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Notices by Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)

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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jul-2025 18:52:07 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    I can’t get over how different Google is from the 1999 company that offered web users a qualitatively better search engine than what they’d been used to with portals. I know Sergey Brin is into AI now, but I wonder what Larry Page makes of 2025-Google search, and how bad for users and publishers alike it is. https://cybercultural.com/p/google-1999/ https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/114904206348867968

    In conversation about 2 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      Google in 1999: Search Engines Escape the Portal Matrix
      from Richard MacManus
      Like Morpheus in The Matrix, Google gave web users a stark choice in 1999: take the red pill and experience a new world of search quality, or choose the blue pill and stick with the bloated world of portal search.
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      404 Media (@404mediaco@mastodon.social)
      from 404 Media
      Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain 🔗 https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 04:16:26 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus
    in reply to
    • Eugen Rochko

    @Gargron

    In conversation about 7 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 04:13:06 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    Out of sheer boredom on a Saturday post-dinner, I opened up Threads (I no longer post there) and saw this cry for help. Poor bastards… #MetaWorld #AOLvibes

    In conversation about 7 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Jul-2025 11:48:19 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus
    • Techmeme

    One of the ways to get Mastodon more visibility across the normieverse is to add your link to @Techmeme. e.g. I requested that one of my Mastodon posts about the OpenAI browser news be added (I thought it added good context) and within a minute or two it was up there. It's a small way to promote the fediverse, but it helps when people see more Mastodon (or indeed indie blog) links on Techmeme. Note: the button, on the bottom-right, only displays on the desktop version of Techmeme (not mobile).

    In conversation about 12 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    1. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/829/259/936/375/863/original/4dff3a8a3b984240.png
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 03:17:36 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    What’s the social protocol for when you want to tweak your #introduction post on Mastodon? Just minor updates, so I don’t think it deserves a new post. Maybe just putting “Updated, 10 July 2025” in it?

    In conversation about 16 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 23:19:02 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    Oh no…now Meta is automatically sharing our private messages to its AI. As far as I can tell, you can only turn it off for each message thread, one at a time (and there seems to be no option to turn it off *at all* for group threads!). Yet another privacy disaster from Facebook.

    I use Messenger btw for family and non-tech friends, so don’t (ahem) shoot the messenger.

    In conversation about 16 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 21:31:45 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus
    • dannysullivan

    As search engines in 2025 shift from providing links to (AI) answers — and all the angst that is causing web publishers — I thought I'd take a look at what search engines were like in 1998...one year before Google became popular. At that time search was seen as just one part of the portal experience. But little did AltaVista know, it wouldn't be the center of attention on @dannysullivan's Search Engine Watch for much longer. https://cybercultural.com/p/search-1998/ #InternetHistory #searchengines

    In conversation about 16 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      Search Engines in 1998, Before Google Takes the Spotlight
      from Richard MacManus
      Google makes the transition from Stanford project to company over 1998, but it is portals like Yahoo! and portal-wannabes like AltaVista that feature in Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch that year.
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 20:23:24 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus
    in reply to
    • Eugen Rochko

    @Gargron option to turn on HTTP referrer; great for us web publishers! 🙏 🙏 🙏

    In conversation about 17 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 08:02:30 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    Don’t fall for this again, hundreds of millions of people. https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-daily-app-users-new-data-shows/

    In conversation about 17 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows | TechCrunch
      from Sarah Perez
      Threads' mobile app for iOS and Android saw 115.1 million daily active users, representing 127.8% year-over-year growth.

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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 04:19:53 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    This is why we loved David Lynch: such PASSION for his chosen medium. Be sure to watch this video all the way through. https://youtu.be/OQiQk8AJ0YI

    via https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/twin-peaks-season-3-theatrical-mix-david-lynch-intended-1235136544/

    In conversation about 21 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    1. David Lynch on iPhones - Full Clip
      From the Inland Empire bonus DVD
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      NYC Audiences Will Finally See ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3 the Way David Lynch Intended
      from Chris O'Falt
      Metrograph Marathon: Lynch hated 'Twin Peaks: The Return' nearfield mix for TV, so he created a theatrical mix, knowing one day it'd show in theaters.
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 02:43:28 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus
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    • Evan Prodromou

    @evan Personally I view it the other way round: a DM is confidential unless you both agree otherwise. It’s like email sent from a friend or acquaintance: I wouldn’t share a personal email to me unless I got the other person’s ok. That’s just how I see it (fwiw I voted ‘never’, but probably ‘rarely’ would’ve been better).

    In conversation about 21 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 07:08:26 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    Another one bites the dust… #XThreads

    In conversation about 22 days ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 10:05:17 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    “Mr. Prince said he was “deeply concerned that the incentives for content creation are dead.””

    This definitely resonates with me. Sometimes I wonder why I bother spending so much of my time writing articles that fewer and fewer people read. Yes, AI is to blame, altho I also put a lot of blame on ‘traffic-throttling’ social media like X, LinkedIn, Facebook/Threads. The open web is, sadly, almost devoid of incentives for creators. This is a challenge for fediverse too.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/technology/cloudflare-ai-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TE8.6JAh.CFClZ2CqkmoO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 19:10:13 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus
    • Sacha Judd

    “I think the new web aesthetic is about getting active again. Platforms encourage passivity. They want us to stay still and scrolling, looking at what the algo wants to show us. Like, swipe, repeat. But the new web aesthetic is non-linear. It encourages you to move from one site to another, to dive down rabbit holes, and crucially, to continue sharing what you find.”

    toward a new aesthetic, @sachajudd https://newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/toward-a-new-aesthetic/

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      toward a new aesthetic
      Lately I’ve been thinking about what being online looks like. The actual look of it. The aesthetic. As I continue to think and write and talk about escaping...
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 01:33:22 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    Creative Commons has a new set of AI licenses, CC Signals: "This is not about creating new property rights; it is more like defining manners for machines."

    Hmmm, some of these machines already ignore robot.txt files, so I'm not sure how well this will work. But CC *did* revolutionize copyright licences in early Web 2.0, so I'd certainly like to see them help out in the AI era.

    https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/implementation/

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jun-2025 20:06:49 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    Threads is allegedly part of the fediverse, yet I'm nowhere near the point of being able to ask Threads users to follow my Mastodon profile. Attached is how my Mastodon profile looks over there. Some of the issues:

    1. Threads users can follow Mastodon Me *only if* they themselves have turned on fediverse sharing (an arbitrary hurdle).
    2. They have to exactly type my Mastodon handle.
    3. You can like but not reply.
    4. "Some posts may not be visible" (why?!)
    5. There's no bio!

    Any other hurdles?

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jun-2025 08:16:44 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    It took me ages to find screenshots of BowieNet as it looked on launch in September 1998, but I finally found some beauties. Oh, and I explain how BowieNet not only became the default online community for David Bowie fans, it also anticipated the social networks that would emerge in the 2000s, like Facebook and Reddit. https://cybercultural.com/p/bowienet-launch-1998/ #InternetHistory #BowieForever

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      Launch of BowieNet and the First Inklings of Social Networks
      from Richard MacManus
      When BowieNet launched in 1998, it became the default online community for David Bowie fans. It also anticipated the social networks that would emerge in the 2000s, like Facebook and Reddit.
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 03:35:28 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    Headless browsers like Browserbase and Playwright have a huge role to play in AI agent technology. Whether we like it or not, it's increasingly going to be agents that browse our websites moving forward. So Browserbase, I think, is mining a very profitable part of the AI dev stack here. https://thenewstack.io/why-headless-browsers-are-a-key-technology-for-ai-agents/

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      Why Headless Browsers Are a Key Technology for AI Agents
      from Richard MacManus
      Headless browsers like Browserbase and Playwright are to the agentic web what browsers like Chrome and Firefox are to the legacy internet.
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jun-2025 03:33:17 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    The web is not thriving for indie publishers. We can only hope Google doesn’t lose sight of small indie websites, and how *they* can earn a living in the AI era. That was the beauty of the Web 2.0 era — there were opportunities for *everyone* to thrive. I see Google, AI companies and big publishers like Reddit thriving in this era…but surely Google knows that isn’t enough for the broader web ecosystem to thrive.

    Ref: Google’s “from our point of view the web is thriving." https://c.im/@rustybrick/114732529149457285

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick@c.im)
      from Barry Schwartz
      Attached: 1 image Google's Nick Fox questions the CTR studies done on AI Overviews and says the web is thriving, @JohnMu echoed that the web is thriving https://www.seroundtable.com/google-on-ai-ctr-studies-39628.html via @jasonhowell@mastodon.social hat tip @inspiredtaste@mastodon.social #google #googleaioverviews
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    Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 08:21:37 JST Richard MacManus Richard MacManus

    I actually like that cultural folks (musicians, magazines, writers, music bloggers, artists, etc) are starting to show up on Bluesky now. I remember checking last year if Electronic Sound magazine was on open social, but at the time they were just on X. So this is progress. I don’t expect them to ever be on Mastodon, but that’s ok…different open social media platforms can have different vibes; indeed I think that’s better. I kind of go to Bluesky for the culture stuff. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ev4fhapxcvyjk2ldlwvcfzoq/post/3ls4qmfa3zc2i

    In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      Richard MacManus (@ricmac.cybercultural.com)
      from Richard MacManus (@ricmac.cybercultural.com)
      Lovely to see St Etienne on Bluesky, whose music I adored as a Uni student in the early 90s (and still do). Also shoutout Electronic Sound magazine for also being on Bluesky now (pretty sure they were only on X when I last checked, sometime last year). Love that culture is slowly moving here... [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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    I’m a tech journalist 📰 and I also write about internet history⏳on my indie website Cybercultural. I used to run a Web 2.0 blog named ReadWriteWeb. I'm a 🥝 living in 🇬🇧.My alt account @classicweb posts screenshots of classic websites.

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