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May 2005 Archives

Monday, 30th May 2005

Weekly Wrap-ups

Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 23-29 May 2005

sponsored by: This week: the future of Web sites in a world of RSS, highlights from ION RSS, new Web 2.0 developments, Techie post of the week. Future of Web sites Matt McAlister, VP & General Manager, Online for InfoWorld, wrote this week that RSS is disintermediating InfoWorld's Web site. In other words, RSS is eliminating…

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Sunday, 29th May 2005

Google Search in Books goes live - And Amazon has it too

Google has just released its beta book search product Google Print (hat tip Diablo). The new service lets people search within the text of a book. Interestingly, I note that Amazon has a search inside this book feature too (how long has that been live? first time I've seen it). Both Google and Amazon searches are limited by copyright. In Google's…

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Saturday, 28th May 2005

Ads in RSS should be measured by branding value, NOT click-through

I have a theory about ads in RSS. It's based on my assumption that people won't click on ads in feeds enough for publishers to make much money. So I think we may be looking at the whole ads in feeds issue the wrong way. Allow me to explain... When someone subscribes to your RSS feed, it means they want to start up an ongoing reader-writer…

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Friday, 27th May 2005

Aggregator Ambience: The cure for Information Overload?

I was intrigued by this extract from the Headshift weblog: "The new Web 2.0 tools and services help create an ecosystem of connected people and information - as David Weinberger put it this week: The cure to information overload is more information, only it should become more ambient. We need to let people organise their inputs by exposing all…

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Web 2.0 and RSS services for hire

I'm on the look-out for more part-time writing, analysis or consulting work. I can't say too much about it here, but if you have any work opportunities for me - I'm available and I'd love to hear from you. My skillset covers: - Web and technical writing (including software specs) - Social media analysis and research - Web 2.0 consulting: including…

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