A Tale of Two Inboxes: RSS and Twitter
Excluding the one for things to do, the average nerd has 3 inboxes: email, RSS, and Twitter.Your email inbox is bi-directional: items come in and sit there until you volley them back. Your RSS inbox is...
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I'm Hooked On Groupon
I'm hooked on Groupon. In the past year, I have purchased dozens of deals for restaurants, cruises, a dentist, and all sorts of random stuff. The discounts are incredible.There are two main components...
View ArticleHey Bloggers, What Happened To Backlinking?
Remember back in the halcyon days of the Web, when bloggers shared a sense of community with each other, linking back and forth to each other as a matter of social grace and conversation, as opposed to...
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Thinking Out Loud: What's Driving Groupon?
In the current issue of the New Yorker, columnist James Surowiecki, who I generally admire, gets it exactly wrong when it comes to Groupon.He writes:" But it seems unlikely that it’s going to become a...
View ArticleThe Power Of Twitter In Information Discovery
It surprises me how many really smart people I meet still doubt the power of Twitter.It seems the urge to be a naysayer of Twitter is really strong for some. I think some of this stems from the early...
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RSS: Not Dead By A Longshot
I immediately thought of that great Monty Python skit when I read a series of posts in the past week declaring RSS "dead."If you look at the number of refers/visits coming from RSS, you might conclude...
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RSS Continued
This is a followup post from yesterday's one on RSS. Two things I want to add.There is now an RSS feed just for MBA Mondays. It is available in the AVC RSS page. But for all of you who want to...
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Here Are The Stylish RSS Readers You Should Be Using
Who says RSS is dead?With apps for smartphones and add-ons for browsers, RSS readers have transformed from lists of drab links to eye candy that displays information relevant to you.Many even let you...
View ArticleBring Me Stuff That's Dead, Please
RSS is dead. Blogs are dead. The Web is dead.Good.Dead means that they are no longer interesting to the drive-by technorati. Dead means that the curiousity factor has been satisfied, that people have...
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HOW TO: Use Google Reader To Keep Up With Your Favorite News Sites
Visiting site after site looking for news and interesting articles is a pain.If you already have a list of websites you visit every day, why not use one web application to see them all at once with...
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News.me's iPad App Will Get You Around The New York Times Paywall For A...
News.me is a confusing product, as outlined in the "for publishers" page on News.me.It's basically like Flipboard for iPad, but you have to pay $0.99 per week for it.News stories are pulled in from...
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Google Reader Is Closing—And People Are Absolutely Freaking Out (GOOG)
Google, in another push to reduce and rationalize its sprawling lineup of Web apps, is closing a host of products.The only one people care about: Google Reader. (Seriously, will anyone miss the Google...
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Thousands Of Users Beg Google Not To Shut Down Their Source Of News (GOOG)
Google's decision to shut down its RSS aggregator, Reader, has prompted thousands of people to sign online petitions seeking to save the service.Reader allows people to quickly scan through news from a...
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A Replacement For Google Reader Is Coming June 26, Just Days Before Google...
Back when Google announced that it was shutting down their RSS service, Google Reader, resurgent social news network Digg announced that it was planning on releasing its own take on the service.Google...
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The Hype Is True: Digg's New Reader App Blew Us Away
Betaworks, the company that bought news site Digg last summer for $500,000, launched its eagerly anticipated Reader app today.Digg Reader's launch comes less than a week before Google is slated to kill...
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