links for 2006-01-31
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rss2pdf, google2rss, feed2podcast, ect…
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get your feed icons here.
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Guardian interviews Joshua.
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Wow. Contextual search for flickr (based on color)
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This is a new world for advertisers, there is a lot to be learned.
links for 2006-01-30
podcasting, registered users and audio-coupons?
Adam Curry has been talking a lot about a new service that will soon be made pubic called “my podshow”. The idea is that through a subscription mechanism, podshow.com will be able to “report” somehow how many listeners are subscribed to each podcast. Which by itself sounds interesting. From what I’ve understood so far, podshow will be able to “cash out” this information by putting ads in podcasts.
This is where my idea of “personalized audio coupons” comes in. If podshow had a way to “attach” a personalized audio coupon with a code to each subscriber, marketeers would be able to mesure the effect of a campaign through a podcast! It is not easy, but it should not be so difficult to implement, what you basicly need is some speech syntesis software to create the small audio chunk containing the persinalized promo code and then a way to attach this chnk to the original audio file.
Well? What do you think?
links for 2006-01-23
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How a popular South African wine brand increased their sells using their weblog.
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Google, then Google, then Apple, then Google.
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Cool.
links for 2006-01-21
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Great videocast about traditional greek music.
links for 2006-01-20
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[..] a platform that allows developers to build phone access to just about any internet application as well.
del.icio.us as feed manager
I swutched again to Juice as my podcatcher. One of the coolest Juice features is its ability to syncronize your feed list with a remote OPML URL. An OPML file is actually a list (or nested lists) described in a standard way in XML. In our case, a list of RSS feeds (one for each podcast)
As far as I know, the most popular link managment tool is del.icio.us, a tool I love for its power and simplicity. del.icio.us allow you to export all your links in RSS which is cool. So, I wrote a quick and dirty PHP script that converts this RSS export to an OPML list (see at the end of this post). The script makes use of the excelent MagpieRSS rss/atom parsing library.
Now, let’s say my del.icio.us username is “vrypan2″ and I tag all podcast feeds with the tags “podcast” and “feed”. This is my del.icio.us page, and http://del.icio.us/vrypan2/podcast+feed are my podcast AND feed links.
I just edit my script and set $username=”vrypan2″ and $tag=”podcast+feed”. To make it easier for you to test it, I also installed it at http://vrypan.net/linkblog/delicious2opml.php.
Then I go to Juice -> Preferences ->Feed Manager ->OPML URL and paste the above link.
Now, whenever I add a new link to my del.icio.us account (tagged podcast and feed), Juice will add it to my feedlist!
(The idea could be extended to other applications that use lists of URLs in OPML format. I would also love to see this turn into a service…)
UPDATE: It turned out that the whole thing excited others too. Especially Les, puts down some intersting ideas, read his post Use del.icio.us to build & share Reading Lists?
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Here is the PHP script:
< ?php
$username = "vrypan2" ;
$tag = "podcast+feed" ;
header('Content-Type: text/xml') ;
define('MAGPIE_DIR', './inc/');
require_once(MAGPIE_DIR.'rss_fetch.inc');
$url = "http://del.icio.us/rss/$username/$tag/";
$rss = fetch_rss( $url );
// print_r($rss) ;
$items = $rss->items ;
?>
<opml version="1.1">
<head>
<title>del.icio.us list2OPML: < ?= $username ?>/< ?= $tag ?></title>
<link>http://del.icio.us/< ?= $username ?>/< ?= $tag ?></link>
<ttl>3600</ttl>
</head>
<body>
<outline text="del.icio.us 2 OPML">
< ?php
for($i=0; $i<count($items); $i++) {
echo "\t\t\t<outline title=\"{$items[$i]['title']}\" text=\"{$items[$i]['title']}\" type=\"rss\" htmlUrl=\"\" xmlUrl=\"{$items[$i]['link']}\"/> \n" ;
}
?>
</outline>
</body>
</opml>
Trust as key element in Web 2.0
I read John Battelle’s Searchblog: Don’t Look Now, But It’s Happening.
It’s about one of the most important points of Web 2.0. Trust. In a Web 2.0 environment you are supposed to “outsource” services and data to third parties. But can you trust them? Will Google, Yahoo!, Amazon and the rest live up to our expectations?