Search Action. Three articles on the action in the search engine space: News.com writes about how “some major Web portals (Microsoft, Yahoo and EarthLink) are trying to get an edge in the competitive Internet search market by thinking outside of the browser…and providing access to online searches through a ‘taskbar’ displayed to the side or at the bottom of a…
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ProjectForum [1], an “easy-to-setup powerful…
ProjectForum, an “easy-to-setup powerful Wiki” now has RSS support. [Scripting News]
Off to Sony Open Forum…
Off to Sony Open Forum tomorrow. I’m off again to the Sony Open Forum tomorrow. It’s an annual event. The main event is Sony’s sponsorship of a golf tournament, but there is also a small forum where Chairman Idei invites executives of Sony and several other people to discuss some of the key topics for the year. Last year I…
rawdog [1]. rawdog is an…
rawdog. rawdog is an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. Written in Python, it uses Mark Pilgrim’s feed parser. It runs from cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static HTML page listing the newest articles in date order. It supports per-feed customizable update times, and uses ETags, Last-Modified, and gzip compression to minimize network bandwidth…
TiVo to go [1]. In…
TiVo to go. In the PVR blog, Matt Haughey reports on the HDTV TiVo, due in spring, and also this: TiVo to Go is what they’re calling their new video extraction, which sounds like it will be some DRM protection scheme applied to… [JD’s New Media Musings]
Syndicated Photography Feeds [1]. Pheed.com…
Syndicated Photography Feeds. Pheed.com is a database of information about photographs available on the web. We present the work of photographers who have made information about their images available as an RSS feed. RSS is a simple document format based on XML that is used to syndicate web-based content. A pheed is simply an rss feed that has been extended…
How to make a faceted…
How to make a faceted classification and put It on the web. William Denton has written a truly excellent article on using faceted classification on the web, in which step-by-step practical details are provided on creating and applying faceted classification in the real world. To quote: This paper will attempt to bridge… [Column Two]
Web and Weblogs [1].
Web and Weblogs. Kevin Werbach writes: “While the Web dramatically lowered the cost of publishing and accessing information, it kept the static and impersonal page metaphor of older media. Weblogs, aided by syndication mechanisms, remove that crutch…Some day we may look back and identify the rise of blogs, not the Web, as the decisive development that changed our relationship to…
del.icio.us [1].
del.icio.us. Delicious is a social bookmarks manager. It is still pre-pre-alpha, but it’s already become quite a useful part of my daily routine. You bookmark sites as you surf and you can subscribe to bookmarks of your friends and receive them as RSS feeds. It all started during a rare productive discussion between tangra and _joshua on #joiito. The two…
NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7 [1]. NetNewsWire…
NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7. NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7 has been released. It is a customizable RSS news reader for web sites. It uses a familiar three-paned interface — like that of Outlook Express or Mailsmith — to display websites and their news…. [Lockergnome’s RSS Resource]