Forrester released a report today ($279 download if you want it). Titled “What’s holding RSS back?” it claims that only 11% of Internet consumers use RSS and that those who have not don’t understand it. Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion responds that : “..while feed adoption may have crested the idea of online opt-in communications is just getting going. The Facebook newsfeed, Twitter and Friendfeed are perfect examples of opt-in vehichles that bring content you care about to you. In each case, you’re total in control. You can unsubscribe from individuals or groups and tailor the stream so that what
[read more]...Astute and Hilarious Great use of Seesmic. John Cleese (part 2): Obama, Biden & Fox Newshttp://seesmic.com/embeds/wrapper.swf
[read more]...I used the USA Today vote tracker today. Here’s where I came out in my predictions. I hope I’m close 🙂 Having said that Obama is clearly the “lesser of 2 evils”. I don’t agree with a lot of what he says. Particularly his belief that the US should send more troops to Afghanistan and Pakistan. I just prefer him to McCain.
[read more]...Slowly but surely the fotonauts development team is getting to the point where we can begin to release invites from the – now very long – queue. It will be worth the wait. Today I was able to make an album from my Aperture library, and without time to even blink, a web version of the album was available for me to share – http://www.fotonauts.com/albums/d5b780ae-8509-4f01-9a4d-38fa974a6255. I also published it to my Flickr account without extra effort – http://www.flickr.com/photos/kteare/sets/72157607916412505/. And, as with all albums, I could make a widget to put here: http://widgets.fotonauts.com/albums/d5b780ae-8509-4f01-9a4d-38fa974a6255/widget/width/400 Up until now the web versions of albums
[read more]...You know the old saying – Bulls make money, Bears make money and Pigs get slaughtered. Well, take a look at this graph from the World Bank: It seems like Iceland is Pig number 1. Look at who is number 2! The chart is measuring domestic credit as a % of GDP, or the extent to which the nation as a whole is leveraged. These are 2005 numbers and significantly understate the current numbers, which in the US have been reported as being at 435%. That means for every real $ in circulation there is $4.35 in credit. I’m not
[read more]...Jean-Michel Jarre has – he claims – been resting. And during his rest he has started playing with fotonauts – as one of the very early beta testers. fotonauts albums can already be posted in the wild via widget. Here is a page from his “Concerts” Album – from his Paris concert in 2007. http://widgets.fotonauts.com/albums/fad5258c-2100-4282-8369-2a51d936a666/entries/9771cbc4-d3ef-4cf7-88a9-5b158b5c81d2/widget/width/400 And Barcelona 2008 http://widgets.fotonauts.com/albums/fad5258c-2100-4282-8369-2a51d936a666/entries/2bc7866e-d0e2-499d-a1f8-df11b2455b4e/widget/width/400 As you can see below – the application gives him a direct means of communicating with his audience, and allows them to add their own photos from the concerts.
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