Richard MacManus

– Don’t Bounce The Ball Honey (The Redmonk view on Attention, gestural economics and loosely coupled ideas – I think I even got a gesture out of it, although maybe I’m just being vain…) – Roundup of Reactions to Google’s Earnings (The Internet Stock Blog collects all the data points into one post) – Rival … Read more

On my ZDNet blog I’ve just published the first of a two-part interview with digg founder Kevin Rose. In the interview we discuss digg’s popularity, its battle with spammers, the recent issues with GroupThink and digg’s upcoming personalization features. As you know, I’ve been somewhat critical of digg recently – in particular regarding recent signs … Read more

The Daily is back, now that I’m over my jet lag 🙂 – Scoble: I’m not an edge case (If you listen carefully, you’ll hear me whoop near the end of Scoble’s excellent outburst. I’ve never whooped in my entire life – yet here I am carrying on like I’m on the Oprah Show…) – … Read more

Curious comment from famous VC Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, he who invested heavily in Google in 1999. He also got a piece of Yahoo and Paypal — also Webvan and eToys, it has to be said. He’s listed as number 1 in the 2006 Forbes Midas List (via Jeff Clavier). Interesting then to note … Read more

The latest comScore Networks report states that total Internet spending reached $143.2 billion for the full year 2005, an increase of 22 percent from 2004. What’s more, comScore Networks chairman Gian Fulgoni is quoted as saying: “It’s clear based on what we’re seeing so far in 2006 that the strength in online sales will not … Read more

Todd Bishop from Seattle PI newspaper speculates whether Wellington filmmaker Peter Jackson was in Seattle and Microsoft last week… at the same time a certain Wellington blogger was in town. Pete and me (nb: pic of me by Alex Barnett) Todd wrote: “Filmmaker Peter Jackson, best known as the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy’s director, … Read more

I’m still in transit from my flight back from Microsoft Search Champs in Seattle. Due to foggy weather in my home city of Wellington, I’ve had cancelled and delayed flights to deal with. And to top it all off, the airline lost my luggage!! I’m currently in Auckland and will be off to Wellington within … Read more

Today I was at the Redmond office of Microsoft and it was an interesting day of discussions about… well I’m not allowed to say due to NDA. But most of the last hour of presentations was bloggable. TechCrunch has a good summary post, to which I’ll add a few more details. Live.com is preparing for … Read more

In a few hours I’ll be on a plane to Seattle, for the Microsoft Search Champs V4. My second trip to the US and my first to Seattle. It’ll be 15.5 hours of flying time from New Zealand (not including waiting around for connecting flights etc), but luckily for me I’m flying business class – … Read more

Aggregating and filtering the latest Web Tech and Media news, so you don’t have to! This is a 5 or 6 day a week feature and feel free to email me interesting links for inclusion: readwriteweb AT gmail.com. – PodTech coverage of the Sundance Film Festival (as usual, John Furrier is providing outstanding audio coverage … Read more

From the Martin Scorsese DVD bio about Bob Dylan, called No Direction Home. This shot is right at the end (from a 1966 concert) after audience members booed him for playing electric and one guy yelled out “Judas!”. Dedicated to all those Web developers who are building things out of the ordinary — and anyone … Read more

I’ve been following Umair Haque‘s fascinating articles on new media economics and ‘edge competencies’ – and I’ve noticed he prefers Google’s media strategy to Yahoo’s. I’ve been curious to understand why, because the common wisdom over the past year or so is that Yahoo has been making all the right moves in this new world … Read more

Aggregating and filtering the latest Web Tech and Media news, so you don’t have to! (p.s. thanks for the encouraging comments about this new daily feature – I’m trying out a new name…) – Out with old media; in with… what? (CNNMoney.com ponders who will be media gatekeeper in the 21st century. I dunno, the … Read more

Aggregating and filtering the latest Web Tech and Media news, so you don’t have to! (p.s. it’d be great to get some feedback on this new daily feature of mine – is the R/W Filter of any value to folks? How can I improve it? Thanks!) – Chinese internet police (Rebecca MacKinnon tells us about … Read more

On ZDNet I’ve written an article outlining some common elements of a modern website or app. A lot of the features and functionality of so-called Web 2.0 sites are now common elements in most current web apps and sites. It’s really gone beyond what was labelled ‘Web 2.0’ last year, because so many mainstream websites … Read more