Archive for the ‘Blogs’ Category

Google launchs (and then doesn’t) a RSS reader

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Well it was bound to happen!! Google launches Google Reader, and webbased RSS client. It was linked from the labs put it dissappeared !!! It was pretty slow, but I did catch a screenshot!!

Google Reader

It has some sort of RSS discovery, so you can just enter the URL, e.g. www.maccarthy.org/blog finds the feed at http://www.maccarthy.org/blog/feed/ .

It also has opml import and EXPORT!!! Yeah!

Search by tag in Google Blog search

Friday, September 16th, 2005

It seems you can search by tag in Google Blog Search, if you enter “tag=cambodia” or “tag-cambodia” you get different results than searching for “cambodia”.

Smart idea for victims of katrina

Monday, September 5th, 2005

Via Fractals of Change , a great idea from Stuart Henshall

Stuart’s idea is that Bell South ought to immediately virtualize all the nonworking phone numbers in the stricken area. VoIP providers can then immediately make it possible for the owners of these numbers to reclaim them from wherever they are, set up voice mail on them, and/or forward them to other working phone numbers. Bell South can have the numbers back when the landlines are restored to service.

Via Doc Searls..