June 2006

Branding the RSS feed

June 27, 2006

John Heilemann of Business 2.0 / CNNMoney.com has an interview with FeedBurner CEO Dick Costolo today. In addition to the interview, the article has a nice overview of RSS, its recent history, and thoughts on what’s to come in the industry. I particularly agree with Dick’s opinion on the state of RSS: Like the Web [...]

Criagslist expansion

June 22, 2006

Craigslist launched a large group of local sites in June. Among them are Roanoke and Blacksburg. This is exciting news as Craigslist was a resource I missed from when I was living in a much larger city. The full list of new sites for June 2006 includes:

Alternative ways to use RSS

June 21, 2006

Steve Rubel posted a list of 35 different uses for RSS feeds. I like this kind of post on RSS as it really illustrates how pervasive RSS is across the Internet. For those first using RSS feeds, the common perception is that they’re just web feeds or news feeds. This is very limited thinking. When [...]

Flock beta release

June 19, 2006

I tried the Flock web browser several months ago and was somewhat critical of the software. For those unfamiliar with Flock, the application is a new web browser to compete with the likes of Internet Explorer and FireFox. Flock is built upon the Mozilla code, the same as FireFox. Many of the same FireFox extensions [...]