In August 2005, I started a new blog at ZDNet called ‘Web 2.0 Explorer’. My tenure lasted until November 2006.
November 2006:
October 2006:
- Web 2.0 Clones – where is all the innovation?
- 10 Essential Google Gadgets
- IE7 set for release in just a few weeks
- GoogTube – MTV for the Web generation
- ZohoX: New Web Office Suite (post includes Image Gallery)
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets: More pieces of Google Office
- YouTube Wannabes: online video market post GooTube
- YouTube be the fastest growing website ever!
- Web 2.0 Security Scares
- Behind the scenes: Google played hardball in YouTube deal
- Review of Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad
September 2006:
- Windows Live gadget architecture explained
- Google Office: a close-up look
- Opera: The Little Browser That Could
- Salesforce.com previews Analytics and Dashboard Mash-Ups
- Yahoo Mail Beta released – new Ajax features
- Web Office will be much different than Microsoft Office
- Facebook in talks to sell to Yahoo for up to $1Billion
- Microsoft to put Works Suite onto Web
- Why Google apps will stay inside the browser
August 2006:
- How Salesforce has evolved (over 20 versions) to be a Web Office platform
- Digg stats after Jason Calacanis offer
- Can Google be as dominant in search, as Microsoft is on the desktop?
- Microsoft re-names IE7… to IE7
- EyeOS – Case Study on how people are using a WebOS
- IE7 not CSS compliant – argh, here we go again!
- Windows Live in a state of paralysis? Surely not…
- Podcast Interview with Sun’s Tim Bray and Radia Perlman
- Browsers 2.0: Interview with Flock co-founder Geoffrey Arone
- Microsoft releases Windows Live Writer – new word processing app
- Zimbra launches Zimbra Documents
- IE7 and standards compliance – Microsoft’s Chris Wilson charts progress
- Microsoft’s Web vNext: architectural implications of Web 2.0
- Microsoft has 97% of OS market, says OneStat.com
- Google Base API launched
- IE7 Release Candidate 1 – Review and Image Gallery
- Opera’s Håkon Wium Lie compares IE7 to Ford Pinto
July 2006:
- Gnomedex: Blake Ross on open source marketing of Firefox
- Netscape users compare new site to New Coke
- Zoho adds real-time collaborative editing
- Firefox usage continues to increase – IE down again
- Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff berates Microsoft in internal email
- Microsoft among those using Amazon S3
- Rhapsody extends its Web services platform
- As Firefox infiltrates the enterprise, its market share will increase
- Google eats its own dogfood with GData
- Salesforce.com releases Summer ’06 – 20th generation of their CRM service
- Apple iTunes movie rentals – coming soon!
- Interview with salesforce.com pt AppExchange and the Web Office
- Windows Principles – Microsoft pledges allegiance to the United States of the Web
- Which is best: Firefox 2, IE7 or Opera 9?
- Google’s golden run continues
- Wiki 2.0 – JotSpot launches Web Office Wiki
- Krawler[x] – Social Network + Peer to Peer
- Is JotSpot a Microsoft Office killer?
- Search 2.0 round-up
- R.I.P. Browsers? No way!
- Both Microsoft and Google want to dominate the Web
June 2006:
- Slashdot re-design goes live – a polished CSS upgrade
- Google to release web-based spreadsheet app tomorrow
- Analysis: Google Spreadsheet and Web Office
- Google’s Spreadsheet Striptease
- Early reviews of Google Spreadsheet
- What it does not do
- Windows Vista available for download
- Preview of Live.com upgrade (to be released next week)
- Best of breed RSS Readers
- Intranet 2.0 – web services dashboards are key
- Google releases Maps for Enterprise
- eBay Wiki released – world’s largest commercial wiki
- Vista Sidebar showcases desktop/Web integration
- AOL remakes Netscape in Digg’s image
- Ray Ozzie to replace Bill Gates as Chief Software Architect
- Digg CEO Jay Adelson responds to Netscape challenge
- Windows Live ID crucial to Microsoft’s future
- Yahoo and Microsoft support microformats – what chance Google?
- Jonathan Schwartz speaks at Supernova
- Zoho releases Ajax presentation app – last piece of Web Office jigsaw?
- Supernova: The Future of Search
- Supernova: The Future of the Desktop
- Dabble DB launches today – a new kind of Enterprise app
- System One – a Google for your Intranet!
- How to game Digg and the blogosphere
- Wired 40 has Google no. 1, Apple no. 2 – Microsoft just scrapes in at 36
- Live-blogging Senator John Edwards at Gnomedex
May 2006
- ThinkFree – world’s best Web Office?
- Web 2.0 reality check: Incompatibility
- Microsoft adCenter launched – Ballmer says Microsoft evolving from software to media company
- Google’s servers full – CEO says it’s a crisis
- ThinkFree review Pt 2 – and Java vs Ajax discussion
- Orca – a WebOS with a difference
- Windows Live Messenger released
- WebOS conversation heats up – EyeOS claims Orca is vaporware
- What is a WebOS?
- Dabble DB nearing launch – Web database and app builder
- Dot Com vs Web 2.0
- Web-based collaboration apps invade the enterprise
- New Yahoo! homepage – more Ajax and personalization
- Flickr goes gamma (post-beta)
- Google Web Toolkit released – rumors of Morfik alliance?
- New: Windows Live Account and ID
- Browsers are back? Maxthon gets funded
- Best Web email service: Gmail
- Google continues to lead in search – but not in verticals
- Zimbra performance issues highlight IE’s inadequacies as web 2.0 platform
- JotSpot partners with salesforce.com
- Ben Goodger from Firefox presentation at Webstock 06
- Internet Explorer The Good, The Bad, and The Future
- IE7+ = Internet Explorer for Vista
- Who needs a Web Office when you have… an inflatable office
- Ajax vs RIA – Ajax still rules
- Morfik defends its IP rights against Google
- Why Google and Microsoft need Javascript compilers
April 2006
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt free thy content
- 30 facts about Apple – to celebrate their 30th anniversary
- Google Maps API Version 2 released
- How to develop a Google Maps mashup
- Google Base begins to roll out the verticals
- Microsoft’s Gary Flake: Web 2.0 has been around for decades
- Review of Zimbra – a feature-laden Web Office Suite contender
- Web Technology Penetration Report – CSS continues its rise and frames still survive in 16% of websites!
- Live.com to be homepage of Vista, IE7
- Google Calendar – further progress on Google’s Web Office suite
- Is Google or Microsoft best positioned for Web Office?
- An unhappy Office Live customer
- XIN – a Web OS that wants to be a platform
- GData – Google’s new syndication protocol
- Microsoft admits brand confusion between MSN and Live
- Opera 9 Beta released – includes widgets and BitTorrent
- Why Google is extending RSS
- WebOS market review
- Real IE7 Beta 2 released tonight
- Live.com pushes the limits of users patience
- Morfik tests browser boundaries – builds Javascript chess app
March 2006
- Mashups: who’s really in control?
- Web 0.01 – Engelbart’s 1968 oNLine system being built in 2006!
- Learning from past Web Office mistakes
- What is Google’s Lighthouse?
- Full text of Google Analyst Day powerpoint notes
- New Windows Live releases – including Search and Toolbar betas
- Google Calendar details leaked – the Web Office Suite is nigh!
- Yahoo ups the ante with APIs
- Windows Live Search review
- Google acquires Writely – one of my Web Office Suite picks
- Leaked Microsoft memo talks up Windows Live
- Microsoft 10 aims to be hip video community
- Embracing and Extending Microsoft: JotSpot’s Joe Kraus on the Web Office
- LiveSoft: Spin-off Windows Live with an IPO?
- Firefox 2.0 is here!!! What, it’s not? Oh…
- Bill Gates keynote from Microsoft Mix 06 – IE7, RSS, Web Office
- Google bullish for Atom, says Google evangelist at Microsoft’s Mix 06
- Windows Live Developer Center – a look at what’s on offer
- Understanding Google: Exclusive look at a JupiterResearch report
- NetJaxer – a Web/Desktop integration product… but is it useful?
- Measuring Source Lines Of Code (SLOC) – there are bigger birds than Microsoft’s albatross
February 2006
- Reviews of IE7 Beta 2 Preview – will be threat to Mozilla and RSS Aggregators
- Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Part 1
- Interview with Digg’s Kevin Rose, Pt On Personalization and Fighting Spam
- IE7 isn’t an Edge Case – but will win over the masses
- Gmail Chat – new Google service merges Gmail with IM
- MSN re-branding – will it be to Live?
- Microsoft’s brand confusion – MSN or Live?
- An open Hailstorm? Windows Live coming together
- SONR: statistics for podcasting
- MSN has media network plans, but brand confusion still reigns
- Is Firefox dropping the ball, like Netscape in 97?
- Office Live goes live today!
- Office Live reactions – will the real Web Office please stand up?
- URL Hotties
- 6 Vistas – 3 Home, 2 Business, 1 “Ultimate”
- Web Office Suite: best of breed products
- Google Page Creator: retro, or part of a future Web Office Suite?
- Why you need a Web Office
- edgeio launches with same goals as Structured Blogging
- Ajax homepages market review
January 2006
- Digg fights spam – my previous post gets caught in the middle
- Bill Joy’s 6 Webs
- Skype announces WiFi and Internet phones at CES – more to come
- Bill Gates keynote at CES 2006
- Conspiracy Theories: MySpace, Facebook, Amazon
- More evidence of GroupThink at Digg.com
- Thoughts on Steve Jobs’ Macworld Keynote
- Mapping and Google Maps continue to dominate the mashup scene
- Collaborative filtering: comparing Reddit’s karma system to Digg
- Create iTunes playlists with WishMix – but for your benefit or Apple’s?
- Popular elements of a 2006 web site or service
- Tablane: a new web browser targeting niche market
- Microsoft Search Champs Diaries: Richard travels to Seattle
- Microsoft Search Champs: Non-NDA Stuff
- Microsoft announces Live Labs – and a call to action
- Favorite Web books of all time
December 2005:
- Web 2.0 business models
- New Web 2.0 services of note
- Google: We’re not in the portal business; Earth to Google: Oh yes you are!
- Scaling your Web 2.0 app with caching
- Yahoo! Answers: people-powered search
- Yahoo acquires del.icio.us – just don’t make it a walled garden, like My Web 2.0!
- Six Apart and Yahoo! partner to provide blogging platform
- Alexa turned into web service – Amazon back to its innovative best
- Private Label RSS – Newsgator’s hosted solutions for Newsweek and Macworld
- Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005
- Google releases GTalk API – how will eBay/Skype respond?
- Disaster Response and the Web in 200The Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina
- Web Services for Dummies
- Best of 200Why Topic/Tag/Remix Feeds Are The Future of RSS
- Major player wants to partner with Microsoft to take Google down a peg
- Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005
- Web-based Linux
- Digging into the Digg System
- Ray Ozzie’s Christmas Message: 2006 will be Year of Build for Microsoft
- Gaming Digg: the KoolAidGuy saga
November 2005
- Microsoft announcement Tuesday be bigger news than expected
- Microsoft Announces The Live Era
- Sun announces service to convert Microsoft Office docs to OpenOffice compatible format
- Personalized Start Pages: Microsoft, Google, Netvibes
- The Web turns 15 – but are the bigco’s ruining the party?
- Topix.net adds blogs – is it news?
- Is digg the new Slashdot?
- Leaked Documents from Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie
- Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on the Web Office
- The World’s Top Websites – Yahoo number 1, China moving up
- eBay to make APIs free to developers
- Yellowikis – A Case Study of a Web 2.0 Business, Part 1
- Yellowikis: a Web 2.0 Case Study, Part 2 – Industry Disruption and The Competition
- Microsoft CTO Starts Blog
- Will Google Base be the world’s largest XML database?
- Yellowikis: Demonstrating Web 2.0 principles
- Microsoft Extends RSS – New Apps Already Being Built
- Web 2.0 Products We Need (But Which Don’t Exist Yet)
- Amazon Wiki and Washington Post Remix
- Web 2.0 Wikipedia page taken over by Cynics
- OPML Sampling using Yahoo API
- Browser Wars 2006 – Microsoft set to continue dominance
- Mobile Web browsers – Microsoft’s downfall?
- Yahoo integrates RSS into email and alerts – RSS everywhere!
October 2005
- Web 2.0 Conference week starts tomorrow
- Beyond the Hype
- Ning – a meta social app platform
- Web 2.0 Conference, first day impressions
- Web 2.0 Conference Day Yahoo! CEO on future of media
- End of Web 2.0 Conference: Cautious Optimism and Cynical Buzz
- Yahoo! adds blogs to news search results
- Mash-ups: Business Models and Trends
- Apple adds video to their multimedia platform
- Big Internet and Media companies eye Web 2.0
- The Entrepreneur Bubble and How to Survive it
- Where are the disruptive start-ups in Web 2.0?
- The Great Disruptive Start-Ups Search, Part 1
- Disruptive start-ups: Some contenders
- I want my Internet TV
- Web 2.0 a murderer? Hey, peace man!
- ePrecis – next generation search
- Microsoft building a fully Web-based Office?
- More on a Web-based Microsoft Office
- Web 2.0 Humor
September 2005
- What is Web 2.0
- Microsoft’s Web platform and why Windows devices remain key
- The RSS Space: The Next Google
- eBay buys Skype – Web as Platform implications
- Microsoft’s Start.com opens up
- Apple’s hardware/software/web platform
- MSN-AOL merger on the cards
- Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: Mars and Venus?
- Mobile phones are more than just phones in China
- Firefox under the security spotlight
- Fun with Mash-Ups
- Six Apart targets mainstream bloggers with Project Comet
- The future of Internet markets
- Yahoo! and TV 2.0
- The Web-based Office will have its day
- What is a platform?
August 2005