January 21, 2006

What happened to Ning?

TechCrunch: “[T]he reality of Ning is that it’s lost whatever coolness it had, no one uses it and Ning is going to have a very hard time getting people’s attention when they finally do roll out better functionality.”
+1 here. I got another update from them by e-mail the other day (they’re no longer in beta). [...]

January 21, 2006

Fixing RSS?

While I’m not convinced that RSS as a concept/name is broken, other people are. Suggestions on calling it “Subscribing” and encouraging people to downloads “Readers” seem pretty basic. The “Recommendation” concept is interesting as well, although isn’t that what blogging is for?
In the end, I’m not sure these suggestions really fix anything. At best, they [...]

January 21, 2006

Privacy and Search

MSN Search Weblog: “Let me start with this core principle statement: privacy of our customers is non-negotiable and something worth fighting to protect.”
In reading this post, I’m confident that Microsoft responded in the right way. Here are the facts (as I understand them) based on various media reports:

The request from the Justice Department does not request [...]

January 21, 2006

Taking a break

I just read that Nelson is on a leave of absence from Google. I met Nelson back at Gnomedex 3 in Des Moines- he was clearly a great representative for the search company and gave an excellent presentation on Google’s hardware and software infrastructure to support search. That was pre-IPO as well, so there wasn’t [...]