Monthly Archives: March 2005

Do you read or run a managed feed?

Update: My gratitude to Jeff Clavier, Deeje Cooley, and my most frequent commentor, Anonymous, for their links and answers; immensely helpful. To the rest of you… don’t make me beg… it won’t be pretty. ;-p I’m currently doing some thinking

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The Long Tail and Social Software

Barb Bydwad, a new addition to The Social Software Weblog, asks two interesting questions in her article entitled The long tail: how does it relate to social software? Here questions and my abstract(ed) answers: Q: How do you see social

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YellowPages.com to become a national network?

Over at the Local Media Blog, Greg Sterling asks, “Will YellowPages.com Become the New ‘At Hand’?“ Greg, the answer is an absolute ‘Yes’, if the industry has any hopes of competing with their Internet-centric brethern in the long term. Looking

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Blogger.com: SNAFU of the day

Just a quick FYI to those that read me via Feed… Blogger appears to be misbehaving in a new way today… every time I add a new post, it toggles all of the posts in my Feed from Summary mode

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Inside The Store: A9 Local Search Future State?

ClickZ’s Zachary Rodgers has an interview with (Amazon) A9’s Barnaby Dorfman (who appearantly led development of A9’s Yellow Pages offering). One question sticks out for me: “Q.Can you describe the development process? A.We don’t get into our development process too

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Analysts, Yahoo, RSS and my quest for snarkiness

Well, I was all geared up this weekend to squeeze some major snarkiness into my generally mild approach to convering the ever evolving tech scene… but alas… Susan Mernit beat me to it. Hey Susan, at least we know Wolk

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Technorati gags Community Manager’s voice…

Over at Niall Kennedy’s blog: “Technorati would rather I did not express an opinion on issues such as corporate blogging policies that are affecting the world of weblogs. This post has been overwritten and my artwork posted to Flickr is

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Media Center: Vanishing Newspaper webcast

Gloria Pan from The Media Center emailed me this afternoon to let me know that their upcoming webcast on the newspaper industry is generating tons of interest. (Gloria’s great; I think she’s cut from the same cloth Steve Rubel is.)

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Yahoo renaming, overhauling Overture

The news in the press this week is that Yahoo! is renaming Overture to Yahoo! Search Advertising Services (that’s a mouthful). That’s consistent with Yahoo!’s branding approach and hardly surprising. But the gossip that’s making the rounds is different. It

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Appcasting? Kill me now

Deeje points to an piece from Ranchero Software about Appcasting, “the practice of using the ‘enclosure’ feature of RSS 2.0 feeds to deliver updates and release notes for new software applications.” In the immortal words of you know who… “It’s

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