Yahoo Yahoo Ramping Up Content Networks - But Scaling Back on RSS? This week Yahoo has released some new initiatives and polished up the design of existing content properties. Here is R/WW's summary of the action, along with some commentary... Yahoo TV re-design - and is Yahoo scaling back RSS? Yahoo TV has had a re-design, giving it a liberal sprinkling of Ajax and social Web features. I was interested to… Richard MacManus View comments
Microsoft Microsoft Officially Announces Vista and Office 07 - Web Briefly Mentioned Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced today the business availability of the Windows Vista operating system, the 2007 release of Microsoft Office, and other new business software offerings. Vista and Office 07 be available from 30 January. The OS and Office launches were described as "the beginning of the most significant product launch in… Richard MacManus View comments
Music Orange Launches Online Music Analysis and Recommendations Orange Spain, a mobile operator, has two new music services - 'New Talents' and 'Enjoy your Music'. Both are powered by Music Intelligence Solutions, a provider of AI (artificial intelligence) software for music recommendation and discovery. Music Intelligence Solutions is an intriguing company. It was founded in 2002 and is based in Spain and… Play Richard MacManus View comments
RSS & Feeds Blastfeed and the Future of RSS Filtering Blastfeed is the latest in RSS filter products to cross my virtual desk. Back in April I looked at this space and at the time noted that filtering would be a hot topic in 2006. Why? Because it's the next step up from RSS aggregation, as many of us now have too much information coming at us. But we're now at the end of November and really, to be… Richard MacManus View comments
Search Second Tier PPC Search Advertising - Growing, But Dogged by Click Fraud Concerns Searchfeed.com is one of a large group of so-called "second tier" PPC (Pay-Per-Click) search advertising networks - others include Kanoodle, InfoSeek, and Looksmart. SearchEngineWatch lists some more on this page (nb: it's 3 years old, but I couldn't find a more up-to-date list). The first tier services are Google AdWords and Overture - in which… Richard MacManus View comments