Richard MacManus

As TechCrunch reported, Joshua Schachter has announced the sale of Del.icio.us to (who else) Yahoo. Personally I’m thrilled Yahoo got del.icio.us, but I’m hoping they don’t make it into a walled garden like they did with the My Web 2.0 product. Currently a user can export their data from del.icio.us, but they can’t do that … Read more

Here’s the Top Ten Web 2.0 memes, issues or news stories of the past week, as judged by me. 1. Lightnet: open up your media, the Lightnet revolution is here. Lucas Gonze is leading the charge of the lightnet brigade: “The strength of lightnet is that everybody who’s not a media incumbent wants it, and … Read more

Fred Wilson has been thinking about the Web as a Platform concept. Like me, Fred sees this phrase as central to understanding the current era of the Web – known as Web 2.0. I liked how he put it: “I believe the web is a platform. And that everything we need for an open ad … Read more

The Wall St Journal has a great write-up of Gabe Rivera’s tech.memeorandum, although tragically the WSJ misspelled the link! I also enjoyed the comparison made between Mike Arrington of TechCrunch and The Great Gatsby: “Consider a blog like TechCrunch, which chronicles the new breed of Internet start-ups known as Web 2.0 companies. The blogger behind … Read more

Lucas Gonze has been evangelizing a concept called lightnet. He coined the term, based on a recent Alex Barnett post entitled Hypertext and the next 15 years. Check out Lucas’ del.icio.us page full of lightnet links. So what is lightnet? It took me a bit of clicking around to grok it, but basically it’s the … Read more

Summary: For my blog, RSS is a much more important content format than HTML these days. In one of my posts, five and a half times more important! Darren Rowse writes that Page Views per user for blogs is on average relatively low – less than 2 pages per visit. After a bit of research … Read more

A couple of weeks ago Charlie Schick posted about the lack of mobile-focused bloggers in the Web 2.0 Workgroup. Charlie wrote: “…from the list, I, of course, did not see a person focusing on mobility. I’m not surprised. Mobile might not need a special focus, but it sure should be part of the discussion.” I … Read more

Note: The Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up is back with a new publishing day (Fri) and a new format, a countdown of the Top Ten Web 2.0 issues or news stories of the past week. Also I’m on the lookout for a new sponsor for the Weekly Wrap-Up. It’s had 3 extremely satisfied sponsors over the … Read more

Great article from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, covering Yahoo’s strategy. Interesting comparisions to Microsoft and Google, plus lots of stats to pore over for the number crunchers amongst us. But what I enjoyed most was how Wharton wrapped up so many of the themes I and others have been blogging about … Read more

From Yahoo’s RSS honcho Scott Gatz: “Tonight we are launching a full post rss reader in the new Yahoo Mail beta. If you are in the beta, you’ll automatically get the new features. RSS in mail makes perfect sense for a few reasons: 1) people already spend a lot of time in their Mail experience, … Read more

I’ve made some changes to my new design. Less shocking red and also a new logo (see below). A huge thanks to Ariel from mEgo, who made the logo for me and created the new color scheme. Thanks Ariel! Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

Last night Yahoo! announced they are integrating RSS into their web mail and alerts products. As Scott Gatz explained in an interview with PodTech: Yahoo’s plan, which started in January 2004 when they launched RSS in the My Yahoo portal, is to “bring RSS to the masses”. I liked how Ben Barren described this as … Read more

In an article entitled The Return of Monetized Eyeballs, Om Malik values BoingBoing at $34 million – calculated at $38 per unique monthly website visitor (the average purchase price per unique user of acquisitions during the past year). John Battelle, who manages BoingBoing, thinks that figure is off because it’d be hard to make that … Read more

Ted Gilchrist pointed to a new text-to-voice service he’s running called Botcast Network. He’s created a special podcast feed for my blog, so you can regularly listen to my blog posts being spoken in a robot voice. I actually already had a text-to-voice service running on Read/WriteWeb, Talkr, so I thought I’d compare the two … Read more

In my previous two ZDNet posts, I’ve been exploring the Web browser market. Here are brief highlights from those posts: Mobile Web browsers – Microsoft’s downfall?: As we begin to use mobile devices more and more to access the Web, Microsoft’s browser dominance may begin to ebb away. 2008-09 is predicted to be when the … Read more