Read/WriteWeb Filter

Back to naming this R/WW Filter – there aren’t enough hours in a day sometimes for a ‘Daily’ 🙂 – DEMO roundups (TechCrunch and Jeff Clavier are the ones I’ve been tracking — I’m liking the sound of Plum and Blurb…) – More on Feed Grazing (“…we’ll always subscribe to a core set of critical … Read more

Convergence dreams are now reality

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, VP of technical strategy and innovation at IBM, has a post up on AlwaysOn about how the Internet is finally delivering on the long-held promise of convergence: “There is no question in my mind that convergence is now coming to digital entertainment and consumer electronics. Consumer electronics products are being built using common … Read more

Feed Grazers and disposable RSS feeds

Interesting notion of “feed grazing” from James Corbett and Danny Ayers. James actually came up with the concept – this explanation is from a comment he left on Danny’s blog: “I‚Äôm actually coming to the conclusion that the whole subscriptions mindset is a problem and that in future we‚Äôll ‚Äògraze‚Äô for the most part instead … Read more

NY Times owns Blogrunner – or does it?

In my post earlier today Rating the Meme Trackers, one of the news clustering services I mentioned was Blogrunner’s The Annotated New York Times. It essentially remixes the NY Times, by clustering external blog posts that cite NY Times stories. Well today PaidContent.org posted an interview with NY Times VP of Digital Operations Martin Nisenholtz, … Read more

Memeorandum: what Google News should’ve been

I listened to the Gillmor Gang today, because it featured Gabe Rivera talking about Memeorandum. After wading through all the Gang’s talk about Sun.com, which didn’t interest me in the slightest (what was that about?!), I noted this gem of a quote from Doc Searls: “Memeorandum is what google news should’ve been.” Gabe also spoke … Read more

Read/WriteWeb Daily

– Esther Dyson talk (Yahoo is “intelligent design”; Google is “blind evolution.”) – CES Storylines (nice quote: “By the time Vista hits the street… it will be less about the OS itself, and more about the vast array of services surrounding it.”) – Consumer Internet, Digital Media and Technology Conferences for 2006 (very useful list) … Read more

Davos Conversations on the Future of Media

Some great quotes on this page. My favorite: “Not all content wants to be free but it needs to be easy. We allow people to find the content they want. There is a big market for the best, not just the cheapest.” — Sergei Brin, founder, Google Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

Wisdom of the Filters

Memeorandum‘s Gabe Rivera was interviewed by Don Dodge from Microsoft. I found this comparison with Slashdot, Digg, Reddit interesting: “For readers of Digg (or Reddit, and to some extent, Slashdot), I’d say Memeorandum is: – More focused (on either “Tech” or “Politics”) – More expert/authority-driven – Better organized, visually Of course for a certain type … Read more

Digg Interview, Part 2 (and who should I interview next?)

In Part 1 of my interview with digg founder Kevin Rose, we discussed digg’s popularity, reputation systems and recent issues with GroupThink. In the second part of this interview, Kevin and I talk about digg’s battle with spammers and the upcoming release of new personalization features, plus an API. Full story on ZDNet… Incidentally, I … Read more

Read/WriteWeb Daily

– Don’t Bounce The Ball Honey (The Redmonk view on Attention, gestural economics and loosely coupled ideas – I think I even got a gesture out of it, although maybe I’m just being vain…) – Roundup of Reactions to Google’s Earnings (The Internet Stock Blog collects all the data points into one post) – Rival … Read more

Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Part 1

On my ZDNet blog I’ve just published the first of a two-part interview with digg founder Kevin Rose. In the interview we discuss digg’s popularity, its battle with spammers, the recent issues with GroupThink and digg’s upcoming personalization features. As you know, I’ve been somewhat critical of digg recently – in particular regarding recent signs … Read more

Read/WriteWeb Daily

The Daily is back, now that I’m over my jet lag 🙂 – Scoble: I’m not an edge case (If you listen carefully, you’ll hear me whoop near the end of Scoble’s excellent outburst. I’ve never whooped in my entire life – yet here I am carrying on like I’m on the Oprah Show…) – … Read more

Consumer Tech Played Out?

Curious comment from famous VC Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, he who invested heavily in Google in 1999. He also got a piece of Yahoo and Paypal — also Webvan and eToys, it has to be said. He’s listed as number 1 in the 2006 Forbes Midas List (via Jeff Clavier). Interesting then to note … Read more

Total Internet Spending Up 22% in 2005 from 2004

The latest comScore Networks report states that total Internet spending reached $143.2 billion for the full year 2005, an increase of 22 percent from 2004. What’s more, comScore Networks chairman Gian Fulgoni is quoted as saying: “It’s clear based on what we’re seeing so far in 2006 that the strength in online sales will not … Read more