Archive for January 9th, 2006

2006 - The Year of RSS

Monday, January 9th, 2006

A recent article called 2006 the "Year of RSS". It’s hard to argue with the authors key points. Between the deep integration in Windows Vista, to the impending release of Internet Explorer 7, to an increasing number of businesses getting serious about enterprise RSS there is a lot happening in the industry right now.
I saw [...]

New Law Makes Online Annoyance Under a Pseudoname Illegal

Monday, January 9th, 2006

While I can appreciate how difficult it is, firsthand, to be flamed from someone who hides behind the cloak of online invisibility, I have a hard time taking that annoyance from an irritating event in my life to a crime punishable by jail time.  But, now that is exactly what has become the case.
The President’s [...]

Podzinger Launches

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Podzinger, one of several podcast search engines launched to mixed reviews. While the vocal recognition needs some work, this is a promising business.
BBN TECHNOLOGIES HAS RELEASED A podcast search engine named PodZinger, based on advanced speech recognition technology. PodZinger’s main competition at the moment is with video and audio search startup blinkx.
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Ballmer Denies Microsoft Is Looking to Buy Yahoo!

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Google executives can stop shaking just a bit as Steve Ballmer agressively denies the rampant rumors that Microsoft is courting Yahoo!.
While denials in business don’t always ring true, this one seems too astronomical to be seriously considered.  Though, keep in mind, stranger bedfellows have recently joined forces.  (WeblogsInc+AOL, , Ebay+Skype, Yahoo!+Flickr, and AOL+Google)

Do blog tools make the grade?

Monday, January 9th, 2006

When you rely on tools like IceRocket, PubSub, and Google Blogsearch to do your job, you must rely on their reliability to accomplish your own job.  How do they stack up against each other?
Overall, the blogosphere ping has improved and the improvements lie with FeedBurner and Google blog search. Everybody else has stagnated. On the [...]

Blog Content Strategy

Monday, January 9th, 2006

You really must take time on a regular basis to see if your blog is achieving the goals you initially set out to achieve.  If you didn’t set blogging goals you really should set aside some time very soon to do that.
Develop a content strategy
If you are serious with your blogging, you should have a [...]