Richard MacManus

Google has just announced a new My Yahoo-like portal page, which they are calling a Personalized Google Homepage. It will be one place for users to access their Google search, news, Gmail, weather, stocks, driving directions, movies – and more. In the Google ‘Factory Tour’ webcast, Product Manager Marissa Mayer said they’ll offer “Universal RSS … Read more

sponsored by: This week: Greasemonkey mayhem, Ajax fever, Web Design Minimalism mojo, Blogpoly Fun!, Yahoo Music Engine rave. Greasemonkey gives power to power users What is Greasemonkey? According to the homepage, it’s “a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (“user scripts”) to any web page to change its behavior.” In laymans … Read more

We’re nearly halfway through 2005 and there’s still no heavyweight competition for Bloglines in the Web-based RSS Aggregator stakes. And I’m not talking about an Aggregation service like MyYahoo and Firefox Live Bookmarks, which aggregate feeds either on a webpage (MyYahoo) or in the browser bar (Firefox Live Bookmarks). Although they are hefty competitors of … Read more

The BBC has launched a new beta site called BBC Backstage, which is their new developer network. They’ve put the call out for people to remix their content, using their APIs and content RSS feeds. Although over the years the BBC has been understandably “cautious” about “letting go of control of so much of our … Read more

MBAs got top billing in my latest Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up – and there have been some interesting follow-ups. In the comments to yesterday’s post, Bud Gibson pointed to “The High Octane Blogging Bootcamp” that his company is doing for MBA students at the University of Michigan, starting this Saturday. More details here. Interestingly, they’re … Read more

sponsored by: This week: business folk getting interested in Web 2.0, Adam Curry podcasting from 2.0 perspective, cool Web 2.0 ‘mini-apps’, wrap-up of the adverts in RSS debate, Bosworth’s Web of Data. From MBA to Master of Web 2.0? I get accused of being too geeky sometimes on Read/Write Web (no argument there!). So I’m … Read more

Web 2.0 is coming soon to consumer medical information services, says Gordon Gould. He reckons the most interesting apps won’t come from established Web medical players, like WebMD, but rather from startups. Gordon thinks the established companies are too Web 1.0 – “monolithic, closed, and mostly just about info-retrieval”. WebMD’s mission seems to be to … Read more

You know how Jude Law seemed to be in just about every movie released in Hollywood last year? Well on a smaller scale, my writing is being published on various sites across the Web currently. And no I’m not talking about those people who copy and paste my posts into their blogs! ionRSS.com My new … Read more

Jeremy Keith has developed a web app called Adactio Elsewhere, which uses APIs to collect scattered pieces of Web content into one place. It’s a nice idea and one that Erik Benson was exploring not so long ago. Erik ended up piping all his content pieces through to his weblog via the Bloglines API. Jeremy … Read more

Based on the great comments I received to post.icio.us a week ago, I’ve been doing some experimenting on R/WW. First I tried out the ‘5 links to a post’ style (again). I don’t think it worked, for me or for you. So now what I’m going to do is the “mini-analysis” style that Andrew Chensuggested. … Read more

Microsoft’s new version of Xbox, code-named Xenon, will be more of a “PC hybrid” according to Bill Gates. They’re aiming to be a media hub for the living room, utilising the Web as a channel for media content and to enable collaboration. As Tom Foremski notes, this will give Microsoft “a ready platform for its … Read more

I’m trying again with a branded daily update of Web 2.0 news and views. Not content with cornering the “Web 2.0” niche in blogs, I’m now making a play for the term “2.0” 😉 Let me know what you think of the new format. Backpack: Web 2.0 Email? Popular Web Design firm 37signals has announced … Read more

sponsored by: This week: Google turns up the heat, Yahoo burns to be a media bigco, Microsoft’s 64-bit light at the end of the tunnel, blogging media empires warm their hands by the advertising fire, Craigslist – GoogleMaps make a combustible combo. Google’s Preemptive Strike In the Mojo Cold War, Yahoo took the initiative from … Read more

Dave Winer has posted a comment by Jason Calacanis about adverts in RSS feeds. In a nutshell, Dave doesn’t want ads in RSS feeds and Jason does. I found this comment from Dave to be very curious: “BTW, what exactly is wrong with the way the BBC and NY Times do it? They write good … Read more

Summary: Yes Microsoft is a Web 2.0 company, because their goal is to use the Web as a Platform. The difference is they’ll use the Web as a Platform via millions of Windows-run ‘devices’. That’ll be their interface into Web 2.0. The Yahoo Search team has a vision called FUSE – which stands for Find, … Read more