Microcontent Yahoo Does Microformats I missed the 'Decentralizing Data' session at Supernova unfortunately (still on NZ time and so slept through my alarm this morn!), but Dan Farber has the story about Yahoo Local's new support for microformats. I spoke briefly to Andy Baio afterwards, so I plan to write a more in-depth post later on this news. Here's Dan's coverage: "In the quest… Richard MacManus View comments
Widgets Widget services ramping up Paul Kedrosky points to a new service called PostApp, which is a new widgets syndication service currently in private beta. While the sign-up page doesn't go into detail about what PostApp does, Fergus Burns from Nooked has an interesting post on this subject: "A new space is beginning to develop - widget marketing. Led initially be desktop… Richard MacManus View comments
Admin Reporting live from Silicon Valley Today I arrived in San Francisco for two and a bit weeks of conferences and networking. This week I'm attending the Supernova conference, then it's Dave Winer's BloggerCon IV and finally Chris Pirillo's Gnomedex. Marc Canter's company Broadband Mechanics, who I work part-time for, is releasing People Aggregator at Gnomedex. So all the BBM team is… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media Digg CEO Jay Adelson responds to Netscape challenge Digg CEO Jay Adelson took time out of his busy schedule to email me some thoughts about Netscape's new digg-inspired community news site. Jay's thoughts below, but first some context. I've written two posts about the new Netscape site. In the Read/WriteWeb post I had two main points: 1) I think introducing paid editors into a community site may… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media Netscape wears Digg's clothing - but underneath it's still a portal Techcrunch has the scoop on the new Netscape portal beta, which bears a striking resemblance to Digg. Mike thinks it's a "digg killer" and in terms of pure numbers it may well be. Netscape gets a surprising 811 million monthly page views, which digg is at around 200 M per month. But despite the Digg-ish features, the new Netscape portal… Richard MacManus View comments