The latest version of Microsoft's Web-based RSS Aggregator, Start.com, has just been released. Microsoft first released a prototype in early March 2005 - my coverage here. Start.com is like a mix between MyYahoo and the new Google Personalized Homepage. It enables users to subscribe to RSS feeds and it is...
To summarise the issue so far... a few nights ago I came across a website called SuperFeedSystem that was written in an overtly Informercial-like manner. The gist of it is they are pitching a product that automagically turns RSS feeds into content for websites. Sounds fine, right? Well yes, except...
NB: This is a re-posting, slightly edited.What would you do if someone was ripping your RSS feed off - that is, copying every single post into their website? And what would you think if some software companies actively encouraged this activity? I call these people RSS Ripoff Merchants. (a sidenote:...
kuro5hin.org: "By acquiring a Print-on-Demand (POD) company and an ebook software company, Amazon.com is retooling itself to offer a complete publishing solution to authors disenchanted with the current state of publishing."
sponsored by:This week: the future of Web sites in a world of RSS, highlights from ION RSS, new Web 2.0 developments, Techie post of the week.Future of Web sitesMatt McAlister, VP & General Manager, Online for InfoWorld, wrote this week that RSS is disintermediating InfoWorld's Web site. In other words,...
Google has just released its beta book search product Google Print (hat tip Diablo). The new service lets people search within the text of a book. Interestingly, I note that Amazon has a search inside this book feature too (how long has that been live? first time I've seen it)....
I have a theory about ads in RSS. It's based on my assumption that people won't click on ads in feeds enough for publishers to make much money. So I think we may be looking at the whole ads in feeds issue the wrong way. Allow me to explain...When someone...
I was intrigued by this extract from the Headshift weblog: "The new Web 2.0 tools and services help create an ecosystem of connected people and information - as David Weinberger put it this week: The cure to information overload is more information, only it should become more ambient.We need to...
Rands in Repose has written the best post about web apps I've read this year. I'll pick out the highlights here and finish with some thoughts on re-inventing the page metaphor. Also you may want to check out the Web Apps Compendium v1.0, a great attempt at listing out all...
Jim Cuene gave an excellent presentation to the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association last week, on the subject of Web 2.0. The accompanying powerpoint presentation (3.2MB) is a nice overview of current Web 2.0 trends, delivered in a down-to-earth and businesslike way. I particularly liked Slide 3, a comparison between Web...
Bloglines creator Mark Fletcher opines: "I have over 200 subscriptions in my Bloglines account [...] There's no way I could follow that many sites in My Yahoogle. Sometimes I'm asked if I consider My Yahoogle competition. There's no way that they can compete without completely changing their interface."The Big 3...
sponsored by:This week: Summary of Google Factory Tour, Recruitment 2.0, Rollups, Techie post of the week, Web 1.0 Summit.Google Factory TourThe Factory Tour and accompanying webcast received tons of coverage this week, so I won't re-hash all the details. I'll simply summarise the new things and add my comments. New?...
Google has just announced a new My Yahoo-like portal page, which they are calling a Personalized Google Homepage. It will be one place for users to access their Google search, news, Gmail, weather, stocks, driving directions, movies - and more. In the Google 'Factory Tour' webcast, Product Manager Marissa Mayer...
sponsored by:This week: Greasemonkey mayhem, Ajax fever, Web Design Minimalism mojo, Blogpoly Fun!, Yahoo Music Engine rave.Greasemonkey gives power to power usersWhat is Greasemonkey? According to the homepage, it's "a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behavior."...
We're nearly halfway through 2005 and there's still no heavyweight competition for Bloglines in the Web-based RSS Aggregator stakes. And I'm not talking about an Aggregation service like MyYahoo and Firefox Live Bookmarks, which aggregate feeds either on a webpage (MyYahoo) or in the browser bar (Firefox Live Bookmarks). Although...
The BBC has launched a new beta site called BBC Backstage, which is their new developer network. They've put the call out for people to remix their content, using their APIs and content RSS feeds. Although over the years the BBC has been understandably "cautious" about "letting go of control...
sponsored by:This week: business folk getting interested in Web 2.0, Adam Curry podcasting from 2.0 perspective, cool Web 2.0 'mini-apps', wrap-up of the adverts in RSS debate, Bosworth's Web of Data.From MBA to Master of Web 2.0?I get accused of being too geeky sometimes on Read/Write Web (no argument there!)....
Web 2.0 is coming soon to consumer medical information services, says Gordon Gould. He reckons the most interesting apps won't come from established Web medical players, like WebMD, but rather from startups. Gordon thinks the established companies are too Web 1.0 - "monolithic, closed, and mostly just about info-retrieval". WebMD's mission...
Based on the great comments I received to post.icio.us a week ago, I've been doing some experimenting on R/WW. First I tried out the '5 links to a post' style (again). I don't think it worked, for me or for you. So now what I'm going to do is the...
Microsoft's new version of Xbox, code-named Xenon, will be more of a "PC hybrid" according to Bill Gates. They're aiming to be a media hub for the living room, utilising the Web as a channel for media content and to enable collaboration. As Tom Foremski notes, this will give Microsoft...
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