Archive for January 13th, 2006

BBC Pushes RSS Into the Mainstream

Friday, January 13th, 2006

For the last several months everyone has been saying that RSS was going mainstream. Of course, some said it was already there, but most know that until grandma can understand RSS it isn’t as mainstream as we’d like to think it is.
Well, hold on to your hat grams, because the BBC is bring RSS to [...]

Technorati Tags Turn A Year Old

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Technorati has taken a hit lately in the online press.

Their service had been unreliable.
Their search was full of splogs (spam+blogs).
Tags on your site gave them google juice.
Tags on your site gave them traffic.

However, as of late, some of these issues have been answered with speedy solutions. In fact, the service is now quite reliable [...]

MSN’s Adcenter Demos Their Behavioral Targeting Mechanisms

Friday, January 13th, 2006

While most people would not be excited to learn more about adertisments, MSN is doing their best to revolutionize advertising. In fact, their China research facility is coming up with some interesting ad products.
The centers were revealed at Microsoft’s adCenter Demofest, where 15 of the projects being developed were shown to MSN and Microsoft [...]

Local Search

Friday, January 13th, 2006

While MSN knows it cannot topple Google’s Adsense program head-on, one thing Google is not doing as effectively as they would like is local search. Sites like 411.com and About.com seem to do a better job than the industry leader in online ads.
With that in mind, MSN has partnered with Verizon’s SuperPages.com to bring [...]

Make Your Internal Blog Useful - Part 5

Friday, January 13th, 2006

If you truly want to have your
internal blog read, you can’t simply set it up and assume your
employees will gravitate towards it. A strategy must be undertaken to
make it a daily must-read. Continued from Part One.
As in high school, whatever the popular people do, the masses will follow.  Ask a few influencers to take charge [...]

iPrivacy and iTunes

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Podcasting got a large boost when iTunes incorporated podcast features into their version released last summer. iTunes is overwhelmingly the most popular way to listen to music and tunes on the web.
However, as it turns out, they may be guilty of spying on you without gaining your consent:
What it also offered, but didn’t bother [...]