The quicker the marketing industry can develop standard usage and reporting metrics around RSS (and other similar xml feed standards), the better. The current situation, where online 'media properties' owners (including portals, publishers &...

Via Slashdot , I just read Bob Metcalfe's ( Mr Ethernet ) June 2004 piece ripping Carr's Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter” to shreds. Here are some of the highlights of Meclafe's rebuttal: "I asked how much IT matters of Frank...

If you: manage a website manage a company to manage / develop your website for you are involved in building, coding, design, QAing, PMing, architecting, anythinging <?> websites write, maintain website id / UI guidelines...

" I am like the ice cream man, but with no music and I deliver free wireless access and not ice cream." Via BBC

Via Future Now : I'm off to the bookshop.... Nick Carr's "Does IT Matter?" As nearly everyone knows, in November 2002, Harvard Business Review published an article by executive editor Nicholas Carr entitled "IT Doesn't Matter." The piece immediately...

Scobleizer got me thinking...and he is right...OK, so I had this crazy idea...until we've got an RSS feed on Bill Gates' speech page , I'll post the speeches via RSS and Blog , so you can subscribe to my RSS feed until then. I'll try to keep this updated...

Silicon.com article, Michael Stephenson, lead program manager for Windows Server 2003: "We are showing how a user at one site might log on to a portal and then they can enter a purchase order at another location without having to sign on again ," The...

Via Caroline Phillips , (from Developer & Platform Group, Microsoft UK) "this is for all of you studying a computing-science-related undergraduate or postgraduate degree at a university in the UK. IF you are extremely passionate about technology...

An n-tier (actually, three-tiered) mushroom as cropped up in the Congo, apparently stunning experts. It is massive: measuring yards across...Pierre 'Agaricus' Babota, a fungi expert who just happened to be in the area at the time, was clearly shaken...

Well, I'm not at Tech-Ed today, because I'm not in the US of A...but in the good old UK of E(urope), which is quite a bit closer to Amsterdam than San Diego...so if Amsterdam doesn't sound like too much of drag for you (apparently there is a rich history...

I tried out the new Pluck RSS reader for IE...at first I was excited - new, nice and juicy interface, smart features...you know the feeling... As soon as the install completed you could tell it had pedigree - (Via: Chris Pirillo /Lockergnome ): “Pluck...

Have updated the Email v RSS matrix today to incorporate Jacob Nielsen's </gulp>, Stuart Watson's and EricShceid 's input. Thanks to Steve Rubel & Scobleizer for picking this up originally...(also had a request to have this chart included in...

Brilliant and self-referential. A single page on Jacob Nielsen's Useit.com site endures a thorough usability, design, copy, creative & technical review ... Via Theil <thanks!>

Via Datagridgirl Good to see ' efficacy ' made the cut in Tech-Ed Bingo .

Nice idea...Via BBC : "The charity is backing the Big Noise Music website , which launches on Wednesday and will offer 300,000 songs to download. " "We love a big noise! Rock on!" The Darkness "Paying to download from BigNoiseMusic.com seems like...

Have you come across any figures/evidence around how many users are unsubscribing/switching from email to RSS/atom feeds? If so, please let me know! Thanks.

Great idea from Datagridgirl : Why not have Billg and Steveb's speech pages RSS'd? (I've put in a request internally...consider these speeches as super-blogs...!)

(via Scott and Tim ) "This month’s article describes how a common presentation framework—including XML-based design templates, centralized control of common user interface (UI) elements, and a custom Web handler and rendering engine built...

Since my earlier post on RSS in relation to email marketing, I've come across many related articles...I thought I'd point to some of these...bottom line is that Email as a sales driver has had dramatic success over the years...the debate should move away...

BBC picks up on Bill Gate's reference to blogging and RSS at the Microsoft CEO Summit. A full transcript of the speech is here .

or a bendy Smartphone.

Heard a phrase new to me this week... ''the early bird might catch the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese'' . Also heard other some 'interesting' phraseology (I should point out that I did not hear the following nuggets in a silicon-chip...

Quick update on this . I sent a mail to banned@slashdot.org on Thursday asking to be 'unbanned'. No reply yet but the ban does seem to have been lifted...I'm getting the feed now. Note to Nick Bradbury of FeedDemon: Agree my orginal posting title...

Best thing I've seen on the net for a while - Map24 won the 'Technical Achievement' category in the Webby Awards 2004 ....if you haven't played, then play: Map24: US version - UK version - Belgian version - German version - Danish version - Dutch version...

I’m delighted to announce that we have launched the new Microsoft UK homepage . 98% of visitors to our UK website view the UK homepage. This new homepage is a step in enabling and encouraging customers to manage their relationship with Microsoft...