#71: RSS Bandit author considers OPML reading lists

November 20, 2005 By

Dare Obasanjo is one of the authors of RSS Bandit (a really nice free Windows-based RSS Aggregator) and he’s considering OPML reading lists and wants your feedback.

Why does this matter? Well, it’d let you create your own Memeorandum style newspage for instance.

Dare, what I’d like to do is import my 1,400 feeds and then assign a weight to each of them. Some of those bloggers, for instance, write about politics. Some tech. Some family life. So, what I want is to tag them and then give them a weight in each category. Dave Winer, for instance, outweighs Rick Segal in tech, but Rick outweighs Dave in VC.

If I delete a reading list I don’t want to delete the subscriptions. I think we need two different interfaces for those things.

What do you think?

Filed Under: Blog Tips, Oracle, Russia

Memeorandum competition from TailRank?

November 8, 2005 By

Kevin Burton just wrote me and said “we’re in public beta now.” And, so, another site, TailRank, that’s trying to help with the information overload problem pops on. It looks like an interesting competitor to my favorite Memeorandum. What do you think? I’m going to have to use it for a week to really have a good idea how it adds value to my life. I’m also going to upload my OPML file right now. Kevin writes that it’s a meme engine on his blog.

Filed Under: Blog Tips, entrepreneurs, Russia, Web

Virtual Places is a cool map mashup

November 8, 2005 By

Nikhil Kothari reveals Virtual Places, which is a mashup of Virtual Earth, and various Internet Connected Components (including Amazon, Weather.com, Flickr, Feedmap, GeoBloggers, GeoURL, MSN Search and MapPoint).

Filed Under: Blog Tips, Internet Explorer, Marc Canter, Microsoft Office, Russia

Arrington, at TechCrunch, likes the MSFT gadgets the best

November 1, 2005 By

Arrington just posted his review of the Microsoft news today. He was most excited by the gadgets. That’s what gets me too!

A few weeks back I interviewed the team that was doing the gadgets. That really is a significant part of the Live announcement that was made today. Imagine tons of gadgets that do interesting things. You can put them on your desktop. Or on Live.com. Or on your sidebar.

Filed Under: Blog Tips, development, Microsoft Office, Russia, streaming, Web

Microsoft talks about its new services strategy

November 1, 2005 By

I’m watching Ray Ozzie on stage in San Francisco. All Microsoft employees can watch it live. I LOVE our intranet!

Dave Winer is blogging.
So is Dan Farber of ZDNet.
So is Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.
So is Todd Bishop of Seattle PI.
Michael Gartenberg gave his analysis.
Richard MacManus gives his analysis.
Niall Kennedy is blogging too.

They are showing off Windows Live. New URL is http://www.live.com . Updated: it doesn’t yet work completely on Firefox or other browsers. They promise more support is coming. Sorry.

http://ideas.live.com and http://microsoftgadgets.com are two other sites that were demoed. Sean Alexander has a brief note about those.

Filed Under: Blog Tips, development, entrepreneurs, Marc Canter, Microsoft Office, Russia, Second Life, streaming, Web

Hmm, where did my two days of posts go?

October 31, 2005 By

I got several complaints this morning that two days of posts are just gone from my RSS feed. How many of you are seeing that behavior?

Filed Under: Blog Tips, Russia
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