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Monthly Archives: January 2008
InstaPaper: A Stroke of Bookmarking Brilliance
It’s not that often these days that an online service jumps out and demands to be embraced but Instapaper is a pleasant exception to the rule.
Instapaper is a simple tool that lets you “bookmark” articles, blog posts, etc. that you find interesting but want to read later. After dragging a booklet widget to your [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 2 Comments
Taking Twitter Seriously
Twitter can be easily dismissed as IM-Lite or a tool for people with short attention spans but, interestingly enough, it is also starting to gain traction as a serious communications tool for people to communicate about serious stuff…like politics.
ReadWriteWrite’s Josh Catone has a great post looking at Twitter’s pros and cons, and how it is [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 28 Comments
Would You Pay for Online Applications?
A few days ago, CenterNetworks asked whether anyone would pay $1/month to subscribe to an RSS feed or, perhaps, $4.95 for a package of 10 feeds.
Not surprisingly, the response was unenthusiastic. With so much content being pumped out every day, how many blogs are worth $1 – especially when many people are reluctant to pay [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 7 Comments
DEMO, Alright Already
DEMO has barely started but the incessant coverage of every single development has already become aggravating – and there’s still another day to go.
It’s like the blogosphere feels compels to cover this conference the same way that reporters are covering the Super Bowl, which coincidently happens just 260 miles away this Sunday in Phoenix.
Don’t get [...]
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Automattic’s Aggressive Ambitions
Hot on the heels of snagging $29.5-million in venture capital, Automattic made another announcement – this time unveiling a Twitter-like service called Prologue in which Wordpress users can exchange short, Twitter-like messages.
Matt Mullenweg claims Automattic isn’t going after Twitter but that’s just his Texas charm at work because it’s increasingly difficult not to get the [...]
Posted in Blog Services 3 Comments






The Pain of Being Down and Out