Internet History Podcast #124- Founder of ReadWriteWeb, Richard MacManus
Verified live by HTTP probe across 19 observations. Pulse momentum is negative over 30 days (-1.0) — observed activity is receding.
HTTP liveness
realSignal telemetry
4 families · 2 observed · observed onlyinternethistorypodcast.comedge
direct originserver
nginxTranco rank
unranked
Analyst read
generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrativeInternet History Podcast #124- Founder of ReadWriteWeb, Richard MacManus's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 40.5 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 1 tracked press mention, 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.
Comparable set
curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity| Company | Basis | Overlap | Pulse | 30d Δ | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uptown Funkentertainment | similar | 100% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Musicfy.comentertainment | similar | 100% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Meetings Podcast- The Event Registration Swampentertainment | similar | 100% | 0.0 | 0.0 | ■ inactive |
| Very Discoentertainment | similar | 100% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Dissect- S1E2 – GOOD KID, M.A.A.D. CITYentertainment | similar | 100% | 8.8 | -32.0 | — unverified |
| Cru Podcast: Growing An Unlikely Vineyard and Winery with Deirdre Heekinentertainment | similar | 100% | 0.0 | -40.0 | ■ inactive |
| Raised On The Radio- 16: Rob Drabkin, Mike Doughty and Dave Barnesentertainment | similar | 100% | 0.0 | 0.0 | ■ inactive |
| Boomratentertainment | similar | 100% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.
Structure
observed attributesFunding & team
not in sourceNo disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.