After I wrote my del.icio.us as feed manager post, I realized that this is not a totaly new idea. It is what Dave Winer calls (dynamic) “Reading Lists”.
Here are some interesting articles on reading lists, opml, etc:
Any other good resources/hacks on this?
Feedburner, released today the FeedFlare API. It is actually an API that allows individual develpoers to create services that “adds flare” to a feed. This extra “flare” could be either an action (like “tag this post”) or additional information or metadata (like “Alexa Ranking”). They even have 101 suggestions, you could implement.
This is great news. I did not have time to look at the details, but I’m sure some really nice ideas will come out of it.
However, I still have not seen what I would like to see. Feedburner’s scope is on “one feed at a time”. They let you do great things, but with only one feed each time. What I would like to see is some kind of multi-feed mixing. Not there -yet?
But, I have to be fair. Feedburner is doing a great job!
InsideGoogle reports that � Internet Explorer 7 Breaks AdSense. The most interesting part is here:
There is one possibility: that IE7’s new security features block AdSense by decision, some security default that blocks certain types of JavaScript
This would be really funny (and a HUGE mistake from Microsoft). Remember when web developers would add a “IE required” link in their pages, and were willing to break compatibility just to make their life easier? I expect to see a lot of “Too Cool for IE” banners if site owners are not able to cash out IE pageviews…
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).
Matt Cutts describes in his blog post why the German BMW site was banned from Google. I have to say, this is not very clear to me.
For one, I consider quite fair (if not a good practice) to show different content depending on client capabilities. If I had a site depending heavily on AJAX to present information, I would probably take some time to create a simpler version for those using text-based browsers (I myself use Lynx every now and then) or bots (like search engine bots), or other devices with limited capabilities, like PDAs.
I wouldn’t consider this to be “cheating”. It is obvious that I make my site more accessible to some users and I would think that I help search engines index my site. Would I have been punished by Google in this case? I hope not!
Jeremy Zawodny writes:
Google is not some public utility or government service. They can do whatever they want with their search index: make it better, make it worse, censor it, randomize it, or sell printed copies on a street corner.
Why?
Because it’s their index.
Of course it’s their index. But if they want us to like their index, they have to be fair on us. For sure, I do not know the details of the bmw.de case. But if BMW did something similar to what I would have done, I think Google has not been fair with them.
I just installed MidpSSH on my SonyEricsson K750i. It is an SSH and telnet client for MIDP (1.0 and 2.0) devices. It works as expected! I can ssh to my servers from my mobile phone and do whatever I want. (Of course K750i’s keyboard is not very useful for typing long shell commands, and the screen is quite small, but… it’s so much better than nothing!)
It is reported to work with blackberry devices too -doing something more complicated should be much easier on a device with a “real” keyboard.