links for 2006-01-10

links for 2006-01-05

What to expect @ Macworld Expo

There is a lot of speculation on the
Top 10 things Apple could announce at Macworld Expo. I am eager to see the Intel PowerBooks – I will be among the first to order one :-)

I would bet my money on an update for the iPod software. Something that might be simple but helpful. For example, I would like to have the ability to choose the playlist to put a song in when I keep the “select” button -something like on-the-go-tagging. Or even an iPod news aggregator, that will allow me to browse feeds I have subscribed to on iTunes…

links for 2006-01-04

links for 2006-01-03

A-blogging: It’s not (just) what you know, it’s who you know

Newsome.org has a great article on why making it in the blogosphere is really hard nowdays:

Unfortunately, like the real world, sometimes the blogosphere is about who you know as much as what you know.

Read the full article.

This is a point that comes up quite often lately. I’m not impressed: power is never evenly distributed. But things are not that bad. Expect the next social-something system to generate a new star system and new stars, it can’t be far…

podcasting popularity…

Wow! I’ts been some time since I checked this g-metrics report on podcasting. The bottom line? On 14-Oct-2004, Google returned less than 50.000 results for “podcasting”, on 27-Dec-2005 (a bit more than a year later) 2,210,000!!!

links for 2005-12-26

Are we winning the war against spam?

A couple of months ago I was featured as the example of how spamphobia cripples webmasters and their sites. My friend, Giannis Stoilis was right: all my mailboxes would receive hundreds of spam mails per day, so I did my best to keep my “active” email address secret (the rest of them were so full of spam that I no longer used them).

Then came GMail. At first I just said “wow, it works!” but I did not realize until lately that after a couple of months (I redirected all my mail to my GMail account), I became to trust Google’s spam filtering so much that I felt free again to make my email address public again. My spam folder has more than 8500 mails in it but who cares?

And it’s not just GMail. At work we use SpheriQ that is very quite effective. Even though I don’t use their email services, I guess that Yahoo! and MSN spam filters have improved too.

The bottom line is that I no longer care about spam. I have the feeling that we are winning this war.

(At least against email spam. ‘Cause now we have link-spam and content spam…)

links for 2005-12-23