Of course the Web 2.0 conversation will continue well past the blogoposium as it has existed well before it. Still, get in those last Web 2.0 thoughts today and tag your posts appropriately.
To see what has been contributed to this point:
Web 2.0 – As Defined by People
I’d like to thank everyone for their continued contributions to the blogoposium. From the visualizations to the articulations, I’ve enjoyed your thoughts.
Web 2.0 has obviously been a hot topic in the blogosphere this week, outside of our little blogoposium experiment. Instead of highlighting yesterday’s thoughts, I’d like to point you to an archived version of tech.memeorandum. You’ll note that Web 2.0 was the top ‘meme’ and can reference all of the Web 2.0 relevant discussions.
Recent Web 2.0 Highlights for Blogoposium 1
A handful of highlights from those chiming in around the web thus far:
From Peter Forret’s RSS is a hammer
It’s not because you have particularly strong feelings about one building block of the Web 2.0 temple that you can simplify the whole thing. RSS is important. Ajax is important. And so are REST/XMLRPC/SOAP, KML, social software, folksonomies, contextual advertising, “Long tail” logic, Creative Commons, … It’s the sum of all these forces that hint at a future “Web 2.0″ that’s bigger and brighter.
Peter also recently contributed a Web 2.0 Meme Overview over on the Flickr blogoposium1 tag. He explains it in some detail in his Web 2.0 mememap overview post.
Notes and Fodder for Blogoposium 1
Thanks to all who has gotten behind the blogoposium thus far…we are just getting started!
If you are unsure of what a blogoposium is (after all, I did create the word), Marshall Kirkpatrick describes it simply as “tagging and synched blogging”. You can read all the details about the blogoposium at the announcement post.
Seth Godin’s New Project – Squidoo
While the details of Seth Godin’s new project are still unknown the name is not – Stowe Boyd revealed the company name Squidoo from a job posting Seth has on a Go BIG Network classified ad. Seth also briefly blogged about the Squidoo job opening on his site.
Being the good investigative blogger that I am, I did a WHOIS on www.squidoo.com. It is actually owned by a fellow Big Moo author, Red Maxwell of SilkRoad technology. The name servers seemed to be owned by Maxwell’s Design Factory International. Check out an old story that speaks to Seth and Red working together.
Cool Findory Features
Tech Crunch beat me to the punch and put up a nice piece on using Findory’s new RSS reading feature.
In light of that, I thought I’d share some other cool Findory features -
- Customized RSS Feeds: Findory allows you to create customized RSS feeds based both on article source (News or Blogs) and article flavor. The latter allows you to choose the “flavor” from pre-determined categories like ‘Tech’ or ‘Top Stories’ or by using keywords. Once you make your selections, Findory will show you a preview of the type of content your feed will provide. There are actually a number of different ways to customize your feeds. Check out the “Simple Examples” on the Findory API page.
- Inline Findory: Want to include Findory content on your website? Inline Findory is your answer. Via javascript, you can create an HTML output of Findory content. Customization works the same as the RSS feeds. You can even alter the styling (click the “Show optional style code” box) to make the output match the look-and-feel of your site.
For the less technically savvy, there is also a Findory by E-mail feature.
There is a lot you can do with Findory and the best way to learn is to just start playing with it. For example, check out a neat little feature I just added by clicking on the “READ FINDORY” button under what I now call the “KEEP TABS ON ME” (previously “FEEDS”) section of our sidebar. If you like what you see and you are using Findory, be sure to click the “ADD FAVORITE” button on the Findory page (notice how I am giving you the option – otherwise, I would have used this link on that button).
Let me know if there is anything that you find particularly interesting while using Findory.
Noone Group Releases Brandable RSS News Reader
Noone Group and Mioplanet Technologies released an interesting approach to a news reader today. According to their press release, the The Noone Group Newsreader
is a brandable, customizable RSS news reader with keyword and headline alerts. It is user friendly, ready to use, and requires very little disk space due to the superb MioEngine. Updates and exciting new features will be added on a regular basis. If you want it, chances are we have it!
The key here is that the news readers are ‘brandable’, meaning that they come pre-poulated with feeds relevant to a company or topic. This includes serving up ads specific to the news reader brand. They currently have 8 different branded readers available for download (their reader is client based). I downloaded two of them – “Blog Eye” and “Long Island Public Forum Newsreader” (the latter because I originally hail from Long Island).
By pre-populating ‘branded readers’, companies can remove the need for their customers to subscribe to their feed, thus ensuring that they are keeping track of product updates or news and announcements. Based on the less tech savvy audience that Noone Group is targeting, it is a great idea and a step towards bringing RSS closer to the general public.
There are some key features missing, namely an OPML import / export and an easier way to manage the feeds. For more widespread use of this reader, they definitely will need to tackle some user interface issues and expand the feature set. I’ll be writing on what I consider news reader / news aggregator ‘must haves’ later this week.
About Ken Yarmosh
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