Om Malik reports Six Apart will acquire Live Journal and the deal should close by the end of the month. WOW. Om has been correct in every scoop I have seen, so I consider this news very accurate. Update: It’s official. From Mena: “While the code bases will remain separate (since LiveJournal is of course remaining Open Source), we will have unification through APIs, syndication formats and shared functionality (i.e. TrackBack support).” Big news! I wonder if all the LiveJournal employees will move to San Francisco, but some personnel will inevitably be lost. When a company is trying to grow…
Category Archives: Software
Opera version 8 beta
Opera released a beta version of its Opera desktop application last week. The new version features improved RSS handling including address bar support similar to Apple’s plans for Safari RSS. A user can choose between RSS feeds declared as alternate links of type application/rss+xml. After you subscribe to one or more feeds a Feeds menu appears showing your subscriptions and unread items per feed. The Opera RSS browser treats each RSS item as a mail message, complete with the e-mail address of the item’s author. I did not check to see which RSS element is pulled here but I…
Six Apart moves into its new SoMa office
Today Six Apart moved into its new offices. No more interviews at the Tokyo Star, or driving to work for a lot of people. Moving into new space closer to home must have a big “we made it” feeling and make you realize how you have created something where there was nothing before. Congratulations Six Apart, and may your new pad be full of many bits of moving type….
Forbes on RSS
Forbes has a brief article about RSS feeds changing the business landscape. Some inaccuracies in the article: “Instead of searching for information, you get RSS to push it to you.” RSS is a pull technology, not push. A user requests the data and is sent a response. “Technorati.com is now monitoring more than 5 million RSS-enabled blogs.” Technorati claims to watch over 5.2 million weblogs, but Technorati builds its database primarily by parsing HTML. Technorati is not a RSS-based searcher as the article claims….
Six Apart business figures
San Francisco Business Times writes about Six Apart’s planned move to San Francisco next month. Some interesting statistics: $2 million in revenue for 2004.$5 million projected revenue in 2005.New office space on 4th Street is 14,000 square feet.40 employees in San Francisco, 11 in Paris, 12 in Tokyo.Plans to add 60 employees in the next eighteen months….
Tiger adds default RSS reader option
The next version of Macintosh operating system, 10.4 code named Tiger, defines a default RSS reader at the system level. Preferences in the current early start kit allow a user to define the time between feed updates, the color annotation of a new article, and when to remove stored items. Hopefully this means aggregators will be able to share a common feed storage location. Update: MacNet took down at the request of Apple Legal. The preference pane showed a drop-down boxes to select the default RSS reader, choose an update interval, highlight new items, and the length of time to…
Bloglines adds international flavors
Bloglines is now available in Spanish, Japanese, traditional Chinese, French, German, and Portuguese. Mark should open up the interface and allow users to add their own launguages like Google’s interface….
Recent Comments RSS Feed Template for Movable Type
A few months ago Jeremy Zawodny posted his Movable Type template for a RSS feed of all comments regardless of their approval status. I liked the idea as a way to keep e-mail clutter to a minimum. I took the idea and created my own recent comments RSS feed template using no namespaces or CDATA. The feed validates. I created a new index template and set the RSS file to regenerate with every index build. Every time you post your comments feed is rebuilt. For some people that will be not often enough but for me it works well….
MSN Spaces and MSN Messenger
MSN Messenger now includes support for blogging to your MSN Spaces My Space page.
News.com announces Trackback and Pingback support
News.com officially announced support for TrackBank and Pingback links. Search engine optimizers are already excited by the prospect of “anyone linking to a CNET News.com story who sends the proper notification will get a link back in return” from the PageRank 8 site. CNET is also referencing TrackBack and PingBack URLs as link relations in the page header. I like the TrackBack button for readers CNET uses for readers to look at other related sources. I need to do some more reading on Pingback, still not sure what differentiates it from TrackBack….