USAToday.com Tests Registration: USAToday.com on Thursday began requiring users to answer three demographic questions to access some stories, joining competitors like NYTimes.com and WashingtonPost.com. The… [PAID: the economics of content]
Author: fioritto
There’s more than one way…
There’s more than one way to read RSS. Joe Friendly’s NewsGator solutionJoe Friendly explains how to scan items efficiently with NewsGator: There is a much better way to use it. Store all your newsfeeds in one folder and then use the “Group by…” feature to organize them by feed name. You can then navigate through all your feeds using the…
*Wi All Fi in a…
Wi All Fi in a Yellow Subcompact: Cory Doctorow and others form the Wi-Fi caravan from Portland to San Francisco on Feb. 21 with the technical assistance of VIA Technologies. A multi-car, high-speed, mobile Wi-Fi network. Pull over and set a spell boys, and spin us some bandwidth.[80211b News]
Recommended reading [1].
Recommended reading. Nathan Ashby-Kuhlman: Can your CMS do different layouts? World Wide Web Consortium: Common HTTP Implementation Problems BBC News Online has redesigned. See the site’s announcement and site’s FAQ page, and read reactions by Ben of Magnetbox and Craig Saila Netscape DevEdge, Netscape’s developer site, has redesigned in all CSS. The best part: Designer (and CSS guru) Eric Meyer…
Danny Sullivan [1]: “Google has…
Danny Sullivan: “Google has long said it has no intention of becoming a portal, but so far, it’s hard not to see the acquisition of Blogger as adding a portal feature in the same way that Yahoo did when it bought GeoCities.” [Scripting News]
Factiva enhances its portal software
Factiva has released the latest version of its news and decision portal software, Factiva Publisher 3.8. The company claims the new software saves employees time by consolidating critical information into a single place. Users can manage their e-mail and calendars, says Factiva, as well as track critical news and internal information, all from their corporate portal.[KM World]
Making room for good knowledge…
Making room for good knowledge. It?s not what you don?t know that hurts you. It?s what you know that ain?t so Will Rogers There have been a number of items coming through my news aggregator lately that set me to thinking about this old Will Rogers remark (while I’ve seen it attributed to Satchel Paige, Rogers comes back most frequently…
Puzzling Out Google’s Blogger Acquisition…
Puzzling Out Google’s Blogger Acquisition“Pundits are scratching their heads over Saturday’s surprise announcement that Google had bought weblog publishing heavyweight Pyra Labs, but a look at the big picture reveals some intriguing scenarios for “Bloggle’s” future.” [Searchenginewatch.com]
Reuters to Buy Multex: Reuters,…
Reuters to Buy Multex: Reuters, which has just announced a major restructuring, has also announced an agreement to buy the rest of Multex.com, a U.S.-based… [PAID: the economics of content]
Groove 2.5 [1].
Groove 2.5. Team bloggingGroove founder Ray Ozzie and his teams have always pretended to build application software. But what they have actually delivered are the operating systems of the future — years ahead of schedule. The XML business Web is only now achieving the architecture that Lotus Notes laid down 15 years ago: message-oriented exchange of semi-structured documents. As today’s…