RSS & Feeds Ads, Spam, Commercial use of RSS feeds A bit of admin - just so you know, I'm testing out a new type of RSS advertising with Feedburner. I'm testing it because it's pretty close to the type of RSS advertising I described in this post back in May. Speaking of advertising, Phil Ringnalda has noticed the O'Reilly Network is using a subtle form of advertising/search engine… Richard MacManus View comments
RSS & Feeds RSS 3.0? This is news to me. Apparently there's a version 3 of RSS, which purports to be "a derivative work which is meant to replace the 2.0 version." That'll please Dave Winer, I'm sure. A guy called Jonathan Avidan is behind RSS 3.0 and he seems to be the only one contributing to the RSS 3 MessageBoards at this time. Mr Avidan also posted an article at… Richard MacManus View comments
Web Development Web as Platform Mash-Ups There have been a lot of excellent posts and articles this week about APIs, the Web as Platform, web sites as software companies, and so forth. Here's my own mash-up of some of the highlights: The Philosophy of Web 2.0 To set the scene, let's consider what the essence of Web 2.0 is. Peter Merholz has been thinking about this: "The point isn't the… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Number 215 with a bullet Feedster have come up with a Top 500 blogs list, in response to Jason Calacanis' challenge. I make the charts at number 215. Even though charts are elitist and all that, it's cool to see my blog up there. Maybe charts are only elitist when I'm not on them? But reality check: as number 220 (hee hee) SiliconBeat wrote: "Actually, we knew if someone… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Going back in time I got quoted in an IDG article, currently on Macworld, about the RSS naming debate. I'm pleased to get my name in mainstream media, however they got the dates out of context. Here's the extract where I'm mentioned: "The debate raged on after Torres' response to Winer. In an Aug. 10 entry on his Web log Read/Write Web, freelance analyst and Web… Richard MacManus View comments