Chris Pirillo has posted a link to an example of Google Adsense in an RSS feed. This is BIG news, bigger than the other news about various changes to Adsense.
Just what del.icio.us needs to moentise its considerable RSS traffic. And I bet Jason Calcanis is excited about this aswell.
UPDATE: Looks like Weblogs Inc are indeed the next people to go live with the RSS Adsense beta.
The other day Boing Boing linked to Individual-i, which is best summed up as follows:
It represents the right to privacy and anonymity in the information age. It represents the rights to an open government, due process, and equal protection under the law. It represents the right to live surveillance free, and not to be marked as “suspicious” for wanting these other rights.
Maybe I’m a sucker for memes, but I kinda liked this so I got Fredy to make up various sized logos so I can make my own t-shirt. Any other t-shirt junkies might like to do the same…here’s a zip file with three different sizes and one reasonably high quality large image which should be good for screen printing purposes. Downloand Zip.
Boing Boing links to the WSJ article on TV gadget payola racket…this so doesn’t surprise me.
In Melbourne we used to watch Sunrise in the morning (a great breakfast current events type show), but the one segment that always ripped my undies was the gadget/technology segment, where they were so obviously led by the nose into what ever the sponsors wanted them to cover…I remember getting wound up at how clueless they could be, particularly when they occaisionally reviewed web services and often were completely wrong and misleading in their reporting…urghh.
When we were living in the US we brought a house back here in Auckland (pics), but it was a slightly unusual experience because we didn’t really get involved too much in the whole mortgage process! My sister in law handled it (with power of attourney) via a mortgage broker, so we didn’t really have to do anything…and to be frank the cost of the mortgage wasn’t really an issue while we were expatriated in the US, earning US$ and renting it out to paying tennants.
But now that we’re back on local terms and earning a regular wage I have suddenly become very interested in our mortgage, interest rates and budgeting! Anyway, to cut a long story short I was futzing about trying to find some decent tools online to help simplify things and ended up creating my own site Property-Calculator.com. Obviously this isn’t the only site around with mortgage calcuators and stuff, but generally the others bite…in comparison I hope that Property-Calculator.com stands as a simpler, cleaner experience.
Let me know what you think and feel free to throw me a link :)
I like Evan William‘s post on the experience of setting up Odeo to run on largely web based apps ’cause that’s what we’ve tried to do in setting up to run FeedrollPro. This is what our biz rig looks like:
We have installed a bunch of stuff, like helpdesk software, but the point is still that we can pretty much do everything from any computer anywhere in the world :)
For some unknown reason I can not reach any of my sites via the DSL connection where we’re currently staying; although I can access the web generally. The friends I’ve im’d about it can access the sites no problem…and indeed I am able to access them myself on my pocketPC over gprs, which is how I’m writing this post…go figure!
I’m tired and stumped, so I’m going to use that old technique of going to bed and hoping it works in the morning…goodnight :)
Meetup have just announced a new pricing regime, which is bound to cause all sorts of pain and misery.
But that is not what this post is about…I have no skin in that game and at the end of the day they are making a calculated decision which they know will force out the more casual users…oh well. (will some of this crowd find its way to upcoming.org?
UPDATE: Apparently some groups are moving to across from Meetup to Upcoming.
This news did however serve to make me ponder Meetup again, which seems to have been very quiet for a while now. They got so much PR during the election and since then they havn’t really been on the radar…and they should be.
With all the talk about Web2.0 Meetup should totally be in the discussion, but they seem to have missed something. They are all about making connections, but as an application they are an island. Where are the connections, the API’s?
Shouldn’t Meetup.com be a platform?
Steve Ruebel is going on about “Targeting Through Tagvertising“. Why does this feel like so much hype?
“consumer phenomenon“, “millions of individuals“…
Hmmm, I think that is overstating things abit. Ask anyone who doesn’t use Flickr or Del.icio.us and I doubt they’ll have the foggiest idea what tagging or folksonomies are, and I don’t think that Flickr and Del.icio.us are in the millions of users yet.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Flickr, del.icio.us, and the new folksonomies as much as the next person. (Joshua Schachter & The New Folksonomies would make a great band name).
And I think tagging as an organizing principle will spread…witness Gmail which uses tags to great effect, albeit not in the social way Steve is talking about (I wish Outlook did the same).
But when I read Mr Ruebel’s post my BS meter definitely went off. Maybe I am overly sensitive to hype these days.
UPDATE: I am not the only one gagging on this post.
UPDATE: If you are looking for a good introduction to what tagging is all about (and specifically del.icio.us) then you’re better off reading Fred Wilson‘s latest post.
Don’t know how he knows, but Greg Linden is saying that the recently announced del.icio.us financing includes a veritable whose who of cool internet companies and people.
UPDATE: Greg got the news from the del.icio.us discussion list
I don’t know Jason Calcanis, but he seems to be one of those polarizing personalities, and I am sure that’s the way he likes it.
Based on what I have read about him, what I’ve read on his blog, and what I have seen of him (at SXSWi) I have variously thought he was arrogant, ignorant, genius, and savvy.
With this last post his stock just went up in my book alot…I am beginning to like the guy:
You have those things it really doesn’t matter what the idea is… you can change your ideas all day long, in fact evolving is what you’re supposed to do in business. However, you can’t substitute hustle, passion, or resiliency.
…never a truer word said.
Have a look at these these prices for broadband from Telcom New Zealand.
When we were in the US we had unmetered broadband (full noise both ways) into our apartment for about US$60/mth and that was expensive…
Telecom New Zealand on the other hand wants to palm off asymetric broadband with download caps as the real deal…PEOPLE, 256kbs is not broadband, and the real thing is not asymetric. And just to make things worse if you want any kind of real download capacity you have to pay…NZ$475/mth for 5gb!! Go figure.
That’s what we get for having a virtual monopoly. As soon as some reasonable alternative is available I’ll be the first person to leave TNZ behind.
