web The Glory, Bliss and How-to of Screen Scraping for RSS Wired has an awesome top story today on the world of startups utilizing scraped data from big companies to offer new layers of value for their own users. It's a roughly objective piece that I highly recommend reading but it was also inspiration for me to finally record a screencast on the subject (see below). I love RSS, probably more than… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Music Open Media Web: Online Music An interesting new online video series, called Open Media Web, debuted today. The first episode is an interview with Yahoo's Lucas Gonze - who created music playlisting service WebJay, acquired by Yahoo! in January 2006. The interview was conducted by Chris Messina and Brian Oberkirch. In it Gonze discusses his thoughts on the Open Media Web, on… Play Richard MacManus View comments
Features 5 Ways You Can Fall in Love With Tagging Again Tagging content online is something that doesn't seem to have taken off the way some people expected it to. Is it too complicated for widespread adoption? Is it too arbitrary to have the impact that formal taxonomies offer? Is it just too much work while you're zipping around the web? Who knows - what's important is that tagging web pages… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News PayPal Subscriptions Down For Second Time in 2007 Having your service go down on your customers is certainly not a great way to close out the year. But PayPal developers are reporting that subscriptions are down, and have been for a couple of days. This is the second time this year that PayPal has experienced an issue with processing of subscription payments. In September, TechCrunch reported… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Threatened by the Internet? Music Biz Should Rock Like Librarians At the risk of jinxing things - I think it's pretty clear that there's a historic shift underway between activities we used to engage in offline and things we now do online. It's no surprise, for example, that CD sales were down 20% this US holiday season while online shopping was up 19%. That's how it works, right? People are moving from one… Play Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments