Web 2.0
Internet history covering the Web 2.0 period, roughly between 2004-2012. Including the serialization of my Web 2.0 memoir: Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution.
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Richard Goes to Yahoo! — Talking RSS and Blogging in 2005
On a cloudless day in October 2005, a week after the Web 2.0 Conference, I visit the gleaming yellow and purple Yahoo! campus to talk RSS and blogging with the company's resident bloggers.
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The Colors of Web 2.0 Party, October 2005
I attend a hyped Web 2.0 party hosted by Flock, del.icio.us, Flickr, Odeo, and other trendy startups. Later in the night, I desparately try to catch the last Caltrain back to Silicon Valley.
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Day 2 of the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference; Plus Pre-Web Memories
I watch entrepreneur Jason Calacanis celebrate selling his Web 2.0 blog business to AOL; later I have a drink by myself at the House of Shields, and think about pre-internet days.
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Revving Up at the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference
I'm there for the opening day of the second annual Web 2.0 Conference, held at the Argent Hotel in San Francisco. Plus I get to meet Mr Web 2.0 himself, O'Reilly Media CEO Tim O'Reilly.
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ReadWriteWeb Growth in 2005, Before First US Trip
I first visit Silicon Valley and the US in late September 2005. For the nine months prior, my tech blog Read/WriteWeb rapidly grew and was starting to evolve into a professional blog business.
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Arriving at the TechCrunch Ranch As Web 2.0 Hype Begins
My first trip to Silicon Valley in 2005 — when I get to know Mike Arrington, the founder of a new blog called TechCrunch, and Gabe Rivera, the founder of a new aggregator called Techmeme.
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A Call With Tim O’Reilly After the First Web 2.0 Conference
I interview Tim O'Reilly, the man who coined Web 2.0 and a key Silicon Valley figure, but I wonder if he thinks my questions suck; also, I begin experimenting with earning money from blogging.
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Marc Andreessen in 2004: Adapting to a New Web Era
How Netscape founder Marc Andreessen moved from enterprise software (his second company, Opsware) to the emerging social software market over 2004, with a new startup called Ning.
