Richard MacManus

The BBC has always been at the vanguard of new media in the Web 2.0 era, thanks in part to their public service charter – but also they obviously have a lot of smart, innovative thinkers on board. Today they announced “bbc.co.uk 2.0”, which will be a full-on attempt to turn BBC online into a … Read more

Recently I wrote a series of posts about Microcontent Design, using BBC Backstage as the main casestudy. As a segue from that theme, one of the product types I’ve been looking at recently is Microcontent Aggregators. One type of Microcontent Aggregator is a service that aggregates microcontent about a person (usually via RSS) and displays … Read more

– GData and Open Standards (Matt Kaufman from edgeio thinks Google could’ve done better to support existing open standards like Structured Blogging — via Jeff Clavier) – The Economist feature on new media (high level look at things like blogging and wikipedia) – Diversified Media Companies – Year To Date Price Breakouts (a chart which … Read more

So Russell Beattie has decided to call it a day. I admit his decision surprised me, because I’ve always enjoyed reading Russ’ well-informed commentary on the mobile Web. However it did make me wonder – what would cause other people to give up blogging? Here are the top ten reasons I could think of: 10. … Read more

My ZDNet post today explores the reasons behind Google’s new syndication format, GData. Like most people, Jeff Jarvis isn’t sure what this means – and neither is Dave Winer. I’m in the same boat, but what I do know is that Google has taken a sudden interest in extending RSS and Atom. Check out this … Read more

– Yahoo buys digital home company Meedio (Meedio has a suite of products, including Meedio TV, which “lets you watch, pause, rewind, and record live analog, digital, and HDTV broadcasts using your existing PC…”) – Google-Vision: Is Google TV on its way? (“Google are advertising for an Interactive TV Product Manager in Mountain View, as … Read more

After my post that reviewed promising new email subscription services Zookoda and Yutter, I got an email from Feedburner telling me they had a new email service in the works. Tonight it was released – in fact you may have noticed it in my site menu earlier today. True to form, Feedburner’s new offering is … Read more

I love web apps that are very easy to install and use – and have an ongoing benefit. Priceheat falls into this category, because it literally took me 10 seconds to install and I can see myself using it a lot. To install all I needed to do was drag a link from their website … Read more

This post was written by Ryan Stewart, who is a R/WW guest blogger on Rich Internet Apps. Edited by Richard MacManus. In the coming months we will see a new wave of Rich Internet Applications that will blend the web application and the desktop application in exciting new ways. There are three technologies on the … Read more

In Part 1 of this series I introduced the concept of Microcontent Design, followed by a case study of BBC’s developer network backstage.bbc.co.uk in Part 2. Now let’s look at what’s being built by external parties, using the BBC Backstage ecosystem. Specifically this post is an in-depth and developer-focused look into a application called Mightyv, … Read more

Tonight Google unveiled its online Calendar. As usual whenever Google releases a product these days, it prompted me to ponder the Google Office 🙂 I’m convinced it’s around the corner, so I decided to check Google’s progress on this ‘Moby Dick’ – the Great Web Office! More on my ZDNet blog, but here’s the table … Read more

A couple of months ago Mike Arrington posted a plea to the blogosphere for more email syndication services for blogs. Mike didn’t like the overly orange branding of Feedblitz, but more to the point he noted that blogs still need email. Now I’m about as big an RSS advocate as you’ll find on the Web, … Read more

John Hagel has a thought-provoking post about microchunking and media businesses. It follows on from Umair Haque’s post, in which Umair said that “unbundling” media (e.g. Disney releasing tv shows for free online) is only half the equation. The other half – the real value – is in “rebundling”. By which he means individual users … Read more

– Live.com to be homepage of Vista, IE7 (Niall Kennedy answers a question I asked at Microsoft Search Champs in January – HUGE news for RSS, search and gadgets) – Microserfs, Revisted (“perhaps Scoble is the modern equivalent” – of the Microserfs narrator, I think he means…) – Outlook on software in 2006: Healthy, disruptive … Read more

The Structured Blogging website has been upgraded and went live tonight. I re-designed the website and did the writing for it, under the employ of Marc Canter’s Broadband Mechanics and with the help of others in the Structured Blogging community such as Conor O’Neill. PubSub supplied the stylesheets and php code. Indeed PubSub and BBM … Read more