Posted on March 19, 2006 4:12 pm by Shel Holtz | Intranets | Technology
I’ve worked on the implementation of several portals, but always from the content side, never the back-end technology. I don’t know what goes into the guts of a portal that makes it work, but I know it’s complex. Most portals cost about $1 million and take about a year to implement. Customization and personalization are the keys to a portal, particularly the selection of…
Posted on March 19, 2006 10:29 am by Shel Holtz | Technology | Web
OPML—Outline Processor Markup Language—has been around for a while now. I use Dave Winer’s OPML editor to create the outlines for For Immediate Release, although once I’ve finished the outline, I wind up copying it to a text editor so I can email it Neville; I don’t post it online for others to link to. My blogroll is available in OPML, but an attempt to link to it…
Posted on March 10, 2006 12:00 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
While every third blogger reports on the sale of Ajax-based word processor company Writely to Google, I’ve been playing with a similar piece of software that emulates PowerPoint. Thumbstacks provides the tools for slide show creation on your browser and stores your presentation online, so you can start and run it from anywhere you can connect. You can make your presentations…
Posted on March 3, 2006 2:23 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Technology
In a recent interview with Eric Schwartzman, IT Conversations’ Doug Kaye referenced an old explanation of the Internet: It’s a dumb network. It just gets bits where they’re supposed to go. The telecommunications industry wants to turn it into a smart network by routing paid-for traffic through faster pipes than content that hasn’t paid for the privilege. I wrote about this last month and pointed…
Posted on March 1, 2006 11:26 am by Shel Holtz | General | Technology
eBay and Craig’s List have appropriated classified advertising from newspapers. Some believe that Edgeio and similar services that vacuum classified listings from blogs based on ad-specific tags will spell the end for eBay and Craig’s List. Google is taking a stab at classifieds—including the ability to pay for an item directly from the site—with Google Base.
Now, as if the field isn’t crowded enough, Microsoft is…
Posted on February 27, 2006 9:04 am by Shel Holtz | RSS | Technology | Web
The value of RSS and tags got a lot clearer and more exciting with today’s launch of Edgeio.
Edgeio, a project TechCrunch‘s Michael Arrington has had in the works for some time, represents what could be a disruptive model for classified advertising. (Note: The review of Edgeio on the TechCrunch blog is by Nik Cubrilovic.) For it to work, some considerable behavioral change…
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