Richard MacManus

Martijn van Osch did an experiment with digg, in which he submitted a story about a company that made a girl undress in the shopping window of its store in Copenhagen. In his post he linked to a short movie available of the girl undressing and the people gathering to get a glimpse of her. … Read more

Windows Live Ideas is a good place to bookmark (you know, that thing you used to do in the 90’s with web pages when you wanted to regularly check for updates…). It outlines all of Microsoft’s products on the Live platform, most of which are in beta currently. Given the brand confusion about MSN and … Read more

I get a lot of product pitches by email every day, but few of them are really compelling enough to grab my attention. But this one did, perhaps because it is a product that promises a much-needed media tracking solution. In this case, podcasting statistics (and later video-blogging). From the SONR homepage: “SONR (Sonar) is … Read more

Feedburner, inaugural winner of the R/WW Best Web LittleCo award in 2004 (current holder is 37Signals) has just released the final stage of their FeedFlare rollout. FeedFlare is a set of web services plug-ins. I wrote about it in December when they released stage 1 and at the time I called it “interactive RSS”. In … Read more

Ex-Feedster Scott Johnson has an interesting podcast entitled The Young Engineer’s Guide to Startups. It gives a nice overview of the startup life, especially things like equity and the ‘risk to reward ratio’. The latter can be summarized as: the earlier you join a startup, the higher the risk… but also potential reward. Other tips: … Read more

Back to naming this R/WW Filter – there aren’t enough hours in a day sometimes for a ‘Daily’ 🙂 – DEMO roundups (TechCrunch and Jeff Clavier are the ones I’ve been tracking — I’m liking the sound of Plum and Blurb…) – More on Feed Grazing (“…we’ll always subscribe to a core set of critical … Read more

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, VP of technical strategy and innovation at IBM, has a post up on AlwaysOn about how the Internet is finally delivering on the long-held promise of convergence: “There is no question in my mind that convergence is now coming to digital entertainment and consumer electronics. Consumer electronics products are being built using common … Read more

Interesting notion of “feed grazing” from James Corbett and Danny Ayers. James actually came up with the concept – this explanation is from a comment he left on Danny’s blog: “I‚Äôm actually coming to the conclusion that the whole subscriptions mindset is a problem and that in future we‚Äôll ‚Äògraze‚Äô for the most part instead … Read more

In my post earlier today Rating the Meme Trackers, one of the news clustering services I mentioned was Blogrunner’s The Annotated New York Times. It essentially remixes the NY Times, by clustering external blog posts that cite NY Times stories. Well today PaidContent.org posted an interview with NY Times VP of Digital Operations Martin Nisenholtz, … Read more

TechCrunch recently rounded up a list of Memeorandum hunters, or what Don Dodge is calling meme trackers (I like that term). Seeing as I was one of the first off the blocks with a rave memeorandum review back in September 05, right behind Robert Scoble, and I’ve been gushing about it ever since – I … Read more

I listened to the Gillmor Gang today, because it featured Gabe Rivera talking about Memeorandum. After wading through all the Gang’s talk about Sun.com, which didn’t interest me in the slightest (what was that about?!), I noted this gem of a quote from Doc Searls: “Memeorandum is what google news should’ve been.” Gabe also spoke … Read more

– Esther Dyson talk (Yahoo is “intelligent design”; Google is “blind evolution.”) – CES Storylines (nice quote: “By the time Vista hits the street… it will be less about the OS itself, and more about the vast array of services surrounding it.”) – Consumer Internet, Digital Media and Technology Conferences for 2006 (very useful list) … Read more

Some great quotes on this page. My favorite: “Not all content wants to be free but it needs to be easy. We allow people to find the content they want. There is a big market for the best, not just the cheapest.” — Sergei Brin, founder, Google Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

Memeorandum‘s Gabe Rivera was interviewed by Don Dodge from Microsoft. I found this comparison with Slashdot, Digg, Reddit interesting: “For readers of Digg (or Reddit, and to some extent, Slashdot), I’d say Memeorandum is: – More focused (on either “Tech” or “Politics”) – More expert/authority-driven – Better organized, visually Of course for a certain type … Read more

In Part 1 of my interview with digg founder Kevin Rose, we discussed digg’s popularity, reputation systems and recent issues with GroupThink. In the second part of this interview, Kevin and I talk about digg’s battle with spammers and the upcoming release of new personalization features, plus an API. Full story on ZDNet… Incidentally, I … Read more