Aggregation
Rivera, Techmeme: Aggregation works best for industries where ideas can change views of people; http://j.mp/c7Qd4v
Tagged: Feeds RSS
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Google Buzz: No Original Content
PostRank: The quality of the Buzz feeds is, well, questionable. 89,05% comes from Twitter and feeds; http://j.mp/cZ1gQq
Gerrit Eicker
WordPress(.com), Twitterfeed, PubSubHubbub
WordPress(.com) supports PubSubHubbub (PuSH; and rssCloud), matching perfectly with Twitterfeed now; http://j.mp/bOBqYY
Gerrit Eicker
MyNews
NewsTrust MyNews is a personal news filter: follow topics, trusted sources, people you trust; http://j.mp/a9nvC5
Gerrit Eicker
Gerrit Eicker
Facebook: #4 Traffic Source
Hitwise: Facebook is the #4 source of visits to news and media, after Google, Yahoo, and MSN; http://j.mp/c557Bo
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Gerrit Eicker
Facebook: “At any given time, the news on your home page can consist of celebrity gossip posted by your sister, sports scores from the ESPN Page, and a political debate among your friends as they cite their favorite blogs. With so much information at your fingertips on one site, Facebook can serve as your personalized news channel.”
Hitwise: “News and Media is the #11 downstream industry after Facebook, receiving 3.69% of the social networking site’s traffic. To offer a comparison, 6% of downstream traffic from Facebook went to Shopping and Classifieds last week and 6% to Business and Finance and 15% went to Entertainment websites (YouTube in particular). … Facebook could be a major disruptor to the News and Media category. And with the Wall Street Journal already publishing content to Facebook, perhaps the social network can avoid the run-ins that Google has suffered recently with Rupert Murdoch. We will continue to watch this space.”
RWW: “Facebook is the player to watch. Facebook – the dreaded privacy-violating, Farmville-drenched, closed-data, social networking megalith (which is also fun to use and great in many ways) – could be the web’s best hope for transforming the world through the power of online syndication and subscription.”
VB: “All of the metrics services rank Facebook in the top 5 of all internet sites. The only sites that get more traffic are search engines (Google) and portals (Yahoo and MSN). Clearly the status updates Facebook users post to their pages have the power to drive large amounts of traffic to media sources when links are provided.“
Gerrit Eicker
Facebook: Tomorrows Feed Reader
There are plenty of reasons why Facebook might become the most popular (not best) feed reader; http://j.mp/bX36jI
Gerrit Eicker
Custom Feeds for Any Webpage
Google Reader adds the ability to create custom feeds to track changes on any webpage; http://j.mp/8fVZ34
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Tom Carnell
Have you tried Femtoo? Femtoo is an advanced version of this and but ALSO has these key features:
- Monitor particular parts of a page
- Parse data and check for particular conditions (share price hit a certain amount etc)
- Premium accounts can create ‘low latency’ trackers for critical monitoring applications
- Receive notifications via email, Instant Messenger and soon SMS (I think)
- Add a ‘widget’ to any page to allow people to ‘subscribe’ to a ‘tracker’
- It uses the amazing cQuery Server-side CSS Content Selection Engine
- You can publish ‘trackers’ to the ‘Tracker Library’ and anybody can subscribe.tom
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Gerrit Eicker
No I didn’t, thanks for the hint. (BTW: Sorry, your post was marked as spam.)
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Gerrit Eicker
RSS
Winer: RSS is the universal language of realtime; http://j.mp/4Siqhi
Gerrit Eicker
NewsCred Pro
NewsCred goes Pro: eliminate NewsCred branding, customized layouts, personal domain, own advertising; http://j.mp/5iorXb
AF: “This is a huge deal for a number of reasons, most significantly that it grants Facebook the opportunity to pursue other social networks which are infringing on their patent. Included in the patent are additional claims including feed filters, feed advertising, searching the feed, and more. … It appears that this patent surrounds implicit actions. This means status updates, which is what Twitter is based on, are not part of this patent. Instead, this is about stories about the actions of a user’s friends. While still significant, the implications for competing social networks may be less substantial.”
VB: “Facebook earned a patent for its core news feed and published one for prioritizing communication from apps based on how closely users interact with them. – It’s hard to put too much weight into either patent because, from a strategic perspective, Facebook would do better financially by prioritizing development on its advertising, metrics and payments offerings, than by pursuing a more litigious strategy of suing other companies. Both patents, which were found by AllFacebook, were filed a long time ago; one in 2008 and the news feed one in 2006. The company iterates and adapts at a significantly faster pace.”
RWW: “It sounds crazy, but did Facebook invent the algorithm-driven newsfeed? Messina wasn’t quite willing to grant that in our conversation, but it’s a tough call. ‘Facebook certainly built the whole phenomena around the newsfeed,’ he said.”
Winer: “The moral of the story of the Facebook patent and all the recent news from Apple and Google: Tech companies are no better or worse than big companies in other industries. … Further, the tech companies of today are much larger and more influential than the leading tech companies of the early 90s. … If you want to know what you can do, great – there are things you can do. Buy your own services and put your content in places where you are treated like a customer with rights that are respected. That’s still possible. In many industries it’s no longer possible, but you can get that kind of service on the Internet now, but you have to pay for it. … And when you have a choice between using the product of a small company or a large one, give the small one a chance. This helps protect choice and diversity.”