These posts about RSS might be getting really boring for some but I still think that most people out there and many web sites as well are not really seeing the full implications of this. I am actually starting to wonder if Atom is not going to win as it allows for so much more, but that’s besides the point.
Frank Bajak from AP has a great article you can see here which shows the weight behind it all.
In relation to blogging and rss, M&A has arrived in the field with Tocows acquirering BlogRolling.com!
BlogRolling.com presently tracks over 500,000 weblog links for more than 32,000 users. Each day BlogRolling.com serves over 1.5 million blogrolls to users of all major weblog platforms. BlogRolling.com is a blogroll management service; a list of links that a website or weblog owner can include in their web pages as a public list of bookmarks.
I am personally publishing my blogroll via Bloglines, which I use as my aggregator anyway.
Monthly Archives: February 2004
RSS Catching On
BlogBinders.com
I just registered with BlogBinders.com thanks to a pointer by Jeremy. It allows you, theoretically, to make your blog into a book. The bad thing is that it isn’t available for TypePad if I see it right. I sent in the request because this would be a really nice thing to do with the OUBS Blog once my studies are finished. Not for publishing but just to have.
Blogging as advantage
Loic posted about a nice article from John Battelle about blogging being a potential advantage in your job. Sadly I can’t read the entire article because it is subscription only and I don’t qualify for the Business 2.0 US subscription which is at a good price actually. The European version is just too expensive.
Anyway, back to the article. What John is actually talking about it seems, from the short excerpt that Loic has posted, is the interplay of blogs and rss or syndication in general. I’d probably argue that syndication can already change your reading habbit quite a bit and it allows for it to change even more extensively as you can read lots of individual web sites. Knowledge within the individual is huge but is hard to share and this has changed now. With the people I got into blogging and/or rss they all had to say that they were amazed at how much information was at their finger tipps, how much they could be reading, learning, sharing.
Blogger Meetings in Germany
Looking to meet some bloggers? Loic le Meur is doing a small tour through Germany and is scheduling some blogger dinners. Add yourself to the Wiki page if you care to join us.
Pissing your skirt
Yes, it really does look as if she would be pissing on her skirt… Other than that I have nothing more to ad to Heiko’s post about the ad in germany. What a strange ad. Especially because she smiles so weird!
Servers getting cheaper
1&1, part of United Internet, has just reduced their prices on their Root-Servers. You get a full server with backup capability of the entire HD and 75GB of Traffic for 69 EURs per month. You can even get two, connect them via the Serial Port and have full management capabilities if any one of them goes down. This is starting to be interesting if you start some kind of company I think. Just add a few ones if you need more power, adding 20.000 if you want to play Google and only pay 1.2 million a month (probably less with discounts 
) and run lots of stuff via Akamai. And 1&1 is also available in the US now too. You could even spread stuff via different data centers and take F5 Network gear to balance it arround the world.
We are Numer 3!
We would be germans and the list would be Forbes World’s Richest People 2004. And the germans are Theo and Karl Albrecht, owners of the Aldi Supermarket chain. Numer one is as always Bill Gates III, number two goes to the undisputed Warren Buffet. Number 4 goes to Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud and 5 to Paul Allen. Then we have place 6-10, all belong to somebody connected to Wallmart 
Get to know Google
Want to know what is to know about Google? A great starting point would be: Wired 12.03: The Complete Guide to Googlemania!.
Lots of great stuff about the IPO and IPOs in general and how they change people. Or find out about potential outcomes of the Google IPO or lots of great Google API users or some amazing redesigns.
RSS Going Mainstream
Now that Forbes is writing about RSS, I think we can safely say that we are going mainstream. All I will now talk about is Atom, to make sure I keep my geek factor
To always have a 101 with anything about RSS, check this one out. Very nice read and good focus for the marketing people looking at RSS.
Cannabis on the legal track
Great article at FastCompany called The Cannabis Conundrum, which talks about new research going on arround the use of Cannabis as a medicine. This has actually been going on for some time already but it seems that we are starting to go into big business, especially with GW Pharmaceuticals having developed a Cannabis spray that allows you to take the drug, or medicine to put it correctly, without needing to smoke it. Looks like Bayer, yep the big german company, will market one of the first drugs in the not to distant future.
