Tuesday, July 08, 2003

John Robb is leaving UserLand Some news: John Robb is leaving UserLand. This is part of a bigger transition, one that we're not ready to talk about yet. It should be, net-net, good news for Manila and Radio users, and for the weblog community. We weren't ready to announce, John surprised us by writing about his departure on his weblog. He's a surprising guy. Anyway, part of my reason for being in Calif next week is business. I think UserLand will do fine, although things are still uncertain, but that's life in the big leagues. Thanks John for all your help, and best wishes to you and your family for much continued success. Onward! [Scripting News] 7:27:40 AM  comment []       Moblogging banned in Japanese bookstores Moblogging banned in Japanese bookstores. People are using digital cameras and camera phones in Japan to photograph pages of magazines and books instead of buying them. IOL Starting on Tuesday, bookstores across the nation will put up posters urging magazine readers to "refrain from recording information with camera-mounted cellphones and other devices". I know several people who use digital cameras as document storage devices. Just yesterday, I saw a very cool camera mount for taking pictures of documents with your digital camera. In the context of copyright, there are some very interesting issues here that tie into the whole area of photography copyright. [Joi Ito's Web] 7:23:44 AM  comment []       Cataclysm in UserLand Cataclysm in UserLand. Ground is shaking in UserLand.  John Robb's abrupt departure and blog disappearance smells bad.  Dave is hinting at a bigger change that should be "net-net good news for Manila and Radio users and for the weblog community."  While going open source is a possibility, "We weren't ready to announce, John surprised us" seems to point to a buyout.  My list of suspects with recent news about AOL's entry into BlogLand are: Yahoo Adobe Symantec Macromedia Intriguing drama unfolding... [Don Park's Daily Habit] 7:22:37 AM  comment []       Early hacking in necho Early hacking in necho. Isofarro: Not being content merely to produce a necho file I toyed with the idea of hacking together an aggregator. So I spent a bit of time scanning through the nntp//rss aggregator, and inserted a few lines here and there. And.... it works! [Sam Ruby] 7:19:21 AM  comment []       Taking a stand on rss taking a stand on rss. Time to come clean on an investment I made a year and a half ago. At the time, UserLand software had released a Mac OSX version of Radio and I was totally digging the built in news aggregator. I came up with a cunning plan: I asked Userland if I could purchase a pre-installed feed on their aggregator, which supports RSS xml feeds. I paid $10,000 for a one year license. To date I've been delighted with my purchase and although I haven't checked recently, I'm pretty sure Userland still has me in the defaults. Besides investing in the technology with user licenses for Frontier and Radio UserLand, I ponied up to the bar and made a commitment to a format. And now I feel fucked. The $10k didn't 'just' give me an automatic base within the userland community, it got pasted on web pages all over the world and I've built up an audience that consists of 50% aggergator users. But this investment is clearly being halted short by the (N)echo project. So I'm invoking an age olde american tradition of letting my wallet do the talking. I will again invest $10k in aggregator default placements this year, but I will spread it around, to all developers who adhere to RSS2.0. Include (N)echo and you're out of luck. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 6:32:47 AM  comment []

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