susan Mernit](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://susanmernit.blogspot.com/2006/02/quote-of-day-2_28.html))

Flickr pic [by berbercarpet](https://web.archive.org/web/20100803063951/http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickerbulb/105915807/)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_fi_8.php))*