There have been a lot of excellent posts and articles this week about APIs, the Web as Platform, web sites as software companies, and so forth. Here's my own mash-up

On 31 March 2005 a Google US patent was made public that reveals interesting data on how they rank your website. Patent number 20050071741 was actually filed on 30 September

Steve Rider is one of the developers of Microsoft's Start.com and he gives us an insight to the development plans for Microsoft's nascent Web-based RSS Aggregator / portal homepage. I

Excellent techie tips from O'Reilly Radar: "A longer-term solution is to build your business model into the API. In my mind the most successful APIs for the company providing the

Rands in Repose has written the best post about web apps I've read this year. I'll pick out the highlights here and finish with some thoughts on re-inventing the page

Summary: Yes Microsoft is a Web 2.0 company, because their goal is to use the Web as a Platform. The difference is they'll use the Web as a Platform via

The Wikipedia page for Web 2.0 continues to evolve. It still doesn't read well in places, but some parts hit the mark. For example this is a pretty good explanation

Plenty to chew on in coverage of the recent ETech conference. Here are some ETech tidbits that I snacked on over the past week and found to be rather tasty...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Web 2.0 defines a newer incarnation of the World Wide Web typified by the transition from the typical website hosting HTML/XHTML pages, to a platform

Last week I wrote about topic/tag/remix feeds. I think these may in future become more popular than people feeds. So to follow that up, here are some practical tips on