Archive for October, 2008

Times Tags

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Good move by the Times in opening up the Times Tags API. I can’t wait to play with it.

I’m glad they are being so clueful about this. Opening up API access to your content is the next form of Advanced SEO, and the Times is on top of it. I hope the Globe is able to follow suit.

Digg coming to my turf

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Greg Linden talks about how Digg may be working on personalized news. This is entirely expected. Every infomediary, aggregator and publisher needs to be working on technology like this if they want to survive. By 2011, every web user will demand that all websites be intensely personalized. Like Serendeputy.

Hubris alert: I realize I haven’t launched anything yet. Working on it…

Why you need to own your email

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I have GMail and Yahoo Mail accounts for testing, but I’ve never relied on them as the primary email address. This is why.