Category Archives: rss

Positioning real-time web platforms

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Matt McAlister

Like many people, I’ve been thinking a lot about the live nature of the web more and more recently. The startup world has gone mad for it. And though I think Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie played down the … Continue reading →

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Data dynamics: How the rules of sharing are changing

Posted on November 13, 2007 by

Today it’s easy to store and share my pictures, my favorite URLs, my thoughts and lots of other things online. There are a range of data repositories that allow me to do this kind of thing in different ways. What … Continue reading →

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Media As A Service

Posted on April 2, 2007 by

Much like print and tv are becoming marketing vehicles to drive people online, the domain name for an online media service is becoming sort of an abstract utility or maybe just a brand address for media services rather than the … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, attention, feedburner, history, ideas, innovation, journalism, management, marketing, media, models, peer production, process, publishing, rightmedia, rss, strategy, trends, webservices | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Admin: My feed’s gone spastic

Posted on March 12, 2007 by

Big apology to everyone who subscribes to my feed. I should have tested things out more thoroughly before peppering your feed reader with hundreds of posts. If I haven’t lost you already, please hang on. I think it’s stable now. … Continue reading →

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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

For my wishlist: a start page that learns

Posted on January 11, 2007 by

I had the pleasure of joining Rex Hammock for drinks last night in Potrero Hill while he was here for Macworld Expo. Rex is tuned in to some interesting aspects of the online world, particularly through his site SmallBusiness.com which … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Recommending RSS feeds on My Yahoo!

Posted on August 16, 2006 by

Former Yahoo! colleague Don Loeb (now at Feedburner) called out the recent addition of RSS feed recommendations to the My Yahoo! product. This module automatically bubbles up sources that you might want to add to your page so that you … Continue reading →

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