Richard MacManus

Kevin Donahue posts some RSS Aggregator stats for his FanBlogs network of sites – and I was taken aback to see who is number 1, by a long shot. No it’s not Bloglines, as it is for most of the geek set. For football fans, a staggering 64.8% of FanBlogs.com readers are subscribed using MyYahoo. … Read more

Plenty to chew on in coverage of the recent ETech conference. Here are some ETech tidbits that I snacked on over the past week and found to be rather tasty… Ideas and Products – the whole Remix theme. For Silicon Valley legend Danny Hillis, the remix theme begins at the breakfast table: “For him, it … Read more

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft’s new web-based RSS Aggregator prototype was discovered. I wrote then (also in my weekly wrap-up) that even though technically the prototype wasn’t that special, it did reveal Microsoft’s business strategy for RSS. Which is that Microsoft intends to integrate RSS Aggregation with its MSN Search product. To summarise my … Read more

At the risk of going off-topic, I’m currently deeply into IMHO the best album I’ve heard in years – Green Day’s American Idiot. It’s a concept album and I often wonder how such a thing could be done in blogging. It’s common wisdom that a focused blog is the best way to gain a following … Read more

Seb Paquet notes from Information Architecture Summit in Montreal, March 2005. This from Brett Lider: “Defining the Future – The Web 2.0 article on Wikipedia was clearly written by an engineer. Look at those acronyms! Some components of Web 2.0. Social networks, desktop information, browser history, tastes and preferences – getting them documented and un-siloed, … Read more

I’m just back from sunny Gold Coast, all theme-parked out, and already I’m planning my family’s next trip. I’d love to make it to the next Web 2.0 conference, October 5-7 in San Francisco. It’ll be my first ever trip to America. Of course, the conference ticket price will be an issue. Hopefully my blog … Read more

I’m excited to be involved in the Jupiter Research blogging project, as described by Michael Gartenberg: “It wasn’t easy but we’ve just sent the the first three bloggers their invites to join us. Will Wagner and Thomas Hawk will be taking a look at our stance on standalone and PC Based DVRs and Richard MacManus … Read more

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