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7:46:15 PM    

M-Commerce for All. Euro networks form mobile payments club [The Register]
7:31:59 PM    

The Register: SonyEricsson P800 survives the hype, and some. [Hack the Planet]
7:31:02 PM    

Kottke: "When companies get big, do they just naturally turn into bullies or is it a conscious decision?" [Scripting News]
7:30:40 PM    

Tony Hawk scales new heights. The huge popularity of skateboarding video games have fueled the phenomenal rise of skater icon Tony Hawk [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
7:27:55 PM    

Sterling Hughes: "Overture, Inktomi and Google will battle it out, and Inktomi is going to get creamed." [Scripting News]
7:25:31 PM    

RSS for liberal arts majors.

Not enough people are using RSS aggregators. So far it's mostly been for people with a substantial investment in information, engineers, librarians, lawyers. A lot more people, even people with liberal arts degrees, would use the software, if they knew how valuable it is.

Back in 1999 the first aggregator -- My.UserLand, was very easy to use. There just weren't that many feeds that would appeal to someone with an English degree. Now that's different. We have the NY Times, BBC, the Harvard weblogs, and more on the way all the time. So I spent some time yesterday creating a prototype for something that I'd like to add to Manila, as a gift, no need to pay me -- an aggregator at the community level. Here's how it works.

Each Manila site has one or more managing editors, contributing editors, content editors and members. The ME's can decide how public the site is, it could be totally private, members only, or some sections can be private. In this model, the MEs decide what feeds the community subscribes to. Then, using the same aggregator that's built into Radio, every hour, Manila reads the subscribed-to feeds, and they come together on the aggregator page on the Manila site. Each site on a server can subscribe to any number of feeds. If two sites subscribe to the same feed, it's actually only read once each hour. This optimization was surprisingly easy given Manila's internal architecture.

Anyway, a rough prototype of this is up and running at Harvard. You're welcome to try it out, even bookmark it. I still have a lot of work to do here. I want to have a page that shows you which feeds it's reading. The Prefs panel hasn't even started yet. Lots of work to do, but it is usable. Now if you've been curious about what it's like to run an aggregator of your own, check out this one which we're running for you.

[Scripting News]
7:24:26 PM    

Gamers Ready to Enter the Matrix. After four long years, a video game based on the Matrix movies is about to hit store shelves. An exclusive look at the technology behind the game. By John Gaudiosi from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
7:23:14 PM    

EarthLink will bundle 'Net, phone service [InfoWorld: Top News]
7:21:04 PM    

Looking for a job in Spartanburg, South Carolina? It's now a weblog with an RSS 2.0 feed, a first, as far as I know, and a very valid application of RSS. [Scripting News]
7:20:27 PM    

Low-tech solution beats London's hi-tech congestion charge. Honk honk [The Register]
7:19:48 PM    

Using computers to help commuters. New software could up worker productivity--not by uncorking network bottlenecks, but by opening traffic jams of the more traditional variety and getting people to work on time. [CNET News.com]
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