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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RWW Makes Twitter Suggested User List and Grows Team
Troubles in my personal life impact the ReadWriteWeb business in the first half of 2009, but traffic continues to grow. We also add several new writers and operations people to our team.
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My 2009 Googleplex Visit and RWW Launches Channels
ReadWriteWeb begins 2009 by adding several vertical subsites, including ReadWriteStart. Meanwhile, I travel back to Silicon Valley for ETech and a visit to the Googleplex.
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Web 2.0 Summit 2008 and Tech Media's Pivot to Business News
I'm back in the US to attend Microsoft's PDC and the 2008 Web 2.0 Summit. Team RWW meets in San Francisco and despite the looming global financial crisis, we remain techno-optimists.
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Curious About Early Twitter? Discover 5 Key Facts From 2007
Here are five things you might not have known about Twitter in 2007, the year it broke out as a leading social media tool. For starters, it was termed microblogging and the word 'tweet' wasn't yet common.
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Indie Media Business 2.0: RWW Adds Structure and Writers
In mid-2008, ReadWriteWeb expands its writing team and I put some much needed structure into the business. Also, we ink a syndication deal with The New York Times.
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What the Internet Was Like in 2005
2005 was the year Web 2.0 business began to boom, with the acquisitions of Flickr and MySpace, the launch of YouTube and Reddit, and new innovations in RSS and web development.
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Unacquired: ReadWriteWeb Pulls Out of the ZDE Deal
After weeks of delay in closing the proposed Ziff Davis Enterprise acquisition of RWW, and seeing Ars Technica and PaidContent both get bought, I decide enough is enough.
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Alien in New York: ReadWriteWeb & the American Dream
I sit down with Insight Partners to discuss ReadWriteWeb's finances. Later, I get the meat sweats at Carnegie Deli and catch up on blog business before my flight home.
