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Friday, March 12, 2004

Blog Format Truce Proposed

Dave Winer, backer of the widely implemented and criticized RSS syndication format, suggests that the format merge with its challenger.
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CNET News.com - Front Door]


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A Vision For The Next Generation Of Blogging Tools?

This is a question for non-technical bloggers. (That is people who use blogging tools, not those who develop them.)

Premise: We've reached a plateau in blogging tools. There haven't been a lot of changes in the last two or three of years. The growth continues, lots more weblogs, and we've got better tools for reading (aggregators).

Question: What's next in writing tools for weblogs? If you could influence people who are making the tools, what feature or features would you want? Think as big as you like, or as detailed as you like. What bug is most in your way. Ramble, please. Is there one thing you'd kill for? Or perhaps you're satisfied with the tools as they are. I hope your comments are on the record so I can assemble a quote sheet as the beginning of a conversation that I hope will yield better tools for all of us.
 
This is part of my background work for the next BloggerCon, scheduled for April 17.
 
Postscript: Lisa Wiliams summarized the comments on this post.[bloggerCon News]

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The Rise of the Feed Readers

From Werner Vogels:  While waiting for some other log processing to finish, I had a moment to review the software agents that pull the rss & atom feeds from the weblog. In past two months there were 141 unique agents that requested one of the 3 feeds. Of the unique 'users' (for some definition of unique) 75% of them use one of the big 6 aggregators.

The numbers on all the 141 agents can be found in the extended posting.  [All Things Distributed]


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Groove Jumps To Microsoft Beat

The company on Monday will test a new version of its software that features an add-on to Windows Explorer that makes it easier for people to view and share documents. [CNET News.com]


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Cisco to buy security start-up

The company is putting down $5 million in cash to acquire Twingo Systems for its technology designed to protect corporate networks from weak spots in remote access. [CNET News.com]


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Yahoo Launches New Local Search Tool (Reuters)

Reuters - Internet media company Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O) on Tuesday announced the launch of SmartView, a new local Web search tool, as it continues to battle Google Inc. for dominance in the high-profile search sector. [Yahoo! News - Technology]


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Managing Sales Force Productivity

How good is your company's technology sales effort? Scott Karren offers a Channel Performance Index (CPI) to benchmark how well your company is doing. [Ziff Davis Channel Zone]


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