Weekly Wrap-ups Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 8-14 August 2005 sponsored by: Onfolio is offering R/WW readers a coupon code entitling the bearer to $30 off a purchase of Onfolio Professional before August 31st (a 30% saving off the normal $99.95 price). To use the coupon, enter it at the time of purchase. Coupon Code: RM857202 This week: RSS branding, More Web 2.0 definitions, Spam and fake blogs, MBAs… Richard MacManus View comments
RSS & Feeds Feeds is the new RSS This week I kicked off a discussion about what the brand name of RSS should be, going forward. It's generated a lot of great discussion, including some excellent comments on my blog. And funnily enough, I'm now convinced that in fact RSS is not the right term to market to the masses. 'Web feeds' is the term I like the most, although the abbreviated… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media Blog Networks are the new black This from Sir Robert Scoble: "Watch for more business deals and from places you wouldn't expect them. I'm hearing from several of my friends, for instance, that AOL is looking for media properties blogging networks." Interesting... I wonder if AOL read my Network of Niches post - I know some MSN folks did ;-) That post, and the one before it… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media IBM develops computer 'soul' IBM's new 'SoulPad' is a virtual computer on a small portable storage device, like a USB key or an MP3 Player. According to IBM, SoulPad "enables a paradigm of mobile computing where a user can suspend his computing environment on one PC and resume it on another PC that he may have never seen before." New Scientist takes the slightly creepy soul… Richard MacManus View comments
RSS & Feeds What's in a name - RSS or Feeds? Google News now has RSS feeds (finally!). It's great that all the big Internet companies now offer RSS feeds, but Google's move unfortunately signals a split in RSS branding amongst the big media and technology companies. Like Microsoft, Google isn't embracing the term 'RSS'. Microsoft wants to call RSS "web feeds", while Google is simply calling… Richard MacManus View comments