Otaku, Cedric's weblog: Another del.icio.us bookmarklet

Otaku, Cedric's weblog: Another del.icio.us bookmarklet: "Inspired by the success of my ReadLater bookmarklet for del.icio.us, I created the DFR bookmarklet (Delete From ReadLater, but since these bookmarklets go into my toolbar, I want to keep their names short)."

SOAP is boring, wake up Big Vendors or get niched

James Governor's MonkChips: SOAP is boring, wake up Big Vendors or get niched: "ebXML and REST have both been labelled as 'not Web Services'. But these technologies are both being adopted by some of the biggest names in ecommerce - GM, Amazon, and some of the coolest new semantic platforms (Bloglines, del.icio.us, flickr)."

New posting interface to del.icio.us ; painlessly reusing your tags

False Positives: New posting interface to del.icio.us ; painlessly reusing your tags: "You can also use 'http://del.icio.us/url/[your user name]/' to find if a url has been bookmarked and using what set of tags. More Meta info!!"

Humm, I haven't found more than a way to get a search box, but, seeing counts and tags for a url is great.

Frienditto

Websnark.com: Frienditto and E-mail: the fallacy of privacy on the Internet: "Over on Livejournal, I've seen a cascade of sometimes panicked, sometimes pissed posts regarding a website called Frienditto. This site, for the record, takes your LJ username and password, logs in as you, and slurps down stuff you can see into their own database. If you're a registered user, you can do this in a private archive for your own use. If not, it goes into the public archive -- even if the original Livejournal post was locked to Friends. In other words, if you have a Friend on your Friends List who uses this service, the posts you've locked to your friends that he has access to show up on a public website, as well as a public Livejournal Community.

Guys? Welcome to the Internet."

Sheesh, I popped into LJ to post and there were all of these shrill warnings about Frienditto (which looks like it's melting).

Blog Threat levels

Blog threat levels: " We provide the following blog terror alert level indicators as a public service [Ed: and final payment on the court-‌ordered community service]. We hope we’re in time to save lives.

Copy any of the individual script text into your HTML template to get the alert level it appears beneath. "

Functional Blogging

As I May Think...: Will Scoble's book be out of date before it is read?: "What Kedrosky is speaking of is what we at PubSub have been referring to as 'Structured Blogging' and may be what Mark Fletcher of Bloglines/AskJeeves has listed as 'Functional Blogging' in presentations he's recently given. The basic idea is to go beyond 'mere' text in blogs and include structured XML that describes job-openings, events, new prices, press releases, updates to phone numbers and contact info, requests for proposals, etc. i.e. Using the now almost ubiquitous content syndication network to broadcast useful business *data* -- not just prose or text commentaries."

Oh, dear, more terms as obtuse as folksonomy ...

Unlinking from Social Networks: Part 2

Unlinking from Social Networks: Part 2: "I set up a poll at www.votations.com
that has just about a 100 respondents.

I plan to rework the poll, and press on with my retreat from SNAs. Next are ZeroDegrees, Spoke, Orkut, Friendster, Tribe.net, and so on. More to follow."

As facilitating as a train wreck, now with graphs!

Social Networking Services Meta List

Home of the Social Networking Services Meta List - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com: "recently updated Social Networking Services Meta List. It is broken down into nine loosely built categories that will continue to shift. These social networking categories are: business; common interest; dating; face-to-face facilitation; friends; MoSoSo (Mobile Social Software); pets; photos; and ’edge’ cases or social networking ‘plus’ sites."

Less Impact from the "Slashdot Effect"

Less Impact from the "Slashdot Effect": "
Over the past year, the Slashdot effect has begun to fizzle. Nowadays, a mention on Slashdot typically increases Tom's traffic by just 5% to 10%, Rahmat says. The boost also is more temporary, "usually peaking within one to two hours and almost completely over in three,".

Slashdot is looking more and more like a big fish in a huge and growing pond. "

EContentMag.com

EContentMag.com: "Feed me! Feed me!' That's the cry of many of your visitors, particularly those trying to find nutritional content despite junk-info overload. You can probably help by taking advantage of emerging content delivery options, but be sure to take into account some of the aggravations you may encounter when developing your informational menu."

Feed me! Is something that I cry often! More!

Finally, Accessible Gmail

Finally, Accessible Gmail: "The promised additional cross-browser version of Gmail is here, and you can access it directly at gmail.google.com/gmail/h/. "

RojoBlog: CNET News.com on Rojo

RojoBlog: CNET News.com on Rojo: "At the bottom of every story is a 'Comment' button (looks like a talk buble) that will allow you to comment on any story in Rojo. Your Rojo contacts can see those comments, and you can see comments from your contacts. "

Contextual chattering good!

Friendster befriends blogs--and fees

Friendster befriends blogs--and fees | CNET News.com: "Friendster, a so-called social networking site of linked personal profiles, launched a beta, or test version, of Friendster Blogs, a section of the site that lets people post and archive the daily musings known as blogs.

Friendster, which recently defended its ad-based revenue model and disavowed any plans for fees, introduced three paid upgrade packages with Friendster Blogs."

Ewwww!

del.icio.us/new

del.icio.us/new/ashton

Tags as weighted list! It will certainly help to weed out stray or misspelled tags.

Accessible Folksonomies: Accessibility, Usability and Web Standards

Accessible Folksonomies: Accessibility, Usability and Web Standards: "Lately I’ve been thinking about one particular artifact of the folksonomy phenomenon – the folksonomy menu that serves as a sort of buzz index providing users with a quick visualization of the most popular tags (technically I think it’s called a weighted list).

surprised to note that each site shared most the same accessibility problems:"

With a sample page implementing the recommendations.

Open Loops: A Next Action Paradox

Open Loops: A Next Action Paradox: "Who would have thought that an idea, such as eliminating priorities and deadlines, could yield an increase in productivity?"

Open Loops: There's a Hole in the Bucket Dear Liza, Dear Liza...

Open Loops: There's a Hole in the Bucket Dear Liza, Dear Liza...: "My Palm's Unfiled Catagory - Writing a next action directly in the Palm's Unfiled category. I eventually dropped this one because it blurred the line between collection and processing my next actions.

Jotter Wallet - For recording items on the run."

Ditto on the Palm. An entry had a high collation factor. Especially because I kept some stuff in ToDo, some in BrainTree, and some in Memos. Plus on, password, some navigation ... Whereas I use a pocket flip pad consistently.

biologging | a community website for biomedical researchers

biologging | a community website for biomedical researchers: "biologging is a community website for biomedical researchers, which allows you to create your own annotated store of abstracts, and to browse the logs of other users."

YAFolksonomy, but, what a keen word/url they've got!

BlogShares - Rich Site Summary Feeds

BlogShares - Rich Site Summary Feeds

BlogShares offers a variety of RSS feeds
There are also industry and user portfolio feeds available.

Rojo

I received an invite from Rojo and have been mucking with it. Hard to imagine that it will ever supplant Bloglines, it might augment it. I started with a subset of their 'Rojo Picks by Topic' in Technology - Bloggers, Top Bloggers, and Web 2.0. If you'd like to share stories in this sphere comment or connect via Rojo id ashton.

43Things: New Features Just Launched: Cheers, Cities, Help, and more!

The Robot Co-op: New Features Just Launched: Cheers, Cities, Help, and more!: "Hello Quackers! The latest version of 43 Things is now live.

Lots of new zeitgeist pages including “Popular completed goals,” “Entries by people doing the same things as you,” and “How other people are tagging goals that you have”"

Even more goodness to an already addictive site.

New Entries has been my favorite rss feed for weeks

CodeCon 2005

CodeCon 2005: "CodeCon 2005 - February 11-13 - Club NV, San Francisco

CodeCon is the premier showcase of cutting edge software development. It is a workshop for developers of real-world applications with working code and active development projects. All presentations will be given by one of the active developers, and accompanied by a functional demo."

Stuper Bowl

Super Bowl (our unofficial national holiday) ads are going for 2.4 million dollars for a 30-second spot. Odd that contact-lens maker Novartis would blow a wad when it's hard to connect their brand to football (various offers for free product/exams to officals aside.) Returning to The Bubble Bowl (when over a dozen internet companies blew $40 million on ads, and then most of them went out of business) domain registrar Go Daddy has decided to
double down. Someone over there clearly needs to be branded.

"You wouldn't put a Bud ad in Vouge, but with TV we've lost that [logic]." - Al Ries of brand consultancy Ries & Reis

Taggregator

Taggregator

del.icio.us and flikr tags shown together

I'm fond of the 43Things implementation.

The Quest for Getting Things Done

I gave away a copy of Getting Things Done by David Allen knowing that it would be easy to get another. Five bookstores and several 'it should be right here's later, I had to special order one which ended up being a bit too much fun. I pulled the bookstore membership card and coupon from an alphabetic folder and put it in a Tickler File and made a note on a Waiting action list. When the call came in I had the card and coupon in hand, walked right over and got the book for free. Getting Things Done!

Online Social Networking 2005

Online Social Networking 2005: "OSN2005 will be a summit for all those interested in working with social networking processes, tools, and media. In addition to attending many workshops, panels, and presentations by leading experts and practitioners, attendees will have the opportunity to be part of a community with a significant role in defining the future direction of online social networking. "

Online Conference, February 9-23, 2005 $35

rojo.com

Slashdot | Filtering RSS Through Your Social Web: "Cory Lok assesses the methods, competition and prospects of Rojo, a venture-funded startup RSS aggregator."

Arrrg! Slashdotted. Going to be tough to scam an invite now.

All Consuming

All Consuming: "All Consuming is a website that visits recently updated weblogs every hour, checking them for links to books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Sense, and other book sites.

This site was inspired by Book Watch, and uses web services from Weblogs.com, Amazon.com, Technorati.com, and Alexa.com."

Comments by members, TrackBacks, and weblog summaries!

Just inserted my reading list into this blog template.

43 is the number of the feed!

bloglines
+
del.icio.us
=
43

Now I have to figure out how I can explain to people that 43 Things, while very cool, is totally unrelated to 43 Folders

The Mythical Man-Month

D'oh! In the whole GTD, 43 Folders feeding frenzy I forget the classic laying in wait on the bookshelf at work.

Silly DeeDee!

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a classic book on software project management written by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

His observation, known as Brooks' Law, was simple: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." Brooks' law is often summarized as 'Nine women cannot have a baby in one month'.

Russell Beattie Notebook - Serialized eBooks via RSS

Russell Beattie Notebook - Serialized eBooks via RSS: "I added a new feature to Mobdex. You can now subscribe serially to any of the ebooks there. Simply find a book, note it's ID number, then subscribe to the RSS feed like this:

http://www.mobdex.com/rss?book=116&id=russ"

Oh! Rock! I'm already enjoying the Ulysses via rss and this opens a whole new can of worms!

The Shifted Librarian: RSStress

The Shifted Librarian: RSStress: "The increase in the number of feeds will leave many users frustrated, as there is a limit to the number feeds one can scan and read. Current numbers suggest that readers can handle 150-200 feeds without too much stress. But users will want to read more and more as new interesting feeds become available and they run into the limitations of the metaphor of current aggregator applications."

Oh! Good name for a blog. I blew right past 600 feeds before creating folders for Urgent (meaning noisy) vs Important. A Google News feed allowed me to bail a whole stack of news feeds, but, I still keep a few in a 'do not bother to read folder'. Still trying to pare and focus the feeds ...

memeorandum: A newfangled news tangle

memeorandum: A newfangled news tangle: "memeorandum presents an automated hourly synopsis of the latest online news and opinion, combining weblog commentary with traditional news reports"

A great idea that does not seem to be working for me. I read it via rss, click though every day or so, but, don't find much there there. I have more hope for Relevanta with it's odd markup of background data, reputation scoring, and antispamming. The layout is quite different with one pannel for feed articles and one for locally created news.

"Relevanta provides a unique, community-driven approach to information gathering and reputation management. Based on the firm belief in the wisdom of community, Relevanta relies on and rewards members for their involvement."

so this is mass communication?: rss, where art thou?

so this is mass communication?: rss, where art thou?: "Syndication is key. I have become such a snob that I won't read a blog if I can't dump it into my BlogLines account. Okay, snob is a bit harsh. It is more about convenience. I don't have time to search out every nifty blog I come across every day to see if there is a new post. I want it delivered to me."

Heh! What she said. I've settled down to bloglines, del.icio.us, a couple of bookmarklets, and hardly any browser bookmarks.

Why do Wiki RSS Feeds Suck?

Why do Wiki RSS Feeds Suck? (by Jeremy Zawodny): "That's all these seem to be: change notification feeds. 'So and so change this node, but I'm not going to tell you how they changed it or even what it says no. You need to come back to me, the all powerful Wiki for that! (insert evil laugh)"

Hear! Hear! Not even Wikinews provides a useful feed when it could be a useful news source as well as a call to arms.

What's wrong with Technorati?

What's wrong with Technorati? - The RSS Blog: "oin the club. I stopped using Technorati. It just doesn't work anymore. Try Bloglines citations. I get much better and much more results"

RSS 0.93

RSS 0.93: "RSS 0.93 is open for discussion."

Gravatar - Globally Recognized Avatar

Gravatar - Globally Recognized Avatar: "A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80�80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing "

Conversation with Mark Fletcher, CEO of Bloglines

Eric Peterson: Conversation with Mark Fletcher, CEO of Bloglines: "The essence of his answer is 'AdWords on Steroids' (my translation, appropriate given their proximity to the BALCO scandal in Northern California). The idea that any article or feed I'm interested in will be littered with content that can be mined and transformed into relevant pay-per-click advertising"

bloglines

codepoetry :: Human-Readable RSS

codepoetry :: Human-Readable RSS: "Did you know you can format RSS so that normal humans can read it? Useful? Sure. Preview the data without the mess."

Push: hype

Wired 12.05: START: "Before long, push was a byword for hype.

The inspiring technology this time is RSS, a specification that allows easy syndication of news, blogs, and other frequently updated sources."

blog search

cyberSaps business: "The long and short of searching the blogoshere: far too complex, far to annoying. "

Gay.com Launches New Social Networking Features

Gay.com Launches New Social Networking Features to Enhance Popular Community Offerings: "Gay.com Launches New Social Networking Features to Enhance Popular Community Offerings, 'Hot List,' 'Buddy List' and 'Who Thinks I'm Hot' Features"

Social Networking Services Meta List

Social Networking Services Meta List : "Once again, this is my recently updated Social Networking Services Meta List. It is broken out into nine loose categories that will continue to shift. These social networking categories are: business; common interest; dating; face-to-face meeting facilitation; friend; MoSoSo (Mobile Social Software); pet; photo; and ‘edge’ cases or social networking ‘plus’ sites."

About Elfster

About Elfster: " Elfster is a free, web based tool that makes it easy to arrange Secret Santa gift exchanges."

A very social network and a fine idea.

connotea: about: "Connotea is a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to find them again. It is also a place where you can discover new articles and websites through sharing your links with other users"

More science oriented than

20041217

The Internet Topic Exchange

The Internet Topic Exchange: "The Internet Topic Exchange hosts topic channels, public archives of weblog posts on defined topics.


If you have a TrackBack-enabled blogging tool, you can also link to or ping and your post will appear in the channel."

An interesting idea that seems to be underused.

TrackBack Development

TrackBack Development


Docs, news, and tools surrounding blog trackbacks (a method of notification between websites).

Men Lazy, Women Talk Too Much

"Men Lazy, Women Talk Too Much": "'The 'typical blog is written by a teenage girl who uses it twice a month to update her friends and classmates on happenings in her life,'' ..., 'the most dramatic finding was that 66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months, representing 2.72 million blogs that have been either permanently or temporarily abandoned."

Blocking RSS advertising

Blocking RSS advertising: "Given that people who use newsreaders are still of the early adopter sort who are used to blocking ads with Firefox or fast-forwarding through commercials with their TiVos, it seems likely that blocking advertising in RSS/Atom files might soon become an issue."


Comments from developers from NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, and, later, Mark Fletcher of Bloglines.


Personally, I can read over some text ads. For example the Obituary feed from Moreover contains untargeted 'ADV:" style ads from Kanoodle that are only minorly obnoxious. Some magazine (I don't recall which anymore) was putting large graphic ads on the right and I unsubed on sight. I agree with one of the comments to Kottke that the feed should be summaries that pull you to the site where targeted advertising might lie.

Trying to Remember New Passwords Isn't As Easy as ABC123

Trying to Remember New Passwords Isn't As Easy as ABC123: "How does the 28-year-old monitor of drug trials remember her passwords? Easy: They're written on a blue Post-It note affixed to her computer.


Ms. Prior knows that her display threatens to undermine the very security that passwords are supposed to promote. 'The IT people yell at me,' she says, referring to her company's information-technology staff."


Send an internal bill with the sticky! It certainly wakes up some managers ...

Humanity

Marc’s got Huminity: "Huminity, a leading social network has become the first social ecosystem on the web by blending and interconnecting free personal and group Blogs, clubs, geographical user location search to its social networking and chat clie"


They completly loose for having some ugly floating 'join now' on their home page. I'm looking at their page for data and might well join if I could see the page! Amateurs. It requires a windows (only) download. There's three strikes right there. It looks like a 6-degrees chat with blogs outsourced. It also looks like they just created one for each user, stuffed them into google and then tried to make it buzzy.


Their out of here!

Kibop

Yet Another Friend Aggregators: "Another swiss-army-knife friend aggregator with a cultural focus. ... targets the Hispanic Global Community"


Kibop sure looks like Friendster. Profiles, photos, and birthday's are hardly anything special.

Blogchalking

Collaborative Learning Environments: "Michael Feldstein points to BlogChalking as an applied example of shibboleth collaboration"


Searching around Blogchalking turned up the odd SocialGrid dating service which generates an extremely ugly barcode that one can google. Odd that no one made a good run with the idea. We certainly saw plenty of Geek Code and there has been Blogger Code floating around recently.

Is RSS Doomed by Popularity?

Slashdot | Is RSS Doomed by Popularity?: "the bandwidth issue" yet again.

They point to RSScache (feed caching proxy) and KnowNow
(even-driven syndication) as solutions when just getting off of the desktop and onto a nice server-side application like bloglines works great. Heck, they'll even store and forward for you!

Bloglines | News: "We also announced that several leading
desktop aggregators,including FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and
BlogBot, will be supporting
the new functions, which will allow their users to synchronize their
desktop accounts with Bloglines."

The Paper Napkin email rejection service

The Paper Napkin email rejection service: "That's where Paper Napkin comes in. Give them anyname@papernapkin.net (or paamail.com, to be less suspicious), tell them it's your address, and when they write you, they'll automatically get a response telling them how badly they've been rejected. If they sound desperate enough, it may even get posted and ridiculed. Yes, it's cruel, so use it wisely."

The rejection blog as an rss feed.

Blogdigger Groups

Blogdigger Groups: "Blogdigger Groups allows you to combine the contents of two or more blogs making the combined content easily accessible all at once.

You can create a Blogdigger Group using any blogs that have RSS feeds. Once you specify the feeds that comprise your Blogdigger Group you will be able to view the posts from those feeds, sorted by date, and even export your group in OPML or OCS, or subscribe to your Blogdigger Group as an RSS feed."

GuessWhatiHeard.com

GuessWhatiHeard.com: "GuessWhatiHeard.com enables users to see a visual display of people they know as well as people they don’t know yet. Each display will feature a rating of that person in several different categories such as friendship, dating, and business relationships. Not only that, but people can also post personal messages about someone, which are then viewable by other members. Anyone who has comments written about them can then, “defend themselves”."


Yeash, YASN.
You have to be signed in to see anything, and there's not much to do. A quiet General Message Board and a few chat rooms. The profiles are long but there's no place to point to IM handles, blogs, or anything outside of the service. YAFriendster ...


via The Social Software Weblog

Deeper Thoughts on Netflix Friends

Deeper Thoughts on Netflix Friends: "High level, Friends is well conceived and well executed, with nits to pick for those of us who are either a) more familiar with social-networking functionality from a technical perspective, and/or b) overly curious about the impact of 'Friends' on basic Netflix functionality"

via Social Software Weblog

Jigsaw Contact Market

Many-to-Many: Jigsaw Contact Market: "ts one thing to put your contact information in a social networking service. Its another thing to make connections explicit. But its an entirely different thing to make contact information literally tradeable.

The Jigsaw platform is basically a cross between the online marketplace of eBay and the social networking site of Friendster.com. Jigsaw users are able to buy, sell and trade business contact information. "

Blog ethics movement afoot

CyberJournalist.net: Blog ethics movement afoot: "proposed Bloggers' Code of Ethics"

Read and comment

Information Overload, RSS & Feed Envy

Library Stuff: "Yesterday, the audience gasped when I mentioned that I subscribe to 400 feeds. It's really not that much, considering that I don't read every single thing that comes into my aggregator. But, as I mentioned, the probability of my seeing something worthwhile increases if I subscribe to the feed. If I don't subscribe to it, then the chances of seeing the content is 0%. If I do, then at least it has fighting chance to grab my eyeballs."


Information Overload, RSS & Feed Envy: "Over cocktails last night with Jenny and Steve and lots of other bloggers, it became apparent that the new challenge is how many feeds you can subscribe to in order to keep up with the changing material on the Web"


I've been on a tear seeking good data sources and am peaking at 444 feeds. And still, there is envy, I might miss something!

So long and thanks for all the links

So long and thanks for all the links


Links from Tom Mangan, a features desk copy editor at the San Jose Mercury News

Messagecast

Alerts Sign Up: "Microsoft� Alerts! This service lets you receive important messages through your MSN� Messenger or Windows� Messenger, your e-mail, or your mobile device."


as found on Adrants

Kinja, the weblog guide

Kinja, the weblog guide: "Kinja is a weblog portal. It was established in 2003 by Nick Denton and Meg Hourihan .


Nick Denton , Kinja's president, is the backer of a collection of weblog media projects, including Gawker and Gizmodo, niche online magazines dedicated to Manhattan gossip and high-tech gadgets respectively. Previously, he founded First Tuesday and Moreover Technologies."

Yet Another News Agitator, not unlike Blogging as breathing or how to find time for blogging?: "Asking me how much time I spend blogging, is treating blogging as an additional activity in my life (which it was at first), and feels to me like asking how much of my time I spend breathing.


My answers to this question are pretty similar: I can afford spending quite a lot of time blogging only because it's so integrated with my regular activities that it's not an add-on anymore."

MSN spaces

MSN spaces: "I set up an account there today (and was required to use my Microsoft Passport, which didn’t thrill me). My first impression was generally positive. The blogs support trackbacks, a notable omission in Blogger."

Blogchalking?

Blogchalking is certainly strange. A little code snippet to give "you the opportunity to disclose something personal without revealing too much"

searching revealed too much ...

I have no idea what this is.
They tell me I should put this in my blog:

link

Blogchalking has been superseded by other, more effective markup techniques. Thus, I am officially abandoning what I had de facto abandoned quite some time ago.

link

XFN - XHTML Friends Network

XFN - XHTML Friends Network: "a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. XFN provides the basis for a world-wide distributed network of personal connections."

Wikinews and the Growing Wikimedia Empire

infoAnarchy || Wikinews and the Growing Wikimedia Empire: "the Wikimedia Foundation has now officially launched the Wikinews project in English and German editions. More languages will follow soon. Wikinews aims to be to news media what Wikipedia is to encyclopedias: a free, comprehensive and, eventually, reliable source of information, collaboratively created by volunteers around the planet."

Red Herring Redux? Not quite. :: AO

Red Herring Redux? Not quite. :: AO: "AO was conceived in June 2002 as an “open source media company.” The mission was to borrow on the underground blogging tradition and produce online services, live events and a magazine that encouraged direct collaboration between global thought leaders and technology industry insiders whose ideas and innovations are shaping the always-on world. "

2004 Weblog Awards: Best Online Community

2004 Weblog Awards: Best Online Community: "Best Online Community
2004 Weblog Awards"


You'd think that they would have learned to use subdomains by now ...
2004weblogawards.com indeed!

Wiki Squatting

Wiki Squatting is when someone develops one's own separate community in the WikiWikiWeb.

Statistics for www.boingboing.net

Statistics for www.boingboing.net:


/rss.xml got considerately more hits (467326) than the home page / (164821).

Button Maker

Button Maker

via Intellectual Posion

Carlo's Bootleg RSS Feedpalooza

Carlo's Bootleg RSS Feedpalooza: "Scraped Feeds For A Better World"

Some good gaming and comix feeds

Chief Blogging Officer

Chief Blogging Officer: "hope you laughed at the name, or at least smiled knowingly. Chief Blogging Officer is a hack on the proliferation of Chief X-ing Officers in business these days."

The idea is to make it easy for bloggers to enhance their blogs with information found on the HighBeam Research Engine

via Big Blog Company

Loudwire: "Loudwire is the next generation social network built from the ground up to promote true self expression, intelligent communities, and unique relationships between people."

Dunno, looks like more of the same to me ...

via

20041201

MSN Spaces

MSN Spaces: "With your own space, you can:


Create blog entries and publish your thoughts for the world to see.

See what visitors to your space say about your blog.

Search other people’s blogs to find the information you want.

Upload photos from your mobile phone to your blog.

Create and manage your space from a mobile phone."

via SFist

More info and some pointers via Robin Good and
Boing Boing

Lemon Tonic

Lemon Tonic a dating service that needs Microsoft Explorer, Microsoft IM, and Flash. Whatever were they thinking?

via The Social Software Weblog

Bloglines | News

Bloglines | News: "We have also reached the milestone of 200 million articles indexed. It took us a year to reach 100 million, and less than 4 months for our blog and news feed content index to double"

blogsnow

blogsnow: "blogsnow was specifically designed to be the fastest blog news aggregator
possible: 5 to 12 minutes after a blog entry has been saved it will exist
in the blogsnow index. below every topic you will find a link called 'track this ...'. On those pages you will find weblogs that discuss the topic in question."

If you already use a different site just add blogsnow for a few days. You will be surprised how many of those 'emerging topics' on other sites will be visited links for you.

Attention.XML

"The world of syndication leads to redundant information. This where developments like attention.xml will be extremely important. Attention.xml will parse out redundant info so that you only have one resource."


Vander Wal

Attention.XML is an open standard, built on open source that helps you keep track of what you've read, what you're spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to.

Attention.XML is an XML file that contains an outline of feeds/blogs, where each feed itself is an outline, and each post is also an outline under the feed. This hierarchical outline structure is then annotated with per-feed and per-post information which captures such information as, the last time the feed/post was accessed, the duration of time spent on the feed/post, recent times of feed/post access, user set (dis)approval of posts, etc.

Attention.XML doc

and a prototype

Relevanta

Relevanta

A reputation based news aggregator?

Currently only the politics section is up.

Relevanta's economy system rewards based on merit. Rating, commenting, and posting all boost your experience levels. Daily credit limits prevent spamming and trolling

'Blog' word of the year

'Blog' word of the year: "A four-letter term that came to symbolize the difference between old and new media during this year's presidential campaign tops U.S. dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's list of the 10 words of the year.


Blog will be a new entry in the 2005 version of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition."

Technorati Developers Wiki

Technorati Developers Wiki: "created for application developers, Web developers, and Technorati power users."

Yelp!

Yelp!: "When you want to find good local businesses you ask the people you trust. Just enter what you're looking for, together with your friends' email addresses. Friends will receive your request by email. Then, they recommend a business us ing Yelp! (sign up is not required). If they can't help, they can forward your request to one of their friends. When
your friends respond, you get an email. Just return to Yelp! to see
their recommendations."

Silliest socal network idea, ever.

Email is for old people

Email is for old people: "Email's efficiency falls in terms of promptness, convenience and credibility"

This short article suggests that, in Korea, email is used only for formal communications, or by older, less tech-saavy generations, while IMs, blogs, and SMS has taken over as the primary means of day to day messages.

via Slashdot

RSS and Information Overload

RSS and Information Overload: "I have found, and had confirmed by others, that one becomes quite pragmatic about the value of feeds. A well-crafted federated feed incorporating rehearsed searches on target keywords and feeds from the best of the web on a particular subject is an invaluable tool for keeping abreast of rapidly changing areas"

The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers

The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers

Blogging about Blogging? Guilty!

eatonweb portal

eatonweb portal: "this portal is a labor of love."

An old weblog portal that looks to be mostly moribund. However, you may find some treasure by poking around.

The Weblog Review

The Weblog Review: "What about the people that only want to read the best sites out there and don't want to read a review of the site? This question kind of defeated the purpose of the reviews he thought, but then he realized the answer. A rating system. But not just by the reviewer, but by the people that read the reviews and the sites."

Bah! No rss feed.

The Blogosphere

TOC: Communications of the ACM v47.12 (December 2004) The Blogosphere

Automatic Site-To-RSS Feed Creation

FeedFire Yet Another Scraper that I'll have to muck with soonest.


FeedFire allows you to create a feed from virtually any webpage, and turn it into a RSS feed suitable for using at your website, syndicating or just reading in your RSS news reader client


Via Robin Good

FOAF Specification

The FOAF project is based around the use of machine readable Web homepages for people, groups, companies and other kinds of thing. To achieve this we use the "FOAF vocabulary" to provide a collection of basic terms that can be used in these Web pages.


FOAF Vocabulary Specification

Blog Ping

There are a number of services designed specifically for tracking and connecting blogs. However it would be expensive for all the services to crawl all the blogs in the world all the time. By sending a small ping to each service you let them know you’ve updated so they can come check you out. They get the freshest data possible, you don’t get a thousand robots spidering your site all the time. Everybody wins.


Due to popular demand, and after some communication with their team, we’ve added support for the Feedster RSS Search Engine.


Ping-o-Matic!

Feedster

Mucked around with Feedster a bit.

MyFeedster is still ugly and useless next to
Bloglines.

MyFeedpapers is odd and seems broken at the nonce.

Feedfinder
and
Rich media feeds
are the reasons to visit ...

rss links

http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml

Claim

Technorati Claim

epaper

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040701/D83HVNUG0.html