Google Moves to Mainstream RSS With A Simple Name Change (44)
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For all its supposed simplicity, Really Simple Syndication or RSS has continued to confuse and intimidate millions of people online years after its introduction. What can be done to make RSS more mainstream? Google plans to roll out a small but simple feature that could go a long way. We wouldn't be surprised to see every blog publishing service follow suit. "Follow this blog" is a clear call to action and those words will soon ...
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tforster said:
Thought about it a bit more. Why not replace the RSS icon in address bars with a button that says "follow this page". Joe Average User might be more inclined to click on that than a funny orange square.I think I'm going to replace my in page rss icons with a little chiclet that says "follow my blog."
Ouch: Bloomberg Mistakenly Publishes Steve Jobs’ Obituary (10)
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Although it’s probably the worst mistake you can make as a journalist, it periodically happens to big media publications. Earlier today, Bloomberg sent a 17-page obituary of Steve Jobs over the wire, quickly retracting it with the following message: “An incomplete story referencing Apple Inc. was inadvertently published by Bloomberg News at 4:27 p.m. New York time today. The item was never meant for publication and has been retracted.” There’s nothing much to be said ...
IE8 Beta 2 Download - Colored Tabs, an “Awesome Bar”, and More (3)
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When Mozilla launched Firefox 3 there were some people who weren’t fond of the changes they made to the address bar. With it they decided to intermingle results from the user’s history, bookmarks, and typed addresses to provide a long list of sites they might be trying to find. While not everyone liked the feature there were quite a few who did, and among those people the name “Awesome Bar” caught on. Well, the download ...
IE8 Beta 2 shows Microsoft is serious about playing catch-up (18)
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Microsoft has released the long-awaited first public beta of Internet Explorer 8. Our experience with it shows that Microsoft is serious about catching up with the browser competition, but still has a ways to go.Read More...
No, You Cannot Turn Facebook Into A (Decent) Movie (9)
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In what seems to be the worst idea in the history of television, West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin has his sight set on Facebook, claiming he’s interested in making a movie about the popular social networking site. He doesn’t understand Facebook, he says to BBC, but he’s ready to learn, thus creating his own Facebook account. It’s not entirely clear whether he wants to create a movie about the creators of Facebook (boring) or the ...
BackType, A Twitter For Comments (26)
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BackType is the newest YCombinator startup to launch from their summer program. They’re a blog-comment focused startup - founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Think Twitter for all comments on the web. They are not like the recent barrage of startups focusing on cleaning up the comment experience on blogs - see Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, etc. Blogs ...
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Colide81 said:
This reminds me of friendfeed.
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Jeffrey said:
dangit, another idea i had implemented in the real world =/ sigh...
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That Kid from Omaha said:
This looks to be very useful.
Speed Up RSS? FriendFeed's Going to Try (23)
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RSS is the backbone for most things Web 2.0 but these days, it's not always fast enough. Politeness limits ping times to every 15 minutes at best in most cases, string a couple of applications together and information will sometimes not arrive where you're waiting for it for up to an hour. A number of people are trying to speed up the feeds but today sees the first public mention of a new effort lead ...
Do We Need An Internet Zoning Law? (3)
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Want to know when someone is preparing to take away your First Amendment rights? It's when they claim that they have a proposal that involves "balancing" those rights with other events (sent to us by Eric Goldman). In this case, the proposal comes from a professor from Brigham Young University, Cheryl B. Preston, who's proposing the idea for an Internet Community Ports Act (ICPA), which would create special "zones" online where it would be okay ...
Turn Your TV into a Start Page with YourScreen (8)
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YourScreen is a new service that is announcing its upcoming beta today, and it’s set out to enable you to turn a television into a start page of sorts. Designed for use within schools, companies, and at events, YourScreen is a custom option for displaying your content on televisions. So what type of content can you post on these televisions? Built on Adobe AIR, YourScreen comes with some ready-made content, like weather and a stock ...
A Bad Day for Apple: Banned iPhone Ads, Embarrassing Security Hole, and a Censored Comic (14)
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For most companies, having to deal with one piece of bad publicity in a day is already bad enough. Apple, however, has to deal with three pieces of bad publicity today. In England, the Advertising Standards Authority, moved to ban one of Apple's ads for the iPhone because of misleading statements in it. Also, an embarrassing security hole in the iPhone firmware lets anybody bypass your security code, and Apple's move to ban a violent ...
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Nate said:
We start seeing now the shortcomings of a walled garden strategy...Something tells me that won't affect their stock price, though.
Everything You Thought You Knew About the Business of YouTube Was Wrong (22)
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Have you turned up your nose at YouTube for being born from low quality, financially unsustainable, pirated content? If you've made that argument in conversation before (and we now many people do) - new claims from YouTube itself now indicate that you'd be wrong. The official Google Blog made a post this morning following up on a New York Times story last week where the company claimed that 90% of the owners of copyrighted content ...
Get FISA Right turns crowdsourced guns on McCain (5)
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Get FISA Right, the group of socially-networked civil libertarians that formed to pressure Barack Obama on warrantless wiretapping and telecom immunity, is turning its Argus eyes toward John McCain and his Republican allies in Congress, and urging supporters to pool online donations for ad buys targeting the GOP.Read More...
‘Forgot your password?’ may be weakest link in web security (42)
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Almost everyone forgets a Web site password once in a while. When you do, you click on the familiar "Forgot your password?" link and, after entering your pet's name, identifying your high school mascot or answering some other seemingly obscure questions, you can get back into your account. But there's a problem: A criminal can do that, too. With the help of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, personal trivia is getting less obscure ...
And the “Luddite of the Year” Award Goes to… (2)
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… environmental attorney Dusty Horwitt, who recently published this outlandishly stupid and highly offensive editorial in the Washington Post calling for an information tax to reduce the supply of information in society. “[I]n our information-overloaded society,” he argues, “the concept of [too much information] is no joke. The information avalanche coming from all sides — the Internet, PDAs, hundreds of television channels — is burying us in extraneous data that prevent important facts and knowledge ...
Eight Tools for Capturing Screenshots in Firefox 3 (28)
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It isn’t difficult to imagine that we need to take a lot of screenshots during the course of a day here at Mashable. Sure you can do the old “Print Screen” trick, but that’s a lot more hassle than it’s worth when there are so many great options out there, especially if you are using Firefox as your browser. Here are eight Firefox 3 screenshot tools that are worth trying. These tools will do everything ...
Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record | Politics and Law - CNET News.com (27)
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Barack Obama's pick for vice president is an ally of the music industry on copyright and the FBI on wiretaps. He also unintentionally spurred the creation of PGP. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on News - Politics and Law.
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Sean Leather said:
The EFF's favorite VP candidate...
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Alex said:
I suspect his blue collar origins, Catholic faith, relative lack of affluence and foreign policy expertise were strong factors, pushing tech to the bottom. Shame. Here's hoping the top of the ticket dominates this area.
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Eater said:
Dammit.
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gyakusetsu said:
Don't forget all his drug-warrior affiliations and creations, too (asset forfeiture, drug czar, medical marijuana raids, etc.)
Hands on with the next wave of search aggregators (4)
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New search tools are making it easier to get to the content and communities you need, and they're presenting results as more than just boring lists of links. Ars Technica goes hands on with two search aggregators with the hope of spending less time searching, and more time finding.Read More...
