Tech analyst, AI & the web
I founded the tech blog ReadWriteWeb in April 2003 and ran it until October 2012. During my time running the business, it was well known for its cutting edge content (“What’s next on the Web”) and its influential global audience. At its peak, RWW was ranked among the top ten blogs in the world by Technorati.
This category contains all of the articles I personally wrote for RWW, now archived on ricmac.org for easier browsing and search. If you’d like to explore the original context, you can also view a year-by-year archive with links to the Wayback Machine
– Yahoo buys digital home company Meedio (Meedio has a suite of products, including Meedio TV, which “lets you watch, pause, rewind, and record live analog, digital, and HDTV broadcasts using your existing PC…”) – Google-Vision: Is Google TV on its way? (“Google are advertising for an Interactive TV Product Manager in Mountain View, as … Read more
After my post that reviewed promising new email subscription services Zookoda and Yutter, I got an email from Feedburner telling me they had a new email service in the works. Tonight it was released – in fact you may have noticed it in my site menu earlier today. True to form, Feedburner’s new offering is … Read more
I love web apps that are very easy to install and use – and have an ongoing benefit. Priceheat falls into this category, because it literally took me 10 seconds to install and I can see myself using it a lot. To install all I needed to do was drag a link from their website … Read more
This post was written by Ryan Stewart, who is a R/WW guest blogger on Rich Internet Apps. Edited by Richard MacManus. In the coming months we will see a new wave of Rich Internet Applications that will blend the web application and the desktop application in exciting new ways. There are three technologies on the … Read more
In Part 1 of this series I introduced the concept of Microcontent Design, followed by a case study of BBC’s developer network backstage.bbc.co.uk in Part 2. Now let’s look at what’s being built by external parties, using the BBC Backstage ecosystem. Specifically this post is an in-depth and developer-focused look into a application called Mightyv, … Read more
Tonight Google unveiled its online Calendar. As usual whenever Google releases a product these days, it prompted me to ponder the Google Office 🙂 I’m convinced it’s around the corner, so I decided to check Google’s progress on this ‘Moby Dick’ – the Great Web Office! More on my ZDNet blog, but here’s the table … Read more
A couple of months ago Mike Arrington posted a plea to the blogosphere for more email syndication services for blogs. Mike didn’t like the overly orange branding of Feedblitz, but more to the point he noted that blogs still need email. Now I’m about as big an RSS advocate as you’ll find on the Web, … Read more
John Hagel has a thought-provoking post about microchunking and media businesses. It follows on from Umair Haque’s post, in which Umair said that “unbundling” media (e.g. Disney releasing tv shows for free online) is only half the equation. The other half – the real value – is in “rebundling”. By which he means individual users … Read more
– Live.com to be homepage of Vista, IE7 (Niall Kennedy answers a question I asked at Microsoft Search Champs in January – HUGE news for RSS, search and gadgets) – Microserfs, Revisted (“perhaps Scoble is the modern equivalent” – of the Microserfs narrator, I think he means…) – Outlook on software in 2006: Healthy, disruptive … Read more
The Structured Blogging website has been upgraded and went live tonight. I re-designed the website and did the writing for it, under the employ of Marc Canter’s Broadband Mechanics and with the help of others in the Structured Blogging community such as Conor O’Neill. PubSub supplied the stylesheets and php code. Indeed PubSub and BBM … Read more
– 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