Richard MacManus

by Ajit Jaokar (Richard’s Note: Ajit is the second of my guest bloggers on Read/WriteWeb and he will be writing on Mobile Web 2.0 and digital convergence. Ajit runs a book publishing company called futuretext, which specializes in these topics. He also chairs Oxford university’s next generation mobile applications panel and is a member of … Read more

Web design firm 37Signals has kindly given me 5 copies of their 171-page PDF book, Getting Real, to give away. Retailing for $19 on the 37Signals website, the book is sub-titled ‘The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application’. Given that I named 37Signals my Best Web LittleCo of 2005, I think … Read more

This is the first post in a series in which I will explore microcontent design. “…content will be more important than its container in this next phase. That’s a big shift for old media to come to grips with. Killer apps, such as search, RSS and video-capture software such as Tivo — to name just … Read more

…you have lunch with The President, er I mean Bill Gates. Mike Arrington as snapped by Robert Scoble: Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

AOL has just released a new site called I Am Alpha, which is their version of Yahoo! Widgets or Microsoft Gadgets. Google has modules and all the smaller players have similar widget featuresets – PageFlakes calls them “flakes” and Goowy calls them minis. All of these things are basically little web apps that can be … Read more

Sometimes we all get so wrapped up in the latest Web 2.0 calendar, rss reader or search product, that we forget that some things labeled ‘Web 2.0’ are actually doing social good in the world. This is the case with NetSquared, which is a non-profit organization that aims to “increase nonprofit effectiveness through the use … Read more

Rojo, the web-based RSS Aggregator I’ve used ever since I gave up hope of Bloglines ever stepping up its functionality, has just come out with some more enhancements. About a month ago, they re-designed their site and now they’ve done another overhaul and added 3 new features – one of which (relevance) I will drill … Read more

– Microsoft’s Remix Mix Contest Winners (more gadget goodness from MS… pic from Donovan West, one of the 3 winners) – Notes from Mashup Camp on mashup business models (I hadn’t seen these notes when I did my post on the same topic – makes a nice complimentary piece. Thanks John Musser for the link.) … Read more

by Ryan Stewart (Richard’s Note: I’m introducing guest bloggers to Read/WriteWeb, to write about topics that I think will be of interest to R/WW readers – but which I’m not an expert in myself. Ryan Stewart is the first of my guest bloggers, writing on the topic of Flash and ‘rich internet apps’. I’ll be … Read more

In this exclusive interview with ex-Excite founder and current JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus, I discuss with Joe the Web Office and his ‘Embrace and Extend’ theory. “Our goal wasn’t just to build Excel online. In fact I believe that Excel will be ‘Excel Online’. Microsoft isn’t dumb and they get this revolution about ‘software as … Read more

Developing a mashup can be a lot of fun and it’s usually low cost, because you’re using (semi) open tools and data. Forget fun though for a minute – is there a business in mashups? There are obvious benefits for the data providers, for example both Google and craigslist benefit from increased traffic to their … Read more

Niall Kennedy is on a roll, having this week published an informative series of posts on the RSS platform and the ‘state of the aggregator’: NewsGator API Google Reader platform Windows RSS Platform Feeds as a platform State of the aggregator I don’t really have anything to add, being busy in the middle of other … Read more

Is it just me, or does the list of winners announced for the 2006 Bloggies (the blogging oscars) bear a striking resemblance to the last 5-6 years? Slashdot, Boing Boing, Blogger, etc. Where are all the ‘2.0’ sites, like TechCrunch, Scripting News, Digg? Anyway, there was one shining light: Darren Rowse’s Problogger got an award … Read more

– The “Real” SXSW (it seems that live blogging is beside the point at an SXSW… I say that after fruitless searches tonight for the winners of the awards — Technorati and 9rules won apparently, but that’s all I know officer…) – Star of Startup.com Resurfaces (I enjoyed that movie… ex GovWorks Kaleil Isaza Tuzman … Read more

– Google/Writely points to online/offline future (Phil Sim is putting out some excellent analysis these days, especially on the topic of Web Office. In this post he convincingly makes the case for an online/offline amalgam Office.) – Directory of New Web Office Technology (Rod Boothby has started a fantastic resource here…) – Instructables (Interesting new … Read more