A couple of days ago, Technorati introduced Microformats Search and Pingerati. More good news for microformats.

The Technorati Weblog has an interesting article On Blogosphere Growth. It looks like Technorati’s index is doubling in size every 5.5 months! An other interesting mesure is the number of posts: … about 50.000 per hour.

An other interesting point is that tagging is used more and more. If you ask me, we have to thank the new tools that make tagging so much easier, like Wordpress using “categories” as tags in feeds. (And I guess social bookmarking services like del.icio.us make Technorati’s life much easier).

I feel that during the last couple of months the Web is changing fast. It looks like users, developers and enterpreneurs are much more mature on what the Web means and what it is good for.

First, we tried to move all our off-line habits, business and applications to the new, exciting on-line world of the Internet. We gave our shops, our directories, our magazines, our banks a new “web-based” front end. All these services and activities could very well exist off-line and, well, they did.

But now, we are moving on. We create services and business around things that could not even exist without the Web.

We have folksonomies and it’s not a geeky thing anymore (Yahoo! investment in Flickr and del.icio.us is a good proof of this [1])

Google maps are not just on-line maps, we stick our photos, our blogs, our ads on them, and create new and exciting applications like Frappr.

Our RSS/ATOM feeds transfer audio and video (ex. podcasts) and not just the “latest headlines” -they are getting “smarter” too (see Feedburner’s Feedflare [2] and Feed for Thought).

Our blogs are becoming more than just an electronic equivelent of a diary or newspaper, they are an electronic camvas that displays information from our del.icio.us bookmarks, pingbacks and trackbaks, and they interact with the rest of the Web, creating their own “Cosmos”.

Web APIs used to be an experimental feature to “have the developers on our
side”. Not any more. We are using them to build new business models (see Alexa Web Search).

We are also getting away from the PC client. I’m not referring to the usual “mobile phone as a web client”. iPods are connected to the internet nowdays -what’s an iPod without a fast internet connection to download music or audio/video podcasts? TiVo is turning into a web-connected device. And Cisco’s aquisition of KiSS Technologies through Linksys is a good promise we should be expecting more on internet based/enhanced home entertainment…

Oh, I’m so excited!

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[1] One step closer to sexyness
[2] What I called content enrichment a year ago…

I have been quite enthusiastic about FeedBurner since the very first time I used it. I even did some coding using the various feedburner APIs and tried to integrate it with my appcliactions.

Then it struck me: we are in the rip-mix-burn era, rip-mix-burn should apply to feeds too.

We’ve got FeedBurner, that’s quite good for the BURN part. Search engines like Yahoo!, Google Blogsearch, Icerocket, Technorati, del.icio.us and others provide us with many options to RIP information into RSS or ATOM.

What we don’t yet have is a good MIX service. I would like to be able to mix two or more feeds regardless of the format they use (RSS, ATOM and variations) and get a single feed in the format I want. It would be nice to have additional options like “insert feed name befor title”, or “include this feed as a once-a-day/week summary” (FeedBurner does this for del.icio.us feeds but it could make sense for Flickr “photo streams” and probably other services too), etc.

Anyone working on something like this?