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internet trends
FriendFeed declares instant gratification not fast enough
Faster! In the '90s, people used to reload websites to see if they'd updated. Too slow! Hence the invention of RSS, a protocol for distributing headlines and stories over the Web. Faster! RSS takes too long to update, and requires too much bandwidth to check more frequently. Faster! Visiting multiple social networks takes too long. Paul Buchheit, an ex-Google engineer, cofounded FriendFeed, a site which uses RSS heavily to monitor your friends' activities across multiple websites. Faster! Now Buchheit is working on a replacement for RSS called SUP, or "Simple Update Protocol." More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Spy from the Land of Rainpeople: I wonder how long the Web 2.0 brain trust is going to take to completely reinvent NNTP. 1 Responses | Other threads
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blogging for dollars
Google kills $100 million RSS ad system
A year after Google bought RSS-feed ad network FeedBurner for a rumored $100 million, FeedBurner's death was announced informally in a Google Groups thread. Publishers are expected to use Google's own AdSense instead. CenterNetworks publisher Allen Stern explains his frustration in the above video: FeedBurner had built a business that could deliver high ad rates in large volume. With Google failing to meet the same metrics, the only winners are the FeedBurner execs who flipped their company.
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By Paul BoutinComment by BobDope: If he's too busy to write stuff down he can just hire somebody telegenic to wear one of those bluetooth... more » | Other threads
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bloggers
Local woman dumps newfangled RSS feeds to type in website addresses the old-fashioned way
An online publishing veteran who goes by the name of Halsted has stopped drinking from the RSS firehose. She says she's not missing her feed reader's unread items folder:Nothing has changed. I spend my time writing, reading, and puzzle-solving instead, and my stress levels are markedly down. Now I am absolutely convinced that I need to ditch my RSS reader permanently, and only read a handful of feeds on a start page like iGoogle or Netvibes.
As a journalist, it's my duty to call three friends for quotes to support my article about the "Slow Web" movement now. I expect some blogger will get a book deal for the inevitable manifesto. (Photo by Jef Poskanzer)
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By Jackson WestComment by Runeshai: I did that a few months ago. It's a much simpler way to keep up on things I want... more » | Other threads
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stats
Lies, damn lies, and RSS subscriber figures
Google prides itself on running its business by the numbers. But its FeedBurner unit, which tracks subscribers to RSS feeds, has laughably inaccurate numbers, writes venture capitalist and blogger Brad Feld. One out of six of his 117,000 RSS subscribers come from automated signups, he believes; those users rarely if ever read his blog. [Feld Thoughts] -
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Social media begins to fold in on self, space-time collapse imminent
Lovably cranky early adopter Eric Rice points out that the reverb in the echo chamber is beginning to cause eye-splitting feedback loops. Normally harmless Twitter posts are automagically crossposted to Jaiku and Tumblr, where all three show up on FriendFeed, polluting your friends' RSS readers. They then curse your name, take screenshots, upload them to Flickr and blog about it. If you're not a member of The 250, you can probably ignore this budding trend safely — at least until it starts happening on Facebook.
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By Jackson WestComment by Alaska Miller: @matto: back in my day i had to walk to the post office to let people know what's going in my... more » | Other threads
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online advertising
Adding up RSS subscribers doesn't add up
Ego-blogger Robert Scoble,TechCrunch proprietor Michael Arrington, and others along with many of their followers whiled away the weekend manually tallying up RSS-feed subscriber numbers via Google's Reader application for popular blogs. Why? More » -
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China bans all RSS feeds
The Middle Kingdom's net censors have finally patched up a great gaping hole in the Great Firewall of China, its not-so-effective Internet defense against the rest of the world's free press. It's now blocking all RSS feed traffic in an effort to stop the flow of information critical of the Chinese government. The Public Security Bureau has attempted to quash blogs and other forms of forbidden information ever since the great Chinese Internet surge in 2006. Of course, this ban will probably get swiftly dropped once China's intelligentsia discovers that RSS, besides being used for blog-headlines distribution, is also a vital tool for data transfer from Web-based applications. Photo by David Baron) -
breakdowns
BusinessWeek goes off its (RSS) feed
At McGraw-Hill's business newsweekly, someone decided, apparently, to do some late-summer database cleaning. BusinessWeek accidentally updating its RSS feed with some really thrilling stories. Headlines include: "More news today than ever," "Headline bla bla," and "just another headline that we need to fill in." Subheads — known in the news business as "decks" — also suffered: "Deck bla Deck bla Deck bla," "But this time we are testing FedEx campaign handling," and "testing the pp9 ad."
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Comment by cv: Or more likely, the regular webmaster took a long Labor Day weekend off. You know, reporting botched RSS feeds is like... more » | Other threads
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dave winer
New Winer whiner thread
Poor Dave Winer. Not only will he never get the respect he deserves for inventing the third-most popular version of the RSS feed format, but he's always getting ragged on too. More »
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By ndouglasComment by valleyvoyeur: Who in Silicon Valley HASN'T gotten into a flamewar with Dave?!?! more » | Other threads
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