links for 2008-04-15
Metaholic bringin back the meta (tags: content feeds meta popular rss links)
Blogdimension continues stealing
Blogdimension admits they received my cease and desist missive last month. To wit: Your post is very unfair. Here is the response we sent you by email on March 31st so your readers make themselves an opinion. We post the same post & comment on our own blog so everybody will see how you exagerate. I call your attitude simple and free bashing . If you have some little honor you should delete your post. Other thing: we delete immediately your blog from our index. And secondly, we make no money
The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #336: April 14, 2008
Content summary: FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio this Saturday April 19; Richard Gatarski s FIR recording experience; FIR Book Review podcast on Katie Paine s book coming; Robert French launches PROpenMic; Jay Berkowitz reports on the podcasting book; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; discussion: new ideas and new uses for tools like Twitter and FriendFeed; Lee Hopkins reports on Second Life and other 3D collaborative virtual worlds, and more; news about Thursday s show; Neville speaking
RSS will NEVER go mainstream
Brian Clark at Copyblogger has a great post where he asks the question, Will RSS Ever Go Mainstream? He goes on to say Over two years later, email is still very much alive But the public at large either doesn t care about RSS, or doesn t know they re using it (a la My Yahoo, etc). So, I ll say it RSS will NEVER go mainstream. Try explaining RSS or news feeds to someone outside of the tech field. Yeah, it s not going to happen. Yet, RSS has become the defacto standard of every Web sit
Local TV stations to tap mobile TV potential
An alliance of over 800 local television stations has formed with the goal of deciding an accepted standard for for sending local digital TV signals to mobile phones, laptops and other feature-packed portable devices. The Open Mobile Video Coalition made their plans known at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) meeting in Las Vegas. The local broadcasters view mobile TV as the next (third) medium to delivery their content. Members believe that advertising on mobile TV, if it is to t
Content Is Becoming a Commodity
Sarah Parez: Over the weekend, it seemed that everyone in the tech blogosphere contributed to the discussion around fractured blog comments; Robert Scoble even went so far as to say that the “era of blogger’s control” is over. What all these discussions hinged on was whether or not a web service called Shyftr had the right to appropriate bloggers’ RSS feeds and build their brand around our content (a practice they’ve now modified due to this outcry). Complete Story
Links to videos and slides of XNA Game Studio presentations from GDC 2008
Several of the talks delivered by Microsoft employees at the February 2008 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco have been posted for download on MSDN. The .zip files available for download include recordings of the talks and the slides that were presented at the talks. The following are summaries of the talks and links that can be used to download the presentations delivered by folks on the XNA Community Gaming Platform team (the team that works on the XNA Game Studio product family):