RSSAFK and BRB
As it has become obvious, we have slowed down (or rather come to a halt) our blogging during the month of August. Vacation calls and my RSS reader agrees, showing few posts from most major news sources. We’ll be back soon!
PS. Wordpress’ spell correction flags “blogging” as a spelling mistake.
A few blog upgrades
The blog’s banner was upgraded and a Pownce badge was added, which is to be used as a micro-posting platform.
Advertisers keep their distance from controversial Facebook pages
Vodafone, Virgin Media and others stop their Facebook campaigns when their advertisements appear in the British National Party’s pages.
AideRSS: an RSS helper doing its best
I review AideRSS, a service to whittle down less important posts in your RSS feeds.
Migration to online office applications
When will online office applications take off? How will Microsoft handle the transition? Will we get locked into another proprietary file format?
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tulip:
You're right!It sounds funny, but a search engine providing people with questions would be helpful, but only for the sake of learning how to think, so that someone will get used to wanting to know more about a specific subject...On the other hand when someone wants to learn something fast, it would be rational to just stick to the old...
You're right!It sounds funny, but a search engine providing people with questions would be helpful, but only for the sake of learning how to think, so that someone will get used to wanting to know more about a specific subject...On the other hand when someone wants to learn something fast, it would be rational to just stick to the old... - 6 months ago
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Dimitris:
Yes, strictly educational purposes aside, a question search engine is appropriate for more long-term goals, not just to look up a piece of info. If someone wanted to write up an in-depth analysis, a report or some kind of detailed exploration of an issue, they would benefit from such a tool - which I admit is perhaps somewhat too early to consider.
Yes, strictly educational purposes aside, a question search engine is appropriate for more long-term goals, not just to look up a piece of info. If someone wanted to write up an in-depth analysis, a report or some kind of detailed exploration of an issue, they would benefit from such a tool - which I admit is perhaps somewhat too early to consider. - 6 months ago
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Tom Kehoe:
We at YayTrail (http://www.yaytrail.com) love the idea of a universal, cross-website content platform, a way to 'mash up' sites. But we disliked the implementations in these kinds of services. We didn't like that there's a big sidebar taking up screen real estate. We didn't like the idea of sticky-notes living on layers on top of - and often obscuring - the original page. We think these characteristics have kind of helped give annotation a bit of a bad name and limited more casual adoption and traction.We therefore decided to make a tool that strips away the things we didn't like about existing services. To do this, we've worked on technology that allows the user to enhance pages in-line. The user's content lives as a native part of the page, not 'out-of-line' in a side bar or non-native content layer. In the 'first layer' as you put it. We think that gives a different level of control and power to the user, gives a different value to their content, and rids us of the heavyweight UI elements of previous services in one swoop. We let people share their enhancements with others...so you can follow people of interest, and their enhancements get merged into your view of the web. We're still really raw ( pre-start-up) but that's our vision. You can try out our preview if you wish, with FireFox at http://www.yaytrail.com. Please also take a look at our introductory brief at http://www.yaytrail.com/brief/dec09 and what our users are saying at http://yaytrail.blogspot.com/Thanks for your time and I hope to see you soon on YayTrail.Tom Kehoe
We at YayTrail (http://www.yaytrail.com) love the idea of a universal, cross-website content platform, a way to 'mash up' sites. But we disliked the implementations in these kinds of services. We didn't like that there's a big sidebar taking up screen real estate. We didn't like the idea of sticky-notes living on layers on top of - and often obscuring - the original page. We think these characteristics have kind of helped give annotation a bit of a bad name and limited more casual adoption and traction.
We therefore decided to make a tool that strips away the things we didn't like about existing services. To do this, we've worked on technology that allows the user to enhance pages in-line. The user's content lives as a native part of the page, not 'out-of-line' in a side bar or non-native content layer. In the 'first layer' as you put it. We think that gives a different level of control and power to the user, gives a different value to their content, and rids us of the heavyweight UI elements of previous services in one swoop. We let people share their enhancements with others...so you can follow people of interest, and their enhancements get merged into your view of the web.
We're still really raw ( pre-start-up) but that's our vision. You can try out our preview if you wish, with FireFox at http://www.yaytrail.com. Please also take a look at our introductory brief at http://www.yaytrail.com/brief/dec09 and what our users are saying at http://yaytrail.blogspot.com/
Thanks for your time and I hope to see you soon on YayTrail.
Tom Kehoe - 8 months ago
We therefore decided to make a tool that strips away the things we didn't like about existing services. To do this, we've worked on technology that allows the user to enhance pages in-line. The user's content lives as a native part of the page, not 'out-of-line' in a side bar or non-native content layer. In the 'first layer' as you put it. We think that gives a different level of control and power to the user, gives a different value to their content, and rids us of the heavyweight UI elements of previous services in one swoop. We let people share their enhancements with others...so you can follow people of interest, and their enhancements get merged into your view of the web.
We're still really raw ( pre-start-up) but that's our vision. You can try out our preview if you wish, with FireFox at http://www.yaytrail.com. Please also take a look at our introductory brief at http://www.yaytrail.com/brief/dec09 and what our users are saying at http://yaytrail.blogspot.com/
Thanks for your time and I hope to see you soon on YayTrail.
Tom Kehoe - 8 months ago
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vrypan:
Or, use Google Reader's "share with note" notes :-)
Or, use Google Reader's "share with note" notes :-) - last year
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Dimitris:
Thanks for the comment vrypan. That sure is an option but whoever accesses the site through means other than Google Reader (e.g. twitter, other RSS reader, etc) misses that added content (and value). It's way better if the short version stays in the website it refers to. Or even better (?), writing a summary could optionally initiate an update of the RSS feed.
Thanks for the comment vrypan. That sure is an option but whoever accesses the site through means other than Google Reader (e.g. twitter, other RSS reader, etc) misses that added content (and value). It's way better if the short version stays in the website it refers to. Or even better (?), writing a summary could optionally initiate an update of the RSS feed. - last year
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vrypan:
I meant one could write a program to find the Google Reader notes and bring them back to your site automatically.
I meant one could write a program to find the Google Reader notes and bring them back to your site automatically. - last year
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Dimitris:
Yes, Google Reader is a good place to start as lots of people use it, it is based on 'the real web' (i.e. is not inside a walled-garden) and it should be easy to process the 'shared notes' it offers. Other services may be possible or useful to add after that.
Yes, Google Reader is a good place to start as lots of people use it, it is based on 'the real web' (i.e. is not inside a walled-garden) and it should be easy to process the 'shared notes' it offers. Other services may be possible or useful to add after that. - last year
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Question search engine | terrainnova.org:
[...] also be integrated quite well with the ‘paragraph summary’ platform I described in this post) tags: idea, [...]
[...] also be integrated quite well with the ‘paragraph summary’ platform I described in this post) tags: idea, [...] - last year
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Enabling content shortening | terrainnova.org:
[...] my previous post I wrote about how information can be broken down to its components. Following that, these [...]
[...] my previous post I wrote about how information can be broken down to its components. Following that, these [...] - last year
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The Marketing Technology Blog:
What Are We Missing? Or Who’s Missing Us?...Robert Scoble asks, What are the tech bloggers missing? Your business!The post hit a nerve with me. Robert is absolutely right!As I read my RSS feeds on a daily basis, I’m tired of the same crap over and over again. Are Microsoft and Yahoo! t...
What Are We Missing? Or Who’s Missing Us?...
Robert Scoble asks, What are the tech bloggers missing? Your business!
The post hit a nerve with me. Robert is absolutely right!
As I read my RSS feeds on a daily basis, I’m tired of the same crap over and over again. Are Microsoft and Yahoo! t... - last year
Robert Scoble asks, What are the tech bloggers missing? Your business!
The post hit a nerve with me. Robert is absolutely right!
As I read my RSS feeds on a daily basis, I’m tired of the same crap over and over again. Are Microsoft and Yahoo! t... - last year
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