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Fred / A VC:
Email vs. RSS (continued) — I first posted on this topic in October 2003 as I was starting to blog. — I posted again in the middle of last year. — And once more in the fall of last year. — I can save you the trouble on clicking on all those links.
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Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
How RSS can bust through — Fred Wilson says "RSS has to become brain-dead simple to use." — I'm pretty sure we can do it, but it would require the companies to give up hope of locking users into their software, into their extensions, their mistakes. — How RSS can bust through
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Who do you trust? — RSS got another big boost today when portals-in-the-headlights AOL and Yahoo? decided they wanted to scrape some vig off of the email stream. Notice that this idea, first championed by Bill Gates several years ago in his famous "I will fix this problem in 2 years" …
Stowe Boyd / Message:
The Conversational Index: Thoughts After The Deluge — Wow. What I thought was a modest post with a neat and helpful small idea — The Conversational Index — took off in a big way yesterday, getting picked up, and picked on, by a long list of smart people.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Blogs — it's all about the conversation — This may or may not be part of the "secret sauce" in Gabe's memeorandum.com, but I think Stowe Boyd is onto something. In a post about what makes blogs work — i.e., what makes them vibrant and helps them grow, as opposed to stagnating …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
AOL/Yahoo: our email tax will make the net as good as the post office! — AOL and Yahoo have proposed a system to charge senders a quarter of a cent for guaranteed delivery on each email sent to their customers. They justify this as an anti-spam measure, but of course it could make them billions …
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Mark Evans, Fractals of Change, A VC, TeleRead, Microsoft News Tracker, Smalltalk Tidbits …, robhyndman.com and Sunbelt BLOG
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Bye Bye Email Marketing, Hello RSS — Saul Hansell at the New York Times reports that America Online and Yahoo are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from 1/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered.
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A View from the Isle, raving lunacy, The Jason Calacanis Weblog, Rough Type and Guardian Unlimited
Connie Guglielmo / Austin American-Statesman:
Dell drops hard-drive MP3 line — Dell Inc. stopped selling its most expensive digital music players after failing to take market share from Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod. — Dell, the world's largest personal computer maker, discontinued three Digital Jukebox players that sell for $200 …
Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Comment Tracking with coComment — (Update: Look at the end of the review for a Greasemonkey script for coComment) — Tracking comments that you make at a blog has always been a hassle. The way I usually do it is by making a comment and then bookmark the article with a tag of "comment."
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:CoComment: Tracking Your Blog Comments
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mathewingram.com/work, Message, It's Rishi, BrianShih.com, Scobleizer, Blog Tips at ProBlogger, Things That and Raw
Chris Beasley / sitepoint.com:
Amazon-Sense? — Amazon is apparently looking into the feasibility of starting their own ad network like Adsense. They've been contacting select members of their associates programs, including myself, asking if we'd like to be beta testers. The way they want the beta test to work is to give …
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Squash
Matt Cutts:
Ramping up on international webspam — Remember my previous post noting that Google would be paying more attention to webspam in other countries and languages this year? This week our webspam team continued ramping up our anti-spam efforts by removing bmw.de from our index, and ricoh.de will be removed soon for similar reasons.
Will Knight / newscientist.com:
Software-defined radio could unify wireless world — A device capable of skipping between incompatible wireless standards by tweaking its underlying code has been given world's first go-ahead for outdoor trials in Ireland. — Ireland's communications regulator Comreg has issued the licence …
Darryl K. Taft / eWEEK.com:
New Microsoft Windows Tools in the Wings — SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft's "Sparkle" is set to get some new cousins. — Following up on its recent release of the first preview of Sparkle, its designer tool for creating applications for Windows Vista and the Web, the company is currently …
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Randy Holloway Unfiltered 2.0
Valleywag:
Microsoft Search Champs: Payola or just a good conference? — Our geeky sister was one of over 50 techies invited to Microsoft Search Champs V4. Attendees in the company's Redmond base heard about the new technologies in Vista. And the "Evil Empire" was quite kind to its visitors.
