Richard MacManus

Tim O’Reilly has posted a meme map of Web 2.0, from the “What is Web 2.0?” brainstorming session at FOO Camp 2005. Hat-tip Josh for the link. It’s kind of a business model map: Click here for full image The orange box in the middle and brown ovals at the bottom cover some the themes … Read more

sponsored by: This week: eBay-Skype: Web 2.0 Ramifications, The Real World – Katrina response, Microsoft PDC – Start.com extended, Yahoo Shopping API and Shopify, New apps on the block. eBay-Skype: Web 2.0 Ramifications Early this week eBay confirmed its acquisition of Skype for between $2.6 – 4.1 billion. On my ZDNet blog I looked at … Read more

I love reading old books about the Web and Internet. I’m in the middle of Stewart Brand’s classic book from the 80’s, The Media Lab, right now. Anyway I came across this 2001 web article from devx called The Future of Web Apps and Services, on the subject of Futurist Paul Saffo’s predictions for the … Read more

Summary: 2006 may well be Microsoft’s year, with upgrades to its flagship Vista OS and Office 12 products. But only if Google lets it be their rival’s year. We don’t yet know what Google has up its sleeve – when will they release their own browser, or their web-based Office suite? We’ll find out perhaps … Read more

A new blog called Web Service Finder has done a Map of the Web 2.0 World and opened it up for editing on a Wiki. This is by the same blog that did a directory of APIs and Web Services – currently featuring 105 APIs and 27 examples. Chris Law, who helped found the social … Read more

Populicio.us was a service that used data from social bookmarking site del.icio.us, to create a site with enhanced statistics and a better variety of ‘popular’ links. However the Populicio.us service has just been taken off air, because its developer can no longer get the required information from del.icio.us. The developer of Populicio.us wrote: “Del.icio.us doesn’t … Read more

Part of my duties as the self-proclaimed Father of Web 2.0 is to help spread the word and get people interested in Web 2.0. BlogBridge has just published a list of some of my favourite Web 2.0-focused blogs. Note that it’s not a directory of all Web 2.0 related feeds, just a selection of feeds … Read more

Over on my ZDNet blog I’ve written a couple of posts that extend my analysis of The RSS Space. In the first post I explained the RSS Space categorization some more. I then noted that 4 of the 5 categories are at the mercy of The Big 3 of the Internet industry – Google, Microsoft … Read more

Why? Because they’ve only indexed my blog up till 26 May 2005! What’s up with that?! SearchEngineWatch has a good summary of opinions in the blogosphere. Put me down as ‘Underwhelmed’ please Danny (sub-category ‘Peeved’). UPDATE: I’ve discovered the issue is that Google Blog Search indexes the RSS domain name, not the blog one. Because … Read more

sponsored by: This week: Microsoft’s Web 2.0 platform, Rich Clients, Acquisitions, Web 2.0 in The Real World, Techie Post of the week – Web Development Trends for 2006. Microsoft’s Web 2.0 platform News this week that Microsoft is releasing a set of developer APIs for four MSN properties: MSN Virtual Earth, MSN Messenger, Start.com and … Read more

I’ve been one of the beta testers of a brilliant new blog news service over the past 2-3 months – and today it’s gone live. tech.memeorandum is the brainchild of Gabe Rivera. It basically aggregates all the latest news from blogs on one page – but it’s more than that. It’s an automated, constantly-updated, finger … Read more

James MacAonghus from Aqute is writing a series of posts analysing BBC Online, which I highly recommend you check out. In Part 1 James wrote that BBC’s online reach has been steadily growing. In Part 2 he drills down into the details. Although BBC has more than one online strategy, “a pattern is emerging” according … Read more

That’s the title of my latest post on ZDNet. I’m pointing to it here because Bloglines is for some reason not fetching the Web 2.0 Explorer feed, so the 56 people who’ve subscribed already in Bloglines (in just a couple of days – wow!) have not yet been notified of the new post. In it … Read more

Deja vu, is there a glitch in the Web 2.0 Matrix? Phil Pearson has noticed it: “OK guys, this is going too far. Not ALL of the following are required for a web 2.0-style application/site: – Name that consists of a number and a word. (37signals did it for their company, and 43places did it … Read more

A couple of weeks ago I began my new life as a full-time freelance Web Analyst and Writer. One of the things I’ll be doing is co-writing a book for O’Reilly Media on the topic of Web 2.0. I started writing it this week. I’ve also just started a ZDNet blog, called Web 2.0 Explorer. … Read more