Richard MacManus

Discussion: Open vs. Closed Models Danny Rimer , Jeff Barr, Toni Schneider Tim: what do you actually own? Jeff from Amazon: we own customer db and namespace of products (Tim’s summary). Toni from Yahoo!: different answer for each product; but Y! owns “user’s trust”. Tim asks Toni whether Y! lets people export data? Toni: community … Read more

Lots of data points. “Korea is goto place to figure out where the Internet is going” Innovation coming out of China – 5,6,7 yrs time we’re at “boom-let” stage now (after boom and bust) market valuations of top 5 companies huge (google, yahoo, ebay, yahoo japan, amazon), compared to 2000. entering 2 most profound cycles … Read more

Mary Meeker called where we’re at now a “boom-let”. We’ve gone from boom to bust to boom-let (presumably a precursor to the next boom). She thinks the first 10 years of Web were just the warm-up act for what will happen next. She’s particularly bullish on mobile technologies, which definitely haven’t matured yet. Mary mentioned … Read more

Very interesting John Battelle-hosted conversation with Terry Semel, Yahoo CEO, at the conference. The difference between outlook and attitude between Semel and Barry Diller is stark. On the one hand, Diller’s conversation yesterday was very much old-media, 20th century thinking. Semel on the other hand very much impressed me with his take on what is … Read more

I’m running out of battery time on my laptop, so I’ll have to wrap up coverage of the conference for now. It’s been a very busy day, running from one workshop to the next, packing in like nerd sardines into the workshop rooms, schmoozing, filling up the brain with knowledge. On a personal level, I … Read more

Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle are on stage now with the formal intro. Great setting, two big screens on both sides of the main stage – which is a nice emerald green design with huge golden lights above. Big crowd (of course). It’s been a hectic day and a lot of (literal) buzz around. Tim … Read more

Real-time blogging going on here… Jeff Jarvis, President & Creative Director, Advance.net Dick Costolo, CEO, Feedburner Matt Cutts, Software Engineer, Google Chas Edwards, Vice President, Sales & Market Development, Federated Media Publishing Brian McAndrews, President and CEO, aQuantive Mark Pincus, Founder, tribe.net Time: 11:15am – 12:30pm powerpoint about Distributed advertising Intro by Jeff, then all … Read more

John Battelle is speaking to Barry Diller of IAC. John asked straight off: why did you buy Ask? Barry: search box would keep evolving and more convergence through it. They “plunged” into an arrangement with Ask. If they failed and didn’t gain share, that’s OK – because it (Ask) has “enormous promise”. Barry says a … Read more

Time: 1:30pm – 2:45pm Panelists: David Madelorot, VP Search Content, Yahoo! Search Will Johnson, VP & GM, Yahoo! Publisher Network Online Anne Frisbie, Sr. Director of Category Search Marketing, Yahoo! David: ecosystem: publishers, users, advertisers; incorporated into mission statement; yahoo being glue in the middle; overarching vision: FUSE. Find: re Search Subscriptions product –> not … Read more

24 Hour Laundry, the secretive start-up of Marc Andresson, has just released their new product – Ning. It’s a free online service for “building and using social applications”. Basically it’s a Web 2.0 development tool aimed at non-developers. Developers too will benefit from it, because it sounds like a Ruby on Rails for mash-ups – … Read more

My post yesterday asking if Bloglines has dropped the ball in the web-based RSS Aggregator market provoked some interesting responses. Among them were a couple of comments from Jim Lanzone, Senior VP of Search Properties at Ask Jeeves. In his second comment Jim asked for more feedback from people who want Bloglines to improve. Jim … Read more

Yahoo! has bought upcoming.org, Andy Baio’s events service: “In just a few years, most of it spent on nights and weekends, the Upcoming team has built an excellent site with a loyal and growing following. Now that theyve joined Yahoo!, together well build a social events platform that will integrate with our existing events offering … Read more

Lycos, search engine portal and owner of Wired Magazine, has announced its intention to rebrand as a media company. According to the press release Lycos has released a service called Planet, which enables its users to create “mini sites” that include photos, blogs, slideshows, animation, special effects and other multimedia. ClickZ referred to Planet as … Read more

Yahoo! is teaming up with The Internet Archive to help build a digital archive of “globally sourced digital collections, including multimedia content”. I understand this means books, academic material, audio and video media. Question: does this crossover with OurMedia.org – or will there be arbitary boundaries between ‘professional’ and amateur media content? Called the Open … Read more

This week: Defining Web 2.0, Web-based office, Yahoo media/tv, Google Wifi, Techie Post of the Week: Tim O’Reilly’s What is Web 2.0. sponsored by: Defining Web 2.0 A lot of online trees were felled this week to write about what Web 2.0 means. Tim O’Reilly’s definition is a very comprehensive one and is more satisfying … Read more