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Google Moves to Mainstream RSS With A Simple Name Change 
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
For all its supposed simplicity, Really Simple Syndication or RSS has continued to confuse and intimidate millions of people online years after its introduction. What can be done to make RSS more mainstream? Google plans to roll out a small but simple featur
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Embed FriendFeed in your blog
Bret Taylor via FriendFeed Blog on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
We just launched a new set of customizable FriendFeed widgets for spicing up your blog or web site. There are several ways to embed FriendFeed, and you can pick as many of them as you want.
FriendFeed Badge
Create a customized F
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Making money on YouTube with Content ID
Karen via The Official Google Blog on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Late last year, we introduced our newest tool for YouTube's content identification and management system, Video ID. While we have long provided copyright owners with similar content policies and tools, Video ID was revolutionary because it provided real
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The first law of mass media
Seth Godin via Seth's Blog on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Organizations will work tirelessly to de-personalize every communication medium they encounter.
Radio ads used to be live, personal and spoken by an individual.TV ads used to feature actual people, demonstrating something, usually live.Phone calls involved a live speaker, talking, with permission, to another person.Email used to be honest interactions between cons
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Fetishes
(unknown author) via xkcd.com on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
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Introducing Ubiquity
Aza Raskin via Mozilla Labs on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
An experiment into connecting the Web with language.
It Doesn’t Have to be This Way
You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message co
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Tapulous Cofounder Mike Lee Ejected From Company
Jason Kincaid via TechCrunch on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
In the startup world, it isn’t uncommon to see a cofounder fall out of love with their company and leave after only a few months. But when a cofounder is forced out of an apparently red-hot startup, it can lead to further employee departures and instability.
Today Mike Lee, co-founder of T
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3 Unique Search Engines of the Future
Corvida via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
The internet is a whole lot of nothing without a search engine or two. While the staying power of search engines has never been in question, it's been interesting to see how they've evolved to the point of replacing the address bar. With more in
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Expand Your Brain with Evernote [Back To School]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
A new school year is just around the corner, but this semester you're looking for a safer way to enhance your brainpower than getting all hopped up on caffeine pills Jessie Spano-style. This year, the robust note-ta
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If Amazon Really Wants To Get Serious About The Kindle…
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
More rumors about the new Kindle are emerging, which we first wrote about on July 15. The first device will have a similar sized screen as the existi
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Keep Your Friends Organized: FriendFeed Launches Beta of New Interface
Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
FriendFeed, one of our favorite lifestreaming applications, launched the beta version of its new user interface today. The new version adds features
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At a loss for words?
Karen via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Have you ever been stumped in finding the right words to search for? Back when I was planning my wedding, I had a list of wedding songs in mind, but he problem was that I couldn't remember any of the artist names or song titles. So I started typing into the Google search box parts of the lyrics that I did remember -- and like magic, I saw suggestions with the artist name and song titles that I wa
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Preview the new FriendFeed design
Bret Taylor via FriendFeed Blog on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
We are happy to announce a new design for FriendFeed that makes it easier to read your feed and easier to get updates from the people you care about most.
We are launching the new design today in "beta" to get feedback from all of you before we flip the switch to make it the primary FriendFeed interface. You can check it out at http://beta.friendfeed
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Reblog: Comments Can Be Blog Posts
Daniel via Disqus on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
Comments Can Be Blog Posts
We think so too.
A lot of great conversation goes on in comments that shouldn’t be stuck behind the fold. Publishing these back to traditional blogs is a great way to bring attention to great content. It needs to happen more often.
That’s why we’ve been trying to make it even easier.
Announcing Reblogging on DISQUS
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Introducing the ReadBurner Widget for Bloggers
adam via Official ReadBurner Blog on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
We’ve been talking about it for a couple weeks, and now it’s finally here: The ReadBurner Top Stories Widget! It allows you to display the most shared stories from a given source by copying and pasting some code to your own web site. By using our wizard, you can customize the number of stories, time span, and size of the widget as well.
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Drawing the Google Homepage With Eyes Closed
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
I asked a couple of people to draw the Google homepage with their eyes closed during the whole drawing process. Here are the results:
Brinke Guthrie’s minimalist approach.
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Beijing 2008 - It's a wrap
(unknown author) via The Big Picture on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
Over the past couple of weeks, in Beijing, China, over 11,000 athletes from more than 200 countries participated in 302 events in 28 sports. below are some highlights of the last week in Beijing, and a few shots of the Closing Ceremony last night in the National Stadium. (39 photos total)
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X Girls Y Cups
(unknown author) via xkcd.com on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
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Four Ad-Free Ways that Mined Data Can Make Money
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Sun, 24 Aug. 2008
Machines can do wonderful things. Side by side with the rise of a new world of publishers, the computer scientists of the world are cranking it up as well - building new ways to create value from the sea of data being published by people. And then they take their work and they sell it to adv
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Strands Lifestreaming Beta High On Potential and Filters
louisgray via louisgray.com on Sat, 23 Aug. 2008
There's no question the lifestreaming space has just exploded over the last year, with services like Plaxo Pulse and FriendFeed leading the way, accompanied by MyBlogLog,
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