Cybercultural
Cybercultural
Richard MacManus
Cybercultural chronicles internet history and its cultural impact, from the pre-web era to the dot-com boom, Web 2.0, and beyond. Written by pioneering tech blogger Richard MacManus.
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The internet in 2010 was when social media conquered the world, as people flocked to Facebook and Twitter to have their say. Much of this was driven by smartphone apps — not just from the established players, but by newer apps like...
Me being interviewed by Pelpina Trip from WebBeat.tv, SXSW 2011. During the first couple of months of 2011, Sean was busy renegotiating ReadWriteWeb’s revenue deal with FM Publishing. In early March he delivered the new contract to me...
Me posing next to the Xerox ParcPad from 1992, an ancestor of the iPad (which was released in 2010); photo on the right is from a group dinner in San Francisco, October 2010. In July, as I was trying to make progress on a number of...
Screenshot of ReadWriteWeb in September 2010. Note: this is from a rare full-page screenshot of classic RWW, so most of the other images in this post will feature other parts of that particular RWW page. You can view the full screen...
One year ago, I launched the serialization of my third book, a memoir entitled Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution. The book covers the years 2003-2012, the time in which I created ReadWriteWeb...
ReadWriteWeb Twitter account, 31 August 2010. In July 2010 we finally began the process of advertising for a new community manager, after Jolie’s departure in March. We wanted someone who was an active user of social media tools and who...
After my trips to New York and Portland, I flew back to San Francisco. I first attended the SemTech conference for the second year running. However, the most interesting event I went to that week was at Singularity University (SU),...
RWW's coworking day at Urban Grind café; clockwise from left-back: me, Alex Williams, Deane Rimerman, Audrey Watters, Marshall Kirkpatrick; photo by Abraham Hyatt. Note: This post is dedicated to Curt Hopkins, who sadly passed away in...
Me at our first NYC event, in June 2010. Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid. It was another late arrival coming into New York — near midnight on Sunday, June 6 — but this time I had booked a hotel in Manhattan. It was a fifteen-minute...
Today I completed a redesign of Cybercultural, including a new navigation structure and other changes related to an upgrade in my publishing system, Eleventy. I've upgraded from Eleventy version 2 to the latest 3.0 beta version, which...
I think Sean was more excited to meet Fred Wilson than I was. As a wannabe VC, he was in awe of Fred and had tried (unsuccessfully) to interview him for the ReadWriteTalk podcast. I certainly knew about Fred and subscribed to his blog in...
Team RWW at the Mobile Summit: Frederic, Chris, me, Marshall, Sean; photo via Chris Cameron. The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit was held on Friday, May 7, once more at the beautiful Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I would be giving...
As internet culture continued to go mainstream over 2010, sometimes we at ReadWriteWeb got caught in the crosshairs. In February, our website was hilariously mistaken for the Facebook login page by thousands of people. We’d published a...
A grainy iPhone photo I took of the bass player from Band of Skulls, when they played at Beauty Bar during SXSW Music 2010. The Ai Weiwei event was a big deal for RWW; we thought it could potentially bring us to the attention of...
I didn’t know much about the Paley Center for Media before I entered its impressive white stone building on Fifty-Second Street. But I knew it was about as “old media” as it could get in New York City — and I mean that in a good way....