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2005 reflections and plans for 2006
Written by Richard MacManus / December 30, 2005 4:17 AM / 7 Comments
It's technically New Years Eve where I am, as I write this. I haven't done much blogging over the past week, because I've been re-charging my batteries and making plans


Acquisitions and The Big 3
Written by Richard MacManus / December 28, 2005 1:05 PM / 2 Comments
William Slawski has compiled two very useful lists of acquisitions, first by Google and now by Yahoo (see also The Guardian's list). I'll add the third, Microsoft's acquisitions as listed


A Year of Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Ups
Written by Richard MacManus / December 28, 2005 2:28 AM / 2 Comments
On 9 January 2005, I published the first of my Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-ups. When I launched it I described it as "a weekly summary of news and views relating


Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005
Written by Richard MacManus / December 22, 2005 2:41 AM / 10 Comments
Last year about this time I did a post celebrating the best Web companies of 2004. I was planning on doing a mega version of that this year, extending it


Phone-throwing kiwi explains
Written by Richard MacManus / December 21, 2005 12:47 PM / 8 Comments
After my phone-throwing incident earlier this week, I think I've calmed down enough now to do the equivalent of going on the Letterman show and saying sorry to anyone I


Lots going on in Citizen Journalism
Written by Richard MacManus / December 20, 2005 7:32 PM / 2 Comments
- Dan Gillmor is building a non-profit 'Center for Citizen Media', moving on from his previous (for-profit) project called Bayosphere. [via SiliconBeat] - The much-anticipated Pegasus News has released their


RSS everywhere in 2005 - RSS organized in 2006?
Written by Richard MacManus / December 20, 2005 6:45 PM
This image from a Scott Gatz presentation sums it up: 2005 was about introducing RSS to the products listed in Scott's picture. 2006 will surely be about how to organize


Thanks Feedster
Written by Richard MacManus / December 20, 2005 5:55 PM / 3 Comments
Feedster has named Read/WriteWeb one of their Feeds of the Year. Their summary of my blog is pretty funny, given the controversy over the past few days. Russell Shaw, whose


Disaster Response and the Web in 2005: The Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina
Written by Richard MacManus / December 20, 2005 2:20 AM
I've published a post on ZDNet that details how the Web was used for good in 2005, in very bad situations. It was actually something I wrote for the book


Cat eats pigeons: why Web 2.0 has jumped the shark
Written by Richard MacManus / December 19, 2005 11:36 AM / 11 Comments
Well my declaration that Web 2.0 is dead set the cat amongst the pigeons. Let me give a bit of background... I've been thinking for a while now about re-focusing


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