Richard MacManus

Tushar Vyas, from mOne-Group M: “Traditionally, media enthralled people. Today it doesn’t happen – customers are multitasking and fragmented. Today’s customer wants to gain perspective, personalise the experience, get involved and participate. Digital allows this to happen.” Quoted by Dina Mehta at Digital Summit 2006 – Integrating Online into the Traditional Media Mix panel. Where … Read more

Aggregating and filtering the latest Web Tech and Media news, so you don’t have to! – Digital Summit 2006 (in Mumbai India. Dina Mehta is covering the event in her blog and says so far there’s been little talk of social software, but she has some good real-time notes with stats on the India Internet … Read more

Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig has a thought-provoking essay on FT.com about the perilous state of what he terms the Read-Write Internet: “We are well on our way to perfecting the “Read-Only” internet – that network in which every bit of culture can be bought in a single click, but bought with the rights to … Read more

A daily review of Web and Media news that crosses my path during the day. – comScore: Google Continues to Hold Top Position in Search Share Rankings (see also Shore analysis: “It also means that general aggregators will continue to position their search services increasingly for specific verticals”) – Josh Porter has a number 1 … Read more

On my ZDNet blog, I discuss social news site reddit.com with co-founder Alexis Ohanian and compare their collaborative filtering system with Digg‘s. Reddit may have a jump on Digg when it comes to avoiding groupthink and spam, via a user reputation system it calls ‘karma’. Check out the full story on ZDNet and tell me … Read more

It’s not quite a Bloggers and Old Media lovefest yet, but at least people seem to have eased up on the ‘us vs them’ rhetoric. AdAge.com has a nice article explaining why Blogging vs. Traditional Media has been oversold. Scott Karp’s recent post entitled Bloggers Are So Wrong About Media raised some hackles, but in … Read more

A daily review of Web and Media news that crosses my path during the day. I need a better name for it – any suggestions? – John Battelle’s thinking ahead to the next Web 2.0 Conference and is seeking feedback for a byline. I may not be hyping the meme anymore, but I love the … Read more

This story warms the cockles of my heart, not only as a kiwi but a wanna-be Web millionnare 😉 AfterMail, a company from my hometown Wellington New Zealand, recently sold their web mail software to US company Quest for $14.7 million upfront and another $30 million in cash if it meets performance targets. That’s US … Read more

Sorry for lack of updates recently, I’ve been busy getting married 🙂 I see others have been busy too – Mike Arrington’s expanded the Crunch empire with a new mobile blog called MobileCrunch, Susan Mernit’s been hired by Yahoo! (does this mean I get my name on the 5ive page now? ;-)), Ben Barren’s launching … Read more

I’m not usually an Apple fanboy, but I decided to check out Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote this year. The webcast was provided by Apple (nb: they force you to download the latest iTunes + Quicktime in order to watch it). Steve wowed us with some big numbers, including impressive iPod figures. Apple sold 14m ipods … Read more

A USA Today article reveals that MySpace has now reached 47.3 million members. The Blog Herald also reports that MySpace “is growing by an amazing 160,000 new users a day, according to MediaPost”. USA Today gives a rundown of numbers for SNS sites, c/o comScore Media Metrix. They note that “in the past year, the … Read more

Perhaps I ventured a bit too far out of my echo chamber, but today I came across 3 different conspiracy theory articles about popular Web companies. One was about e-commerce giant Amazon.com and the other two related to leading Social Networking sites MySpace and Facebook. The theories namecheck the CIA, the FBI and a non-showering … Read more

Yahoo continues to buy up all the great talent, this time they’ve snagged my blog buddy Lucas Gonze and his innovative music-sharing web app Webjay. As the Yahoo! Music Blog explained [via TechCrunch]: “Webjay is visionary and fantastic, but we are also keenly interested in Lucas the individual. He’s contributed a lot of great work … Read more

I used to think the Semantic Web was the Moby Dick of the Web. But now I think the Google OS and Office is. In the famous novel, Moby Dick is a mythical great white whale. It’s an embodiment of evil and power to Captain Ahab, whose goal is to hunt down the beast. However … Read more

There’s been a ton of CES news to digest these past few days, especially in the past 12 or so hours. Yahoo released Go and CEO Terry Semel made a speech at CES; Google released Google Pack, Google Video Player and Google Video Store; Larry Page did a speech at CES. As I trawled through … Read more