: An interview with Joe Meth, head of the consumer portal SubscriptionConnection.com. He estimates that content subscription services online including niche b-to-b offerings may be as high as 2,500 by the end of 2004. Also, some specific weaknesses in today’s tactics that could be holding back the industry from more profits. From: [PaidContent.org]
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John Batelle Groks Furl
“Mike started Furl about a year ago to solve a problem he – and a lot of us – had with bookmarks. Namely, bookmarking is a lame, half-assed, unsearchable, flat, linkrotten approach to recalling that which you’ve seen and care to recall on the web. Now, a lot of folks have made stabs at solving this particular problem, but Mike’s…
More search pointers from John Batelle
Interview with A9’s Manber up on B2.0 John Battelle’s Searchblog: Searching Is Getting More Complicated Google innovates for advertisers
Peter Merholz – saved searches
Amazon has released A9, a search engine that can search both the web, and within its books, simultaneously. Nifty. One thing that’s been getting a lot of press is how it presents your recent searches. Such an idea is hardly new. On August 29, 1999, I pointed out how Microsoft was doing the same with their support knowledge base. From:…
More on Amazon’s A9 search engine
Emergic’s Rajesh Jain has points to the coverage of Amazon’s new A9 search engine. This was originally reported by John Batelle.
The hight cost of not finding information
Susan Feldman reports on IDC research into the high cost of not finding information. To quote: Knowledge workers spend from 15% to 35% of their time searching for information. Searchers are successful in finding what they seek 50% of the time or less, according to both Web search engines and our own surveys. An IDC study in 2001 (“Quantifying Enterprise…
I have been waiting for this – Ecto for Windows
I have been waiting for this – downloaded the beta this morning. The popular blogging-aid software Ecto — once only offered for Mac — is now available for Windows users. With today’s launch of Ecto for Windows, BoingBoing officially becomes an all-ecto blog! My BoingBoing co-editors all use it to make blogging with Movable Type more friendly and efficient. I’m…
Personal Wiki – PIM
I finally managed to get MoinMoin installed on my server after a bit of frustration. I kept getting the “500 – internal server error” and I thought it must be a permissions issue. I changed permissions on files, directories all to no avail. I double-checked the config file and the parameters for my setup looked ok. I finally decided to…
Another personalized news search engine
Another personalized news search engine similar to Topix. It will be interesting to see how well the related stories feature works. Newsearch engine Findory is profiled in this Seattle Times article. Like Topix, this engine creates personalized news pages based on your interests. Findory watches what your read and presents related stories. The founder, Greg Linden, cut his teeth in…
Collaboration Software’s Failings, and Potential
Eugene Eric Kim: A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools. This essay is a manifesto about software for collaboration — why the world’s future depends on it, why the current crop of tools isn’t good enough, and what programmers can and must do about it. From: [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]