– Talkin’ bout a media revolution (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 (“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 (Scott Karp responds to criticism of Yahoo Tech by myself and Om Malik, amongst other geeks. Om responds. I’ll certainly be interested to see if/how Yahoo Tech gathers a passionate user base around their site…)
– Yahoo’s New Reality (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 (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 (this has Marc Canter‘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? (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 (prototype of tv catalogue database holding over 900,000 entries — more from Ben Metcalfe, who calls it “IMDB for BBC programmes”.)
– A Firefox versus IE7 smackdown (Ed Bott compares IE7 betas to Firefox and concludes that Microsoft has effectively caught up, from technical pov.)
– Web 2.0 meets the enterprise (Well-written CNET article on a trend that I’m tracking closely…)
Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)