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Twitter in 2007: The Open Platform That Wasn't
How do Bluesky and Mastodon compare with Twitter in 2007? Nobody quite knew what Twitter was back then, yet devs were already building on it.
May 25
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Richard MacManus
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April 2023
ReadWriteWeb Turns 20
I look back on two decades of RWW, including the more than 10 years since I left! ☯️
Apr 20
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Richard MacManus
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March 2023
The Golden Age of Microblogging, with Soup.io and Tumblr
I take a nostalgic trip back to 2007-11, when Tumblr, Soup.io, FriendFeed and other microblogging apps roamed the web. Also: are activity streams poised…
Mar 22
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Richard MacManus
February 2023
Foursquare Raps by the Go-Bang Mayor
I look back on a forgotten age in social media, when you checked-in to a place 100 times and took photos of your huevos rancheros 🍳 🫘 ☕
Feb 21
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Richard MacManus
January 2023
Flickr Before Smartphones and Instagram
What was it like using Flickr in early Web 2.0, in the age of digital cameras and before Instagram changed everything? 📸
Jan 26
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Richard MacManus
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BowieNet: The Inside Story of its Creation
I interviewed one of the creators of David Bowie's 1998 web portal, BowieNet.
Jan 10
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Richard MacManus
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February 2022
The Mobile Internet, Then and Now
Looking at the state of the mobile internet, present and past 📲 Why? Partly because Facebook wants its metaverse to be like the mobile internet.
Feb 10, 2022
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Richard MacManus
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Loneliness in the 1990s Compared to Today 😔
Thoughts on a pre-internet era. Plus notes on Wordle, Pono, Twitter's algo, Facebook headwinds, and more.
Feb 3, 2022
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Richard MacManus
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January 2022
Looking at Web3 Through a Cultural Lens
Web 2.0 developers continue to be skeptical of Web3 and crypto. But that doesn't make it any less fascinating to dive into 🤿
Jan 27, 2022
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Richard MacManus
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Would You Like Fries With That NFT? 🍟
Twitter, Facebook and McDonalds go all-in on NFTs.
Jan 20, 2022
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Richard MacManus
What NFTs, the iPhone Launch & David Bowie Have in Common 👨🎤
Experiment your way to the future — how I'm looking at NFTs, with thanks to the iPhone launch of 2007 and David Bowie.
Jan 13, 2022
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Richard MacManus
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Social Networking — Past, Present and Future
What Instagram 📸 and FarmVille 🐄 tell us about where social networks are headed.
Jan 6, 2022
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Richard MacManus
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