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Oct31
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"They" say that RSS will replace email. I was suspicious of that claim, mostly because I couldn't get my head around the how.
The how turns out to be less important that the why.
Receiving Information
RSS is key in monitoring the buzz about your brand and your business. Most people probably have a good handle on that already. By setting up a search in Technorati for DoRealTime and then subscribing to that RSS feed in my aggregator, I can be alerted any time anyone blogs about DoRealTime.
What kind of information do you want to know about?
- Buzz about your competitors
- Buzz about your industry in general
- Buzz about technology you might be interested in
Providing Information
This is where RSS gets really powerful. Use RSS feeds to deliver information directly to those individuals who need it in a steady stream of information.
- Send Tech Bulletins to your sales and customer service staff
- Send supply chain alerts to your customers - or receive them from your vendors
- Send training, whether text, audio or video to your staff and customers
- Track team projects - Management can review project feeds to monitor progress or be instantly aware of problems.
- Build a shared vision by supplying information to your workforce
The Sticking Point
Currently, the real problem with widespread adoption of RSS is that feed aggregators - the applications that take those feeds and allow you to read them - aren't that great yet.
So the question I have for you is - what do you want to see in a killer RSS aggregator app?
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Oct27
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The Small Business Blogging panel was so interesting, and supplied so much information, that I needed nearly a full day to review my notes and blog about it. The role of small business blogging is threefold: Enhance reputation Create buzz...
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Oct26
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I'm blogging from the Blog Business Summit today and you can check out my almost-live posts at www.alistreview.com. During lunch I was lucky to sit with four women who are in corporate situations: Microsoft, Nordstrom and National Geographic. They were...
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I'm interested in finding out some information from my readers, so I can better write for them. To do that, I am going to include a weekly poll that gives me a better idea of your technological level, interests and...
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Oct25
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I've been trying out Znitch, a nifty way to get notified when information you want to know about appears on a particular web page. For example I Znitched www.digg.com and www.technorati.com for the keywords "web 2.0" and collaboration. When those...
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Oct24
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Shelfari is social networking for your bookcases. You register and fill virtual shelves with the books you have at home. Then you can see who else reads those books, what they've said about them, and find more books to read....
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We can't even decide on a definition of Web 2.0, and people are trying to define Web 3.0. Stephen Baker says that some of the features of Web 3.0 will include: Easier, cheaper and more pervasive Always on, everywhere Controlling...
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Oct23
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Garett Rogers at ZDNet looked into the Writely code (now called Google documents) and found indications that Google may be making a desktop version of the word-processing application. Interesting if so, especially assuming a tight integration with the online application. ...
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Oct22
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I'm intrigued by Plazes, a geo-social networking application out of Europe, and I can actually see some legitimate business uses for it.Plazes allows you to add your physical presence to the web - if you are at the office, at...
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Oct21
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As a reviewer I receive many notices of new web applications and products, so it takes something special to make one stand out. Scrybe has done just that.I'm going to defer writing about the program itself until I've had a...
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Oct19
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I'm fighting a nasty flu bug, which is why posting has been light this week. Hopefully I'll be back to normal by Monday......
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Oct17
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Need to pick a meeting date? Doodle is a very basic, very simple polling application which makes achieving consensus over meeting dates and time simple. To create a poll, just enter the title of the meeting, a description of the...
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Oct16
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Will web-based Office-style applications be adopted wholesale by big business?I have a hard time seeing major corporations wanting to use Office-type solutions that run on servers outside of the corporation. The security issues are just too great. However, installing company-wide...
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Oct12
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Google recently bundled together Writely and its own Google Spreadsheet into a combined application with unified user interfaces. There are a few problem areas still to be worked out, but overall I give it a solid B.What I like: The...
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Oct10
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Josh over at Bokardo has an interesting post about top-of-mind and YouTube. When I think internet video I immediately think YouTube. If people are talking about a Daily Show bit, I know I can go to YouTube and find it.What...
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Linden Labs, creator of 3D universe Second Life, has been fighting denial of service attacks and a "grey goo". The grey goo is a self-replicating scripts which replicate at such a speed it ties up the servers, rendering the world...
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Oct 9
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For people and organization that think in terms of visual relationships, there is a program on the market called The Brain that allows you to set up your computer-based knowledge according to relationships.It is hard to explain, but easy to...
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An interesting article from the LA Times and quoted by Andy Beale:Co-founder Sergey Brin is leading a companywide initiative called "Features, not products." He said the campaign started this summer when Google executives realized that myriad product releases were confusing...
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Despite all the name-calling and angst, YouTube appears to really have a suitor - Google. Apparently Google isn't afraid of Mark Cuban's prediction that YouTube is going to run afoul of copyright laws.If Google can boost video delivery by a...
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Oct 6
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Audioblogger, the feature from Odeo which allowed Blogger users to post audio blog entries from their phones, is terminating their agreement with Blogger (owned by Google). Straight from the guru's mouth is word that media previously created will still be...
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There's been lots of talk about Del.icio.us' plans to become more of a social networking site. While right now the site is a turbo-charged bookmarking application which, incidentally, started the use of tagging, they apparently plan to add more commenting,...
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Oct 5
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I use Skype about once a week with a couple of clients and I'm not at all satisfied with it. The two biggest problems I have are ghosting (hearing duplicates of my voice) and dropped audio. I've used Vonage for...
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I don't have a problem with bloggers being paid for reviews. I don't have a problem with bloggers being paid at all - after all I'm paid by Know More Media to blog. What is a problem is bloggers who...
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Oct 4
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Like so many individuals out there, I am a gadget, or widget, junky. I have a double handful on my computer desktops and I love to play around with them on personalized start pages (although I never use the start...
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According to Many-to-Many, SlideShare is launching today. Billed as the 'YouTube' of presentation software, SlideShare allows users to upload PowerPoint or OpenOffice presentations and embed the presentation on a website, similar to YouTube.The website says it is still in Beta,...
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Remarkoo is reporting that Pageflakes, one of many home page applications on the internet, will be launching a 2.0 version of their interface soon. With Netvibes' redesign and Google announcing 1000+ widgets for their website (info courtesy of Remarkoo), is...
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If you love hotel wakeup calls, you'll love Snoozester. You buy credits where each credit is a wakeup call. Calls are scheduled online and there are a number of character voices you can choose from.I like being able to snooze...
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According to HipMojo.com, YouTube could be pulling in $7.5 million a month from advertising revenue. Monthly bandwidth costs are rumored to be around $1 million a month, so if it is true, YouTube is still clearing quite a bit.However, one...
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Oct 3
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I love Accomplice. I've been using it since my review back in July and now I wouldn't be without it. The program is now open to the public and I encourage everyone to give it a try. From the press...
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Like many people who work with websites, I tend to forget about accessibility standards. This is wrong for designers and very wrong for businesses. Every business website should be made accessible to those with disabilities. Unfortunately, the same technologies that...
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Recently I was invited to take a look at gOffice, an web-based Office-style application with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and desktop publishing. The first thing I notice about their website is that the feature descriptions and text in general,...
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Collanos, the P2P collaboration application, has released an upgrade - Collanos Workplace 1.0 Beta 2. "We have been listening carefully to your feedback and have responded with a much-improved version. This release addresses synchronization issues and provides multiple new features...
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Halloween is my favorite month of the year. It has everything a person needs - chocolate, terrified children, spiced cider 'n rum and a free license to dress up in imaginative costumes. Luckily for us, there is Costumzee, a shopping...
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Oct 2
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Tick (reviewed here) announces that it is out of Beta and now live with added features: Mac OS X Dashboard Widget Timer Import tasks from other Tick projects 256-Bit SSL for Medium and Large Business Accounts Subscribe to your open...
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Gadgetopia's Deane talks about the problems inherent in working with commercial (and even open source) shopping cart solutions. The biggest problem, and one I run into all the time, is the lack of customization. Forget the ten thousand language options,...
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Gadgetopia is reporting that Microsoft's 'iPod killer' Zune will DRM music even if it wasn't DRM'd to begin with. As if we needed yet another reason not to buy a Zune. MediaLoper puts in their two cents: Unfortunately Zune’s wireless...
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I sent emails to the major WebOS companies, asking them to give their reasons for why a WebOs is a good idea (see my original article).Ivan Girault, the conceptor of the French WebOS Fenestela says:I think that, for the moment,...
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Stowe Boyd reports on a new mobile phone/video sharing service called Nakama. The quick "how it works" pitch is: Take a picture or video with your phone. Use normal MMS (no software required) to send it to us We will...
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I was contacted not so long ago by a new client wanting to get into mashups. Because mashups are the hot new thing he wanted to include them on his website. To begin with, the client didn't even know what...
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