Just days after announcing its RSS news , now eBay has confirmed that it is dropping their charges for use of their APIs. This is big news, and as Josh says, a huge Web 2.0 announcement. eBay's developer program is already hugely successful. Today...

Neville Hobson picks up on Tesco's email blitzing of its customers (the UK supermarket sends around 16-20 million emails a month) and a single, measly, RSS feed (Deal of the Day) . "This is Tesco's toe in the water for RSS, I would imagine. Tesco...

Steve Rubel : "Someone has figured out a way to subscribe to TV shows on Bit Torrent and pull them down as an RSS feed."

Pete Cashmore (hey - when do I get on your blogroll? ;-) asked what I used to record yesterday's Skype call / podcast with Kevin (the sound quality is good). I had previously used this set up , but as you can see it is v.fiddly and requires lots of...

Raymond M. Kristiansen is an OPML freak . That's a good thing. Both Raymond and Christian are using OPML editor to publish their blogs . They are pioneering - it is not easy and they're feeling the pain involved in trying new stuff out . Kosso is doing...

In case you missed it, 15 years ago today : "It was only in 1990, on November 13, that Tim Berners-Lee, the British-born scientist widely credited with inventing the web, sent the first hypertext document through cyberspace" In the same Timesonline...

Jay McCarthy brings up the topic of one oldest pieces of browser technology, the cookie, and suggests it is time for a tune up . Is that so mad? Given the current cookie spec is over 10 years old , Jay may have point. I wonder what Lou Montulli...

You know, when the video of an Xbox 360 box being unpacked from its shiny new packaging makes Digg front page you have to wonder...is this hardcore geek porn?

#1 - The first rule of GYM is, you do not talk about GYM . #2 - The second rule of GYM is, you DO NOT talk about GYM . #3 - If someone says stop, goes limp, taps out, the GYM is over. #4 - Two GYMs to a fight.

This is Broken : 'www' abbreviation.

Although we met briefly last week, Kevin Burton and I didn't manage to get enough time to discuss some of the things on our mind at the time, so we got a Skype call together and posted it as a podcast (.mp3, 42mb) . We focused the discussion around...

It is with dubious pride that I announce that this blog has joined the new Hack 2.0 Workgroup . The Hack 2.0 Workgroup is a network of sub-premium weblogs that hack content exclusively about the new generation of the Web. Other illustrious...

I had a bit of time offline today. Gave me a chance to listen a bunch of the podcasts I've been saving up for a little while. Of those I heard, I recommend these three to listen to and absorb. If you're looking for some easy listening Richard Clayderman...

In case anyone is wondering whether Microsoft has been paying attention to the disruption that some call (I do) Web 2.0 ... The most recent Memo from Bill and Ray makes interesting reading to say the least (courtesy of Dave Winer ). Ozzie's Memo is...

This is getting embarrassing. The Memerorandum hack story has returned once more to the make the front page of Memeorandum (pic below). It made on for a little while but then disappeared. It is now back, with even more links to those referring to the...

I owe Nathan Weinberg a big thanks for pointing me to Tailrank . He describes it as "like Memeorandum , but with a real search engine, ads and links to various other things." There's one thing that Nathan doesn't mention that is the killer: it allows...

Her name is Kate : "I love the Internet because it is easy to share knowledge in a personal, compelling, easy-to-understand, multi-media format."

MSN's Dare Obasanjo is inviting beta testers to the implementation of the MetaWeblog API for MSN Spaces : "Yesterday I sent out mail to a few dozen beta testers to let them know that we had started the beta of our implementation of the MetaWeblog...

Nick Bradbury and Steve Gillmore have both picked up on my earlier call to restart the conversation around Attention.xml and OPML . In fact they've gone a step further and proposed RSS could do the job if OPML can't: "Really, the bottom line here is...

Alan Lewis , works eBay as a technical evangelist in the eBay Developers Program. He's got some good news for the lovers of RSS: "the coolest new thing on the eBay platform: RSS Feeds. With eBay Stores that enable RSS, you can now subscribe to a feed...

Dave Wilkinson : "More thoughts on OPML - I have been thinking about one of the uses of OPML. OPML can be used to store and share structured data. With self-referenced links to additional information, and then further reference to that referenced...

Carlos Domingo describes a mysterious problem relating to an OPML file . I met Carlos at Mind Camp - he's just started his blog, love the name: " Un poco de todo ", he's mui simpatico . We thought the problem related to the Japanse version of his...

It worked . I've now created screencast- Hacking Memeorandum 101 trying to explain what is going on with this Hacking Memerorendum business . Btw, two new posts out there since Tara's and mine. (more updates at the bottom of this post) The first...

Robert, ICC is the International Cricket Council . Distributed Web Bits, or Dweebs ( DWBs?) . Search results: Distributed Web Bits ( Google : 0, MSN : 0) Dweebs ( Google : 288,00, MSN : 78,314) DWBs ( Google : 10,800, MSN : 4,197)

Tara has some advice for the Memeorandum 'star' wannabees, a 5 point plan: Get quoted saying something quite controversial Squawk about the quote Get a whole bunch of attention for squawking about that quote Watch your Memeorandum star...