Google buys out Jaiku, the microblogging platform that is a bit more serious than Twitter and Pownce. Why? Well, Twitter is the popular kid and has all the gadgets and messaging interfaces, but you cannot extend it beyond its mass appeal interface. Pownce was always aimed at the teen market with its buzz and image-video upload. No sirree, Jaiku is […]
RSS is recognised as one of the salient tools that enables the distributed nature of the Web, allowing users to get the news pushed to them (who can browse for news on all the world’s websites?). However, this feature did not answer the same problem it sought to address – what happens when you have too many RSS feeds to […]
Brilliant video of the foreseen merger of Google and Amazon by 2014, and the way that “news” will be created. I actually think we are almost there, after all, if you can dream it you can build it. And if you build it, they will come. All my mates in online media, heed, http://idorosen.com/mirrors/robinsloan.com/epic/