Richard MacManus

This week: Microsoft’s RSS Aggregator, mobile web 2.0, open source web 2.0 (stats, adverts, topics), Structured Blogging, ETech. Well this week has been a blur of activity for me and my server. First off I launched an RSS statistics project with Jon Udell and Feedburner, then later in the week I had fun riffing on … Read more

I’ll be on holiday on the Gold Coast of Australia for the next week (YAY!) and I won’t be going near a computer. I’ll be back blogging in just over a week (nb: comments will be closed until then). In the meantime, a reminder once again to contribute your Feedburner stats to the collaborative project … Read more

A collaborative stats project using Feedburner data was launched on this blog yesterday. It’s an informal project, but I really hope the blogosphere gets behind it. I’ve even brought out the old Uncle Sam Needs You! image 🙂 Basically we need: a) your Feedburner data, and/or b) your analysis. It would also be cool if … Read more

SiliconBeat has a scoop. They point to a sandbox version of a working web-based RSS Aggregator – from Microsoft! I had a very quick play-round (note it doesn’t work in Firefox) and it’s similar to MyYahoo, but what’s most interesting is the strong integration with MSN Search. Hmmmm. Click to enlarge NB: On the page … Read more

Last week I wrote about my blog’s subscription growth, inspired by Jon Udell’s analysis of Bloglines Public Subscribers. In a subsequent email discussion with Jon Udell, we both wondered whether Feedburner data would show similar trends to the Bloglines data. Jon suggested a collaborative project could be launched in the blogosphere with the aim of … Read more

Time for your weekly dose of Web 2.0. This week: Yahoo yahoo yahoo (is there an echo in here?), Wikipedia, Web 2.0 start-ups, AutoLink (I know, but bear with me…), Ruby on Rails. btw what’s the best time of the week to publish this regular feature of R/WW? OK let’s try Monday afternoon NZ time, … Read more

Update 2: After email discussions with Jon, I’ve discovered my figures were a bit out and so I’ve fixed that up now. In my updated figures, I now see evidence of what Jon pointed out in his post – i.e. a general tapering-off in new public subs added in December and February (albeit not so … Read more

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Web 2.0 defines a newer incarnation of the World Wide Web typified by the transition from the typical website hosting HTML/XHTML pages, to a platform that provides a point of presence (sometimes known as a Web portal), from which any of the following interactions may occur: 1. Syndication of content … Read more

My 3 month contract with Marqui is up and I’ve decided not to renew. I’ll write a summary post in due course, after things have settled down a bit. Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

Tomorrow, 2 March 2005, marks the 10-year anniversary of Yahoo. According to a recent AP article: “Yahoo already has amassed an audience of 345 million, including 165 million registered users who rely on the company’s Web sites for e-mail, e-commerce, news, entertainment, driving directions, matchmaking, weather forecasts, job leads and search results. The company believes … Read more

Bob Wyman of PubSub has just written a killer post on the future of blogging (or one of them…). An excerpt: “What Kedrosky is speaking of is what we at PubSub have been referring to as “Structured Blogging” and may be what Mark Fletcher of Bloglines/AskJeeves has listed as “Functional Blogging” in presentations he’s recently … Read more

This week: AP’s RSS feeds, Enterprise RSS developments (Newsgator, Nooked), professional bloggers (Kottke, Darren Rowse), Odeo (podcasting), Ajax. p.s. headers in honour of the Oscars. Best Use of RSS Feeds by a News Collective And the winner is: Associated Press! …um, or Reuters. Because they both have RSS feeds. Hmm, seems the Oscars theme for … Read more

‘Journey to the (Revolutionary, Evil-Hating, Cash-Crazy, and Possibly Self-Destructive) Center of Google’. That must go down as the silliest title for a tech article this year, nevertheless GQ’s profile of Google was an interesting read. After that I happened to browse around the GQ website and saw an interview with Russell Crowe. He was named … Read more

First, some context… Jay Rosen, in the “after matter” of his article on the New York Times purchase of About.com, posts an email response from Jakob Nielsen. Nielsen said: “The real secret of About.com is that they have figured out a way to get 500 domain experts to work for peanuts, in return for the … Read more

One of my readers Taewoo Danny Kim recently compared Web 2.0 to the Semantic Web and I think he hit on an important point. He wrote in an email that Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web are… “…basically moving towards the same thing (web as platform) from two different directions: web 2.0 more from the … Read more