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July 13th, 2008

Nokia, Symbian and Mobile Internet

Everybody knows about Nokia that has taken control of Symbian - the UK-based software company developer of Symbian - a popular operating system for smart phones.
But what will Nokia do with it?
Nokia plans make available for free the computer code of the Symbian and its code behind the S60, Nokia’s user interface for smartphones […]

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April 23rd, 2008

Google goes Deep Web

Google is doing something important. It has been playing around with HTML forms. Basically they have been toying around with forms from high quality site and use it crawl for urls that correspond to the query. It takes time to digest this. Better read this post, Crawling through HTML forms, from the Google Webmaster Central […]

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August 1st, 2006

Wizag: the next attention-service

The last months we’ve seen myFeedz, Touchstone and Attensa trying to solve Information Overload. The keyword with these services is Attention and next in line is Wizag. Wizag is an online feedreader that incorporates attention data and semantic analysis in regards to both your feeds and the larger community of Wizag users (Digg stylee). Like […]

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February 20th, 2006

Scoble on information overload

Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s prime blogger, chaired a session on Information Overload in BloggerCon III, an annual conference organized by Dave Winer. In this Overload session (podlink) we can listen to many requirements evolving around RSS readers, aggregators and filters. Users want their content to be filtered geographically; based on their social networks; based on authority […]

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January 20th, 2006

Attention will solve information overload

Craig Barnes, President and Founder of Attensa, writes on his blog about Attensa and believes attention is the holy grail to solving the emerging problem of information overload. I could not agree more. And in his opinion, the overload problem will be obvious to the masses once Outlook 12 (and IE7) introduce RSS capabilities to […]

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January 3rd, 2006

RSS Sucks

Paul Kedrosky makes a great point in his post “RSS Sucks” (via Greg Linden): RSS is just a clunky high-volume replacement for web browsing. Rather than making it easier to consume information, it makes it easier to drown in context-free news, inducing that panicked feeling we all eventually learn too well when you see an […]

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December 31st, 2005

Social sorting the e-mail overload

Another very interesting post I found at Greg’s site about the growing number of e-mails we are getting each day. Our inboxes seem a never-ending, poorly differentiated barrage, requiring laborious effort to manually skim, sort, and prioritize. But why? What about some sort of ranking software that helps us manage the information overload, just like […]

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December 30th, 2005

River of news

I was talking with Fred the other night and he told me about “the River of news”. I found it very interesting and now yesterday Dave Winner posted an article on his site about the RSS aggregator he is developing. This aggregator will be a River of News and a descendent of earlier aggregators like […]

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December 6th, 2005

RSS at Les Blogs 2.0

The Les Blogs 2.0 conference, which started in Paris yesterday, has an interesting panel about RSS. This panel will discuss the best ways to use RSS, both to publish and subscribe to information. The moderator of this panel, Elizabeth Albrycht, has begun with questioning the audience how many feeds they read. There’s a group of […]

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December 5th, 2005

Attention.XML

There aren’t any examples but i do hear the term “attention.xml” a lot these days. What is attention.xml? According to the Technorati Developers Wiki it is an open standard, built on open source, that helps you keep track of what you’ve read, what you’re spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to. […]

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