Hey, Rich People!

ZeFrank needs a new sponsor. Move quickly, budget-​​​​holding sports racers. Update: good move, godaddy.

Writely Getting Tightly

More tightly integ­rated with its owner, that is. I’ve always wondered how Writely was supposed to make any money. Today’s email brings a clue. New users or the users you invite to col­lab­orate on doc­u­ments will need to get them­selves a gmail/​​gcalendar/​​gpersonalised account to par­ti­cipate. Good move, I think. Writely is a cool tool, but it’s a poor vehicle

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More Lists; Less Thinking

Tim O’Reilly says “Web 2.0 is not about these bubble com­panies, it’s about the new approaches we are trying.” Try has he might to focus on lever­aging and inter­secting data­bases, the world prefers lists of sites with funny names. Perhaps we ought to call this the digg world to avoid confusion.

Wired news

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More Web 2.0 is Better… Sometimes

What’s the business case for Web 2.0 tech­no­lo­gies? Well, it depends on your business. For news­paper pub­lishers, the answer appears to be that more is better. You may recall from an earlier post that the Guardian news­paper website tops the league in the UK for Web 2.0 features (research con­ducted by Robin

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Bye Bye Blogrolls

Forgive me, but it’s time for me to indulge in a ‘how cool is this!?’ post. Grazr is a very nifty solution to RSS and Blogrolls in a widget. It can work from either a single RSS feed or an OPML file. Pity you can’t add or remove sub­scrip­tions on the fly, but you can’t have everything.

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The Truth About Truthiness

The new reality? I was in a brief email exchange yes­terday with the managing editor of NowPublic, Mark Schneider. NowPublic pub­lishes blog posts in a new-​​​​sy manner, sim­il­arly to Newsvine and Tailrank. It’s citizen journ­alism in a very naked manner. He reminded me about the idea of ‘truthiness’.

Comedian Stephen Colbert coined the phrase in a skit

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