Aliens love blogs too!
Some 60 years ago humans first began transmitting television signals powerful enough to reach beyond our earth's atmosphere. Since then the media has continued to broadcast messages from I Love Lucy to the five o'clock news into space, potentially reaching intelligent alien life forms beyond our solar system. Blogs In Space is the first entity to allow everyday bloggers to transmit the news and thoughts of an everyday person into space. Simply put we take your feed and transmit it out on a powerful deep space transmission dish.

We've created a special version of Technorati especially for handhelds and mobile phones. If you've got a web-enabled mobile device, just visit m.technorati.com for a Technorati experience designed especially for small screens.

Take Technorati with you wherever you go for the latest on what bloggers are talking about right now. I enjoy using the mobile site just to check on the most popular Technorati searches and explore emerging trends.

This new feature is only in keyword searches for now, and it's still in beta. We think our algorithms for doing language detection work reasonably well, but there's still lots of room for improvement, and for giving you, the blogger, more control about specifying the language that your posts are in. We're working on additional features to really help tune and tweak the system, but we thought that what we had so far was useful enough that we wanted to share it with you, in the spirit of "release early, release often".

As a general rule, you should not add your Personal Feed to any web-based news aggregator, such as Bloglines, My Yahoo!, or NewsBurst. These services will index your feed and make its contents searchable by anyone.

By default, your Personal Feed only notifies you about problems FeedBurner encounters when processing your feed through our automatic FeedMedic service. However, we may add more personalized features to this feed in the future that permit you to receive traffic statistics, account-related notices, and other slightly more personal communications via RSS. We will always give you the choice of whether to include these communications in your Personal Feed; they will not appear unless you approve them.

Since then we've received a ton of great feedback, based on which we've added some new options, including a section for bookmarks, updated the page's look-and-feel, and introduced a way to find and add feeds from wherever you want

It's usually good to copy the big guys. When people grow accustomed to a certain design, following it in your own interface supports transfer of learning and thus increases usability. If you're designing an application, follow the lead of Microsoft Office -- for example, use a floppy-disk icon to denote "save" (even though nobody saves to floppies any more). If you're implementing a search feature, copy Google.

For e-commerce usability, Amazon.com used to be the model. In 2001, we tested twenty e-commerce sites for usability and Amazon was the clear winner, scoring 65% higher than the average of the other nineteen sites. Having the Web's best usability served Amazon well: sales increased by 126% from 2001 to 2004.

Of course, rather than simply copy any one site, it's best to follow the hundreds of detailed research findings about e-commerce usability. But people often prefer to be told just one thing. For many years, that one thing in e-commerce design was "Do like Amazon." No more.

Amazon has recently changed so much that the average e-commerce site will reduce its usability by emulating its design too closely.

Paradoxically, Amazon's design may work well for Amazon itself. The company is simply so different from other e-commerce sites that what's good for Amazon is not good for normal sites.

BlogPulse Profiles allows users to find more information about a specific blog or blogger—who authors it, how active the blog is, how it ranks in comparison with other blogs, what it's about, etc. Many people have questions about who bloggers are and how much influence they wield. BlogPulse Profiles provide basis metrics and analysis to begin to answer those questions.

FeedAlley.Com moet DE plaats op het web worden waar ervaren EN nieuwe ’webfeed gebruikers’ elkaar helpen om de bomen door het webfeed bos te laten zien. Deze fase is het mogelijk om webfeeds te ‘taggen’ en te zien welke webfeeds door andere FeedAlley.Com gebruikers werden getagd. Het bijzondere van FeedAlley.Com fase 1 is dat op basis van je eigen interesses (de tags die je gebruikt) suggesties voor andere webfeeds worden gedaan.

Conclusion for July: there are now at least 70 million blogs in existence with 63 million blogs having been created on 8 leading blog hosting sites that host 1 million or more blogs alone.

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Weblog Preview provides the basic functionality usually expected of personal weblogs. For instance, Weblog Preview supports the posting of content in a journal format, emphasizing a personal point of view. The weblogs are public by default; that is, any authenticated Workplace user can read the blog. In addition, all authenticated users can comment on or link to the posts via "permalinks." The weblog owners, however, can restrict access to their blogs via the Workplace membership portlet, just as with any Workplace component.

Weblog Preview also allows bloggers to have a public list of favorite weblogs (that is, a blogroll) on their blog so that readers can see what the blogger finds of interest. Bloggers can put links to either external or internal blogs in their blogroll. In addition, Weblog Preview provides both an Atom and an RSS syndication feed format so that readers can subscribe to their favorite blogs in the feed reader of their choice.

"This list includes bloggers and influencers who's groundbreaking work is changing the technology industry, journalism, and marketing." [David Sifry: AO / Technorati Open Media 100]

"The purpose of this list is to provide an initial, helpful framework of this emerging industry and highlight its key players who are influencing the adoption of open media and proving the impact it is already having on the technology industry, journalism, and marketing. To achieve this goal, we created the following categories: Pioneers, Trendsetters, Practitioners, Toolsmiths, and Enablers. We combined both a subjective and objective process, including nominations from bloggers, surveys, and measurable data using Technorati's blog search engine, which tracks more than 11.5 million weblogs and over 1.2 billion links. We respectfully acknowledge that the list represents our best educated guess in a fast-changing and fluid market. There are obviously many other folks one could persuasively argue should be included (hence our 50 honorable mentions list). And we admit that there was no way we could do justice on this list to the many great open media contributors operating outside of the U.S. who did not pop up on our radar screen." [AlwaysOn: Introducing the AO/Technorati Open Media 100]

What's a hackathon you ask? Well, all of the engineers (and even some of our "business people"!) showed up in the conference room at 9:00am with ideas for projects that could be designed, implemented, and tested in a single day. We tossed around the ideas for a little while to determine which ones would be the biggest hit with our publishers and by 9:30am everyone left with their assignment: Put everything else on hold and complete their project by the end of the day.

Pundit 3 geeft de highlights van eerdere presentaties bij 212 Amsterdam en de krenten uit de pap. Een bezoekje aan philips.nl en sony.nl....