Category Archives: aggregation

Local news is going the wrong way

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Matt McAlister

Google’s new Local News offering misses the point entirely. As Chris Tolles points out, Topix.net and others have been doing exactly this for years. Agregating information at the hyperlocal level isn’t just about geotagging information sources. Chris explains why they … Continue reading →

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Why Outside.in may have the local solution

Posted on July 24, 2007 by

The recent blog frenzy over hyperlocal media inspired me to have a look at Outside.in again. It’s not just the high profile backers and the intense competitive set that make Outside.in worth a second look. There’s something very compelling in … Continue reading →

Posted in 94107, advertising, aggregation, blogging, citizen media, citizenjournalism, collaboration, community, economics, edge, journalism, local, media, network effects, outside.in, participation, peer production, platform, potrero hill, publishing, san francisco, semanticweb, social media, tagging | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Testing ways to splice my feeds

Posted on March 2, 2007 by

I started playing around with Pipes a bit more the other day and then found this handy tip via Lifehacker for nicer looking ways to link splice in your blog feed. You can already splice del.icio.us and flickr directly into … Continue reading →

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A start page on my own domain

Posted on February 23, 2007 by

With a quick copy and paste job using Kent Brewster’s Pipes Badger and a few widgets from services I use, I now have what is a mostly sufficient start page on my own domain that displays my various forms of … Continue reading →

Posted in aggregation, attention, identity, personalization, pipes, rss, socialmedia, start pages, widgets | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

A community site without a community

Posted on January 3, 2007 by

Taking a little time at home last week gave me a chance to play around with one of my experiments that was nearly at its end. FlipBait is a simple Pligg/MediaWiki site that pokes fun at the dotcom golddiggers out … Continue reading →

Posted in aggregation, collaboration, community, delicious, digg, flipbait, how to, mediawiki, participation, pligg, publishing, socialmedia, tagging, wiki | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

How to offer simple RSS badges for your users

Posted on November 25, 2006 by

The key breakthrough that made it possible for YouTube to ride on MySpace’s heavy traffic coattails into its current state as a mass media service is the concept of widgets, often called badges in related contexts. Although offering widgets or … Continue reading →

Posted in aggregation, flipbait, how to, marketing, open source, pligg, rss, widgets | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

A human-powered relevance engine for Internet startup news

Posted on November 20, 2006 by

Here’s a fun experiment in crowdsourcing. I’ve been getting overwhelmed by all the startup news coming out of the many sources tracking the interesting ideas and new companies hunting for Internet gold. Many of these companies are really smart. Many … Continue reading →

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Switching my default browser home page, again

Posted on September 13, 2006 by

I’ve probably changed my browser’s default home page about 10 times in the last year. Something about working here at Yahoo! has made me very picky about start pages. I most recently was using Netvibes which had a couple of … Continue reading →

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I’m turning into a mumbling idiot

Posted on May 23, 2006 by

I was comparing my feed collection with Micah Laaker the other day, and I realized that the scope of my intake just keeps getting narrower and narrower. Looking at other user’s lists in the Share your OPML system, it seems … Continue reading →

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