Richard MacManus

Remember when we thought Twitter was the key to democracy? 😂 It's March 2010 and the Paley Center hosts an event in NYC starring Chinese artist and activist @aiww, Twitter CEO @jack, and your humble RWW editor. We're discussing the future of democracy. cybercultural.com/p/046-ai-weiwe…

This is a key passage, and maybe the start of Web 2.0 for real. I surmise that the Google IPO, which took place in August 2004 — in-between Oscon and the Web 2.0 Conference — was the catalyst for a shift in emphasis, from "Napsterizing the web" to commercializing it instead.

In this installment of my book 'Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution', I tune into the 2004 Web 2.0 Conference and learn about data sharecroppers. Meanwhile, I conduct my first major interview as a tech blogger. cybercultural.com/p/the-first-we…

The latest installment of my new book, "Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution." It's 2004 and I'm a member of the blogosphere. This is pre-Web 2.0, but with new "social software" sites like Flickr, it's heating up. cybercultural.com/p/the-early-ye…

Here's the introductory chapter of my new Web 2.0 memoir and history book, Bubble Blog. It sets the scene with my first trip to Silicon Valley in 2005, revisits the "Web 2.0 meme map", and describes my first (and only) interaction with Marc Andreessen. cybercultural.com/p/introduction…

Added a roadmap (table of contents) for my new book; I got the idea from @stevesi's substack. The first post of the serialization of my memoir — the introductory chapter — will go out later today, so do subscribe if you haven't already! cybercultural.com/p/roadmap-bubb…

I'm pleased to announce my new book, a memoir to be serialized on Substack. It's called "Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution". It chronicles the rise of the modern internet during the first decade of this century. cybercultural.com/p/bubble-blog-…

The big social media questions: 1. When will Threads federate? 2. When will Bluesky open up? 3. When will Mastodon get a decent UX? 4. When will the AI tech crowd abandon X? 5. When will the US government ban TikTok? Which will happen first?

In a behind-the-scenes tour of the @internetarchive I attended this month, founder @brewster_kahle explained how the IA preserves both digital and physical media. Here's my writeup, including photos from the evening. (click photo for article 👇) thenewstack.io/a-visit-to-the…

I spoke to @retool CEO David Hsu about its new #AIEngineer tool, Retool AI. Hsu says AI is more helpful for automating applications, rather than for building apps — a point of difference to LangChain and Vercel v0. Click image below to read article 👇 thenewstack.io/how-retool-ai-…

Today, @Netlify launched the Composable Web Platform, a kind of 'Jamstack for enterprise.' While I was in San Francisco last week, I sat down with CEO @biilmann to discuss the new product suite. Click on the image below to access the article. thenewstack.io/netlify-launch…

AI for Dev Tools: Create Software Requirements with Userdoc thenewstack.io/ai-for-dev-too… @ricmac #AI #DevTools #developers #Userdoc

@simonw @swyx Thanks, good tip. It’s sad that we have to revert to hacks to get stuff to work as it should…reminds me of using spacer gifs in the 90s when designing a website!

@ricmac @swyx Switching the card type to "summary" at least makes links more obviously links again

So, what is an AI Engineer? And will all software engineers become AI engineers? I asked @swyx and his answer is in the below article (it’s not a photo, it’s an article you should click on of you want to know the answers to these questions). thenewstack.io/ai-engineer-su…

Elon’s war on the og:title is obviously the biggest boon for serverless (fka “jamstack”) hosting platforms to push just in time custom og:image rendering for every webpage served on earth (but also come for the @aidotengineer recap, stay for the Cerebral Arena exclusive)

My report from the AI Engineer Summit this week in San Francisco (@aiDotEngineer #aiesummit), along with an interview with co-founder @swyx at his new Cerebral Valley / The Arena AI hackerspace, Newton. We discuss how AI engineers fit into software dev. thenewstack.io/ai-engineer-su…

Look who I bumped into this morning — @swyx and @FanaHOVA from @latentspacepod. They’re at their new AI hackerspace in Cerebral Valley / The Arena. My interview with Swyx, post @aiDotEngineer Summit, is coming soon on @thenewstack!

I got to visit the physical @internetarchive this evening, featuring a tour from the one and only @brewster_kahle. Really enjoyed it, and they are doing amazing work keeping our Internet history alive!

New open source foundation announced at #aiesummit: AI Engineer Foundation, modeled on CNCF and KubeCon.

OpenAI says 2023 was the year of the chatbot, but 2024 will be the year of multi-modal. #aiesummit @aiDotEngineer