Dec
20
We just rolled out a whole raft of improvements and tweaks that are built to make Technorati easier to use and easier to understand.
Technorati Weblog: Making Technorati easier to use
Technorati now features: charts of how often a term was mentioned, improved extracts, scoped search based on related tags(that’s a nifty feature), enhanced profiles and […]
Dec
19
Del.icio.us Down
December 19, 2005 | 2 Comments
Del.icio.us seems to be down. The second major Web 2.0 outage in just a week. Who is going to be next?
continued hiccups
Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we are dealing with a number of continued hiccups. We’ve taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have […]
Dec
18
Technorati: Ping Form
Holding a contest: How to get free stuff to give away at SpottedWalrus
TypePad outage open post
heise online
Dec
17
First Google Widgets Appearing
December 17, 2005 | 2 Comments
Some of the first widgets are appearing for the Google personalized homepage. This function was announced just last week.
I received a note from Dennis Cafiero that he has written a comparison shopping widget.
This is not in Google’s widget directory yet. Actually, there is nothing new in that directory as of yet. Is anybody aware of […]
Dec
17
A Brazilian/German has finally won his battle against Sony and can now legally call himself the inventor of the walkman.
One part of the article describes how all the manufactures called him crazy in the 70s…
“I filed my first patent a complete innocent, thinking it would be a simple matter, 12 months or so, to establish […]
Dec
17
Podcast Directories
December 17, 2005 | 3 Comments
Garrick van Buren has some interesting thoughts on podcast directories.
Now my feeling has been that the overabundance of directories isn’t very helpful. Take Odeo for example. They just pretty much switched their layout so that the podcast directory has more or less disappeared. Why? It doesn’t have any traction. To be in their Top 40, […]
Dec
17
There have been a bunch of comments on King Kong’s weak opening since Wednesday. While looking on Technorati, it seems bloggers love the movie. Reviews have been excellent. Yet, people didn’t show up in droves as many expected.
What did I do? I didn’t go yet. I am holding out until tomorrow maybe, or next week. […]
Dec
15
I found some interesting discussions on what the consequences of being able to use Skype for multicasting would be. The question people are fixated on here is what if somebody in England could watch football from the US or somebody in the US could watch soccer from England.
Basically, right now this is a non-issue, but […]
Dec
14
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Dec
14
Structured Blogging Plugin for Wordpress
Year: 2005
Author: http://structuredblogging.org/
Platform: Other
Category: Publishing
Publisher: http://structuredblogging.org/
Price: 0
Structured Blogging brings some new ideas into the blogging world. For the blogger, the plugins now available for WordPress and Movable Type basically bring with them new options when writing reviews, event lists, etc. Overall, I have found the way these are set up in WordPress very sensible. There is always an option to add images. I need to play with the audio setup a bit. I wonder how usefull this could be for podcasting.
Also interesting is the integration wtih OutputThis.org which is poised to become the hub for structured blogging.
What is structured blogging? I am not sure yet, but I will keep you posted. It sure has something to do with using RSS in blogging in some novel manners to send out various streams of RSS feeds depending on your content. I will read up and post more on this later.
Update: I did find a bug when I was trying to add my OutputThis.org account to this Wordpress 2.0RC1 set-up. There was an issue with updating the database and I only got a page full of errors, so I am not sure I can really try this out at this point…
Update 2: Ed Batista of Attentiontrust.org sums up what Structered Blogging is:
Salim noted that blogging tools made it easy for individuals to publish (unstructured) HTML on their own sites, for free, but in order to publish (structured) XML, you have to go to a site like eBay or Craigslist, hand over your content…and pay for the privilege–a startling contrast. So Structured Blogging seeks to do for XML what Blogger, WordPress and Six Apart did for HTML–give us all the ability to publish our own structured content, while maintaining ownership and without paying additional costs.
Tags: structured blogging, blogging, web 2.0, podcasting, microcontent, micro-content, craigslist, xml
Dec
14
Slacker Manager: features a great how-to for del.icio.us: The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users. Until reading this article, I just couldn’t figure out how to make good use of del.icio.us. I am trying to make using del.icio.us a habit now, which is pretty easy, given that I have moved to using flock for […]
Dec
14
Google adds Widgets
December 14, 2005 | 1 Comment
Google today announced that it has added a widget function to its personalized homepage.
At this point, there is a map widget, a time widget, an ‘Eyes’ widget that follows your mouse, and a weather map based on google maps. One cool feature is that the source code is linked right on the main page. Here, […]
Dec
13
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Slacker Manager: The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users
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The Last Podcast
Dec
9
When I logged into GMail just now, I was greeted with an option to add WebClips, which is basically Google’s name for RSS and Atom feeds. Wow - I will test this out and report later.
Update 1: Looks like my euphoria wasn’t for long. Nothing works yet. The directory of feeds is empty, except for […]
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