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News Corporation’s COO Peter Chernin told investors at the Merrill Lynch Media & Entertainment Conference that MySpace could move to develop its own applications to rival or dominate other Web 2.0 services: “If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket or any of the next-generation It’s not important for you to know my name — Nor I to know yours If we communicate for two minutes only It will be enough For knowing that someone in this world Feels as desperate as me — And what you give is what you get. It doesn’t matter if we never meet again, What Techcrunch has posted a great interview with angel investor Paul Graham, which covers some different ground to the one he did with me. Especially interesting, I thought, is Graham’s point that new software startups can effect social and political change: Frankly, even though I’m supposed to be an investor, the ideas that excite me most Following its report into the extent to which US newspapers have adopted Web 2.0 approaches, such as blogs and podcasts, The Bivings Report offered a list of ten pieces of advice to help the papers avoid their predicted demise: Start using tags. Provide full text RSS feeds. Work with external “social†websites. Link to relevant For many observers, one of the key lessons of the Kiko tits-up episode is that startups need to watch out for the evil empire that is the Google Operating System. Mike Yamamoto’s comments in “Google, slayer of Web 2.0 start-ups” seem typical of the sort of conclusions being drawn. One of Kiko’s Good to hear from Craig Williams from audabble.net [update: now gone to pot, it seems] who has just set up a new personalised radio service. The downloadable Flash application plays your own MP3 files interspersed with news highlights from your favourite sources which are fed through a text-to-speech engine. At this point, the service still needs a little |             | |||
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