2005

Time: 1:30pm – 2:45pm Panelists: David Madelorot, VP Search Content, Yahoo! Search Will Johnson, VP & GM, Yahoo! Publisher Network Online Anne Frisbie, Sr. Director of Category Search Marketing, Yahoo! David: ecosystem: publishers, users, advertisers; incorporated into mission statement; yahoo being glue in the middle; overarching vision: FUSE. Find: re Search Subscriptions product –> not … Read more

Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle are on stage now with the formal intro. Great setting, two big screens on both sides of the main stage – which is a nice emerald green design with huge golden lights above. Big crowd (of course). It’s been a hectic day and a lot of (literal) buzz around. Tim … Read more

I’m running out of battery time on my laptop, so I’ll have to wrap up coverage of the conference for now. It’s been a very busy day, running from one workshop to the next, packing in like nerd sardines into the workshop rooms, schmoozing, filling up the brain with knowledge. On a personal level, I … Read more

24 Hour Laundry, the secretive start-up of Marc Andresson, has just released their new product – Ning. It’s a free online service for “building and using social applications”. Basically it’s a Web 2.0 development tool aimed at non-developers. Developers too will benefit from it, because it sounds like a Ruby on Rails for mash-ups – … Read more

Yahoo! has bought upcoming.org, Andy Baio’s events service: “In just a few years, most of it spent on nights and weekends, the Upcoming team has built an excellent site with a loyal and growing following. Now that theyve joined Yahoo!, together well build a social events platform that will integrate with our existing events offering … Read more

My post yesterday asking if Bloglines has dropped the ball in the web-based RSS Aggregator market provoked some interesting responses. Among them were a couple of comments from Jim Lanzone, Senior VP of Search Properties at Ask Jeeves. In his second comment Jim asked for more feedback from people who want Bloglines to improve. Jim … Read more

Lycos, search engine portal and owner of Wired Magazine, has announced its intention to rebrand as a media company. According to the press release Lycos has released a service called Planet, which enables its users to create “mini sites” that include photos, blogs, slideshows, animation, special effects and other multimedia. ClickZ referred to Planet as … Read more

Yahoo! is teaming up with The Internet Archive to help build a digital archive of “globally sourced digital collections, including multimedia content”. I understand this means books, academic material, audio and video media. Question: does this crossover with OurMedia.org – or will there be arbitary boundaries between ‘professional’ and amateur media content? Called the Open … Read more

This week: Defining Web 2.0, Web-based office, Yahoo media/tv, Google Wifi, Techie Post of the Week: Tim O’Reilly’s What is Web 2.0. sponsored by: Defining Web 2.0 A lot of online trees were felled this week to write about what Web 2.0 means. Tim O’Reilly’s definition is a very comprehensive one and is more satisfying … Read more

I’ve written a few times now about being disappointed with Bloglines this year – and their lack of progress since they got bought by Ask Jeeves. Now Russell Beattie has come out and said it too – and he got a response from Bloglines chief Mark Fletcher in the comments. Mark said (excerpted): “You’re right … Read more

I arrived in San Francisco yesterday, in preparation for the Web 2.0 Conference next week. I’m spending two weeks in Silicon Valley, kindly hosted by TechCrunch‘s Mike Arrington, Keith Teare and Frederico Oliveira. They’re having a great time with my accent (“yeeeeeaa”). I’m having a great time in general and looking forward to the conference! … Read more

Next week is the last week of my sponsorship arrangement with Onfolio, so I’m putting feelers out for another Web 2.0-savvy company to sponsor my popular Weekly Wrap-up. I’ve been writing this weekly column since the beginning of January this year – never missed a week. It’s become the premium offering of my weblog and … Read more

Phil Wainewright wrote an excellent post recently entitled The great Web 2.0 application (s)mash-up. He starts by quoting Mohan Sawhney, professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management: “Five years from now, the concept of an application will be obsolete,” Sawhney said. “They will all be services, combined, mixed, matched and reused as needed.” Phil goes … Read more

The ‘What is Web 2.0?’ meme is everywhere and everyone seems to have a different interpretation. Here are some of the latest: Om Malik: “a “collection of technologies – be it VoIP, Digital Media, XML, RSS, Google Maps… whatever …. that leverage the power of always on, high speed connections and treat broadband as a … Read more

Mike Arrington thinks Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 meme map should be simpler and Dave Winer responds, saying it’s a complicated self-serving meme and pointing out that the map doesn’t include RSS. I’ve been looking at the meme map closely, while working on the latest chapter of Josh’s and my O’Reilly book on Web 2.0 (so … Read more