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A very big year for RSS and syndication technologies

December 7, 2009| Published in Opinions and tests 0

Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb calls 2009 a very big year for RSS in a New York Times top ten overview. The list is dominated by social media conversation applications, with one dedicated RSS reader, and one breaking news service. But what unites all of these services is their focus on real-time delivery: for me, Pubsubhubbub [...]

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New CNN mobile news app: future of online news is in paid applications?

September 29, 2009| Published in Opinions and tests 0

I doubt if the future of online news is in single-source, paid-for content, but CNN, with their new app for iPhone, certainly shows that paid applications could be the way to go – they combine the features you actually might want in a news app, and the end result is a well-designed and usable app to boot.

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Follow the Leader by RSS Reader

September 17, 2009| Published in Opinions and tests 0

Over the span of a few hours, the New York Times changed its leading article headline about five times today. I noticed, because Telexer kept notifying me. It’s interesting to see the process of a headline (and article) taking shape: going from sloppy to somewhat decent, all the headlines add to the story.

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Update: AirBadge clicktracker plugin 1.1

September 17, 2009| Published in AIR, WordPress 0

The values that had to be hard-coded into the source are now manageable from the Settings page. Also, the tag used to place the badge on the page no longer needs to contain urls and id’s.

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Linkdump: free vs fee, and the experience of trial software

September 9, 2009| Published in Opinions and tests 0

A number of articles on the topic of fee vs free, worth a read.

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Comparing free analytics services you could use with Wordpress

September 5, 2009| Published in Opinions and tests, WordPress 0

Woopra, Google Analytics plus Polaris, WassUp, and Statcounter compared. With the current Telexer site, I’m discovering *all kinds* of new trackers and analytics services. Desktop clients, Adobe AIR front-ends. Real-time stuff, etc. I need to make a choice. Here’s how I think those services stack up.

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Hail to Akismet

September 3, 2009| Published in WordPress 1

And a hearty ROFL for its Yummy Pie, too (check your WP dashboard if the reference escapes you). In the past few days I got my first taste of a spammers wave on my Wordpress site. They were trying everything but the doorbell, but no luck. Akismet saw through all them devious scammers. [...]

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Cool information interface minisite

September 3, 2009| Published in Opinions and tests 0

Awesome site, Good is. Minisite called “Road Map To Harmony” is a combination of typography, interface and information design. And a paged-content flash site. With video. Linked to a blog. Great example of the SEO use of SwfAddress. I like… no, I’m jealous

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