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

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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."