I wrote yesterday that the emerging news about Search Wikia seemed a tad confusing. There’s good reason for that. In an interview between Danny Sullivan and Jimmy Wales, the Wikimedia foundation boss says that he didn’t entirely intend the project to be made public yet, since it hasn’t really been started. Wales told a reporter [...]
December 30, 2006
Not that much it seems. With both Saddam and James Brown dead in the last week, I was expecting major ructions. Digg has raised another $8.5mn in Series B funding from previous investors Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network who invested $2.8mn back in November 2005. It’s not yet profitable, apparently. Google blog search is now getting [...]
December 20, 2006
It’s Christmas and time to think of other people. Via Jack Schofield on the Guardian and then Adrien O’Leary are the three most important YouTube videos I have ever seen. (Adrien, I have ripped off your post – but this is too important not to share directly). There is, eventually, a Web 2.0 angle. [...]
December 20, 2006
The Mercury News reports, in fairly stuffy tones, on research that establishes once again that the paper itself won’t be quite the same thing before too long: By a 2-1 ratio, Americans say they would rather watch an old-fashioned TV evening news report’s coverage of an event than the sort of “citizen video” that has become [...]
December 20, 2006
I’ve always liked Pandora, the music recommendation service that provides a radio station based on the seed of a track or an act that you like. I’ve always liked last.fm too, which offers a similar service. Historically, last.fm has been the clear winner when it comes to Web 2.0ness (what do you mean that isn’t a [...]
December 19, 2006
Sam Sethi and Mike Butcher, ex-editors of the currently-defunct Techcrunch UK (background) have announced that they are launching a new thing. From Sam’s blog – which is currently in a state of design turmoil looking fine now, presumably under the strain of rebranding activity: After a hectic few days, Sam Sethi and Mike Butcher are back up [...]
December 19, 2006
The UK Home Office’s Child Protection Task Force has produced a draft industry discussion document called Good Practice Guidance for Social Networking and User Interactive Service. What you and I would probably call Web 2.0. Once finished and public, the document will seemingly supplant the existing guidelines in the report (PDF) published last year on [...]
December 18, 2006
No offence meant. This story makes me wish I lived in Canada, basically. Canada has the highest number of blog readers per internet-head of any of the countries measured in recent comScore research conducted in North America and Western Europe. The US is surprisingly low compared to its neighbour, lower than any countries but Italy and [...]
December 18, 2006
I’m delighted to be able to tell you that I’ve accepted the post of full-time editor on the New Media Knowledge (NMK) website, starting in the new year. NMK is a learning and business information hub for companies and individuals working in UK digital media. I’ve been writing this blog as a hobby for the last [...]
December 18, 2006
I reckon the ‘Time Person of the Year is You’ story (please see what looks like nearly every other blog) has probably been exhausted for whatever wisdom it may have contained. It’s still worth a dip inside, though, for the Web 2.0 article backing up the choice. Five reasons that ‘bubble 2.0′ is different from the [...]
December 17, 2006
ZdNet is running a little poll inviting readers to come up with the ‘Top Ten differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0′. The writer manages to offer AJAX (wrong) and O’Reilly’s alleged service mark on the expression (which he’s also wrong about). Reader CobraA1 cleverly subverts the poll in his/her comment: Top 10 reasons why it should [...]
December 16, 2006
Zeropaid reports on a new survey conducted in Australia. More than half the respondents said that they regularly downloaded TV shows from the Internet: 15.75% said they downloaded a TV program at least once a week, 25.5% said twice or more, with 12% responding once a month, and 17.5% hardly ever. 57.25% said they downloaded by episode, [...]
December 31, 2006