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Archive for January 2007

January 31st, 2007

Snap - How To Turn It Off

Is anyone else as annoyed as I am at those stupid little Snap preview balloons that are popping up everywhere? They aren’t helpful, they are annoying as…well, annoying as they can be.
Thanks to Jordan over at the Download Squad for digging up this Snap link. You have to accept their cookie but I […]

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January 30th, 2007

Serendipity Launch Tomorrow at DEMO

Serendipity is launching their company tomorrow at DEMO in Palm Springs.
Here is what a previous attendee has to say, “For an early look at emerging technologies, the Demo conferences can’t be beat. Attended by corporate execs, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other tech junkies, the semiannual events feature demonstrations of dozens of new products, none of […]

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January 30th, 2007

Serendipity Responds!

The other day I posted about Serendipity and their new offering, Enterprise Web 2.0. Dave Leandra, VP of marketing and product strategy at Serendipity was kind enough to offer a comment:

“I was suprised to read your opinion about our announcement without even reaching out to us. While skepticism is healthy - cynicism is not.
A […]

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January 29th, 2007

Newsgator Issues Press Release Regarding Vista/IE7 Launch

Newsgator issued a Press Release today about the paradigm shift that is going to occur due to the release of Vista/IE7.  Newsgator founder, Greg Reinacker, says that IE7, “will be the first exposure to RSS and subscriptions for potentially hundreds of millions of people. I believe we’re at the beginning of an Internet paradigm shift. […]

By Cathy -- 2 comments

January 29th, 2007

Confession: “My Life As An RSS Junkie” - Not Me!

This is a must read! Kirk Biglione over at MediaLoper admits that he is an RSS junkie. Here is his opening statement, “Like most addictions my problem started as innocent experimentation. I began dabbling in RSS years ago when it was still a relatively new technology. I told myself that it was a […]

By Cathy -- 2 comments

January 29th, 2007

Vista Is Coming

In my time zone, Vista will be available in 5 hours and 30 minutes - yes some stores are opening at midnight!
If you still aren’t sure if you can run Vista, go here to run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor. Well, run isn’t exactly the right word. You must download the advisor and […]

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January 28th, 2007

IE7 RSS Add-On

IE7 has a plug-in called ‘Feeds Plus’ that, according to the IE folks, “…makes your feed reading experience easy and efficient.” Here is the dislaimer, “This add on was developed by members of the IE RSS team at Microsoft. Note that Feeds Plus is not an official product and hence is not […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

January 27th, 2007

A Feed Is Born Daily News Delivery Issues

I am still getting delivery failure notices for A Feed Is Born Daily News.  Without exception they are Yahoo e-mail addresses.  I tried to sign up with my Yahoo address and didn’t get the confirmation e-mail or a delivery failure notice.  So - if you signed up with a Yahoo address and didn’t get anything, […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

January 26th, 2007

Is It Safe Because They Say So?

Java sys-con reports that Serendipity Enterprises is introducing the ‘world’s first secure RSS reader’ called Enterprise Web 2.0.
Here is what they say, “…consumers will be able to securely receive customer-specific information from stores, banks, utilities and other organizations.”
David Lavenda, VP of marketing and product strategy at Serendipity Technologies further said, “This unique Web 2.0 tool […]

By Cathy -- 5 comments

January 25th, 2007

Is The IRS After You?

Here’s a disturbing post at Wired News. This is just the kind of thing I was talking about last week. It seems that tax agencies in some countries (the IRS would neither confirm nor deny its use) are crawling the web to catch what they assume are tax cheaters.
The program is called Xenon. […]

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