---
title: "Read/WriteWeb Filter"
date: 2006-04-11
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/WriteWeb Filter

![gates](https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064627im_/http://static.flickr.com/43/78844524_546bc44a9a_m.jpg)– [Live.com to be homepage of Vista, IE7](https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064627/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=157) (Niall Kennedy answers a question I asked at Microsoft Search Champs in January – HUGE news for RSS, search and gadgets)

– [Microserfs, Revisted](https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064627/http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-876.cfm) (“perhaps Scoble is the modern equivalent” – of the Microserfs narrator, I think he means…)

– [Outlook on software in 2006: Healthy, disruptive](https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064627/http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=30) (Dion Hinchcliffe summarizes the Software 2006 Industry Report – which is bullish on web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise)

– [SEO Spending vs. Google Base](https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064627/http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006616.html) (Jeremy suggests a service for inputting content into Google Base, as an SEO tool… I know of at least one vendor with plans to do this)

– [The next killer apps on the “connected web”](https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064627/http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/future-social-web-experience.cfm) (nice case studies…)

– [What’s Missing: A Web 2.0 Critique](https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064627/http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2006/04/whats_missing_a.html) (Stowe Boyd asks for “new and innovative ideas, not just a slightly different riff on meme tracking, or yet another email app, or just a different interface for photo sharing.”)

– [Subscription Music Services Compared](https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064627/http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/04/11/subscription-music-services-compared-part-2/) (Frank Gruber is doing great work at TechCrunch… btw I’ve been seeing interesting tv ads from Nokia about their mobile music service – can’t wait to see that.)

– [Fred Wilson on Disney releasing tv shows on the Web](https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064627/http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/04/umair_jarvis_di.html) (“We can’t get to Umair’s world of microchunked, rebundled media without the critical first step of freeing the content and focusing on monetizing it with new advertising models.”)

– [PaidContent on new media Emmy Award](https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064627/http://www.paidcontent.org/new-media-emmy-nominees-announced) (“will recognize entertainment programs created specifically online, portable players and mobile content.” — Live 8 on AOL got the most buzz, but the others I don’t know much about)

Flickr pic [by Niall Kennedy](https://web.archive.org/web/20090410064627/http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/78844524/): Bill Gates in a 1985 Windows advertisement.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_fi_17.php))*