My top 20 web moments of 2005
Richard MacManus continues the end of year wrap-ups with his Top 10 Web 2.0 Moments.
10. Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines
9. The Return of Amazon (Mechanical Turk and Alexa Web Services)
8. Microsoft embraces and extends RSS with Really Simple Sharing
7. Ajax
6. Memeorandum
5. Google Base
4. Yahoo acquires Flickr and del.icio.us
3. eBay buys Skype
2. Microsoft Live
1. Web 2.0 conference
All pretty good calls I think. My personal favourite of the above is RSS and OPML + SSE, in particular the OPML bit.
So in keeping with the theme, here are 2005's top 20 web highlights as I see them (not necessarily popular posts of mine nor Web 2.0):
- Web Standards Project meets Microsoft
- RSS meets Longhon (now Windows Vista)
- Attention! Yahoo! experiments with Attention.xml
- Yes, Darth Vader blogs too
- Area 51 on Google Maps Satellite
- Moore's Law at 40
- Screencast showing how to podcast
- Microsoft to acquire Groove Networks
- Using RSS 101 - the screencast
- Unusable RSS ads, courtesy of Jacob Nielsen
- I love the smell of comment spam in the morning
- Amazon: Web 2.0 and business as usual
- Identity 2.0
- RSS Magazine
- Markets *really are* conversations
- Web 2.0 Meme Map and Microsoft
- Bubble 2.0 or the Long Boom?
- ‘ctrl-alt-del’ will now be known as : ‘hasta la vista’ (ok, not web)
- How RSS thickened my Long Tail
- Man dies from online addiction
Comments
- Anonymous
December 16, 2005
Nothing podcasting related? :-( - Anonymous
December 17, 2005
MK, see #7