Richard MacManus

Yahoo! Go is being advertised as “a new suite of products and services for your PC, mobile phone and even your TV”. The main aim is to enable people to connect with their content (e.g. email, photos, music) across a range of devices. Right now the Go product range is limited. Upon clicking the “Get … Read more

Apologies for light posting over the past few days, as I had to move web hosts (not once, but twice!) at very short notice. Comments have been down and you may have noticed some site glitches recently. But, knock on wood, things should be back to normal by end of today. I have a few … Read more

This week will be awash with coverage from the CES 2006 show in Las Vegas (International Consumer Electronics Show). I’ll be quaffing down any interesting news about Web-based media and gadgets, along with feasting on my staple Internet bigco diet of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Apple. Bill Gates (MS), Terry Semel (Yahoo) and Larry Page (Goog) … Read more

Yahoo will broadcast a reality tv series called “Wow House” on their Web portal within the next few months. The SF Chronicle calls it an early step in Yahoo’s ultimate goal to create television of the future. Wow House has a technology focus, as families participating in the show compete to outfit their homes with … Read more

Looking at the media year ahead, the LA Times christens Google the new 800-pound gorilla – and also the Big Bad Wolf – of the media business. It’s an extraordinary article that predicts mega-billion dollar wheeling and dealing in the media industry in 2006. Here are some highlights relating to Web companies: Google PC, Cubes … Read more

The Internet Stock Blog asks: “Is it possible that if Yahoo is the new Internet media leader with RSS, etc. and Google is the leader in search, that Apple will own rich media?” Well ‘own’ is too strong a word, but I do know I’ll be paying much more attention to Apple this year than … Read more

It’s technically New Years Eve where I am, as I write this. I haven’t done much blogging over the past week, because I’ve been re-charging my batteries and making plans for 2006. In this post I reflect on the year that’s past and tell you a bit about my plans for R/WW in 2006. A … Read more

On 9 January 2005, I published the first of my Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-ups. When I launched it I described it as “a weekly summary of news and views relating to Web 2.0 (Web as platform).” I pumped out one a week for the rest of 2005. In many ways I viewed the Wrap-Up as … Read more

William Slawski has compiled two very useful lists of acquisitions, first by Google and now by Yahoo (see also The Guardian’s list). I’ll add the third, Microsoft’s acquisitions as listed on their corporate site. From 2003 on: Nov. 3, 2005: FolderShare Nov. 3, 2005: media-streams.com AG Aug. 30, 2005: Teleo Inc. Jul. 20, 2005: FrontBridge … Read more

Last year about this time I did a post celebrating the best Web companies of 2004. I was planning on doing a mega version of that this year, extending it to software and services. But then Dion came up with his excellent list of best Web software of ’05, as close to definitive as you’ll … Read more

After my phone-throwing incident earlier this week, I think I’ve calmed down enough now to do the equivalent of going on the Letterman show and saying sorry to anyone I offended. My friend Mike Arrington called me a traitor and others baled me up about what I wrote. My position hasn’t changed, but I think … Read more

I’ve published a post on ZDNet that details how the Web was used for good in 2005, in very bad situations. It was actually something I wrote for the book I’m working on with Joshua Porter, but it will almost certainly not be used (due to the book having a design focus). So I thought … Read more

Feedster has named Read/WriteWeb one of their Feeds of the Year. Their summary of my blog is pretty funny, given the controversy over the past few days. Russell Shaw, whose post was the final straw which led me to declaring myself fed up with all the Web 2.0 hype and debate, was one of the … Read more

– Dan Gillmor is building a non-profit ‘Center for Citizen Media’, moving on from his previous (for-profit) project called Bayosphere. [via SiliconBeat] – The much-anticipated Pegasus News has released their first product, a music and entertainment news site called TexasGigs. It started as a music blog by Cindy Chaffin in 2002 – Chaffin will continue … Read more

This image from a Scott Gatzpresentation sums it up: 2005 was about introducing RSS to the products listed in Scott’s picture. 2006 will surely be about how to organize all those RSS feeds, for mainstream people in particular. Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)