Archive for the ‘Breaking News’ Category
Sunday, March 25th, 2007 |
Yesterday, when I logged into my Feedburner account I saw a new Item on the menu, “My Networks”. Well it seems that Feedburner is making a new move to gain more market share in the RSS feeds space.
They describe it in the service FAQ as:
FeedBurner Networks is a service (currently in beta), that encourages discoverability and self-promotion of your feed content.
What this mean:
- Networks are basically a group of feeds on a similar topic.
- Everybody who is invited can join and create a new network.
- Each network gets a distinct page on the feedburner server that aggregates the content from all the feeds (sample here)
- From the network page you can subscribe to the aggregated feed, or you can download it as an OPML to read it in your own reader
- The network page provides a search engine inside a network that is based on Lijit (this name is very new to me, is worth checking it) and Google Custom Search Engine. Due to the fact that Google CSE doesn’t offer a public API this could be a sign of an internal deal between the 2 companies.
Other interesting stuff:
- This is not a very young service (in terms of days). Just look at how many pages Google knows already
- People that have this service are most likely only FAN members
- All the persons invited can automatically and without limitations can invite others
- All the new members seem to automatically have access to FAN
- For networks members, and FAN publishers, the cost for CPM starts from 3 USD
Why this is BIG and why publishers will be interested to join:
- They automatically have access to FAN, and by this have the possibility to gain additional income
- By being associated with other popular feeds, your popularity will rise
- Gain more visibility, traffic and subscribers to your feed
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Saturday, January 7th, 2006 |
Spotted via Guillaume and Search Engine Watch the new Yahoo! product line: Yahoo! Go
The product line continues to target the desktop (after the good start made with the aquisition of Konfabulator - now Yahoo! Widget Engine) but also goes to new areas like TV and mobile.
What Guillaume missed from the screenshot is that beside a Vista like sidebar (or Google Sidebar), Yahoo! Go Desktop features a nice browser window with Yahoo shortcuts. This might be the work of the XUL hackers wanted on the Jeremy Zawodny blog last year (It has tabs and I bet a one month payment that is not IE based).
The time I am writing this post the apps are not available for download but Search Engine Watch says:
The suite will be formally announced by Yahoo CEO Terry Semel at CES keynote today
Additional Resources:
Sunday, December 18th, 2005 |
Microsoft Office 12 Beta mailing list just announced a list of blogs written by Microsoft Program Managers:
Why this release is so cool? Here is what Paul Thurrott has to say on it:
Making a bold move–rather than “painting the pig” as they had with previous versions–Microsoft elected to dramatically change the Office user interface for the first time ever. It seems the menu and toolbar-based interface had become obsolete somewhere along the way.
Don’t forget to check the screenshots galleries also.
Update:
To make it easier for you tro subscribe to the blogs above I have created an OPML file conatiuning them. Use this link or point your aggregator to http://razvan-antonescu.info/office.xml
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 |
Today, Mozilla.org launched a new generation of theor popular browser Firefox.
Together with this came a new GUI for the website, and a pack of new extensions that use the new renedering features of the browser.
From the feature list:
- Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
- Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
- Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
- Improvements to popup blocking.
- Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
- Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
- Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and “Safe Mode” experience.
- Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
- Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
- Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
- New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
- Many security enhancements.
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Saturday, October 8th, 2005 |
I am missing for 2h from computer and Google launches a new service. It looks pretty nice and at least for me it’s kind of bye bye Bloglines. Considering the fact that it’s Ajax one of the first reviews I saw it’s from Ajaxian Blog
Apparently this is no new news, Chris Sherman new about this one since August. You should check also:
Of course in oder to have acess you need a Google account. If you are outside US and you still don’t have a Gmail account send me a message through the contact form and I’ll mail you an invite.
Edit:
But of course..scalability seems to be an issue for Google. Now it’s down, and it hasn’t been Slashdoted yet…
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Thursday, August 11th, 2005 |
The new version of Audioscrobbler is out. They merged the Audioscrobbler and Last.FM into one single site.
Among the new features
- tags
- Ajax Flavour
- desktop player (no more clumpsy browser player)
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005 |
Just noticed that profiles of Yahoo users got a new skin similar to 360.
To see this use http://profiles.yahoo.com/id , where id=yahoo id
Posted in Breaking News, Yahoo | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, June 21st, 2005 |
Yahoo just announced on their blog a new update of their index:
This is our second weather report. We will be making changes to the index tonight so you should be seeing more of your pages in the index as well as some fluctuations in the rankings of results from previous searches.
Let’s play the “Conspiracy Game” and read between the the lines….
We will see this:
It promises to be hot, humid and rainy down on Bourbon Street
If we are playing the game we will see the threat….but we are not paranoid …aren’t we?
Posted in Breaking News, Google, Search Engines News, Yahoo | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 15th, 2005 |
Eventhough latest IM product is VoIP enabled the quality is not always the best. To compensate this they made another quick move and:
Barely a month after launching its own VoIP enabled IM beta product, the company snapped up DialPad, a VoIP company that sells PC2PC and PC2Phone services to consumers. “What we saw in DialPad was quick way to add PC2Phone and inbound calls,” says Joanna Stevens, Yahoo’s VP of Corporate Communications. Yahoo will integrate Dialpad’s services with its new IM product.
Source
Advancedippipeline asks themselves:
How long until Microsoft and Google react?
I don’t say anything about Microsoft because they have MSN Messenger. But Google…ahem. Err with what to react? With a Hello?
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