---
title: "Read/Write Web Filter: ETech special"
date: 2006-03-07
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/Write Web Filter: ETech special

[ETech 2006](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/etech/) has started and it’s the one conference this year which people kept telling me I should be at (but oddly, no one offered to pay my airfare…). Oh well, luckily I have my finger on the blogosphere pulse and so I’m going to post updates of my virtual findings over the next few days.

![etech](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856im_/http://static.flickr.com/43/109274991_3bfa6735c9_m.jpg)– [The welcome](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2006/03/welcoming_the_alpha_geeks_at_e.html): (“Attenuation is the next aggregator,” predicted Dornfest. “I think there are some great businesses to be built on giving you less.” — this precisely fits [my main techie theme](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fragmenting_att.php) this year: 2006 is The Year of the Filter…)

– [Ray Ozzie‚Äôs clipboard for the web](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/03/07/ray-ozzies-clipboard-for-the-web/) (Dave Winer has the details and see also Ozzie’s blog post entitled [Wiring the Web](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://spaces.msn.com/rayozzie/blog/cns!FB3017FBB9B2E142!285.entry?_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart))

– [New APIs from Yahoo](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2662) and browser-based authentication (Dan Farber has the details: “At Etech, Yahoo is announcing APIs that hook into Yahoo Photos, Calendar, MyWeb and Shopping, as well as browser-based authentication.”)

– [From Coder to Co-Founder](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/9279) (Marc Hedlund tells techies how to become entrepreneurs — “Momentum builds on itself — make a prototype. Build something. Get things rolling.”)

– [Musical Myware](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://words.danhon.com/?p=17) (co-founder of last.fm talks about musical myware and ‘attention’)

– [eTech 2006 Update via OPML](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.technewsradio.com/2006/03/etech_2006_upda.html) (for the seriously geeky, TechNewsRadio is regularly updating his ETech notes in [an OPML file](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://sholden.typepad.com/technewsradio/audio/2006/eTech_2006.opml))

Flickr pic [ by Laughing Squid](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://laughingsquid.com/2006/03/05/etech-2006-photos/), who has many more great photos [on his site](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://laughingsquid.com/2006/03/05/etech-2006-photos/).

**Updates**

– [Session transcriptions from O’Reilly Radar](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://radar.oreilly.com/) (nice work Nat)

– [Witty photo captions by Valleywag](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.valleywag.com/tech/geeking-out/geeking-out-etech-2006-158965.php) (see also Nick’s take on Tim O’Reilly’s [“fuck-you-up mustache”](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.valleywag.com/tech/etech/tim-oreillys-new-porn-stache-158986.php)…)

– [New Windows Live releases](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=133) (some of the things I saw at Search Champs are being released now — also note the news of Onfolio acquisition)

– [Phil Windley](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.windley.com/) has a lot of excellent ETech write-ups (the [microformats one](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/03/microformats_et.shtml) is of great interest to me currently)

– [Kareem Mayan](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.reemer.com/) also has a couple of great ETech posts (the [Attention: The \*Real\* Aphrodisiac](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.reemer.com/archives/2006/03/07/etech_attention_the_real_aphrodisiac/) session and one on [Second Life](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.reemer.com/archives/2006/03/07/etech_web_30_and_second_life/))

– [Ambient Findability](https://web.archive.org/web/20081013025856/http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2006/03/ambient_findability.html) (“Morville wonders in a world of more and more and bigger and bigger haystacks, how are we going to make our needles bigger?” — okaaaay…)

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