Richard MacManus

I’m really hoping this ‘Dot Oh’ term takes off – kind of like Dot Com, ay? 🙂 Anyway, Paul Scrivens has written a great post on the value of branding in the Web 2.0 world. Scrivs wrote: “A major problem with this phase of the web that many people seem to miss isn’t that companies … Read more

Lots to eat today in Dot Oh Cafe. Here are some of the tasty tidbits that caught my eye as I perused the tech.memeorandum and Rojo menus: Google’s smorgasbord classifieds service Google Base is eating the lunch of many a hungry 2.0 start-up. Here are some of the mouth-watering dishes in Google Buffet (aka Base): … Read more

WebDosBeta is Spain’s equivalent of the Web 2.0 Conference and it was held on 24 October in Madrid. I noticed it the other day in Technorati’s Top 10 searches, but at the time I couldn’t find any English translations. Thankfully Yannick Laclau has come through for us English-speakers and posted a fantastic summary on his … Read more

In today’s ZDNet column, I review Internet TV start-up Brightcove: “Brightcove was presented at the Web 2.0 Conference and is what I would class as a disruptive Web 2.0 start-up – one to keep an eye on. Whether or not they meet their ambitious aim of becoming a Google-scale Internet TV business, will play out … Read more

This week: Anti-Web 2.0, Bubble Meme Map, Flock, Web Libraries, Techie Post of the Week – Ben Barren on Architecture Astronauts sponsored by: Anti-Web 2.0 This was the week when the Web 2.0 Naysayers reached a crescendo of cynicism and even bile. Some of the criticism about Web 2.0 is right on the mark, don’t … Read more

While doing some research for a work project I’m doing currently, I came across this illuminating PEW report from January 2005, called Internet Evolution: A decade of adoption: How the internet has woven itself into American life. The following extract is from the introduction, entitled ‘Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life’. Here it is, with … Read more

Looks like the Web 2.0 Naysayers are starting to drown out those of us who’ve been preaching the 2.0 Gospel. Joel on Software, who has a lot of influence in the programming world, comes down hard with his post entitled Architecture Astronauts Are Back: “The term Web 2.0 particularly bugs me. It’s not a real … Read more

By now most of you know that Flock, a trendy new Mozilla-based “social web browser”, has gone live. Because it’s said to be a quintessential Web 2.0 application, I feel duty-bound to try it out. So I’ve downloaded it and will give it a go as my main browser for a while. I won’t however … Read more

Gmail Engineer Paul Buchheit has a lovely post in which he explains why he created Gmail for Google. He begins by noting that email has just turned 34 – only one or two months younger than me as it happens. He goes on to say that Gmail gave him “the opportunity to change email”. This … Read more

Gabe Rivera’s memeorandum got a great write-up in Wired News today. Also TechCrunch reported that memeorandum has a new feature, a news widget that bloggers can include on their site. As I was looking at tech.memeorandum again this morning (as I do multiple times a day), it struck me that the Flock coverage is a … Read more

In my ZDNet blog, Web 2.0 Explorer, I’ve launched an Indiana Jones-like quest to find the Great Disruptive Web 2.0 Start-Ups of our era. I’m on the hunt for two separate types of disruptive start-ups: 1) disruptive technologies that could change the Web – like Google did. 2) non-geek services built using Web 2.0 technologies. … Read more

The Times of UK reports: “Google has dropped the Gmail name for its e-mail service in the UK following a long-running row with a small British company that has claimed the rights to the trademark. […] From today new users of Google’s e-mail service will get an @googlemail.com address. Those that have already signed up … Read more

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has filed a lawsuit against Google “over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners”. I liked how John Battelle summed it up: “I really don’t get this. I have been both a publisher and an author, and I have to tell … Read more

Ben Barren’s posts just keep getting better and better. Today he ponders the question: What Connects Richard MacManus + Jessica Alba?. He writes: “we may need a “Post-Valley Intervention” – Since The Father of Web 2.0 has left The Valley he has gone stir crazy. He was last seen walking around the set of Lord … Read more

Today The Register’s Andrew Orlowski gleefully reported the existence of the first “Web 2.0 worm”. Wrote our man in San Francisco: “It’s been a rough weekend for Tomorrow’s People. A JavaScript exploit that has been called the first “Web 2.0 worm” knocked out MySpace.com – and the $500m-valued website, recently acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News … Read more