– Social Media Spending to Hit $757M in 2010 (over half in the technology, auto and media categories…) – Growing The Buzz (Alex Bosworth on Buzznet: “Plenty of room in the 300 billion advertising industry for social networks, they just need to be more aggressive about grabbing their share.”) – Dave Winer: The Internet as … Read more

Some interesting posts recently on the Internet TV trend, which is really ramping up this year. Mark Cuban, who co-founded Broadcast.com in 1995 and sold it to Yahoo! in 1999, has a great post on his blog outlining some of the pros and cons of rich media on the Net. He notes: “The reality of … Read more

A lot of people have been seeing new Google Base verticals popping up – and indeed the Google Base homepage has suddenly had a number of new categories added to it. As I noted on ZDNet, the full list is now: Blogs Coupons Clinical trials Events and activities Housing Jobs Mobile content News and articles … Read more

It seems a lot of people took my April Fool’s post about me moving into the TechCrunch ranch in Silicon Valley seriously, so I’m compelled to put the record straight. I’m still living in New Zealand. 🙂 I don’t think it’s a case of foolish people, rather I think my April Fool’s post was a … Read more

This post was written by Ajit Jaokar, who is a R/WW guest blogger on Mobile Web 2.0 and digital convergence. In my last post, I spoke of the differences between browser applications on the web and on the mobile device. This topic is important because the Mobile Web is all about extending the concept of … Read more

– Yahoo7 Combined 10% More Traffic than Previously (Ben Barren: “…[Y!7 users] demand is insatiable – they need more product than can be provided by Yahoo7. And they need more filtering and aggregation tools.”) – What do we do with ‘social media’? (Tom Coates: “The age of social media then is probably about a fusing … Read more

In May 2005 the BBC launched a new developer network site initially called BBC Backstage, since re-named backstage.bbc.co.uk. In doing so they put the call out for people to remix their content, using their content RSS feeds and in future APIs. It marked a turning point for the BBC’s already impressive online efforts, because with … Read more

This *isn’t* an April Fool’s joke 😉 I’ve joined up with John Battelle‘s Federated Media Publishing network, which is a great collection of blogs and sites – such as Boing Boing, TechCrunch, digg and others. I’m really honoured to have been chosen, because of the criteria for being invited: “FM looks for passion, integrity, authority, … Read more

Filtering is one of my hot topics in 2006. It’s the next step from aggregation, because many of us now have too much information coming at us. Let’s face it, even with your favourite blogs or websites, you don’t want to read every single post or article that is published. You ideally want to filter … Read more

[Update: This is an April Fool’s Joke – and yes some people fell for it. I’m still in NZ :-)] I can’t take the isolation of running a successful web tech blog from New Zealand any longer. As of today, I’m writing my blog exclusively from Mike Arrington’s ranch house in Atherton. I flew in … Read more

My introductory post last week about Microcontent Design got such a good response that I need to pause and consider all the feedback, before I move onto Part 2. Basically what I call ‘microcontent design’ involves: …microchunking your content, taking advantage of open standards, employing microformats, letting users subscribe to all kinds of RSS feeds, … Read more

First I noticed Paolo’s post on 4 years blogging (via Dave), then Phil’s post. The bizarre part is I started blogging on the exact same day, 21 March 2002, as my fellow kiwi Phil Pearson – we even blogged about the same topic, RCS (Radio Community Server). I didn’t get to know Phil until a … Read more

– ‚ÄúWe need microformats‚Ä? – Bill Gates (Sez Marc: “Tim O‚ÄôReilly told me that he had to clue Bill in on microformats the night before.” — lucky Ryan King wasn’t around, otherwise Bill would’ve copped an earful…) – Google bullish on Atom, Microsoft bullish on RSS? (Robert Scoble links to my thread about Google’s Atom … Read more

The online classifieds edge player edgeio has released an update tonight, that points to the future of Structured Blogging. Now edgeio users don’t need to physically do tagging on their blogs, or in fact even be a blogger, in order to post a classifieds advert. How does that work, seeing as edgeio is positioning itself … Read more

In my latest ZDNet post, I review a recent JupiterResearch Concept Report entitled Understanding Google. Subtitle: Competing and Partnering with the Most Influential Company Online. It costs $750 to purchase this report, so I asked Jupiter’s Michael Gartenberg if I could get it for free and blog about it – as I did almost 1 … Read more