Posted on November 8, 2004 8:34 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
There’s so much news and information distributed through RSS feeds these days that Feedster has decided to launch a blogs-only search engine. The site went live last Friday, although the official announcement is set for today.
Posted on November 5, 2004 11:29 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
With few exceptions, all of the many wiki apps are open-source packages you can download and install for free. You won’t be happy if you make the wrong choice and need to switch later. O’Reilly’s ONLamp.com—generally reserved for content about LAMP, an open-source platform—offers an article that reviews the most popular wiki implementations to help make the right decision.
Posted on November 5, 2004 9:00 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Blog applications like Typepad and Blogger automatically create RSS feeds. But not everything you want to offer as a feed is necessarily a blog entry. (Consider, for example, the feeds offered these days by daily newspapers.) Along comes a $39 piece of software called FeedForAll that automates the process. You can use a typical software interface or a wizard that…
Posted on November 4, 2004 7:52 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Moblogging is the future; wikis and blogs are so yesterday. That, at least, is the world according to Bryan Alexander, codirector of the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College in Vermont. In an interview with Howard Rheingold, Alexander calls this emerging communication style “m-learning” (m for mobile).
Alexander prefers “mobile” to “wireless” or “ubiquitous” because “none of these terms really grasp one key feature of the new milieu: the modeling of…
Posted on November 3, 2004 5:48 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Podcasting—a popular topic among these PR-focused blogs lately—is about listening to amateur-produced radio shows when and where you want to. Today, XM Radio announced a new product, the Delphi MyFi. This pocket-sized, wearable receiver gets all 130 channels of XM satellite radio. Here’s the catch: It also records up to five hours worth, either while you listen or based on programs you schedule for…
Posted on November 3, 2004 9:37 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
I just spent $25 for an i-name. It’s mine for 50 years. It might end up being worthless, but there’s promise to this concept. It could end up becoming a standard if the word spreads.
I learned about i-names from Mike Vincenty, a friend, colleague, co-author, and IT guy. Identity Commons is the group behind i-names. According to their site, Identity Commons “seeks to…
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