What Adobe’s Kiwi Project is about

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There is an interesting project going on over at Adobe that aims to combine the power of Flex 2 with the potential of the Read/Write Web. The project is codenamed Kiwi and they have already started showing how Flex 2 and the concept of a Read/Write Web can be combined to create a fantastic experience and bring about innovative ideas for interacting with data.

Filed under web development, adobe, readwriteweb, Richard MacManus, Flex, Kiwi, Kiwi Project, Adobe Kiwi, Adobe Flex by lunchbox Added 06/24/2006

Engaged Markets workshop: sm...ies competing against bigcos

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This workshop, moderated by Tara Hunt, split into 4 different groups for discussions. This format worked well and the group I joined, about little companies competing against big companies (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc) was an interesting one. The premise: you’re a startup launching a product, but just as this happens you find out a Google or Apple releases a similar product. What can you do? The example Tara used in her intro was 30Boxes, whose online calendar product was trumped …

Filed under business, software development, readwriteweb, Richard MacManus, product development, companies, business strategy, competition, big companies, Supernova 2006 by lunchbox Added 06/22/2006

Microcontent Aggregators: Suprglu

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In part 3 of my look at mc aggregators, I get stuck into Suprglu. In this post I ask the question: how sticky is this site? But enough puns, let’s get down to business. SuprGlu, a production of New York design studio Iridesco, is another product that enables users to collect their content from various services (flickr, delicious, etc) and put it in one place.

Filed under readwriteweb, microcontent, Richard MacManus, feeds, Peoplefeeds, microcontent aggregators, aggregation, 43things, filtering, Suprglu by lunchbox Added 05/04/2006

Microcontent Aggregators: Peoplefeeds

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Peoplefeeds aggregates content from a variety of sources - a person’s blog(s), Flickr feed, del.icio.us links and so on. They call this “personal content aggregation”. Peoplefeeds also enables “discovery of other people’s personal content” - and as with 43Things, users can filter that content.

Filed under readwriteweb, microcontent, Richard MacManus, feeds, Peoplefeeds, microcontent aggregators, aggregation, 43things, filtering by lunchbox Added 05/04/2006

Microcontent Design - Responses

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My introductory post last week about Microcontent Design got such a good response that I need to pause and consider all the feedback, before I move onto Part 2.

Filed under microformats, semantic web, RSS, readwriteweb, microcontent, Richard MacManus, structured blogging, Associated Press, Tom Curley, Microcontent Design by lunchbox Added 03/28/2006

Microcontent Design, Part 1

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“Who needs to bookmark and surf a bunch of Web sites anymore, when you can search or monitor several RSS “feeds” much more efficiently?” When Associated Press CEO Tom Curley spoke those words in a November 2004 keynote speech to the Online News Association Conference, he also struck at the heart of a paradigm shift in web design - from designing for the page to designing for microcontent.

Filed under microformats, semantic web, RSS, readwriteweb, microcontent, Richard MacManus, structured blogging, Associated Press, Tom Curley, Microcontent Design by lunchbox Added 03/28/2006

Web 2.0 Definition and Tagging

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To investigate what words and phrases people associate with Web 2.0, I took a close look at two popular Web 2.0-ish articles and noted what tags people stored them under in del.icio.us.

Filed under research, tagging, definition, del.icio.us, web 2.0, readwriteweb, Richard MacManus, future web, delicious, web 2.0 definition and tagging by lunchbox Added 02/26/2006

Branding Microcontent

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It seems to me that Web Designers are still fixated on the idea of website as `container` for the content. Branding to a Web Designer is still largely a visual exercise. And I don`t think there`s anything wrong with that, because the Web as a `place` won`t be disappearing anytime soon. However I also think RSS flow is creating a need for the data itself to be `designed`, not into HTML containers but into chunks of branded microcontent that will probably be XML. What I mean is: the data …

Filed under branding, HTML, web design, RSS, readwriteweb, Branding Microcontent, microcontent, content, Richard MacManus by lunchbox Added 02/12/2006