Richard MacManus

sponsored by: This week: Grokking Yahoo! My Web 2.0, What is Where 2.0, Entrepreneurs start your engines, RSS VC fund fever, Techie Post of the Week – Attention. Thoughts on Yahoo! My Web 2.0 Yahoo’s unveiling of a “social search engine” called My Web 2.0 got almost as much tech blogger coverage as Microsoft’s RSS … Read more

Good, Dave Winer has returned to text format (at least for today) for his morning coffee notes. That means I can link to it. He wrote this morning: “Every company, not just tech companies, needs to have a presence in the blogging world, someone whose feet are planted both in the network outside the organization … Read more

In my podcast with Alex Barnett the other day, I mentioned that the Read/Write Web (the theory, not my site) isn’t just about writing as we usually think of it on the Web – blogs, wikis, etc. It can also be interacting or transacting with websites and apps. Participating in the Web. This was one … Read more

I’m doing the rounds on the podcasting circuit. Tonight I did an impromptu podcast with Microsoft International Program Manager Alex Barnett. We were chatting via Skype and it kind of just turned into a podcast. Skype can record calls, which I didn’t know until Alex told me – he has instructions on his blog. Alex … Read more

I did a podcast with Roland Tanglao early this morning my time. My first real ‘chatty’ podcast, so it was enjoyable. Roland is more of a natural podcaster than me. I was all “um”s and “yep”s and coughs and halt–ing speech. But that’s what podcasting’s about – it brings the real live person behind the … Read more

Yahoo has a beta “Social Search Engine” called (woo!) My Web 2.0. According to the Yahoo Search Blog, it “enables people to search the expertise of their friends and community”. It hooks into Yahoo 360 (which opened up to the general public last week), and it’s got “personalized search”, sharing controls, tagging and APIs. All … Read more

I’ve recently added a neat new feature onto my blog – a “Listen to audio version of this post” link at the end of each post (only on my website). It’s powered by a really cool new app called Talkr.com. Every time I write a post on Read/Write Web, Talkr converts it into an MP3 … Read more

sponsored by: This week: Wrap of Microsoft RSS news, reblog/reblg, Attention, Yahoo 360 go-live, Late Show style Top Ten for Web 2.0. Microsoft RSS Wrap The biggest story of the week, probably even the year, was Microsoft’s bearhug embrace of RSS. They got Dave Winer’s blessing and they made all the right sounds in their … Read more

There has been a lot of coverage already about Microsoft’s RSS in Longhorn announcements, so my aim here is to distil it and get to the essence of it. I’m doing this for my own benefit really, but hopefully my notes help others grok it too. The obvious place to start is Robert Scoble’s blog … Read more

MediaPost reports that Microsoft’s MSN portal is advertising for bloggers. At first glance, this is right up my street. I’ve been trying to get an ongoing and secure 20 hour/week writing gig for months, with no success – i.e. I’m still at my day job! So my first thought was: is this potentially my breakthrough … Read more

In the tradition of David Letterman, I’ve come up with my own topic-focused Top Ten list. Top ten signs you spend too much time thinking about Web 2.0: 10. When arranging to meet with your friends in town, you suggest a “point of presence” instead of a meeting place. 9. Your child asks you for … Read more

Apparently tiny font size means more Adsense revenues. Sad… and how the heck this promotes “greater Reader participation” is beyond me, unless by that they mean squinting to read the blog’s content and shading one’s eyes to avoid the glare of the ads. [via] Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

I have a feeling this is going to be hugely significant. Dave Winer wrote today: “On Friday you’ll see how deeply integrated RSS is in the architecture of the browser. But that’s just the tip of what may turn out to be a very big iceberg. The people at Microsoft noticed something that I had … Read more

Morenews is filtering through about AOL’s re-design. AOL is probably second behind Yahoo in terms of the number of users it has, although it’s far behind Yahoo in terms of marketing itself as a media company. If you look at AOL.com’s homepage right now, for example, you’ll see it still largely promotes itself as an … Read more

Congrats to fellow Wellington boy Michael Campbell for winning the U.S. Open in golf today! A huuuge achievement! And I love this quote from him afterwards: “I thought before the round started, nobody’s really taking any special notice of me. Just a quiet kiwi hanging around, there and thereabouts. If I play well, I could … Read more