November 04, 2005
nike.jp's What's Hot RSS Ticker
Check out nike.jp's What's Hot RSS Ticker in action below. They have a quick copy and paste 'Blog This' type functionality that allows avid fans to link the ticker directly to their blogs. Fans can constantly stay up to date with the latest and greatest at Nike Japan. It looks like the Ticker was created in Flash. Hats off to the Nike Japan Digital Team. Nice, simple, and intelligent work.
Posted by richard ting at November 04, 2005, 06:57 PM
August 27, 2005
Start.com/3 - AJAX RSS feed portal
This is the unofficial site from Microsoft(beta). It doesn't work on Mac IE or Safari, but I can already see the potential. The interaction design is very interesting and somewhat resembling of a Flash interface. Specifically, the overlays, drag-able modules, expanding/collapsible menu structures and lightning fast & smooth page loads. I'm looking forward to seeing some sick AJAX stuff in the marketplace soon!
Check out the site.
More about AJAX.
Posted by richard ting at August 27, 2005, 06:22 PM
August 20, 2005
Marketers Debate a 'Top 500' List for Blogs
Feedster is floating a new top 500 list of blogs, ranked according to their accumulation of inbound links. Media buyers say they're watching the list, but they disagree on its value as a consideration tool for ad placements in blogs.
The "Feedster 500," which challenges the long-standing Technorati 100 list and claims to contain "the most interesting and important blogs," will no doubt stroke the egos of many bloggers who appear on it.
However, it packs dubious value as an evaluation tool for media buyers, according to several agency executives who spoke with ClickZ News. That's because it doesn't rank blogs according to niche or topical focus, wherein lies their main appeal to marketers.
"A list or a service that helps advertisers understand what is predictable and what is risky is valuable," said Jeff Lanctot, VP of media for Avenue A/Razorfish. "The downside of the Feedster 500 (or other lists) is what I'd call the 501 dilemma. Blogs are thriving because they can engage even the smallest audiences. Blog #501 might be the most important media resource for a small group of people."
Read more.
Check out the Feedster 500.
Check out the Technorati 100.
Posted by richard ting at August 20, 2005, 10:34 AM
July 12, 2005
We're Not Afraid
Check out a similar project called sorryeverybody.com
Posted by richard ting at July 12, 2005, 08:39 PM
March 29, 2005
mefeedia - videoblogger feeds - beta
Mefeedia.com is an aggregator for videobloggers. It lets you subscribe to videobloggers and tag videos. It's free.
Posted by richard ting at March 29, 2005, 06:08 PM
March 04, 2005
Friendster Launches Blogging Platform
[from mediapost]
by Gavin O'Malley
SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE FRIENDSTER YESTERDAY announced the launch of Friendster Blogs, giving its 16 million members a platform to rant and ramble, buzz and bemoan, divulge, and divine to their hearts' content. Friendster is betting that the blend of two evolving Web trends--social networking and blogging--will placate the fickle tastes and expectations of consumers in an extremely competitive market. The underlying technology--which allows users to post and archive their thoughts, pictures, and links as dated entries in chronological order--is provided by San Francisco-based Six Apart, a blogging software company, which offers a similar paid service by the name of TypePad.
Read more.
Posted by richard ting at March 04, 2005, 11:13 AM
October 14, 2004
PODcasting
PODcasting
By Thomas on Beyond
Podcasting is an emergent phenomenon in the blogosphere. Springboarding from RSS, MP3 and Apple's iPod, podcasting is blogging in talk radio format. One need not own an iPod to participate, however.
So what’s a Podcast? To put it simply, a Podcast is an audio file, a MP3, most likely, in talk show format, along with a way to subscribe to the show and have it automatically delivered to your iPod when you plug in to iTunes. The show isn’t live, so you can listen to it whenever you want. Doc Searls is credited with coining the term, or at least formalizing it.
The key virtue of traditional radio is its immediacy: the fact that it's live. They key virtue of this new breed of radio is that it's Net-native. That is, it's archived in a way that can be listened to at the convenience of the listener, and (this is key) that it can be linked to by others, and enclosed in an RSS feed.
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What matters is that all the standards we're working with here are open. They're the new and growing infrastructure for a new class of 'casting. It won't replace old-fashioned broadcasting, just as FM didn't replace AM, and TV didn't replace radio. And it's not narrowcasting, which is conceived as broadcasting for fewer people. It's podcasting. I'll create an acronym for it: Personal Option Digital 'casting.
Engadget has a great HOWTO for would-be podcasters or listeners.
Posted by richard ting at October 14, 2004, 05:33 PM
October 01, 2004
Yahoo! Opens RSS For The Masses
[by Ross Fadner]
In a move that may signal a tipping point for a promising new online distribution technology, Yahoo! has quietly made several key enhancements to its RSS offerings that industry analysts say mark the first big push to take the format mainstream. RSS (rich site summary, or really simple syndication) feeds have been available on Yahoo!'s My Yahoo! service for few months, but on Tuesday the portal unveiled a searchable database of more than 150,000 content and service feeds for a new beta version of My Yahoo!, as well as an RSS information page.
The idea, the company said, is to educate both users and consumers and publishers about the format. Previously, My Yahoo! users had to educate themselves. Instructions for publishers on how to distribute their content via RSS are also included on the site.
RSS is a syndication standard that enables publishers to easily distribute their content via XML feeds. Users receive the feeds through RSS readers, or aggregators, which are downloadable software applications that continuously scan publisher sites' in order to deliver updated content in real-time.
Gartner Group Analyst Allen Weiner called Yahoo!'s move an "extraordinary step forward," noting that the new visibility will make the format accessible to My Yahoo!'s considerable mass of 20 million users.
Posted by richard ting at October 01, 2004, 11:01 AM
August 26, 2004
RSS Attracts Really Serious Money
Really Simple Syndication is starting to attract some real money.
This is especially true after Technorati -- one of the leading blog and Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, tracking services -- acknowledged Monday it recently closed a multimillion-dollar round of venture capital funding. While Technorati's haul is in and of itself impressive, it's the expected ripple effect on other RSS technology developers that has some in the industry excited.
"I think this is clearly, in my opinion, the first of the many fundings you will see in the blog and RSS space," said Om Malik, who broke the news about Technorati's funding, which reportedly totaled $6.5 million, on his blog Monday. "Clearly, people are beginning to realize the impact of RSS. It's changing the distribution of information."
Over the last year or so, RSS has become one of the buzz terms most heard in blogging circles. It allows anyone to automatically receive free feeds from countless numbers of blogs and a growing number of news services.
Posted by richard ting at August 26, 2004, 09:45 PM
July 23, 2004
RSS Gains Traction as More Publishers Offer Feeds
by Ross Fadner
Content providers are deploying RSS feeds at a rapid pace these days. Industry insiders maintain that the adoption of the technology by major online publishers like The New York Times Digital, The Wall Street Journal Online, and CNET Networks indicates that RSS could have a major impact on media distribution. In fact, just this week, The Online Journal began offering RSS feeds for the first time, while NYTimes.com brought its RSS operations in-house and expanded the number of feeds to 27.
And yet, most Internet users still have no idea what RSS is. Those that do, claim it will transform the way people consume media.
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is an electronic feed that sends content to recipients who proactively choose to receive it. Users choose the feed they want from content providers, and then receive the information through RSS readers, or aggregators. RSS readers regularly scan sites to receive feeds in real-time, thereby providing continuously updated content from each site.
RSS is separate from the e-mail pipeline, and since it is 100 percent opt-in, there is no way for a user to receive an RSS feed he or she did not request.
"From a business perspective it's a way of enhancing and expanding communication with your customers," said Michael Gartenberg, VP-Research Director, Jupiter Research. He added that it's a great way to monitor a company, by essentially "subscribing" to its Web site.
Posted by richard ting at July 23, 2004, 12:26 PM
January 02, 2004
NBA Blog Squad
Welcome to the NBA Blog Squad, a varied collection of insiders, media members and fans from around the world who will share their thoughts about the NBA, WNBA, and whatever else comes to mind on an ongoing basis in online journals - or 'blogs' - right here on NBA.com.
