Yellowikis: Demonstrating Web 2.0 principlesIn this the third and final part of my series of posts about Yellowikis as a Web 2.0 case study, I look at some of the principles that can be applied by other Web 2.0 companies and those people wanting to start a business in this era of the Web. [...]November 17, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Social Enterprise
Will Google Base be the world's largest XML database?Michael Parekh wrote an interesting post outlining why he thinks Google Base is a milestone for the Internet. The gist of it is: "With Google Base, the company now POTENTIALLY has a human-powered directory of it's own, that can supplement results to it's core search engine.November 16, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Google
Microsoft CTO Starts BlogRay Ozzie has started another blog, on MSN Spaces this time, that promises to be interesting reading. Ozzie wrote in the inaugural post: "As in the past, it's not my intent to be pitching our products here.November 16, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Tech Industry
Yellowikis: a Web 2.0 Case Study, Part 2 - Industry Disruption and The CompetitionYesterday I wrote about Yellowikis, an open business listings site that has the potential to shake up the Yellow Pages industry. The reason I chose Yellowikis for this case study is because it has a lot of the characteristics of a Web 2.November 15, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Enterprise Software
Yellowikis - A Case Study of a Web 2.0 Business, Part 1Continuing my series on disruptive Web 2.0 businesses, Yellowikis is an open business listings site that has the potential to shake up the Yellow Pages industry.November 14, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Social Enterprise
eBay to make APIs free to developersNews today that eBay will remove the pricing from its set of developer APIs (via Bokardo): "eBay was set on Monday to make access to its application programming interfaces (APIs) free to its more than 21,000 developers for creating programs that enable people to buy and sell things through the online auctioneer's network. Previously, developers paid from $1.November 14, 2005 by Richard MacManus in E-Commerce
The World's Top Websites - Yahoo number 1, China moving upEvery now and then I check out Alexa's Web stats, because they can be a good indicator of current trends. Tonight I went in and decided to see what the world's biggest websites are.November 13, 2005 by Richard MacManus in China
Microsoft's Ray Ozzie on the Web OfficeRay Ozzie's memo indicates that Microsoft is still internally questioning the approach for Office Live. Should they web-enable traditional desktop personal productivity tools like Powerpoint? [...]November 10, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Microsoft
Leaked Documents from Bill Gates and Ray OzzieDave Winer has published a leaked email from Bill Gates and memo from Ray Ozzie. This comes from a source within Microsoft, who Dave Winer won't name.November 8, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Tech Industry
Is digg the new Slashdot?The two services have more in common than not - just take a look at the techie and geeky headlines on each. But the fact that digg uses the wisdom of the crowds to determine relevancy, is a step further than Slashdot with its wizard-like editors. [...]November 7, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Social Enterprise
Topix.net adds blogs - is it news?Today Rich Skrenta, CEO of topix.net, announced they'd added 15,000 of the top weblogs to the Topix.November 6, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Enterprise Software
The Web turns 15 - but are the bigco's ruining the party?In this current era of the Web, control and centralization is still happening - but instead of the browser being the main unit of control, it's now user data. [...]November 3, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Enterprise Software
Personalized Start Pages: Microsoft, Google, NetvibesOne of the new products that came out of Microsoft's Live announcements was the new Windows Live homepage, at live.com.November 2, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Google
Sun announces service to convert Microsoft Office docs to OpenOffice compatible formatIn a press release today, Sun Microsystems announced it will deliver on demand network services to convert documents from native proprietary formats such as Microsoft Office into the Open Document Format (ODF), the industry standard file format. Sun will also deliver a service to convert text files to podcasts/audio files for playback at a later date.November 1, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Oracle
Microsoft Announces The Live EraMicrosoft just announced its new Web-based Windows and 'software as a service' strategies. After first announcing the Xbox 360 will be released on Nov 22 in North America, Gates talked about their new "Live" brand (thanks Mike from TechCrunch for the news - he has pictures too).November 1, 2005 by Richard MacManus in Enterprise Software