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?
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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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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Linkdump: free vs fee, and the experience of trial software
A number of articles on the topic of fee vs free, worth a read.
read onComparing free analytics services you could use with Wordpress
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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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
read onDreaming of a tweet reader conversation viewer
Great post sparked by a little tweet reader: Dave Winer’s little tweet reader: some thoughts. Here’s a “social interaction design specialist” that dreams of a conversation viewer. A very inspired list of what he hopes to see in such an application follows. And he ends, to my surprise, by saying “I think I’m going to [...]
read onMe a busy bee – trying to submit the site to Technorati etc
Submitting the application and the the site to various sources, it seems Technorati only wants really special urls.
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