– List of Social Networking Systems (including their target audiences; very useful resource from Sid Yadav)
– MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites (according to Hitwise, www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users)
– Rise of the Socially-Integrated Media Empire (Robert Young says that media companies need to embrace “social integration”, even though it competes with traditional media consumption; he likens it to cable tv)
– Fred Wilson’s Social Media musings (“Social media will co-exist with produced media, what the ultimate market share of each is a big open question, but I believe they are both important.”)
– Netscape crossing the chasm (Nicholas Carr comments on my recentposts about Netscape’s troubles: “…the remaking of Netscape seems like the first real attempt to take Web 2.0 across the chasm, from the little land of enthusiasts and early adopters to the big world of the pragmatic mainstream.”)
– Attensa for Outlook 1.5 Public Beta (“…uses our AttentionStream technology to automatically and intelligently prioritize RSS feeds and articles and bring the subscriptions and articles you find most interesting to the top”)
– Top 10 Reasons to Embrace the Rich Internet Application (Ryan Stewart, who got hired by ZDNet after being noticed as a R/WW Guest Blogger, talks about why you should embrace non-browser web apps)
– Tim O’Reilly argues that Operations is key to web20 (what’s more, the likes of Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are not releasing their operational competencies to the open source community)
– Paul Graham on Web 2.0 (“It’s kind of like they printed the name on a sticky label, threw it on the floor, and it stuck on the heel of a guy passing by. The name is a little fake, but the guy is real.” — n.b. am I that guy?)
– Anil Dash is impressed by The Long Tail (“…using a wider range of source material than even the seminal Wired article, along with the phenomenal amount of primary research into sales data, makes the book something very impressive and unique.”)
Photo was taken at one of the Gnomedex events – Mike Arrington playfully hitting Steve Gillmor over the head 🙂
Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)