Dave Winer has announced OPML 2.0 (in public review status currently). OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language. In semi-laymens terms, OMPL is a common XML data format for outlines and subscription lists - just as RSS is a common data format for content syndication.So why is OPML significant? Its...
I've been tracking the development of all the personalized start pages that have flowered up over the past year. Live.com, Google Personalized Homepage, Netvibes, PageFlakes, et al. These are services that don't just offer a place to store all your content and links - but house your widgets, gadgets and...
Seems reporting new media news gets a bit dreary sometimes. This from PaidContent.org:"BlogMedia Acquires The Blog Herald [by rafat] : Blog blog blog blog blag blag blah...blah. [by rafat] [Feb.27, 06]"I have to admit, the press release Rafat linked to made me yawn too. Oh well, at least the blogosphere...
Feedburner's just released a pretty significant upgrade to their service, including a new "Feed Stats Dashboard" and some much needed drill-down stats on individual posts. TechCrunch has the early scoop as well.The best new feature for me is the feed item stats, so I'll start with that. Now you can...
Summary: While full-text feeds are under-valued today, they will be an integral part of the content ecosystem in the near future. And that's when their true value will be recognized.James Gross from the Feedster blog has an interesting post about how full-text feeds will provide much more value in future...
When my post about Web Office Suite products got Slashdotted, one of the main issues amongst Slashdot commenters was: why do we even need a Web Office? This comment by Eightyford put it best:"What are the advantages of having an online Office Suite? I'd say that the disadvantages include: security...
Quote from Rod Drury, founder and CEO of kiwi web email company AfterMail (which was acquired by Quest Software for US$45 million in January 2006): "We demonstrate globally from our office in Wellington, install our products remotely and receive funds electronically. We have US phone numbers in our office. The...
Excellent quote from Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us:"Aggregation is often a focus of attention (latest, most active, etc.)As the population gets larger, the bias drifts; del.icio.us/popular becomes less interesting to the original community members. Work out ways to let the system fragment in to different areas of attention."This sums up why...
Came across two great articles today that nicely summarize recent web development and design trends. Marc Hedlund from O'Reilly wrote a post entitled Web Development 2.0. Despite the YA2.0N title (Yet Another 2.0 Name, pronounced "YAWN"), the article is a useful overview of software development practices that Marc has been seeing...
Martijn van Osch did an experiment with digg, in which he submitted a story about a company that made a girl undress in the shopping window of its store in Copenhagen.In his post he linked to a short movie available of the girl undressing and the people gathering to get...
Irving Wladawsky-Berger, VP of technical strategy and innovation at IBM, has a post up on AlwaysOn about how the Internet is finally delivering on the long-held promise of convergence:"There is no question in my mind that convergence is now coming to digital entertainment and consumer electronics. Consumer electronics products are...
- Esther Dyson talk (Yahoo is "intelligent design"; Google is "blind evolution.")- CES Storylines (nice quote: "By the time Vista hits the street... it will be less about the OS itself, and more about the vast array of services surrounding it.")- Consumer Internet, Digital Media and Technology Conferences for 2006...
Memeorandum's Gabe Rivera was interviewed by Don Dodge from Microsoft. I found this comparison with Slashdot, Digg, Reddit interesting:"For readers of Digg (or Reddit, and to some extent, Slashdot), I'd say Memeorandum is:- More focused (on either "Tech" or "Politics")- More expert/authority-driven- Better organized, visuallyOf course for a certain type...
In Part 1 of my interview with digg founder Kevin Rose, we discussed digg's popularity, reputation systems and recent issues with GroupThink. In the second part of this interview, Kevin and I talk about digg's battle with spammers and the upcoming release of new personalization features, plus an API. Full...
On my ZDNet blog I've just published the first of a two-part interview with digg founder Kevin Rose. In the interview we discuss digg's popularity, its battle with spammers, the recent issues with GroupThink and digg's upcoming personalization features.As you know, I've been somewhat critical of digg recently - in...
Todd Bishop from Seattle PI newspaper speculates whether Wellington filmmaker Peter Jackson was in Seattle and Microsoft last week... at the same time a certain Wellington blogger was in town.Pete and me (nb: pic of me by Alex Barnett)Todd wrote:"Filmmaker Peter Jackson, best known as the "Lord of the Rings"...
I'm still in transit from my flight back from Microsoft Search Champs in Seattle. Due to foggy weather in my home city of Wellington, I've had cancelled and delayed flights to deal with. And to top it all off, the airline lost my luggage!! I'm currently in Auckland and will...
In a few hours I'll be on a plane to Seattle, for the Microsoft Search Champs V4. My second trip to the US and my first to Seattle. It'll be 15.5 hours of flying time from New Zealand (not including waiting around for connecting flights etc), but luckily for me...
Tushar Vyas, from mOne-Group M: "Traditionally, media enthralled people. Today it doesn't happen - customers are multitasking and fragmented. Today's customer wants to gain perspective, personalise the experience, get involved and participate. Digital allows this to happen."Quoted by Dina Mehta at Digital Summit 2006 - Integrating Online into the Traditional...
Aggregating and filtering the latest Web Tech and Media news, so you don't have to! (p.s. it'd be great to get some feedback on this new daily feature of mine - is the R/W Filter of any value to folks? How can I improve it? Thanks!) - Chinese internet police...
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