Deeje Cooley points to a press release from 21 Publish announcing that they are releasing an OEM service that allows licensees to create private communities of interconnected blogs. While the details are a bit sparse (and I’ve yet had a…

Battelle riffs on an article in the WSJ about Comcast’s upcoming VOD offering: “I’ve long fantasized about having a web-like search interface to video (who wouldn’t want to type “The Office” Season 2 into a Google video search, and get…

Just a quick heads up that posts will be a bit lighter, as I’m focusing most of my efforts on getting a new service up and running… something I hope all of you will value. I’m hoping to catch up…

Peter Cooper, the developer behind RSS Digest, today’s most popular addition to the ‘blogosphere’, was kind enough to reply to an email I fired off to him (all of an hour ago), and… GREAT NEWS… he’s got Atom support working…

I just found out that Pamela Parker, one of my favorite ClickZ writers (how does one choose between Pamela and Danny Sullivan?!) has her own blog named The River. Catching up on her previous posts, it seems that her blog…

Search Engine Watch Blog had a post on RSS Digest, service that allows you to insert nicely formatted headlines from a blog feed into ANY HTML page… without writing a line of code! (SEW Blog mentions that there are actually…

CNET’s News.com reports that Warner Brothers has been gracious enough to allow Netflix to test VOD with would-be-partner Tivo. I’ve previously written about the Netflix/Tivo combo (Netflix can do better), including a likely end game scenario (VOD is a commodity,…

TechDirt reports on a piece by John C. Dvorak claiming that the reason why newspapers force registration is so that they can spam you… I can only speak from my experience at Knight Ridder Digital, so perhaps the practices are…

A few weeks ago, Susan Mernit, a fellow entreprenuer and consultant whom I hold in high regard (and for full disclosure, who I’m building a personal friendship with), was named a Sr. Fellow at The Media Center, a non-profit “think…

Search Engine News :: Search Engine Lowdown: Ask Jeeves Taps Topix.net to Deliver Local News Search Engine Lowdown reports that Ask Jeeves is now delivering Local News thanks to a relationship with Topix.net. Two thoughts here: 1. Topix has a…