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| May 18, 2008 | It's Not The Data, It's The Flow | My partner Brad and I were having lunch with Umair a couple months ago and we were talking about how we look for a unique data asset in all of our investments. And Umair scratched his head and said something like, "I don’t think it’s t... |
| May 16, 2008 | Battle Over Data Ownership on Gillmor Gang | Epic Gillmor Gang today. Everyone went in with guns blazing over the data portability/ownership debate that has spilled out over the Facebook/Google scuffle. DataPortability founder Chris Saad was also on the call, but failed to take a lead... |
| May 5, 2008 | Twitter Can Be Liberated – Here's How | Over the last few days a number of popular bloggers have complained, loudly, that it’s time to ditch Twitter and move to a decentralized version of the service that won’t go down every time usage spikes. Generally services like Twitter, onc... |
| May 3, 2008 | What Will Microsoft Do With Credentica? | Anybody following Identity/Privacy today is rooting for OpenID. They look like the good guys and they have momentum. However the purchase of Credentica by Microsoft in March was below most people’s radar screens. You would need a keen inter... |
| Apr 29, 2008 | Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi | Insoshi wants to be WordPress for social networks, except built on top of Ruby on Rails instead of PHP.
We covered them in March when they presented at the Spring Y Combinator demo day. Now they’ve officially released their software for pub... |
| Mar 19, 2008 | Ten Y Combinator companies that want to revolutionize social networking, search, databases and anything else you can think of | VentureBeat Editor Matt Marshall and I attended the Spring 2008 Y Combinator Demo Day yesterday, where we were both pretty blown away.
Okay, so I’m easy to impress, but Matt’s a tougher nut to crack — just ask some of the start-ups who’ve b... |
| Jan 3, 2008 | Caught up? Here’s everything from Blekko, Dash’s price, to Android sighting | The holiday break felt especially long this time, so here’s a longer roundup than usual — of everything you may have missed over the last few days:
Ebay’s Kijiji tries to tar Craiglist’s reputation — The NYT has a story about Kijiji, a comp... |
| Oct 22, 2007 | 2007 Web 2.0 Summit Review: How the Web 2.0 Conference Has Evolved Over 2 Years | Last week I attended the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. This is the third year running I’ve attended – I went to the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference in October 2005, the 2006 Web 2.0 Summit in November 2006 (it was re-named the “Summit” at that p... |
| Oct 19, 2007 | Mr. Murdoch, Take Down This (Other) Wall! | On Wednesday night at the Web 2.0 Summit, when Rupert Murdoch and Chris DeWolfe were on stage announcing that MySpace is going to open up its innards to developers and try to seriously compete plataforma-a-plataforma with Facebook, you’d th... |
| Sep 21, 2007 | Where Is Your Social Graph? | I know that I wrote not too long ago that I didn’t like the term "social graph" but the comments I got to that post educated me to the reasons why it’s a good term. So I am using it now.
But where is your social graph? In Facebook... |
| Sep 21, 2007 | Google To "Out Open" Facebook On November 5 | Yesterday a select group of fifteen or so industry luminaries attended a highly confidential meeting at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View to discuss the company’s upcoming plans to address the “Facebook issue.”
The meeting was so secre... |
| Jul 10, 2007 | Battle of the DIY Social Networks: Ning, vibEngine, PeopleAggregator | There are a number of DIY social network services on the market, and in this post
we’ll take a look at 3 of them – Ning, vibEngine and PeopleAggregator. By DIY, we mean
services that allow you to create a custom social network for any topic... |
| Feb 21, 2007 | Cisco continues Web 2.0 buying spree, gobbles Reactivity for $135M | Cisco Systems, the San Jose Internet backbone company digging deep into its pockets to acquire Web-related companies, has agreed to acquire Reactivity for $135 million. The purchase will allow Cisco to integrate its networking operations mo... |
| Jan 24, 2007 | Battleground Wikipedia | There’s been a discussion over the last few days over a Microsoft employee offering to pay an Australian blogger named Rick Jelliffe to edit certain Wikipedia pages relating to Open Office standards, including this page. Jelliffe writes abo... |
| Jan 22, 2007 | IBM Launches Enterprise Social Networking Suite; Microsoft Helpfully Offers To Migrate IBM Customers Off It | The big news today is that
IBM has released an enterprise social networking suite, called Lotus Connections. The
NY Times explains:
“Lotus Connections has five components — activities, communities, dogear (a
bookmarking system), profiles an... |
| Oct 21, 2006 | The Human Factor | I haven’t posted much this week about technology, the web, venture capital, etc (ie the stuff that most people read this blog for). I’ve been busy rocking out at night with my kids, watching the mets, and working on a variety of deals.
But ... |
| Sep 24, 2006 | In Search Of The Valley: DVD movie released today | A new documentary on Silicon
Valley premieres today on DVD. It was directed by my friend Steve O’Hear,
who I met over the Web earlier this year and now work with on my corporate
blogging project called Micro Media Corp. ‘In Search of the Va... |
| Aug 24, 2006 | Is Mark Pincus Back at Tribe? | Update: This is now confirmed. Mark Pincus is back at Tribe .
This is just weird. Mark Pincus may be back at Tribe. Or someone may have just hijacked his Tribe account.
Mark was ousted from his CEO spot back in April (first spotted by Marc ... |
| Jun 22, 2006 | Roundup — the Silicon Valley beat continues with YouthNoise, more | Here’s the latest action:
YouthNoise, a social network for social change, raises $1.5 million — The San Francisco non-profit start-up will target users aged 16-22, and organize their profiles according to their cause and issue preference. T... |
| May 10, 2006 | AIM Pages – AOL breaking down the Walled Garden | Stowe Boyd
and Mike
Arrington reported today that AOL’s new social networking product AIM Pages is now live. I’m told by my sources
that it’s still in the testing phase, nevertheless it *is* live on the Web. There is a lot more functionalit... |
| Mar 27, 2006 | Microcontent Design – Responses | My introductory post last week about Microcontent Design
got such a good response that I need to pause and consider all the feedback, before I
move onto Part 2. Basically what I call ‘microcontent design’ involves:
…microchunking your conte... |
| Feb 9, 2006 | Windows Live Ideas | Windows Live Ideas is a good place to bookmark (you know, that thing you used to do in the 90’s with web pages when you wanted to regularly check for updates…). It outlines all of Microsoft’s products on the Live platform, most of which are... |
| Feb 8, 2006 | SONR – A podcast listener tracking tool | I get a lot of product
pitches by email every day, but few of them are really compelling enough to grab my
attention. But this one did, perhaps because it is a product that promises a much-needed
media tracking solution. In this case, podca... |
| Aug 25, 2005 | A New Beginning | Today is my first day as a full-time freelancer, doing Web analysis and writing. It’s
also my birthday, so double reason to celebrate 🙂
I finished up at my day job yesterday, so as of today I’m working 100% virtually –
with people and compa... |
| Apr 20, 2005 | Happy Birthday Read/Write Web! | Today dawns in New Zealand as the 20th April 2005, which happens to be the 2nd
birthday of Read/Write Web. Yes, two years ago today I posted my first blog post on R/WW
(although I’d tinkered with blogging a year or so before that). Over the... |
| Sep 7, 2004 | Digital Lifestyle Mobile Jigsaw | In my post about internet-based mobility earlier this week, I mentioned that the hype around mobile devices we endured during the 90’s and early 21st century is finally being realized in 2004. Mobile phone market penetration is running at 7... |
| Apr 19, 2004 | I guess this makes me a journalist | Today I got my first article in print. My interview with Marc Canter made it into Computerworld New Zealand (pg 16, April 19 edition – right over the page from Jon Udell). It was one of my goals at the start of this year to get my writing p... |
| Mar 29, 2004 | Interview with Marc Canter | Read/Write Web is pleased to bring you this special feature, an interview with software pioneer Marc Canter. Marc is one of the founding fathers of multimedia, having created tools and content in the medium since the late 70’s and early 80’... |
| Aug 25, 2003 | Ideas swirling around – on Microcontent applications | Soon I’m going to shut up and do some actual work on my Web of Ideas application. But I have to note a few interesting things that have surfaced recently on the topics of ideas and microcontent.
Firstly, Erik Benson has just released his ow... |