Serious Problems with RSS – The Wire Effect
You don’t create communities in RSS readers. You can’t really engage with readers. You really can’t do anything except consume raw content.
Vlogger Slams Rocketboom, Nerd Fight Ensues
If you haven’t heard of him yet, that’s because he hadn’t verbally accosted the darling of the vlogging world yet. Ze Frank, host of “The Show,” Rocketboomed himself into an authentic charts-and-graphs nerd fight with Andrew Baron. There, now you’ve heard of him.
My First Thoughts On Firefox 2.0
Firefox 2.0 is here.
Adobe MAX: Keynote Review
Hey – I’m posting the first part of my keynote review now as the net access is a bit flakey. I will update this entry with an edit later in the keynote.
Google Blogging Accident
Eric Case writes on the Blogger Buzz blog about a recent case where a Googler accidentally posted to an official Google blog a post meant for her personal blog. Embarressing? Yes. Silly? Yup. Serious security concern? Uh, no.
Adobe Gets Rich With Digital Editions
The people behind Flex and Flash think digital distribution of rich content needs an enlightened approach to generating, hosting, and protecting it.
Window Shoppers, Soda Jerks and Dodo Birds
Like the big blue public mailboxes, and the pay phones before that, window shoppers are diminishing; perhaps resident mall grandpas too, people-watching and purse-holding. Actual shopping – that is, comparing – is done online, even if the purchase is often offline.
Debate: Full Or Partial Feeds?
One topic of debate that has gained attention in the blogging community is the choice between using full or partial RSS feeds.
Mobile Users Open To Ads, Not To Land Lines
Mobile phone users are showing an increased interest in a give-and-take advertising system. According to Harris Interactive, 26 percent of mobile phone subscribers say they’d swap attention for free stuff.
Add Facebook To Your Social Bookmark
Facebook introduced a limited beta test of social bookmarking today, hopefully without the outcry some previous new additions received not too long ago. Facebook members from California universities Cal-Berkeley and Stanford are testing the feature and as Techcrunch pointed out, the ability to socially bookmark doesn’t have the same security issues faced by other recent […]