Thinking Outside the VC Box is a fantastic, almost Philip K. Dick-like, essay by an unnamed SOA Web Services Journal writer. It’s on one of my favourite themes, the virtual office. Among the things discussed is “the momentary enterprise”, defined as a temporary business that leverages “pervasive data”. It seems to support Evan Williams’ recent … Read more

ProgrammableWeb has released a list of ‘popular’ mashups, which John Musser calculated from a mix of click-throughs and user ‘votes’ based on a 1 to 5 scale rating system. Here are the top 10 mashups according to ProgrammableWeb: 1. Virtual Places 2. Weather Bonk 3. Diggdot.us 4. Flash Earth 5. Adactio Elsewhere 6. Where’s Tim … Read more

I’ve upgraded my blog to Movable Type 3.2, in order to defeat some bugs and trackback spam that had infiltrated the previous installation. So apologies if you’d visited my site recently and found it under construction. Note that I resisted the urge to put a blinking and animated ‘Under Construction’ button on my homepage – … Read more

Dan Grossman has a thought-provoking post entitled Silicon Valley’s Hiring War – And The Impact to Startups. He suggests that Start-ups will start looking outside the Valley for talent: “…I think the talent wars will be good for cities outside of the Valley, as companies look elsewhere to find smart people. It’s already possible to … Read more

Mike mentioned today that the Web 2.0 Workgroup that Mike, Fred Oliveira and I formed about a month and a half ago has grown to twenty blogs. We’ve also added a Swiki search engine (a group search with tag clouds) and categorized the blogs: Category Sites Analysis & Trends Read/WriteWeb, Dion Hinchcliffe,Susan Mernit’s Blog, Web … Read more

Interesting little post from Jason Calacanis, who wrote: “TIRED: Subscribing to Fred’s blog: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/ WIRED: Subscribing to Fred’s Del.icio.us feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/fredwilson Note: On Bloglines Fred has 383 subscribers to his blog and 9 to his del.icio.us RSS feed… I prefer to read what Fred is *considering* blogging about 🙂 Question: What’s more interesting to you, … Read more

This week: Explaining Web 2.0 to normal people, Google Base, Yahoo Shoposhere, Amazon tags, Hypertext and the next 15 years. Sponsor Opportunity The Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up has had 3 excellent sponsors over the past 30 weeks and now I’m looking for the next great sponsor. If you’d like to associate your brand with premium … Read more

Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo has just posted what I think is a milestone post for RSS and Web 2.0: How feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued, and consumed. In it he expounds on the future direction of his company Feedburner, which I’ve long considered to be the leading company in the RSS … Read more

YAW2D = Yet Another Web 2.0 Definition. But this time it comes from Paul Graham, whose every essay is treated like a tablet from Moses by the Slashdot crowd. Surprisingly, Paul Graham’s essay entitled Web 2.0 is not a Naysayer one. It’s critical of Web 2.0 in parts, but overall the essay is well thought … Read more

Serendipitously I came across a beautifully done multimedia montage of Web 2.0 on Flickr, by Leigh Blackall. The photos are stunning and Leigh has weaved Web 2.0 themes into all of them. Plus some of the slides have notes attached. Here are a few of the slides, but I recommend you flick through the whole … Read more

From the Warning Label Generator (via Supr.c.ilio.us). Harnessing collective intelligence in The Long Tail. Don’t say I didn’t warn you 😉 Hey if Eran can be serious, I’m allowed to be silly every now and again. I will start writing proper posts again soon, I promise… Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

While pondering my Midblog Crisis, I remembered a fortune cookie I received during the spicy noodles dinner in Palo Alto on 12 October (when I was in the US for the Web 2.0 Conference). Present at the meal were Dave Winer, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira, Gabe Rivera and myself. At the end of the delicious … Read more

Forgive me, it’s time for an introspective blog post. Lately I feel I’ve been in a bit of a blog slump with Read/WriteWeb. My numbers are still good, but I’m not happy with the quality of my recent posts here. I set very high standards for myself and I get disappointed when I don’t meet … Read more

In the third and final part of my series of ZDNet columns about Yellowikis as a Web 2.0 case study, I look at some of the design principles that can be applied by other Web 2.0 companies and services. Following is a summary of principles that Yellowikis demonstrated. Be sure to check out the whole … Read more

In another great sign for blogs becoming a mainstream news and entertainment source, Nick Denton’s blogging empire has struck a distribution deal with Internet media giant Yahoo. Reuters reported: “Yahoo said it will post “dozens” of stories per day from Gawker Media’s blogs, including New York-media gossip blog Gawker, U.S. political gossip-focused Wonkette, Hollywood insider’s … Read more