tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2011:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485- 2011-04-29T12:34:06Z Comments for Exciting Times Movable Type 4.35-en tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485 2005-07-29T16:16:11Z 2007-12-16T23:15:46Z Exciting Times I've resigned from my day job, so in 4 weeks time I will be fully self-employed. I'll be doing freelance analysis and writing work, plus an exciting project which I will advise you of soon. I've been extremely busy lately, hence the relative lack of blogging. But soon I'll be back into it and writing... Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com I've resigned from my day job, so in 4 weeks time I will be fully self-employed. I'll be doing freelance analysis and writing work, plus an exciting project which I will advise you of soon. I've been extremely busy lately, hence the relative lack of blogging. But soon I'll be back into it and writing regular thoughtful posts again.

This is a great time to be doing things with RSS and Web 2.0 technologies in general. All the big guns have placed bets on RSS by now. AOL is implementing RSS, in partnership with Feedster (btw I mentioned this on my blog more than a month ago, so it's not new news). Yahoo has been onto RSS for ages, Microsoft is embracing RSS in its next OS (Windows Vista), Google almost certainly has things up its sleeve re RSS (the implementation of RSS in its Personalized portal is pathetic really, but I'm certain it's just the beginning...). Not to mention all the exciting stuff happening with companies like Feedburner and Nooked and Charlie Wood's new company and - etc etc!

There's even some great stuff starting to happen in my part of the world, New Zealand and Australia, which is exciting! Oh, and I'll be heading over to San Francisco in October for the Web 2.0 Conference. More excitement!

I'm really stoked to be able to devote myself full-time to the Web technologies I've been blogging about for 2-3 years now. If you have any analysis, research or writing work for me, send me an email. Can you guess I'm excited? ;-)

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485-comment:36127 Comment from Richard MacManus on 2005-07-30 Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com Thanks all!

ps Noah, I like to think R/WW is a very egalitarian blog... except that I use words like "egalitarian" which makes some people think I'm pompous :-)

Also, I will be able to write more about what I'll be doing once some i's are dotted and t's are crossed.

]]> 2005-07-30T17:45:19Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485-comment:36126 Comment from Greg Gershman on 2005-07-30 Greg Gershman http://www.blogdigger.com Congratulations Richard, I hope it goes well!

]]> 2005-07-30T09:20:20Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485-comment:36125 Comment from Noah Brier on 2005-07-30 Noah Brier http://www.noahbrier.com Congratulations Richard, try not to forget about us lowly Read/Write Web readers on your ascent to the top.

]]> 2005-07-30T09:16:20Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485-comment:36124 Comment from Adrian on 2005-07-30 Adrian http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/ Excellent news! Sounds like there's some interesting stuff going on - looking forward to hearing more about it all.

]]> 2005-07-30T07:22:36Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485-comment:36123 Comment from Alex Barnett on 2005-07-29 Alex Barnett http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn Congrats on the news...Good luck Richard!

]]> 2005-07-30T01:04:21Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485-comment:36122 Comment from Richard MacManus on 2005-07-29 Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com Thanks everyone :-)

]]> 2005-07-29T21:43:20Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485-comment:36121 Comment from Andrew on 2005-07-29 Andrew http://changingway.net Congratulations, Richard. I'll look forward to reading about your progress onwards and upwards.

]]> 2005-07-29T21:23:08Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485-comment:36120 Comment from Michael Arrington on 2005-07-29 Michael Arrington http://www.techcrunch.com Richard, Good luck on the project. I expect an exlclusive profile interview at TC. :-)

]]> 2005-07-29T20:21:57Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485-comment:36119 Comment from Peter Cooper on 2005-07-29 Peter Cooper http://www.petercooper.co.uk/ Long time lurker, first time commenter here.. :) Congratulations! I made the move to self employment six years and have regretted it just once (in the dot.bomb years of 2001-2002). But.. it rules. Totally.

To add to your list, I just launched FeedDigest -- http://www.feeddigest.com/ . Its predecessor has some 10,000 users, we'll be migrating, and we're now set to quadruple that ASAP. Time to beat FeedBurner soon :)

I honestly wish you the best of luck.. we all need it :)

]]> 2005-07-29T18:52:35Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4485-comment:36118 Comment from Joseph Lindsay on 2005-07-29 Joseph Lindsay http://josephlindsay.com/ Congratulations Richard. Good luck with your new ventures.

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