RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part II

This is a continuation of a post from 2009-02-10. While the post-IPO price of Google shares was still inflating the company engaged in a dot com buying spree perhaps only previously rivaled by giants like Yahoo! and IAC. They shopped for small groups serving this niche and consolidating Google’s control in this proto-industry before anyContinue reading “RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part II”

I Just Accidentally a BusinessWeek

I’m not sure how that happened but a guy at BusinessWeek wrote an article about iTunes and when he mentioned the Digital Butler from Negroponte‘s book Being Digital he referenced the digital butler and linked the term to an article on this site. For some reason he linked it to the Sunday post on last.fm.Continue reading “I Just Accidentally a BusinessWeek”

RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part I

My dad is nursing an interest in blogging and just asked me a question about how blog posts work with e-mail. It was a “yes or no” kind of question. As is my style, I responded with the following treatise, which, to avoid ennui, I’ve broken into two parts. Does it make it easy forContinue reading “RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part I”