---
title: "Read/WriteWeb Filter"
date: 2006-05-02
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/WriteWeb Filter

![murdoch bbc](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758im_/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/murdoch_bbc.jpg)– [Talkin’ bout a media revolution](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4962770.stm) (BBC article on, er, BBC media. And they chose the worst possible Murdoch photo to use 🙂 Anyway, it’s an interesting article on how media is coping with web 2.0)

– [BW on News Corp Web strategy](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2006/tc20060502_678266.htm) (“Fox Interactive Media has picked up two small Web companies to complement earlier Internet acquisitions such as MySpace” — Newroo and kSolo hardly earth-shattering buys… haven’t seen a solid Web strategy yet from News Corp)

– [Yahoo Tech Is Tech For the Rest of Us](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://publishing2.com/2006/05/01/yahoo-tech-is-tech-for-the-rest-of-us/) (Scott Karp responds to criticism of Yahoo Tech by myself and Om Malik, amongst other geeks. [Om responds](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://daily.gigaom.com/2006/05/02/more-yahoo-tech-reactions/). I’ll certainly be interested to see if/how Yahoo Tech gathers a passionate user base around their site…)

– [Yahoo’s New Reality](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12580184/site/newsweek/) (Newsweek report on Yahoo Tech and Y!’s general strategy — positions it as a battle against Google. Hmmm, I’m not necessarily buying that…)

– [ Microsoft Expected To Invest Another $2 Billion On Web Services, Xbox](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://www.paidcontent.org/msft-expected-to-invest-another-2-billion-on-web-services-xbox) (Microsoft making all the right moves, but the stock market and its analysts didn’t like the extra spending…)

– [Always-On upgrades to its new social networking site, GoingOn](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://www.goingon.com/) (this has [Marc Canter](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/)‘s DLA stamp all over it – disclaimer: I did a bit of work on the initial specs as part of BBM)

– [ Is the pace of change really such a shock?](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/04/is_the_pace_of_change_really_such_a_shock.shtml) (Reality check from Tom Coates, who argues correctly that broadcast media is slowly but surely being usurped due to technology — it hasn’t been a sudden change…)

– [BBC Programme Catalogue](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax) (prototype of tv catalogue database holding over 900,000 entries — more [ from Ben Metcalfe](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/26/launched-bbc-programme-catalogue/), who calls it “[IMDB](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://www.imdb.com/) for BBC programmes”.)

– [A Firefox versus IE7 smackdown](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1313) (Ed Bott compares IE7 betas to Firefox and concludes that Microsoft has effectively caught up, from technical pov.)

– [ Web 2.0 meets the enterprise](https://web.archive.org/web/20100819093758/http://news.com.com/Web+2.0+meets+the+enterprise/2100-1012_3-6066138.html?tag=nefd.lede) (Well-written CNET article on a trend that I’m tracking closely…)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_fi_20.php))*