By Ian, on September 19th, 2006 Forgive me, but it’s time for me to indulge in a ‘how cool is this!?’ post. Grazr is a very nifty solution to RSS and Blogrolls in a widget. It can work from either a single RSS feed or an OPML file. Pity you can’t add or remove subscriptions on the fly, but you can’t have everything. Continue reading Bye Bye Blogrolls By Ian, on September 7th, 2006 News voting site digg is to re-adjust its story promotion algorithm to give less weight to votes from friends. Founder Kevin Rose writes on the digg blog: This algorithm update will look at the unique digging diversity of the individuals digging the story. Users that follow a gaming pattern will have less promotion weight. Continue reading Digg to Repair Holes By Ian, on August 11th, 2006 Being the Elvis of Web 2.0 is a busy job, it seems. I’ve been stalking Kevin Rose of digg for about six weeks, watching him sign a girl’s chest, hit the cover of BusinessWeek and attempt to fend off attempts to hire the service’s most loyal users. And basically, not getting to interview Continue reading 347 words from digg’s Kevin Rose By Ian, on August 4th, 2006 The news aggregator site reddit has been profitable since April, according to Mass High Tech. I’m very pleased for them. The site takes the digg model a little further with recommendations based on your voting habits. It also seems to have a somewhat quieter, maybe older user base, which leads to a difference in the Continue reading Reddit in the black | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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