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Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | 'I want to build something that grows'
An interview with Joshua Schachter, the creator of del.icio.us. He describes the service and why he did it.
Bud posted this on January 29, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Mozilla, Microsoft Promote New Syndication Icon
A new syndication icon standard. Seems worth it to adopt. Used by both IE and Firefox.
Bud posted this on January 24, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The MySpace Generation
Bolsters my perception that the world is becoming an online one. In essence, online is holding court with the real world.
Bud posted this on December 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Slashdot | Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source
Paris is moving to open-source software a little faster than originally intended. As a part of the strategy to 'reduce its dependence on suppliers' they anticipate replacing both server and desktop applications with free and open-source software.
Bud posted this on November 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A VC: Will Live Kill?
But on to Windows Live and Office Live. I don't see despair. I see opportunity. Because Windows Live is lame. I honestly could not find a single thing I'd use it for.
Bud posted this on November 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
USATODAY.com - Teens wear their hearts on their blog
Unprecedented numbers of teens are using blogs — Web logs — for: cementing friendships with classmates, seeking new friends, venting, testing social limits, getting support and getting all emo
Bud posted this on October 31, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Survey: 55% of Corporations Using Blogs
"Maintaining enthusiam and encouraging adoption among contributors more difficult than getting management buy-in." The social aspects are what is hard. People need to work on that. On the upcoming test, if a question asks us to list or count
Bud posted this on October 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
O'Reilly Radar > The Secret Sauce of Writely
"behind every successful Web 2.0 company there'll be someone who understands the user." Personally, I might add that every successful Web 2.0 app will fulfill a need felt by many users.
Bud posted this on October 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
O'Reilly Radar > HBO Attacking BitTorrent
Instead of coming up with an alternative service consumers would purchase because it adds value, HBO attacks pirate services. I think people would pay for an easy to use online download service. I would for the Sci Fi Channel.
Bud posted this on October 4, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Clock's Ticking on Podcasts
I've always wondered about podcasting. Finding good content is hard. It needs a good, searchable directory.
Bud posted this on September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Word of Blog
Word of Blog will host your ad, make it available to bloggers to post on their blogs, and track the blogs that post it and the click thrus they generate.
Bud posted this on August 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 1: Blog Growth
I have put together some high level information on what we've been tracking. Today I'll focus on the macro growth of the blogosphere, both in the number of bloggers out there, as well as in the growth of new blogs per day.
Bud posted this on August 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Talk Digger: Check who is linking to you.
Talk Digger will ask to major search engines who links to a specific URL. The results will then be processed and displayed on Talk Digger.
Bud posted this on August 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Online News Consumers Become Own Editors - Yahoo! News
A good mainstream article on feed readers and integrating them with traditional news sites.
Bud posted this on July 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Imitation is the surest sign of success
I disagree with Jason Calacanis. IceRocket's adoption of tagging using a format invented by technorati indicates that technorati is achieving wide marketplace acceptance. By my estimates over a million bloggers are using the technorati format.
Bud posted this on July 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Firefox: Doing it for love - ZDNet UK Insight
We're excited about Microsoft launching IE 7 — it will remind a lot of people that if they want better features they have to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading.
Bud posted this on July 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Charlie Rose February 15 episode on weblogs
Sounds like another me too on weblogs. Pushbutton publishing, RSS, interaction. That's about what's there.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thought leaders or out of touch with the masses
Suggests that all of the people using firefox are out of touch with the masses and will pay for it. I wonder if all of these enterprise people in their silos are not out of touch with the masses.
Bud posted this on February 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Podcasting notes
Podcasting is really heating up. Adam Curry's directory has gone beyond the 3000 mark.
Bud posted this on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies
Finally recognizes that folksonomy can be used to see the long tail, not just the consensus view.
Bud posted this on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
RSS Tools Market Maturing, Segmenting
Why would someone use Newsgator over bloglines or sage? I suspect it has something to do with ease of installation. Cost-sensitive customers will tend toward the free, add-supported alternatives. Who will pay?
Bud posted this on February 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Intranet podcasting: an idea whose time has come
A really nice piece on how podcasting could be used in corporate intranets. Basically, it is timeshifting. Do you want your work everywhere?
Bud posted this on February 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Feld Thoughts: The Me Too Zone
My cut is that there is not much new in the basic blog. The next wave of innovation is what builds on top of the RSS explosion we have going on now. Most business models in this area can be very light weight.
Bud posted this on February 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
NewsGator Product Roadmap
Communication is really the whole point. It's part of the matching process of going from great idea to market.
Bud posted this on February 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
NewsGator Goes Enterprise
The idea here essentially seems to be to turn RSS into email or usenet. Is Newsgator just reinventing Usenet on Exchange? From an open system to a closed one.
Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Measuring Podcasting's Growth
Everyone is podcasting. Well, not really, but the tech barrier to entry is low. The sale is not in technology but in practice.
Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Podcasting makes USA Today's front page
Podcasting is starting to hit it big.
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
WNYC - About WNYC
Podcasting really should take off at the local level. The economics are there for national reach with professionally produced local content.
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Podcasting for business
Companies are starting to use podcasting more and more to get the message out. It makes a lot of sense. The issue is that the podcast needs to be high density information.
Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
TechWeb | News | Everything You Always Wanted To Know About RSS | January 10, 2005
A recommended RSS tutorial on techweb.
Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blog RSS Promotion Software - RSS Submit
A client side tool for submitting RSS feeds. Yet another tool to make publicity easier. How is one to use all of these?
Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Marketplace: Podcasting Is the Next Big Thing
Steve Rubel is onto podcasting now. Had been a fence sitter.
Bud posted this on February 7, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
LA Times Launches RSS Aggregator
So, are newspapers becoming information portals, much like Yahoo? It would be interesting to see the revenue model for this. Perhaps newspoint will be like Opera with advertising beamed to you unless you pay a subscription.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
British Blogging 'Empire' Forming?
The idea here is for bloggers to band together and draw traffic. Of course, this all then starts to sound like mass media, not interactive media. Why would you be attracted to a big time blog vs. big media?
Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Web Services RSS = Dashboards?
An intersting idea for using RSS as the infrastructure for business intelligence.
Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Micro Persuasion Reader Mailbag
A nice set of standard objections to blogging and how Rubel responds.
Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Ace's Hardware
So firefox is winning among tech users. Will they be opinion leaders? I know some very nontechnical people using firefox. It has gotten a lot of good general press.
Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
One-Click Subscription
Wants to put where subscriptions are stored in the hands of the user. Sort of assumes users are working on their own personal machines.
Bud posted this on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Folksonomy is better for cultural values: A response to danah (Clay Shirky)
Reading this, I wonder if folksonomies are an aggregate social phenomenon or just a way for individuals to share and for their friends to discover.
Bud posted this on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wired News: My IPod, My Self
Academics are catching on to podcasting. The obvious thing is that the marriage of the Internet and personal technology is causing a big shake-up. Things are still in their infancy, but the connection will clearly be powerful.