Feedster is currently beta testing a new offering that allows you to do a job search against RSS feeds of job listings syndicated directly from employers. Wow! $500MM deep in CareerBuilder, the newspaper industry now has yet another form of…

Robert Scoble writes about his upcoming session at BloggerCon III (BC3) on Information Overload. (I’m deeeep on the wait list for BC3, which is regretable, as it looks excellent.) At one point, Scoble states: ::Someone asked me the other day…

“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. Every book on this site has a list of all the…

Sure, it’s a beta service, but Google, how about getting something basic straight: Most of the sites that you label as “subscription required” do not in fact require a paid subscription. Rather, they simply require registration. That’s a significant difference,…

I’ve written recently on some of the internal debate going on inside the news(paper) industry around Google and other news aggregators (good for context): Japanese Newspaper Publisher Says No To Google News Aggregated News Search Surpasses Branded News in 2004…

ClickZ’s Kevin Newcomb covers FindWhat’s launch of its version of Google’s AdSense and Overture’s Content Match offerings, pointing out the key difference: – FindWhat takes a category approach vs. a contextual approach An interesting approach on FindWhat’s part… While this…

Full disclosure: another tip of the hat to a friend chasing his dream. I caught up with another close friend recently, Ando Sonenblick. Ando is a 2D animation guru (and stellar Mac engineer in general), best known as one of…

Shameless plugs are okay if they’re billed as such, right? Right. Well, with that in mind, I’m happy to report that one of my dearest friends (of ~14 yrs) has just launched his first business: selling custom poker tables and…

Deeje Cooley notes that Marc Canter is hosting a blogger’s dinner on Oct 13th (and like any good blogger, I’m spreading the word). Like Deeje, I’m hoping to attend.

Yesterday, I wrote a quick piece entitled .Mac glitches and futures where I pointed out a few key things about Apple’s .Mac service: 1. Very little PR/Marketing 2. Great margins (esp compared to the rest of Apple’s business) 3. Far…