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Oh
My! The Web’s Alive
The Syndicate Conference is going on this week in San Francisco and iEntry CEO
and WebProNews publisher Rich Ord flew out to see what the all the fuss is about.
Search
Sophistication (Or Lack Thereof)
So I'm an Aristotelian pretentious egghead iconoclast jerk. Sue me. But at the
end of every year when various media rehash what was on the collective mind of
my compatriots...
Pulitzer
Opens Door For Online News
Online newspapers are no longer exempt from winning the most prestigious writing
award in America. The Pulitzer Prize Board announced last week that newspapers
may submit online material as well as print content in all 14 journalism categories,
starting in 2006.
MTV, Microsoft Crank The Amps To 11
A digital music service from MTV called URGE launches in 2006, and Microsoft will
integrate URGE into a new version of the Windows Media Player.
USA
Today Links Web, Print Newsrooms
Online and print news operations will be combined to embrace and extend USA Today's
work to a single 24-hour newsroom.
The
Newest RSS Reader
So you're wondering what to get the information supageek who needs something else?
Perhaps you're the one who can never get enough information?
Microsoft
Calls MCI For VoIP
Microsoft plans to implement VoIP calling in the upcoming version of Windows Live
Messenger and have partnered with MCI to deliver the service.
Alexa
Embraces Web Developers
Amazon.com's Alexa unit has been turned into a web service, to allow developers
API access to the search engine's database.
Ballmer
On Google, Ads, And Technology
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had a lot of opinions for a Canadian publication on
several topics, notably dismissing any inroads Google's supposedly made on the
world's top technology company.
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David Sifry, the man behind blog search and tagging engine Technorati, has launched
an alpha version of a new feature called Explore.
Editor's Note: Is time an issue when you check blog entries? Does the
freshness of the posts matter to you? If so, Technorati has answered your call
with Explore. Check it out and share your thoughts at WebProWorld.
Technorati's Kitchen features the latest in blog technology cooked up by Sifry
and his staff. A feature newly announced at the Syndica-te Conference in San Francisco
has gone live.
Sifry told WebProNews publisher Rich Ord that Kitchen serves as a place for Technorati
to test out new ideas and elicit feedback. Sifry cautioned the Explore
service is purely an alpha concept at the moment. According to the site, Explore
shows what's hot in blogs on specific topics right now.
"It's hard to find things on Google based on time," said Sifry. "It doesn't understand
time." Explore is Technorati's experiment in delivering content that is timely
as well as relevant to the topic.
A quick Explore
on "Google" returned plenty of results, with the top one having been posted
28 minutes prior to my search. The top nine results were all within the past hour
or less.
Even though it is alpha, Explore proved responsive to our very brief testing.
The service could bring a better experience to users interested in what blogs
have to say and how quickly they are saying it.
Syndicate
Speakers Handle Dialog Truth
By David Utter
Syndica-te Conference chairperson and Linux Journal senior editor Doc Searls opened
Syndica-te with a brief history of blogging's Genesis before bringing HP Enterprise
Brand Communications director Scott Anderson on stage for the keynote address,
where he stressed the importance of dialog.
 Nathan
R. Jessep:, You want answers?!
Lt. Daniel Kaffee:, I want the truth!
Jessep:, You can't handle the truth!
-- Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise dialog in A Few Good Men.
WebProNews publisher Rich Ord covered the opening remarks from well-known technologist
Doc Searls and keynote speaker
Scott
Anderson.
In Searls' remarks, he noted how Dave
Winer incorporated an "Edit this page" feature onto his site. "There began
at that point a kind of split in the web. Blogging was born."
Searls emphasized how the web is not a passive repository of documents, but a
living thing thanks to syndication. Those living elements, blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts,
can be created and syndicated by anyone.
And the search engines, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, will pick them up. Searls noted
the difficulties a couple of professions face. "If you are a PR or marketing
professional the rules are very different. We don't even know where we are yet.
Think about what we are doing here as an entirely new environment."
Hewlett Packard's Anderson followed Searls' introduction, undoubtedly buoyant
from the HP's
turnaround under new CEO Mark Hurd has seen HP's market cap increase by $28
billion. Anderson spoke on the need to recognize dialogs, and called today the
Dawn of the Dialog Age.
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New
Software Hits And Misses
By Neville Hobson
WindowBlinds
5.0. The latest version of the add-on for Windows XP that lets you completely
change the look-and-feel of your Windows is just great. The major improvements
I can see in this version over the previous version 4.6 are even better integration
with the OS than before plus some really nice enhancements to how you customize
it. Version 5 is ready to run with Windows
Vista when that appears later next year (and it should work with the current
beta).
WindowBlinds 5 now offers some of the cool new appearance features that will be
in the next version of Windows, things like per-pixel alpha blended support for
title bars, borders and controls. This means you can have glassy titlebars and
borders, smooth edges, and just spectacular-looking desktops. With WB5 installed,
you can then download some very imaginative desktop themes from Wincustomize.com,
which you can customize too.
See the full tech-inclined explanation here
for details of what this program can do for you.
Verdict: WindowBlinds 5.0 - A resounding Hit.
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Neville Hobson is the author of the popular NevOn
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Is Froogle Fizzling Out?
Our spotlight post takes a look at Froogle. Since the Jagger update, our poster
has noticed the amount of traffic referrals sent by Google's shopping engine Froogle
has steadily decreased. If you have any clue as to why this is occurring, drop
by the thread and lend a hand.
And if you are the type who's having problems converting visitors into buyers,
check out the SCI
Live Call Center. Because they offer browsers real-time customer service,
call centers can improve your conversion rate by noticeable percentage points.
If customer satisfaction and fulfillment has become a problem, SCI
is waiting for you.
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Has
Froogle Died?
I've noticed that since Jagger that my Google referals have plunged and started
to recover in December. My Froogle referals have tanked from a high of 6.5% to
1% since September. Search on both Google and Froogle has gone from #1 to somewhere
in the nether regions for "Walter Lampl Jewelry."
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Google indexing... Does it take more than a month for sites to be indexed?
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