Saturday, October 15, 2005

On my daily walk today a little bird landed on my shoulder and whispered something in my ear. "Next week Tim O'Reilly will announce a venture capital fund for Web 2.0 companies," the bird said. Wow. Web 2.0 is big, I thought to myself. Could this be the Flickr of venture funds? I continued on my walk.  

Jay Rosen is analyzing the NY Times's Judith Miller report. 

Back in May, when I was still in Florida, I outlined a design for browser-based subscriptions. Microsoft asked me not to publish the design, but now the whole issue is public, and the design is more relevant than ever.  

John Robb: The Open-Source War. 

Remember the Yahoo movie trailers feed that had an XML error, but otherwise was interesting and innovative? Well, yesterday I got an email from its product manager saying they would fix it, and this morning, it's fixed. Bing! 

But... When I click on the link for the movie trailer, I wait a minute and nothing happens. This reminds me of a podcast interview I heard with Ron Bloom, one of the founders of a podcasting network. He says, emphatically, that technology doesn't matter. That's the kind of thing I'm likely to say myself, except when technology does matter. This is one of those times. Suggest to Ron that he ask his partner Adam to explain this, and listen Ron -- because technology can make the difference between a user watching a trailer for a movie, and shutting the window after wasting too much time waiting.  

AOL has it's own "mini" blogger, an anonymous employee blogging about his or her employer.