---
title: "Read/WriteWeb Filter"
date: 2006-04-04
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/WriteWeb Filter

![Tom Cruise at Yahoo](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740im_/http://static.flickr.com/37/116031689_09cdd5ff01_m.jpg)– [Yahoo7 Combined 10% More Traffic than Previously](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740/http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2006/04/yahoo7-combined-10-more-traffic-than.html) (Ben Barren: “…\[Y!7 users\] demand is insatiable – they need more product than can be provided by Yahoo7. And they need more filtering and aggregation tools.”)

– [What do we do with ‘social media’?](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740/http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/03/what_do_we_do_with_social_media.shtml) (Tom Coates: “The age of social media then is probably about a fusing of these two ways of thinking – the communicative and the publishing/creative parts of the internet – into something new and powerful.”)

– [Harnessing the content flow](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740/http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2815) (Dan Farber: “Traditional media corporations won’t roll over and die. The smart ones will apply themselves to facilitating, filtering and compensating the mass of content producers.”)

– [Big Shifts In Internet Usage](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740/http://gigaom.com/2006/04/04/big-shifts-in-internet-usage/) (Om Malik digs into the latest comscore data, showing that “MySpace is the fastest growing property on the Internet, perhaps in Internet history and traffic now exceeds all but Yahoo.”)

– [The State of Web 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740/http://web2.wsj2.com/the_state_of_web_20.htm) (it’s interesting for me to see the ‘Live Web’ competing quite well with the term ‘Web 2.0’ these days… nevertheless, whatever you call it, Dion’s piece is a good overview and I especially liked this prediction: “People will focus much more on using the ideas and ignoring the Web 2.0 hypesters more often.”)

– [Dan Farber thinks the Google Web Office is over-hyped](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740/http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2799&tag=nl.e622) (he points out that business apps need “more reliable bandwidth and grids, software infrastructure that meets corporate and regulatory requirements and major mindset changes” — very true, it’s why I forsee Web Office as a long-term proposition, not short term)

– [Microsoft aims to take the desktop ‘Live’](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740/http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6056230.html?tag=nl.e622) (“Microsoft started testing Windows Live Mail Desktop this week.” — it will let people manage their webmail offline without accessing a Web-based server.)

– [Ray Ozzie on Live Clipboard](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740/http://spaces.msn.com/rayozzie/blog/cns!FB3017FBB9B2E142!377.entry) (Microsoft CTO updates progress on his blog re his “wiring the Web” initiatives – encouraging words about microformats too)

– [A Structured (Blogging) Approach to Knowledge Management](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740/http://spaces.msn.com/manishdhingra/blog/cns!BB2E7D2CB13D9C19!365.entry?_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart) (interesting thoughts: “Knowledge artifacts correspond to microcontent definitions.”)

– [37Signals PDF book selling well](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740/http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/30day_update_getting_real_the_book.php) (after 30 days they’ve sold roughly 5750 copies of Getting Real, reeling in $120k of revenue. Excellent work by 37Signals – now I’m waiting for them to provide an ebook software system for the rest of us!)

Flickr pic [by Steve Peterson](https://web.archive.org/web/20110310105740/http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenp/116031689/)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_fi_15.php))*