Richard MacManus

Recently I was invited by JupiterResearch VP & Research Director Michael Gartenberg to be a part of their new blogging program. The deal: I get a free copy of an analyst report relevant to my specialty and in return I will offer my own blog-style analysis of it. What this means is that a respected … Read more

I got an invite to Yahoo! 360°, the new blogging/social networking app from Yahoo. Here is my 360 blog, which has hardly anything in it right now. I’ll probably only use it for experimentation, but if I end up liking it then maybe I’ll use it for social networking. First impressions are positive and it’ll … Read more

This week: ETech notes, Yahoo love-in, Web 2.0 acquisition deals continue, Hacking Web 2.0, ubiquitous storage. ETech Takeaways I was on holiday the week ETech occurred, so I’ve been spending the past week catching up. My food-themed notes are here. Also during that week the next Web 2.0 conference was announced – October in San … Read more

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