- Google does RSS... sort of (you can now add RSS feeds to your Personalized
page by clicking 'Create a Section'. It's made with cool Ajax, but this is no RSS
Aggregator folks... come on Google, you can do much better!)
- Attention Trust is a project led by Steve
Gillmor and others that is the next evolution of his Attention idea (TechCrunch breaks it down)
- FeedShake: Merge, sort and filter RSS feeds
(not a new idea, but if services like these manage all the behind-the-scenes stuff for
users... well it could be a winner)
- Denver Post's
NewsHound service is a "private-label RSS reader built on top of the NewsGator Media
Platform" (lots of these customized RSS Readers in the media market right now) [via David
Beisel]
- Poynter: Shhh, don't
mention RSS (media companies are introducing branded RSS Readers, but not mentioning
the term 'RSS' when promoting it)
- New "Blog Talk" feature on
Newsweek website, powered by Technorati (interesting use of blogosphere tracking in a
mainstream publication) [via Susan Mernit]
- Silkworm: web
2.0 apps require failure analysis (some excellent points to note for Developers and
Remix Artists alike)
-
Susan Mernit on Web 2.0: It's about connecting the dots--no, we ARE the dots (nice summary of one of
the main themes of Web 2.0 - it's about connecting people and 'small pieces'
together)
- David Weinberger gives
his blessing to Web 2.0 (quote: "...put all of the Web integrative pieces together
and make them available to more and more people, and you're talking about something
different because you've changed the politics of the technology.")
-
More Web 2.0 for teachers (I love how academia is putting all our theory and tools into practise.
Check out this post "Understanding Web 2.0 and the New Information Environment" from
pedersondesigns.com)
-
Yahoo Buys Widget-maker Konfabulator (what are widgets? A quote from Yahoo Widgets website: "These little guys hang out
on your screen and give you quick, easy access to favorite content.")
- Tim O'Reilly
says web software companies buying desktop software companies (e.g. Yahoo buys
Konfabulator) is a sign of a "long term platform shift that I've been calling Web
2.0."
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Google might have a great Adsense advertiser program and GMAIL service, but it should solve its spam in their search results : It definitely hasnt solved RSS Rich - totally agree.
After reading your article/link I tested their second version of "Personalised Home Page" and its gone from really bad to only pretty bad.
Rather than just add headlines from "Wired" or "Slashdot" (how cliched) you can now enter the URL of any RSS feed (even this feature is hidden away within a text link top left nav) but basically its really average. With all of us RSS addicts waiting to see who nails "RSS" personalisation - basically delivering a real time newspaper of items I want, Google has dramatically failed - as much as it knows this and doesnt really promote the service or build "beta" buzz as it does with products it knows are homeruns.
At the moment, whichever engineering team Google has on its 'little' "RSS" project, it should take them off it to fight spam, and either buy Newsgator/Rojo or some cool RSS Ajax startup, or put some real engineers onto the project and impress us like GMAIL (which I bought on ebay i wanted an invite so bad) did pre-IPO, Dodgeball and Internet thru the powerlines.
Google aint delighting the customer with RSS, but now I think about it, for us developing businesses in the area, that ain't all bad. Can't wait till IE7 comes out in next week from Microsoft, and see if they can do better than Google. If their start.com offering is any indication, they're miles ahead of Google. Hasta la VISTA Google.
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Posted by: Ben Barren | July 26, 2005 4:50 PM