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Posts from 2004 to 2017. This was a personal blog during a fairly chaotic decade in independent publishing — some of it tech commentary, some of it Australia, some of it ephemera. It’s kept here in full for anyone who arrives via an old link.
Current writing lives at SiliconANGLE.
Web 2.0 company Pageflakes resorts to Web 1.0 email spam
Pageflakes, apparently yet another Web 2.0 online-OS startup, has resorted to spamming people in an attempt to get their RSS subs button up on blogs. I received this email from Pageflakes on 5 June: From: Tegan Harris (Pageflakes) [email protected] Reply to: [email protected] Date: 5/06/2006 8:58pm To: [email protected] Hi Seth, My name is Tegan and I […]
Google Browser Sync?
Google has announced Google Browser Sync, a Firefox Plugin that basically backs up your bookmarks, passwords, cookies and what not to the Google servers so you can access them from anywhere in the world if you are away from your computer. Honest thoughts: do people really want to give Google access to everything? I guess […]
OK, Google Spreadsheets is cool
Got my invite today to Google Spreadsheets, initial thoughts: it’s pretty damn cool. It’s quick, and it seems to do everything I’d ever want to do with a spreadsheet, at least is plays like Excel does in terms of formula which is…well cool. Is it a Microsoft killer? I still don’t think so, but there […]
Feedburner Partners With TypePad
Very nice for TypePad users, although I’m interested to know how SixApart is implementing it, modredirect through .htaccess perhaps? From Techcrunch: Feedburner and TypePad will announce a partnership on Thursday that will allow TypePad users to automatically redirect their existing TypePad RSS feed into Feedburner. Until now, if a TypePad user wanted to transfer RSS […]
Vox looking good
I was fortunate enough to receive an invite overnight from Anil Dash to SixApart’s new blogging/ social networking tool Vox (previously known as Comet). I’ve just had a quick play with it. Initial thoughts: 1. Vox has the potential to be a big hit. It works quickly, presents well, and has some nice features. 2. […]
PubSub in deep….you know what
Mike Arrington at Techcrunch reports on rumours that PubSub is imploding, which is interesting given they’ve just announced a deal with Burrellesluce Media Monitoring Services. Honestly, I don’t remember the last time I tried using PubSub, I gave up on these guys a long time ago, particularly when Technorati started to get their act together […]
Google to compete with Flickr?
Steve Rubel reports on references at Google’s Picasa to “Web Albums”, a potential competitor to Flickr perhaps? I love Picasa, it’s one of those apps I recommend to anyone and everyone who has a digital camera. I long since abondoned my Kodak Picture software for Picasa…it’s a great program, sure it doesn’t have all the […]
Enough already with the Microsoft Killer Talk
Jeremy and I don’t often see eye to eye on certain tech things relating to Microsoft, I’ve always been an Open Source fanwhore where as Jeremy spent time working for (or was that with) Microsoft, and tends to be rather pro-Microsoft (I’m not anti-Microsoft (I use XP for example), I just prefer to have choice […]
Cory Doctorow visits a radio shack
Fun reading.
Seth Godin: listen to me, but I don’t want to listen to you
Seth Godin posts that he doesn’t have comments on his blog because it’s all too much work. So much for being a new media evangelist when he won’t allow his own readers to participate in the conversation. And as some of the trackbacks would indicate, people aren’t particularly pleased with Seth on this one either, […]
eBay to provide blogs?
Makes sense really, massive user base, many non-blogging users. Steve Rubel reports that eBay is to launch user blogs powered by SixApart’s TypePad. I’m not aware of any great success from other ecommerce firms in providing blogs to users, but if anyone is going to do it, it will be eBay. Tags: eBay, blogs
YouTube Hacked!
Just went to view a video at YouTube, and got this screen: There also appears to be music playing at the site as well.Not sure of the extent of it, whether accounts have been compromised or not, but certainly someone must be asleep at YouTube HQ at the moment. Tags: YouTube, YouTube hacked Update: the […]
Introducing Nanomedia
Ive never been a huge fan of buzzwords, but Cameron Reilly has introduced a new buzz word that I think has very, very long legs (potential): Nanomedia: What is “nanomedia”? It is media that is produced for a niche audience, often on a low cost basis, either for the love of it or for commercial […]
Microsoft Considering eBay Takeover?
Digital Journal reports on rumours that Microsoft has been in talks for several weeks about a possible acquisition of eBay. If Microsoft did buy eBay, it would deliver Paypal and Skype to Microsoft as well, two of my favourite apps. eBay has done a lot with both companies that has been positive, but I can’t […]
Gnoos is live!
Australia’s answer to Technorati, Gnoos.com.au is live. I had a chance to play with it prior to my recent holiday but didn’t get the chance to review it at the time. It’s first rate, super quick, and we’ll worth a look. It indexes international blogs as well…I’m not sure how many blogs they are tracking […]
Internet Advertising revenues close to $4 billion US in Q1 2006
Amazing figures from a booming industry. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report that Internet advertising revenues reached a new record of $3.9 billion for the first quarter of 2006. The 2006 first quarter revenues represent a 38 percent increase over Q1 2005 at $2.8 billion and a 6 percent increase over Q4 […]
FeedBlitz takes Angel Investment
Feedblitz, a Web 2.0 startup that converts RSS into email alerts, has announced they’ve take Angel Investment from Tom Evslin. To quote Evslin on Feedblitz: In business terms, what FeedBlitz does is make the content of RSS feeds accessible to the great mass of web users who have no idea what RSS is and couldn’t […]
Dogon: Tim O’Reilly responds
Tim O’Reilly responds to the criticism over the C&D to a not for profit organisation daring to use Web 2.0 in their name. I won’t repeat what he says, but there was one point which I found amazing: At O’Reilly, we’ve even had to send a cease-and-desist letter once, to a company that was publishing […]
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Mike Arrington, and how not to handle criticism
A fair bit of controversy about over allegations that Mike Arrington of Tech Chruch fame takes kick backs for favourable reviews. I don’t know the basis for these rumours, and I’m only an occasional Tech Chrunch reader, mainly because I personally find that Mike Arrington’s reviews tend to (usually) be nothing more than blind cheering […]
Free Wireless for Americans
What a brilliant idea, from ISP Planet: M2Z’s goal is ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?Ǭ¶ provide free high speed connections to 95 percent of U.S. consumers without any recurring fees. This is a grand undertaking.” -M2Z FCC request Kleiner Perkins, history’s most successful venture capital firm, is backing John Muleta and Milo Medin’s offer to unwire the entire United […]