Monthly Archives: May 2005

AOL Beta Browser 0.92: Low Octane RSS

This will be old news to some of you, but I’m still digging out… hopefully some will get something out of this… I played around with AOL’s new beta browser a couple of days ago, hoping to get a sense

Posted in Uncategorized

Google launches MyGoogle

Some folks were smart enough to review the web-cast preso slides ahead of the presentation (they seem to be offline now), thereby learning about “MyGoogle”, which is expected to launch as a Labs offering by days end. (Surely others are

Posted in Uncategorized

Google Factory Tour Webcast Live Right Now

Tune in if you’re interested: 9:00 – 10:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast 10:00 – 10:15 am Welcome & Introduction 10:15 am – 12:00 pm Progress in Research and Ads 12:45 – 2:00 pm Opportunities Today 2:00 – 2:45 pm

Posted in Uncategorized

Bloglines to enter blog search fray this summer

Not surprisingly (mostly because it was noted at the time of the AskJeeves acquisition of Bloglines), BusinessWeek is reporting (via an interview with Mark Fletcher) that Bloglines intends to enter the blog search fray this summer, taking on PubSub, Technorati,

Posted in Uncategorized

Bloglines Weather Feeds; Partly Sunny

Mark Fletcher announced the release of Bloglines Weather Forecasts a couple of days back; I’ve been busy doing whuffie work, so today is all catch-up. I’ve been awaiting the release of this functionality since my exchange with Chuck Richard of

Posted in Uncategorized

Netflix Shines as Blockbuster Blinks and Wal-mart Withdraws

Some interesting developments in Netflix’s world over the last few days. Yesterday, there was an announcement that Blockbuster was testing a $17.99 price [Yahoo News link which will rot] for its core 3-out service (up from its current price of

Posted in Uncategorized

Newsgator cages FeedDemon: RSS everywhere

Om Malik breaks the story that Newsgator has acquired FeedDemon in a “cash and stock” deal (I suspect these are modest numbers); FeedDemon developer/CEO Nick Bradbury will join Newsgator as their lead client architect. Chris Pirillo has an insider interview

Posted in Uncategorized

XBOX 360: Full Details Revealed

Two months ago I called Xbox 360 an irresistable Trojan horse. Today, with full details coming to light, I may have undersold it. Wow. Just wow. If you even remotely touch online, mobile, consumer, etc as part of your business,

Posted in Uncategorized

Just registered for Supernova!

I’ll be attending the full Supernova 2005 conference, and will be selectively blogging thoughts, session notes, etc. Perhaps more interestingly, I’m hoping to connect with some of the speakers for impromptu news & views. If you’re attending (and from this

Posted in Uncategorized

Google buys Dodgeball; SoLoMo gets a parent

I last wrote about Social Local Mobile Search (there’s a moutful) in October of last year. (Some prefer MoSoSo — Mobile Social Software; I say “whatever”.) Google, which has component offerings across the board — Social, Local and Mobile Search…

Posted in Uncategorized