Joshua Porter has written a nice balanced introduction to Web 2.0 on Squidoo. Meanwhile I'm having a running battle with some idiots on the Wikipedia Web 2.0 page. One or

I've noticed some excellent techie posts lately, so I feel duty-bound to point them out. Phil Pearson, XML expert Kimbro Staken and Movable Type consultant Chad Everett have been working

It's that time of year when everyone brings out their Best Of 2005 and Top Ten lists. I wrote a post this time last year entitled Best Web 2.0 Companies

Yahoo! has joined forces with the Seven Network, one of Australia's leading television and media companies. A new 50-50 holding company will be formed that will own Yahoo Australia &

As TechCrunch reported, Joshua Schachter has announced the sale of Del.icio.us to (who else) Yahoo. Personally I'm thrilled Yahoo got del.icio.us, but I'm hoping they don't make it into a

Here's the Top Ten Web 2.0 memes, issues or news stories of the past week, as judged by me. 1. Lightnet: open up your media, the Lightnet revolution is here.

Fred Wilson has been thinking about the Web as a Platform concept. Like me, Fred sees this phrase as central to understanding the current era of the Web - known

The Wall St Journal has a great write-up of Gabe Rivera's tech.memeorandum, although tragically the WSJ misspelled the link! I also enjoyed the comparison made between Mike Arrington of TechCrunch

Lucas Gonze has been evangelizing a concept called lightnet. He coined the term, based on a recent Alex Barnett post entitled Hypertext and the next 15 years. Check out Lucas'

Summary: For my blog, RSS is a much more important content format than HTML these days. In one of my posts, five and a half times more important! Darren Rowse