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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)
MarketingSherpa.com : Practical News & Case Studies on Internet Advertising, Marketing & PR
Lots of stats on how industry intends to spend its marketing dollar. RSS and blogs are rising in awareness.
Bud posted this on January 24, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A VC: The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed)
"if I were a television executive right now, I'd take my content, microchunk it, put a couple calls to a video ad server in the middle of it, and let it go whereever it wants to go"
Bud posted this on November 6, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Ten RSS Hacks
Provides a number of practical hints for using RSS. The real value of RSS is in aggregation.
Bud posted this on October 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Jon Udell: Monkey see, monkey do
Yet another greasemonkey script to alter user experience in the bloglines feedreader.
Bud posted this on October 4, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
NewsGator Daily: RSS Users; Three times as valuable
In the RSS space, there are readers and republishers. These guys are focused on the reader market. It would seem Sixapart's Comet project is oriented to become a cross between the two.
Bud posted this on September 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Niall Kennedy's Weblog: More TypePad 2.0 details
Niall's take on Sixapart's move toward community sites like the learning remix. I think he misperceives the potential impact of the tools. They are not for lazy people but for people who want to pull together disparate community members.
Bud posted this on September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Project Comet
This is a project not unlike our learning remix. We expect to see it in 2006. The limit I see here is the extent to which it enables entrepreneurially remixing. It seems like a mass market project oriented toward family and friends.
Bud posted this on September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Feed Digest : Mix, convert, and syndicate RSS and Atom feeds
A service that allows you to remix feeds, creating web pages or feeds on feeds. They've broken the 10k mark with about 3 remixes per user. Requires a technical understanding to use. No archive on your own site, just theirs.
Bud posted this on September 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Socialmarks.com - Social Bookmarking. Social RSS/Atom Feed Syndication. Automated Trend Discovery.
Should we be doing this instead of the Learning Remix?
Bud posted this on September 14, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
tech.memeorandum
The Web is humming with reports and opinions on technology. tech.memeorandum is page A1 for these discussions.
Bud posted this on September 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posting, Subscribing, and Tagging
I think we're only seeing the beginning of a larger explosion in interactivity and that these actions are a just the tip of the iceberg. This is definitely a more digestible hierarchy for understanding how people bahave with content.
Bud posted this on August 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
quickSub
a javascript for one-click subscribing to your blog. Sounds like a needed addition.
Bud posted this on July 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Meauring Feed Relevancy by Circulation
The Google guys made a lot of money from the idea (embodied in their PageRank algorithm) that popularity is strongly correlated with relevancy.
Bud posted this on July 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Adsense Update
In February, I was generating 2,000 Adsense ad views per day and was making north of $5/day on a good day. Today, I am generating over 8,000 Adsense ad views per day and making less than $4/day on a good day. Some of this is due to the RSS issue, but ev
Bud posted this on July 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Yahoo! RSS Search
Yahoo! has a lot of good data inputs for a solid database of feed content.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Surprising RSS Reader Usage Stats: What Do They Mean for Marketers? (Software)
The RSS Reader market is still highly fragmented, which is leaving the way open for branded RSS Readers
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Pito's Blog: Social Networks and RSS Aggregators
Tags RSS feeds. Uses these tags to help users find new feeds. Again, tags as classification.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Road To Powerful Instant Vertical Communities: Personal Media Aggregators - Robin Good's Latest News
Allows you to create communities around specific topics. Sort of pulls everything together around those topics. Seems rather top down to me.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Turn dynamics RSS feeds into static HTML
This is interesting. It's a script for turning RSS into HTML. That is a commodity.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Microsoft press releases via RSS
Microsoft is offering their press releases via RSS. This increases their web visibility.
Bud posted this on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Small Town, Big Ideas : How we use RSS and Blogs at Webmail.us
A great corporate example of using blogs and RSS. Note the very home grown nature of all of this. Could you package it for less?
Bud posted this on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Forrester Chief on 'Organic IT'
This article is about RSS. Technical solutions for RSS will become commoditized. The real value remains in trying to figure out how to use it for your business.
Bud posted this on February 20, 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)
Scoble's NorthernVoice Talk (no links yet)
Scoble scans 1000 sites a day because he wants to label web content and influence people. I'll call it active web listening. Fascinating insight.
Bud posted this on February 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Employing the publish/subscribe model for greater effect
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Raising ambitions: Developments to change our thinking
I like the non top-down nature of KM here. However, my experience is that these ecologies need animators. How is that different from top-down. May be subtle for some.
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
What Is The Data Matrix? Machines and Humans Coexist
Content aggregation is heading toward more machine aggregation. My cut is that it has to make sense and be novel. People are looking for new things, not rehashes.
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
RSS Metrics: Audio Interview with Stuart Watson, Syndicate IQ
So what are RSS analytics anyhow? Need to have a listen.
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Emergent Learning: Social Networks and Learning Networks - Stephen Downes
The real point here is to use open protocols to construct things as the need arises. A lot of vendors want to lock you into their tools. I don't think there is a tools market. There is a place market maybe.
Bud posted this on February 16, 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)
RSS Primer
Quick notes on RSS resources. A nice reference.
Bud posted this on February 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Instant RSS Feeds
This looks to be a method for editing up a feed. I'd like a service to scrape my existing site. That sells for much much more.
Bud posted this on February 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Aggregation Advertising Aggravation
A nice discussion of IP and copyright issues around weblogs. MacManus uses standard copyright because creative commons may be gray in the area of syndication.
Bud posted this on February 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Are newspapers dead?
This is a question of scale not personal experience. The question is to what extent a large portion of people are getting their news online. The revenue model for newspapers is a concern.
Bud posted this on February 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Hurried post with no meaningful title
I think Hammersley misses that bloglines is more than feedreading. There's feed discovery and lock-in out of habit. It has wound up being the place to go. Sell data and advertising.
Bud posted this on February 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Stampede Secret
These guys are trying to sell RSS and reach. Sort of like an infomercial. Good statements of benefits and calls to action.
Bud posted this on February 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
All News Sites Will Become Aggregators
Not clear to me that news goes over to branded readers. Value is in exclusive access to content, editorial control, and archival access. What is the relationship between these components?
Bud posted this on February 11, 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)
Media Sites as News Portals?
A notion that news aggregation could be equivalent to publishing. In a way, aggregation is not structuring and editing.
Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
How To Blog For Fun & Profit! :: Blog RSS Promotion Software - RSS Submit
A nice comment response on how to publicize your posts through RSS and pinging. Very complete.