Richard MacManus

Richard MacManus is a strategist and analyst focused on the Agentic Web: how AI agents discover, understand, and interact with websites and digital products. His work builds on more than two decades as an independent web analyst, advisor, and journalist — from founding ReadWriteWeb to consulting for startups, media companies, and tech firms.

WriteTheWeb

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I discovered today a site called WriteTheWeb, which is “a community news site dedicated to encouraging the development of the read/write web”. Like me they believe the Read/Write Web “doesn’t just mean writing words, it means any time the web experience becomes two-way.” This is an important point, because a lot of people have no desire to publish … Read more

The Read/Write Web

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The World Wide Web in 2003 is beginning to fulfil the hopes that Tim Berners-Lee had for it over 10 years ago when he created it. The web was never just supposed to be a one-way publishing system, but the first decade of the web has been dominated by a tool which has been read-only – the web … Read more