News.com Yahoo shaves free features from Geocities.
>>>At the same time, the company told its free customers that by early April they would no longer be able to use "remote loading" or file transfer protocol (FTP), the oldest and most prevalent way to deliver content onto a Web page.
Now the company is introducing a $4.95 (per month + a $10 set-up fee = ~$70 a year!) service that lets customers use FTP and remote loading, features once free. The new option also comes with extra storage and ad-free pages.
"It's kind of like a free ride," Hull said. "We pay for storage and bandwidth, but the user is using that picture somewhere else...for commercial services that don't have anything to do with Yahoo. (GeoCities) is designed for people to publish and have a community experience." <<<
Radio is only $39.95 a year (almost half the price!). Time for an upgrade. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
I have to say that Radio is one of the biggest bargains of the software world. It was only a couple of months ago when I downloaded a demo of Radio. I look at it for 5 seconds didn't understand much and moved to other things. I was very surprise a couple of days later when I got an email from John (yes, from John Robb himself!) asking me if I have had any trouble. I said no, I was just lazy, or words to that effect. He answered in two paragraphs, the first explained posting, which I pretty much understood. The second explained the news aggregator, that blew my mind! I thought that would revolutionize the way I read and write the web, it did.
After franticly playing with Radio, and learning every day a little more, for almost two months I confess I am hooked. I've said it before I haven't felt this way about software since I riped my first Mp3...
Radio also solved a problem that I was having. Years ago I started mantaining a family site. My idea was that I would post news and stuff about our family, problem was the only news I would find out were the ones my siblings were sending to our mailing list. What was the point of posting that? The site sat there, as most do, seldom updated and read by few. What I wanted was some way in which my family could update the site themselves. Problem was it had to be as easy as email... Radio does exactly that! Now they can send an email and the site gets updated. I am not saying that it is an exciting site for other people, but it is evolving and I think it is a very nice idea. I do wish my family would use it more.
I own two copies of Radio and I am continually recomending to people to buy a copy. Radio has been a big, positive, part of my mild midlife crisis (I turned 40 years old last january). It is much better than a Harley-Davidson, even if it isn't any less dangerous...
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