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This is my old blog which I don't really update much anymore. I do love paging through the old archives, perhaps you will too.

WordPress + Yahoo!

Seems like a busy day today, but I’m psyched that we can finally talk about the news about WordPress and Yahoo! Web Hosting. Matt Mullenweg (creator of WordPress) announces the WordPress on Yahoo deal. What this means is that if you sign up for Yahoo! Web Hosting, you can now get WordPress in a one-click […]

My Syndicate 2005 Presentation

At last week’s Syndicate conference, I got the chance to give a lunchtime keynote in front of about 200-300 attendees (its hard to count while you are presenting 😉 ). I walked through the work my team has been doing around RSS, gave a demo of the new Yahoo! Mail beta, and talked a little […]

Last Night’s RSS Marketing Industry “Roundtable”

Last night I was invited to attend a dinner to discuss issues that marketers and aggregators are facing as people are beginning to use RSS as a marketing channel. People in traditional email marketing businesses are asking how they can deliver “One-to-one marketing” via RSS – that is, how can they track and target individuals […]

Off to Syndicate

This week is the Syndicate Conference in San Francisco.   When I went to the first Syndicate in May in NYC, I was floored at the idea that there would even be a whole conference dedicated to content syndication/RSS.   When we started working on RSS here, Dave Winer had just launched RSS 2.0 we weren’t sure […]

Yahoo + del.cio.us

I’m really excited about the news that Josh Schacter and his del.icio.us service are now part of the Yahoo! family. I know that we’ve been talking for a long time about how to work together, and I’m so glad that its come to fruition. I personally believe that harnessing the power of community to help […]

RSS Alerts

Yesterday, we put out TWO new products.    One was the much blogged about/talked about RSS Reader in the new Yahoo! Mail.    The other, was the ability to get IM, SMS or Email alerts to any RSS Feed out there.   We call it Feed/Blog Alerts and its live now on http://alerts.yahoo.com/ If you have never used […]

Yahoo Mail’s full post RSS reader

As you can probably guess, I’m a big fan of My Yahoo! And use it as the primary way I keep up with RSS feeds and all sorts of other content. I love it because I can quickly see all my news at a glance in a format of my own choosing. And lots of […]

Out of the loop / Reruns

I’ve had a busy few days: my birthday, friends from out of town visiting and now I’m off for Thanksgiving. This is the first week since I’ve been blogging that I’ve missed my goal of posting at least 2 times a week. When I worked in TV, this is the time of the year that […]

Monetizing your RSS feed

You may have caught the news yesterday that Yahoo Publisher Network has added support for ads in RSS feeds. If you are a YPN beta user, you can now (in addition to having ads on your blog or site) include ads within your full post RSS feed. This makes me think about the broader question […]

Sites without RSS?

Here is my bold statement: By the end of 2006, all content on the web will be available in a subscribable format (RSS, Atom, whatever). This is both a challenge to the industry and a firm belief that we can make this happen. But then I see this post from Cori Schlegel. He looked at […]