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July 30, 2007
There were some great comments in Saturday's post regarding the preference Firefox together with a Google Reader has for Atom over RSS feeds. I'll highlight a few below with comments. MKR pointed out that I would be presented with an...
July 29, 2007
Later this week, I'll be in San Francisco for Real Estate Connect. A huge conference for the real estate industry where the big wigs come together to discuss where the industry is heading. Each year, the conference has a theme...
July 28, 2007
I was subscribing to a few new blogs this evening when I noticed something strange with the way FireFox together with Google handled the subscription options. Rather than giving me the option of subscribing to the RSS 2.0, RSS 0.92,...
July 26, 2007
This finally dawned on me while discussing RSS readers with a guy I met at a bar earlier this week: RSS is most valuable for infrequently updated RSS feeds. Why? Do you really need an RSS feed to send you...
July 25, 2007
VentureBeat has an interesting story explaining that some companies are seeing a spike in traffic to their sites due to their integration of their applications with the Facebook platform. For example, HotOrNot.com offers a Facebook interface for their site: Surprise:...
July 24, 2007
Building online communities is no easy task. The first big challenge is actually getting people to care enough to register and contribute to the community. This then leads to a second problem: community moderation. This has been a hot topic...
July 23, 2007
Dear media sites: I am so tired of truncated RSS feeds. Why do you continue to work under the assumption that you're better off forcing people to click through to read blog posts or news stories rather than allowing them...
July 21, 2007
Jules at floobergeist raises an interesting question about whether Facebook could lead to the end of class reunions. If you're continually in touch with your old classmates and up to date on their lives, what's to be gained from a...
July 20, 2007
Howard Owns has a great post on Eight historical mistakes the newspaper industry made where he goes over newspaper's slow adoption of blogging, online communities, leveraging local blogger's talents, winning the car and real estate market, and becoming better community...
July 19, 2007
This afternoon is turning out to be a rough one for Google. First, they reported less than expected earnings that sent the stock price dropping $40 as of this writing. Then NetApplication's monthly newsletter shipped with news that Yahoo has...
David Kirkpatrick from FORTUNE magazine hosted an interesting forum last week called iMeme where big thinkers in we technology got together to talk about future trends. Preceding the now completed event, Kirkpatrick threw a set of questions out to invitees...
I'm starting to see a two cases of Facebook spam that Facebook will need to address. This seems critical to me, since a very similar issue is one of the things that's led me grow to hate MySpace over time....
July 18, 2007
Anil Dash raised an interesting point about the human nature of tagging in a post titled, "toread is tobehuman" where he reflects on the optimism shown by people who tag items with the toread tag. toread is tobehuman The most...
July 17, 2007
National efforts at hyperlocal media seem to consistently face the same challenge: how to find hyperlocal advertiser willing to pay enough to support the content with a few bucks left over for profit. Unfortunately, this has been a challenge for...
July 16, 2007
Yes, according to Caribou Coffee's WiFi access, which blocks the site, Geeks Are Sexy. This is a great example of how imperfect parental filters can be. Geeks Are Sexy is a sexy site . . . if you're into technology...
July 12, 2007
If you're a blogger running a blog on the Blogger platform (a domain that's something like yaddayadda.blogspot.com) you should take advantage of the update to Blogger's FeedBurner integration ASAP. FeedBurner reports how many people have subscribed to your blog along...
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