June 15th, 2008
In Manila a bomb explodes in a commercial district. Calls are made from parents to children. Friends exchanged sms messages. Surprisingly, the media is caught unaware for the first few hours. What happened? Was the question of the hour? Then news came trickling in.
It was not from the press nor from media but it […]
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June 15th, 2008
Plurk seems to have benefited from the loss of Twitter. In my circle of the twittersphere there was a mass migration of twiiters to plurk. Not really mass migration but fellow Twitter users were also setting-uip accounts in Plurk. And its not because Plurk is different from Twitter. And not because Plurk presents the […]
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June 7th, 2008
A lot it seems. Louis Gray chronicles it here. A run down of what the new management, Drew Olanoff, Thomas Connors and Adam Ostrow, is doing is nothing short of impressive.
Consider the following things done or implemented or introduced:
1. A new site interface
2. a breaking news page
3. a Breaking news feed on Twitter
4. a ReadBurner […]
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June 6th, 2008
Voice-to-text service provider Jott makes RSS feeds audible and the feature/service is called Jott Feeds [Source] .
The technology used by Jott text to audio and iare made available via Jott’s toll free number - (866) JOTT 123. It said to be available from any phone with no downloads required. Caveat/Note/Warning:The service is currently available to […]
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June 6th, 2008
It looks like Netvibes: It has the look of it though. But then again it is not. FeedzZ describes itself as a social news aggregator with semantic features ie it has learning features - It is a news aggregator that automatically or manually can be customized to suite the taste of its owner.
The service is […]
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June 5th, 2008
The other day I was talking to a good friend and we were talking about the problem of how to measure the success of a blogs. It would seem that there is still no accurate way of measuring the impact of a blog. There are more of course of wide range of things - descriptive […]
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May 31st, 2008
So what did you do when Twitter went down and up … down and up? Did you pounce and walk about like the Tiger Sher Khan unable to get Mowgli or worse did you start being Wilee Coyote thinking up schemes and testing new apps or services just to get the proverbial Road Runner […]
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May 31st, 2008
Talk about apt, over at Burning Questions the official blog of Feedburner, a post,Into the wild: AdSense for feeds, announced that starting next week they (Feedburner) will be running AdSense on a select number of feedburner publishers. This is going to be a dress rehearsal for a full press move of the […]
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May 29th, 2008
An article in FT.com reports that several Web 2.0 internet companies, despite changing online behavior, have not yet produced the promised revenues. This is according to some entrepreneurs and financiers active in the Web 2.0 industry.
Here is the FT article:
Web 2.0 fails to produce cash
By Richard Waters and Chris Nuttall
FT.com
It is an interesting article. […]
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May 27th, 2008
It is said that the our world is divided into two when we talk about information. It is not like who likes or who dislikes information but rather – it is how information is served up on a plate.
Think of data, information and knowledge as food a steak perhaps. And nearly everyone loves a good […]
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