ricmac, 4 days ago to random

I'm branching out into history lessons on Cybercultural -> 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. https://cybercultural.com/p/twitter-in-2007-key-facts/ #InternetHistory #EarlyTwitter #Web20

ricmac, 6 days ago to random

In mid-2008, ReadWriteWeb expands its writing team (including two future tech blogging stars) and I put some much needed structure into the business. Also, we ink a syndication deal with The New York Times. https://cybercultural.com/p/035-indie-media-business-20/ #InternetHistory #Web20 #Serialization

ricmac, 20 days ago to nyc

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. (part 033 of my Web 2.0 memoir) https://cybercultural.com/p/033-rww-american-dream-2008/ #InternetHistory #Serialization #Web20 #NYC

ricmac, 22 days ago to random

A look back at internet technology in 2004 — when Flickr and Gmail launched, blogging plus RSS was the new social software, Google IPOed, and the first Web 2.0 Conference happened. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2004/ #InternetHistory #Web20 #2004

ricmac, 1 month ago to random

Just as ReadWriteWeb becomes one of the 10 most popular blogs in the world on Technorati, in late April 2008, I travel to New York to meet with Ziff Davis Enterprise about their proposed acquisition. https://cybercultural.com/p/031-zde-due-diligence-begins/ #InternetHistory #Serialization #Web20

DigitalNaiv, 2 months ago to internet German

#KI killt das Internet - doch das alte Web 2.0 kann sich wehren - Das Internet zu #SocialMedia Zeiten war ein Fast Food-Restaurant. Jetzt ist es nur noch die Erdnuss-Schale an der Theke.
Um so schöner ist, dass es manche Ecken im Web gibt, die im Angesicht der KI-Tools und -Angebote noch ganz nach der guten alten #Web20-Methode gepflegt werden. Persönliche #Newsletter und #Blogs erobern sich zunehmend Nischen, die erfrischend unalgoritmisch und persönlich sind. | @gigold https://gigold.me/blog/ki-killt-web

ricmac, 2 months ago to random

Marshall Kirkpatrick joins Read/WriteWeb in September 2007, which helps us crack the top 20 blogs in the world. The following month, I attend the Web 2.0 Summit and experience the start of hustle culture, through chats with GaryVee and a hungry (and muscly) kiwi entrepreneur. https://cybercultural.com/p/024-readwriteweb-key-hire-hustle-culture/ #InternetHistory #Web20

ricmac, 4 months ago to blogging

In June 2006, I interviewed Yahoo at Supernova about its so-called "open platform" and then struggled to get a word in edgeways at BloggerCon. (The latest in my serialized memoir, Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution.) https://www.cybercultural.com/p/016-the-core-values-of-blogging #InternetHistory #Web20 #Blogging

ricmac, 5 months ago to random

Digg was a big driver of traffic to ReadWriteWeb back in 2006. I tried to show my appreciation to Digg CEO Kevin Rose several years later by buying him and his friend a lamb dinner in New Zealand. Sadly Digg imploded soon after. Here’s what it was like in 2006 though! https://www.cybercultural.com/p/015-digg-power-laws-of-silicon-valley #internethistory #web20

ricmac, 5 months ago to random

Over 2006, I ramp up Read/WriteWeb's advertising business, by first partnering with John Battelle's FM Publishing and then copying TechCrunch's sidebar ad format. #internethistory #web20 https://www.cybercultural.com/p/014-the-sponsor-ads-era-2006

ricmac, 5 months ago to random

It's January 2006 and I attend Microsoft Search Champs to discuss Live[dot]com, the company's "start page". I also catch up with a fellow Web 2.0 Workgroup member. https://www.cybercultural.com/p/013-visiting-the-microsoft-campus #internethistory #Web20 #serializedbook

ricmac, 5 months ago to random

I look back on web technology in 2005 — a world before social media, smartphones and the cloud! (note: this is a bonus post for paid supporters of my newsletter and serialized book, but you can read the first part for free) https://www.cybercultural.com/p/what-the-web-was-like-in-2005 #InternetHistory #Web20 #2005

ricmac, 5 months ago to random

It could almost be an episode of Frasier...It's January 2006 and I fly to Seattle for Microsoft Search Champs. But there's a problem: no gift basket. Also, I visit my blog buddy Erik Benson's startup. #InternetHistory #web20 #serializedbook https://www.cybercultural.com/p/012-gift-basket-seattle-january-2006

ricmac, 6 months ago to random

On a sunny, cloudless day in October 2005, I visit the gleaming yellow and purple Yahoo! campus to talk RSS and blogging with the company's resident bloggers. https://www.cybercultural.com/p/009-richard-goes-to-yahoo #InternetHistory #Web20 #yahoo

ricmac, 6 months ago to random

Part 007 of my serialized Web 2.0 memoir, at the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco -> I watch Jason Calacanis celebrate selling his Web 2.0 blog business; later I have a drink by myself at the House of Shields, and think about pre-internet days. https://www.cybercultural.com/p/007-2005-web-20-conference-day-2 #InternetHistory #Web20 #serialization

evan, 1 year ago to random

Hashtags didn't start out as a software feature on Twitter.

@chrismessina proposed their use, and for a long time, they were just a cultural norm.

It was months later that Twitter engineers turned them into links that went to a search result screen.

Same thing with @-addressing. It was a practice for blog comments that came over to Twitter, but there was a long time that there were no affordances in the UI to support them.

Same with retweets. People starting using "RT", and it took off.