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Any good webmaster knows the cardinal rules of website optimization. Yahoo! wrote them all up years ago on its Developer Network site. And the more of these rules you can adhere to, the faster your site will load for your visitors. But, more and more often as sites turn to using asynchronous technologies like AJAX to make their sites more responsive and act more like applications, the old rules lose their effectiveness.
Today, the website wizards behind Digg have revealed a new technology called MXHR, or Multi-Part XML HTTP Requests, as a method for optimizing delivery of Digg's complex AJAX-enhanced site. The implementation of MXHR is an addition to Digg's User Interface Library, called DUI.Stream. While still in a fairly rough early stage, Digg believes that MXHR will eventually give it a huge boost in un-cached page rendering efficiency.
So Russell Beattie has decided to call
it a day. I admit his decision surprised me, because I've always enjoyed
reading Russ' well-informed commentary on the mobile Web. However it did make me
wonder - what would cause other people to give up blogging?
Here are the top ten reasons I could think of:
10. Your Alexa ranking is so low that it actually drops below the horizontal axis.
9. You are the number 1 result in Google for "blogorrhoea".
8. You never get any links from A-listers, despite constantly linking to them. Well there was that one time when Mike Arrington linked to you in his diary blog Crunchnotes, but he used the 'nofollow' tag.
7. Your commentary on new products and services is so bad that even web 2.0 PR companies refuse to email you.
6. Valleywag doesn't merely ignore you, it laughs about you behind your back on supr.c.ilio.us.
5. You once got a mention on Steve Rubel's blog, but in a post entitled 'How NOT to blog' (and he refused to link to you).
4. You once tried to be a Snarky blogger, but all the other snarky bloggers then turned snarky on you and you ended up converting to a new religion to recover.
3. You've tried being controversial in order to gain attention, especially with a memorable post entitled 'Why Web 2.0 is like the Hindenburg Blimp', but nobody took the bait.
2. Your Technorati rank has 8 figures in it.
1. According to Gabe Rivera's algorithms, tumbleweeds have a better chance of making it onto Tech.Memeorandum than your blog.
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My ZDNet post today explores the reasons behind Google's new syndication format, GData. Like most people, Jeff Jarvis isn't sure what this means - and neither is Dave Winer. I'm in the same boat, but what I do know is that Google has taken a sudden interest in extending RSS and Atom. Check out this Google Base documentation, for RSS 2.0 and for all syndication formats. This is all about enabling bulk upload of items into Google Base, which you'll recall is Google's potential giant database of structured data on the Web. Google is obviously eyeing RSS (or syndication in general) as a means of getting people to upload data to Google Base. But why did Google feel the need to create a new protocol, called GData?
My initial reaction was that GData is a way to mix RSS/Atom with their APIs, in order to better integrate their increasing number of web applications. I'm not sure if this points to less of a walled garden, or paradoxically more of one because Google is defining the protocol now.
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Yahoo buys digital home company Meedio (Meedio has a suite of products, including
Meedio TV, which "lets you watch, pause, rewind, and record live analog, digital, and
HDTV broadcasts using your existing PC...")
- Google-Vision: Is Google TV on its way? ("Google are advertising for an Interactive TV Product Manager in Mountain View, as well as Software Engineers with experience in 'emerging TV standards' and 'deploying robust, high-volume applications for consumer devices'")
- GData - Google's new syndication protocol (GData is a new protocol, but "based on Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0.")
- Live Drive: Microsoft's Gdrive Killer? (Microsoft readies its virtual hard drive service...)
- Microsoft's new brain (CNN profiles Microsoft's Web saviour, Ray Ozzie)
- Mobile Phones Could Soon Rival the PC As World’s Dominant Internet Platform ("France and the U.K are exhibiting the strongest growth in this trend, while Internet usage via mobile phone in Japan also continues to grow rapidly.")
- Google Enterprise Mashups to Suck in Data From Cognos, Oracle, and Salesforce.com ("The partnerships basically amount to Google and these enterprise software companies sharing APIs so that data from the various software systems can more easily be searched for through Google's OneBox corporate homepage." -- I like the phrase "consumerization of enterprise software"...)
- Podcasting Market Update (Feedburner stats reports are always insightful: "...while radio audience is declining, podcast circulation is consistently growing nearly 20% per month.")
- The new meaning of programming (Robert Young looks at what media programming means in the Internet age)
Photo: Michael Hainsworth
After my
post that reviewed promising new email subscription services Zookoda
and Yutter, I got an email from Feedburner
telling me they had a new email service in the works. Tonight it was released -
in fact you may have noticed it in my site menu earlier today. True to form,
Feedburner's new offering is slick and took only a few minutes to set up in my
Feedburner account and on my website.
The main features:
Those last two points signify that this is a publisher-centric offering from Feedburner and they're not attempting to be an email aggregator. This is in line with what Zookoda and Yutter are doing.
Feedburner has existing partnerships with Squeet and Feedblitz (note: Phil Hollows from Feedblitz made some good comments in my previous post, in response to my criticism of them). But it's always made sense for Feedburner to integrate email into their service - and make it as publisher-friendly as possible.

Sample of email
Feedburner's large user base and the fact that so many influential bloggers use their service already is going to make it tough for Zookoda and Yutter to make headway. Many bloggers, like I did today, will find it easier to just 'switch on' the Feedburner option rather than start a new account with an unknown service. Mike Arrington certainly thinks so.
However I'm planning to give both Zoodoka and Yutter a fair chance for my business, because I was impressed enough with their feature sets to want to trial them further. And I will, once I get some time to implement them on R/WW.
Of course now that Feedburner has entered the market with its own product, it'll be interesting to see how Zoodoka, Yutter and the others differentiate themselves. Zoodoka seems to have more advanced features than Feedburner, like creating custom email newsletters. And Yutter has some nice options too, such as blog branding, which Feedburner lacks. So despite the odds being stacked in RSS heavyweight Feedburner's favor, I'm not declaring Game Over just yet.
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