tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162334802024-03-07T00:46:27.802-08:00Web clips collected from the webBetohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1130879736712115072005-11-01T11:23:00.000-08:002005-11-01T13:15:36.746-08:00Microsoft Live Web 2.0There was enough expectation for today's Microsoft announcement and as reported at <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B466C68C2-7DE1-4214-A49B-72C4957F869E%7D" title="Microsoft to push into Web software">Marketwatch</a> it is just the beginning of Microsoft's 5-year big bet iteration towards <a href="http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=14249&hed=MS+to+Offer+Hosted+Services">software as a service</a>. <br /><br />Last week, Scoble's Silicon Valley tour - which included a trip to <a href="http://www.searchengine-weblog.com/50226711/zeitgeist_to_launch.php" title="Zeitgeist to launch">Google's Zeitgeist</a> - got him scared because Microsoft is getting late to the foundations of the Online <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/10/29/silicon-valley-got-my-attention-the-future-of-web-businesses/" title="Silicon Valley got my attention: the future of Web businesses">Attention</a> Economy, this move is needed to protect their market share and <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmor/?p=175" title="Attention Bunny">confront the Google challenge</a>, which could lead to a Office-in-a-box potential demise and the generation of new office productivity applications using <a href="http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/10/turn_on_a_dime.html">social computing</a> paradigms.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.attentiontrust.org/services">Attention recording</a> is not only meant to be used by <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/10/29/silicon-valley-got-my-attention-the-future-of-web-businesses/">Monetization Gadgets</a>, it could also lead to a better user/developer experience, this is important and Microsoft's <a href="http://www.live.com">Live</a> move is the first step to not add one more reason to <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/11/01/ross-doesnt-trust-microsofts-approach-to-web">Scoble's list of reasons why Web 2.0 entrepreneurs are not using Microsoft's stuff</a> because <a href="http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/10/turn_on_a_dime.html">not everyone is waiting for Vista</a>.<br /><br />You can check out some of the coverage <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/11/01/microsoft-talks-about-its-new-services-strategy/">via Scoble</a>, my preferred one so far is <a href="http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=18">Michael Arrington's Real Time Notes</a> about the event. Until they publish a recorded version you can check out these blogs: <br /><ul><li><a href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/livecom/">Live.com Blog</a> (formerly start.com?)</li><br /><li><a href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/mailcall/">Windows Live Mail Blog</a> (formerly Kahuna)</li><br /><li><a href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/safetycenter/">Windows Live Safety Center Blog</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/MessengerSays/">Windows Live Messenger Blog</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://spaces.msn.com/members/windowsonecare/">Windows OneCare Live Blog</a></li><br /></ul>Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1130274783703522032005-10-25T11:38:00.000-07:002005-10-25T20:28:17.256-07:00Semantic Google BaseSo I was wrong on the name and scope of my <a href="http://web-clips.blogspot.com/2005/10/is-googlehosting-coming.html">GoogleHosting prediction</a>, they are working on a hosting project but their plan is bigger, they are going to let content <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/rumor-of-day.html" title="Rumor of the day">owners submit their content to Google</a> to build a enormous web database. <br /><br />So this got me thinking about how are they going to handle the huge amount of information that will be coming, it looks like they are using a distributed structured storage system called BigTable, which was presented last week in a <a href="http://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/unrestricted/colloq/details.cgi?id=437">talk at University of Washington</a> where they mentioned it is in use in Google Print, My Search History, Orkut, Crawling/Indexing pipeline, Google Maps/Google Earth, Blogger, <a href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2005/10/google-reader-two-weeks.html">Google Reader</a> and others.<br /><br />According to this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirson/55908013/">screenshot</a> and these <a href="http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-10-26-n16.html">others</a> the service will have these features:<br /><ul><br /><li>An option to advertise a service you offer or an item you sell.</li><br /><li>An option for webmasters to upload articles.</li><br /><li>An option to researchers to publish their work.</li><br /></ul><br />And they are going to organize the information with labels and attributes, this means more metadata to filter and rank the search results. This move is really interesting and it is not only a move to <a href="http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/002705.html" title="Google's Arrival into Real Estate">compete against Craigslist</a> or <a href="http://streetsideinvestor.com/2005/10/watch-out-ebay-googles-got-something.html" title="Watch Out, eBay!!">eBay</a> but it is the <a href="http://torrez.us/archives/2005/10/24/407" title="BigTable saves the semantic web">RDF store</a> that Adam Bosworth was talking about in the <a href="http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail571.html" title="Database Requirements in the Age of Scalable Services">MySQL Users Conference 2005</a>. If they are successful with this project they will have taken one more step in their <a href="http://bambi.blogs.com/bambi_francisco/2005/10/googles_pursuit.html">pursuit for knowledge</a>, I hope that the automatic filter that may be in place when an item goes from <a href="http://blog.outer-court.com/files/google-base/9.gif">items status</a> "Processing - will publish soon" to "Published" will be good enough to handle spam.Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1129779136226322562005-10-19T16:48:00.000-07:002005-10-21T17:37:46.086-07:00Agile and innovative Microsoft at Gartner ITxpoSteve Ballmer was interviewed this Wednesday at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2005 in Orlando, for those who could not assist there is <a href="http://sym.blog.gartner.com/blog/index.php?blogid=6" title="Symposium/ITxpo 2005">blog coverage</a> and a <a href="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/z/e/200510/ballmergartner.mp3" title="Ballmer at Gartner MP3">copy of the interview</a> and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2005/10-19Gartner.mspx">a transcript</a>, here are some things to point out about this <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/sep05/09-20ExecChangesPR.mspx" title="Microsoft Realigns for Next Wave of Innovation and Growth">re-organized Microsoft</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Strategy in the changing world</span><br /><br />Windows brings massive community of developers with users together, similar to what eBay does with buyers/sellers and what online advertising does with advertisers, content producers and end users, there are a lot of opportunities to deliver new value on the client, server and the internet cloud.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Innovation is a top priority</span><br /><br />There are 3 scenarios to innovate, short-term (MSN), mid-term (Office) and long-term (Windows). The "greatest innovation pipeline" includes:<br /><br /><ul><li>Windows Vista. <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/">WinFX</a>, <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnlong/html/introtowcf.asp" title="Introduction to Building Windows Communication Foundation Services">Communication Foundation</a> (<a href="http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/mlorengo/archive/2005/02/13/54273.aspx" title="Indigo Resources">Indigo</a>), <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnlong/html/wpf101.asp" title="A Guided Tour of Windows Presentation Foundation">Presentation Foundation</a> (<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/articles/475132.aspx" title="Avalon Blogs">Avalon</a>), <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MSHWiki" title="MSH Wiki">MSH</a> (<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/monad/" title="Monad Technology Blog">Monad</a>), <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/WinFS" title="WinFS Team Blog">WinFS</a> and <a href="http://www.longhornblogs.com/" title="Longhorn Blogs">others</a> (<a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Windows+Vista">Channel9 Media</a>)</li><br /><li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie" title="IEBlog">Internet Explorer</a> 7 (<a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Internet+Explorer">Channel9 Media</a>)</li><br /><li>Server Releases. <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver" title="Windows Server Division WebLog">Windows Division</a>, <a href="http://www.sqljunkies.com/weblog/Bloggers.aspx?GroupID=5" title="Microsoft SQLJunkies Bloggers">SQL Server</a> 2005, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/Community/default.mspx" title="Biztalk Server Community">Biztalk Server</a> 2005 and the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005" title="Visual Studio 2005">development tools</a>.</li><br /><li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile" title="Windows Mobile Team Blog">Windows Mobile</a> with gadgets like the <a href="http://motoq.blogspot.com/">Moto Q Smartphone</a> (<a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Windows+Mobile">Channel9 Media</a>)</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/developers/default.mspx" title="The future of Microsoft Office">Office 12</a> (<a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.OfficeDevelopmentBlogs">Development Blogs</a>)</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.majornelson.com" title="Xbox Live Director of Programming">XBox 360</a> and the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/xna" title="Microsoft XNA">game development platform</a> (<a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Xbox">Channel9 Media</a>)</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/tv" title="Microsoft TV">Interactive TV</a> in the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/mce">Media Center</a></li><br /></ul><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Agility in the engineering system</span><br /><br />To enhance integration and detect possible issues earlier - like security - Microsoft <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112743680328349448,00.html" title="Requires subscription">changed its development methodology</a> to <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=112428" title="Channel9 Video: Writing Agile Software">write agile software</a> and <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=112428" title="Channel9 Video: Software Factories">reuse components</a>, focusing in customer interaction through betas with huge-impact products like <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/WinFS" title="WinFS Team Blog">WinFS</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The web as the end-user environment</span><br /><br />MSN is globally the leader in time spent online thanks to <a href="http://advertising.msn.dk/Home/Article.aspx?pageid=200&linkid=643" title="Facts on MSN">the number of subscribers</a> of MSN Messenger, Hotmail and MSN Spaces and to enhance web services experiences some things to work with are security in the browser, search integration and extending local desktop components<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Innovation in search as the strategy</span><br /><br />There are plenty of opportunities to innovate and compete in the search market, specially for the business end-user. Relevance will be enhanced when the search engine remembers the things I do respecting my privacy using technologies like <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/nlp/" title="Natural Language Processing">natural language</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">On Virtualization</span><br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy" title="Virtual Server Blog">Virtual Server</a> <a href="http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2005/10/microsoft-management-technologies.htm"> 2005 R2</a>'s features are able to compete with <a href="http://www.virtualization.info/2005/10/xensource-vs-vmware-war-imminent.html">upcoming open source competitors</a> until the release of the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/apr05/04-20VirtualizationInvestmentsPR.mspx">hypervisor</a> in 2008.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">A better Unix than Linux</span><br /><br />There are more migrations from Unix to Linux and Microsoft wants to be more competitive with the <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/volkerw/archive/category/9524.aspx" title="64-bit Windows Blog">Compute Cluster Edition</a> of Windows Server <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/hpc/default.mspx">High-Performance Computing</a>, lightweight <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/conrad" title="Hosting on Windows Server System Blog">windows-based hosting</a> and <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/stanislas/" title="ISA Server 2004 Weblog">security</a> in <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/default.aspx" title="Windows Embedded Community">appliances</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Ajax convergence with the rich client</span><br /><br />Storage, processing and visualization are powerful in a rich local environment and will converge with technologies oriented to services like <a href="http://atlas.asp.net">Atlas</a> in applications like the <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=118322" title="Channel9 Video: New Hotmail">new Hotmail</a> <a href="http://www1.imagine-msn.com/minisites/hotmail" title="Mail Beta!">Kahuna</a><br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Service Oriented Architecture Interoperability</span><br /><br />Microsoft's focus is to bring the interoperability standards for <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices" title="MSDN Web Services Developer Center">Web Services</a> in Windows products like <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpowell/archive/category/827.aspx" title="Web Services Blog ASP.NET category">ASP.NET</a> and <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Biztalk" title="Channel9 Media: Biztalk">Biztalk</a> towards better use of RSS-like protocols.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Management tools and Total Cost of Ownership</span><br /><br />TCO is a high priority and tools like the <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/">System Center Capacity Planner</a> are part of the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dsi/" title="Dynamic Systems Initiative">Dynamic Systems</a> and Infrastructure Optimization initiatives.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Simplifying licenses</span><br /><br />Microsoft's simplest license available is the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/programs/ent">Enterprise Agreement</a> and there have been announcements of licensing in <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/Oct05/10-10VirtualizationStrategyPR.mspx">virtualization scenarios</a>, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/highlights/multicore.mspx">multicore processors</a> and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/sharedsourcelicenses.mspx">shared source</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Watch this in the future</span><br /><br /><ul><li>Software as a managed service like what <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/aug05/08-31FrontBridgeCompletePR.mspx">FrontBridge</a> does and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/consulting.mspx">Microsoft Consulting Services</a> looks like will be focusing on.</li><br /><li>Innovation to help users be more productive.</li></ul><br /><br />This is where Microsoft is heading but I did not get the tip I was looking for, there was some hype before Web 2.0 conference about <a href="http://web-clips.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-company-does-scoble-wants-to.html">what company Scoble wanted Microsoft to acquire</a>, and he is still <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/10/13/the-race-to-time-based-and-blog-search/">expecting the check</a>. Now I agree it <a href="http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2005/10/rss-king-is-dead-long-live-rss-king.html">could be Newsgator</a> but <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/10/14/first-screen-shot-of-sphere/">Sphere</a> looks interesting too, for sure I'll get back to this.Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1129693249109387822005-10-18T16:49:00.000-07:002005-10-18T20:40:49.140-07:00Improve usefulness of the blogosphereApparently this weekend Blogger was hit by a spam-blog bomb and it fired a lot of posts about it <a href="http://tech.memeorandum.com/051017/p20#a051017p20">on Memeorandum</a>, reactions included <a href="http://www.icerocket.com/">Icerocket</a>'s decision to <a href="http://blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000717063627/">stop indexing new blogspot posts</a>, Jeff Harvis' request to <a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/10/16/f-the-spam-bloggers/">share secrets to ignore spam blogs</a> and Chris Pirillo's request to <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/blog/_archives/2005/10/16/1302867.html" title="Google: Kill Blogspot Already!!!">kill Blogspot</a>. Google is already taking some action by adding some <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2005/10/spam-barriers.html">spam barriers</a>.<br /><br />The discussion is still going <a href="http://tech.memeorandum.com/051018/p57#a051018p57">on Memeorandum</a>, with <a href="http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20051018092212" title="State of the Splogosphere">Randy Charles</a> stating that if not on Blogspot, spam-bloggers will try somewhere else and Chris Pirillo's <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/blog/_archives/2005/10/17/1306741.html" title="Ten Suggestions for Google's Blogspot">suggestions for Blogspot</a>. I like specially the <span style="font-style:italic;">Probationary Period</span> suggestion which could be implemented similar to how Gmail was adding the number of invites through usage before, other actions should be coordinated with tools similar like the <a href="http://www.splogreporter.com/">Splog Reporter</a> and browser/toolbar extensions to report spam-blogs.<br /><br />Cleaning the blogosphere it's not the only way to improve usefulness, to solve some <a href="http://web-clips.blogspot.com/2005/10/more-things-to-consider-on-blog.html">blog usability</a> issues Ajax could help. There is an <a href="http://ajaxblog.com/archives/2005/10/15/ajax-wordpress-theme-coming">Ajax WordPress Theme coming</a> soon, here is a <a href="http://www.bloxpress.org/wp-content/techdemo.html" title="Bloxpress Techdemo Beta">Flash-based Techdemo</a> which shows some functionality, it looks promising.Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1129679297195221492005-10-18T11:52:00.000-07:002005-10-18T16:48:17.220-07:00More things to consider on Blog UsabilityYesterday Jakob Nielsen posted an article about <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html" title="Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes">weblog usability</a>, which has some interesting suggestions for bloggers interested in building readership, you can follow the discussion <a href="http://tech.memeorandum.com/051017/p38#a051017p38" title="Weblog Usability on tech.memeorandum">on Memeorandum</a> and I am already trying to correct the <span style="font-style:italic;">Nondescript Posting Titles</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">Links don't say where they go</span> design mistakes in this blog but I don't agree with Jakob in:<br /><br /><ul><li><span style="font-style:italic;">Irregular publishing frequency</span>. Usually you discover new posts through subscriptions or search engines</li><br /><li><span style="font-style:italic;">Mixing Topics</span>. You can provide subscriptions for each topic you post about</li></ul><br /><br />I have been doing some thinking about what do I need in a blog to be useful and I am putting the following factors in consideration to find which is the adequate hosting provider/engine for blogging<br /><br /><ul><li>easily discovered RSS/Atom feeds</li><br /><li>visible and simple search</li><br /><li>simple tagging for a lightweight <a href="http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/05_09/tagging-cognitive.html" title="A cognitive analysis of tagging">cognitive process</a></li><br /><li>simple comments/trackback navigation</li><br /><li>full text RSS/Atom feed or customized excerpt feed</li><br /></ul><br /><br />I am still trying to find the best way to quote from other blogs, any thoughts about this?Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1129582422264214462005-10-17T13:37:00.000-07:002005-10-17T13:53:42.270-07:00Cunningham leaving Microsoft going to EclipseThe inventor of Wiki, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham">Ward Cunningham</a> is leaving Microsoft and going to the Eclipse Foundation as <a href="http://milinkovich.blogspot.com/2005/10/ward-cunningham-joins-eclipse.html">Mike Milinkovich</a> reports. Peter Provost, a co-worker in Microsoft's Patterns and Practices Team - <a href="http://www.peterprovost.org/archive/2005/10/17/8707.aspx">shares his thoughts</a>.<br /><br />I love agile development so I bet this is a great gain for Eclipse, you can check a <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=126731">video with him and Sam Gentile</a> available at Channel 9 to watch and listen some of their opinions.Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1129580910972885402005-10-17T12:11:00.000-07:002005-10-17T13:28:30.996-07:00Blog mining in the spotlightAccording to <a href="http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/10/53.html">Technorati's State of the Blogosphere</a> the number of blogs doubles every 5 months, but around 8% of them are spam blogs and around 6% of daily posts are coming from them. These numbers are scary so something has to be fixed, Chris Pirillo wants Google to fix Blogspot - check the <a href="http://tech.memeorandum.com/051016/p10#a051016p10">comments via Memeorandum</a> - and the conversation is <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/blog/_archives/2005/10/16/1304632.html">heating up</a>.<br /><br />Towards getting better information from the blogosphere, as reported by <a href="http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/10/intelliseek_aol.html">Steve Rubel</a> AOL signed a deal with Intelliseek's <a href="http://www.blogpulse.com/">BlogPulse</a>, recently <a href="http://www.buzzmetrics.com/blog/archives/2005/09/buzzmetrics_tre.html">Trendum merged with BuzzMetrics</a> so they are working on something to and as <a href="http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2005/10/sonichealth_is_.html">reported by Data Mining</a> there is a new player: <a href="http://www.sonichealth.com">SonicHealth</a> from <a href="http://www.yoogli.com/">Yoogli</a> coming in the Consumer-Generated Media market and we have to pay attention what <a href="http://blog.cymfony.com/">Cymfony</a>, <a href="http://www.umbrialistens.com">Umbria</a> and maybe Google's Urchin will come up with.<br /><br />If you are trying to do something with blog mining do not forget to review the information discussed in the <a href="http://www.delphigroup.com/events/05_ii/">Information Intelligence 2005 Summit</a> and check MIT's <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/conceptnet/">ConceptNet</a> Project for a knowledge base toolkit.Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1129522690443772442005-10-16T19:18:00.000-07:002005-10-18T11:33:51.370-07:00Is GoogleHosting coming?While searching for blog hosting providers today I went to the WebHostingTalk Forums where I found a <a href="http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=451764">discussion</a> about who got the domain name <a href="http://www.whois.sc/googlehosting.com">googlehosting.com</a>, the winner of the backorder process is Jim Yoon from Dotstar Inc. The domain is not in the <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/txt/google_dom.html">SearchEngineWatch's Google Domains List</a> so I wanted to check if this is something similar to what Google Addiction is reporting about <a href="http://googleaddiction.blogspot.com/2005/10/domain-registration-facts.html">DataDocket and MarkMonitor</a>. So far I only found some relationship with <a href="http://www.google.es/search?q=dotstar+yoon">therightplan.com</a> and <a href="http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2005/d2005-0504.html">newscorporation.com</a> and since there is no clear indication in Tony <a href="http://ruscoe.net/blog/uploads/google-subdomains.txt">Ruscoe's Google Subdomains list</a> that a hosting service is coming, it is just a rumour for now.<br /><br />But the discussion got me thinking about it so I did a <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=googlehosting">blog search about GoogleHosting</a> and the only result found was about GoogleNet speculation - <span style="font-style:italic;">you can read my <a href="http://web-clips.blogspot.com/2005/09/predicting-new-products-from-google.html"> Google Global Net</a> prediction too</span> - and the reduction of bandwidth costs to enhance searching and indexing experiences. <br /><br />As <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1995">Sergey Brin stated at Web 2.0 conference</a>, Google is not focused in producing content but giving access to it and analyzing their business ecosystem, they had commoditized storage via Gmail for the <span style="font-style:italic;">users</span>, they are constantly adding new features - like <a href="https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7677">Flash based ads</a> - for <span style="font-style:italic;">advertisers</span> but <span style="font-style:italic;">publishers</span> are not getting enough love - unless you are <a href="http://www.google.com/services/adsense_weblogs.html">Jason Calacanis</a> - so a hosting service from Google could make web publishers happy too.<br /><br />Google is already hosting blogs like this, <a href="https://upload.video.google.com/">videos</a> and is a <a href="http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/01/31/google_is_now_a_domain_registrar.html">domain registrar</a> so they know enough about the business. In their small business offerings <a href="http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/">Yahoo</a> and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/online/web-hosting/detail.mspx">Microsoft</a> already offer hosting and since there are some reports about hosting providers <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051007-084336">inserting links to hosted content</a> this is a chance to stop this and expand Google AdSense reach, this looks like a <a href="http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/06/22/schmidt-says-g-money-aint-happening-dawg/">natural evolution</a> of Google's existing online products so here is one use for <a href="http://purchases.google.com">Google Purchases</a>, I am still wondering how the <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051008-193944">ad-free subset and micro-payments</a> mentioned by Eric Schmidt will fit in.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Update: </span><span style="font-style:italic;">(20051017)</span> Gary from <a href="http://www.resourceshelf.com/">ResourceShelf</a> was kind enough to do some additional research and it seems that Dotstar is a squatter of the domain. So let's go back to search for a new host.Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1129001765445135282005-10-10T19:13:00.000-07:002005-10-10T20:36:05.460-07:00Tags and labels going mainstreamBrowsing Memeorandum I noticed that everyone was talking about the release of <a href="http://gada.be">gada.be</a>, which is a meta-search engine with an interesting query mechanism that allows searching and filtering via URL, which is really useful for devices with limited display and keyboard capabilities like mobile phones. For more information you can follow the <a href="http://tech.memeorandum.com/051010/p48#a051010p48">discussion via Memeorandum</a> or read their <a href="http://gada.be/about">about page</a>. I don't know how fresh are their results because a search for <a href="http://gada.gada.be">gada</a> brings me no results and as any new service they are having some problems with handling requests but I am sure they will fix it fast.<br /><br />What interests me the most is that they are retrieving tagged results using API calls and giving back resources like this <a href="http://web20.gada.be/opml">opml list for Web 2.0</a>, so some development towards alternative user interfaces and ranking mechanisms can be build on top of this. I am already expecting an API for the recently launched <a href="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</a> which allows me to label - Google's word for tagging - my subscriptions and each post and know how Yahoo's blog search results evolve, here are the <a href="http://blog.news.search.yahoo.com/blog/search?p=web+2.0">blog results for Web 2.0</a> which include as expected Flickr and My Web 2.0 results.<br /><br />With tags and labels going mainstream will them enable the KISS semantic web?Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1128640912132472372005-10-06T15:21:00.000-07:002005-10-06T16:21:52.136-07:00About tagging in Web 2.0 conferenceBlog posts about <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=web+2.0+conference">Web 2.0 conference</a> are increasing so let's add one more, this one is related to the interesting technology we are using to organize information: tags.<br /><br />In the <a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/10/05/web-20-tagging/">tagging workshop</a> they talked about interestingness which is a new metric used by Flickr, a preliminar comparison with meta-keywords on web pages, private and public tagging and the on-going research for automatic tagging, this phenomen looks interesting and we are going to get the idea of what this means when more <a href="http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/2005/10/05/Tagging-Study-Part-2-Private-vs-Public-Tagging.html">tagging studies</a> are available. This is definitely the KISS approach to what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework">RDF</a> is trying to achieve for the semantic web.<br /><br />In the <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7997">Open Source Infrastructure workshop</a> open media concepts dominated the interaction between the panelists, worth to mention is <br /><a href="http://microformat.org">microformatting</a> which is an attempt to organize blog content, combined with the launch of <a href="http://www.wink.com">Wink</a> to integrate tagging and search engines and the <a href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=6b3c3587-4e5a-496b-9a97-8687cfcb9f5d">release</a> of the <a href="http://www.attentiontrust.org/">Attention Trust</a> Recorder Firefox extension to log a user's clickstream online ads will get better as suggested in the <a href="http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=13876&hed=Web+Ads+Should+Be+Smarter">Web 2.0 Ad Models</a> panel.<br /><br /><b>Tag driven ads</b> are the next big thing on the webBetohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1128548777884744512005-10-05T09:51:00.000-07:002005-10-05T16:25:45.136-07:00Personal, specialized and general search enginesAnother interesting <a href="http://tech.memeorandum.com/051003/p26#a051003p26">discussion about search</a> I missed on the weekend was started by Scoble and it is related about "Perfect Search" Chapter of John Battelle's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591840880/">The Search</a>, in the follow-ups concepts like query refinement, tags, freshness, clusters, the semantic web and natural language interaction are mentioned. I believe that the perfect search depends on what you are really looking for so I'll share what I need right now.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Things you know or you are interested in</span><br /><br />My computer is my personal digital repository of things I've seen, read or browse and desktop search engines are already helping me find this stuff, though I need query refinement tools because I don't always remember the exact keywords in the documents. Also some are trying to find some stuff that may interest me using my browsing history patterns.<br /><br />But what is really needed is some way to categorize this information, similar to what we do with folders in the file systems but with tagging flexibility, something like personal tagging that will cluster the query results and identify similar interests using these tags. The work in progress being done by the recently introduced <a href="http://www.wink.com">Wink</a>, the personal search engine <a href="http://www.rollyo.com/">Rollyo</a> and the <a href="http://structuredblogging.org/">Structured Blogging</a> organization is worth to watch in this area.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Things you don't know and you work with</span><br /><br />When you need something for work or school that you don't know, the best places to find it are the intranet (enterprise search), the databases/digital libraries you have access to (vertical search) or online communities (social search); <a href="http://www2.cio.com/ask%5Cexpert/2005/questions/question2070.html">query refinement and clustering</a>, some implementations of <a href="http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/2004_07_01_resourceshelfextra_archive.html/#109114760046163042">natural language related work</a>, some kind of simple <a href="http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/10/03/semantic-web-starting-points/">semantic web</a> implementations like <a href="http://taghop.org">taghop</a> category relater and the use of alternative interfaces to display the results like <a href="http://www.visual-io.com/search/index.html">SearchIris</a> will ease the finding of our information needs in this area.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Things you just don't know</span><br /><br />Here is where Scoble's example fit and it is the main interest of the big players in the search engine market, I have different search patterns so I will search on <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=new+york+hotels">new york hotels</a> and will enter some of the sites suggested in the results page to find the ones with "free wifi and good view" but what will really help me is that I could enter <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=new+york+hotels+free+wifi+good+view">new york hotels free wifi good view</a> and it will return a list of hotels - obtained by querying the specialized databases provided by those sites - with some user opinions about their services - probably extracted from blogs or forums.<br /><br />How far are we from it?, to get started let's pay attention to what the blogosphere will talk about Web 2.0's workshop <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=web+2.0+%22new+ideas+in+search%22&btnG=Search+Blogs">New Ideas in Search</a> and posts tagged <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/web+2.0">Web 2.0</a>, if only I could search on "search" in these results will be great...Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1128134999670395442005-10-04T13:49:00.000-07:002005-10-04T13:30:16.236-07:00What are Google and Sun working onToday's <a href="http://wcdata.sun.com/webcast/archives/VIP-2166/">Sun and Google news conference</a> was widely expected, some where predicting an Ajax/XUL <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3553371">Google OpenOffice</a> Suite and it would have been a real surprise because there was no indication that work related was being done, the <a href="http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-10/sunflash.20051004.1.html">official agreement</a> is the distribution of their software technologies, although some are <a href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/Google_And_Sun_To_Promote_Each_Other_-_No_Google_Office">not excited</a> about the announcement, there are important things to consider about this.<br /><br /><ul><li>Last month Microsoft's PDC Conference <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1857744,00.asp">courted developers</a> for <br />upcoming .Net technologies, Java needed something like these to keep being a big player in the developers wars and Google definitely could enhance their APIs to bring more developers aboard.</li><br /><li>As Dana Gardner <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1970">states</a> nowadays it's good to be Google and voice and data network providers should be concerned because this could lead to an efficient VoIP competitor</li><br /><li>Java, OpenOffice, Solaris working with Google's technologies is more food for my <a href="http://web-clips.blogspot.com/2005/09/predicting-new-products-from-google.html">Google Mobile Computer</a> prediction, in fact I believe both companies will be working in something similar to Morfik's <a href="http://www.morfik.com/jst_description.html">JST</a> technology to get software-as-a-service and the-network-is-the-computer concepts finally where they need to be.</li><br /></ul><br /><br />Elsewhere <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1969">David Berlind</a> and <a href="http://gigaom.com/2005/10/04/cheap-publicity-ploy/">Om Malik</a> are giving their opinions about the announcementBetohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1128388244794664232005-10-03T14:03:00.000-07:002005-10-03T22:52:34.916-07:00What company does Scoble wants to acquire<a href="http://www.web2con.com/">Web 2.0</a> conference is starting this Wednesday and I decided to stay offline this weekend to prepare myself for the overload of announcements that are coming, that's why I missed <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/10/01.html#a11313">Scoble's kick-off</a> which was brilliant. He managed to keep us busy thinking why he <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1954">posted the request in his blog</a>, getting the blogosphere to <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/who_does_scoble_want_microsoft_to_buy.php">suggest interesting startups</a> to acquire and get more reasons to convince Microsoft execs that the acquisition is important showing blog power.<br /><br />He states that the company he wants to acquire is working in areas where Vista is not strong, will make an announcement in Web 2.0 conference and it is not cheaper than Flickr and he already said it's not the breaking online news digest <a href="http://tech.memeorandum.com/">Memeorandum</a>, neither the simple web-based tools developers <a href="http://www.37signals.com/">37signals</a>, nor the innovative unplugged web applications newcomer <a href="http://www.morfik.com">Morfik</a>, so let's review the other ones suggested:<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="http://darwinproductions.net/">Darwin Productions</a>. Suggested in Scoble's Mudpit, but they don't look like a company that will help Microsoft to get a significant entry into Web 2.0 market.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.flock.com">Flock</a> The social web browser will launch this week but their Firefox and open source roots are important obstacles.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.feedburner.com">Feedburner</a> They have enough subscribers to get a good price and monetize feeds with Google AdSense, definitely something Microsoft could use, only the Vista reference does not fit.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.technorati.com">Technorati</a> It won't be cheap and Sifry's Linux roots won't make it easier.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.jot.com">JotSpot</a> The business model will be more appealing to Microsoft and application wikis are important in Web 2.0 although it won't be cheap either.</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.jot.com">Zimbra</a> Interesting collaboration suite but Sharepoint, Microsoft Mail and Kahuna should take care of this.</li><br /></ul><br /><br />No winner yet so let's check the <a href="http://www.web2con.com/pub/w/40/workshops.html">Launch Pad Workshops</a> to find the company.<br /><br /><ul><br /><li><a href="http://www.socialtext.com/">Socialtext</a> got recently SAP funding</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.rollyo.com/">Rollyo</a> is a personal search engine but Scoble didn't know about them on Friday</li><br /><li><a href="http://joyent.com/">Joyent</a> sells a box with open source software</li><br /><li><a href="http://web2.0central.com/archives/77">Bunchball</a> is building a platform for Flash-based social applications</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.realtravel.com">RealTravel</a> focuses in sharing travel experiences</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=263">Zvents</a> looks a lot similar to <a href="http://www.eventful.com/">eventful</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=263">Knownow</a> is a company exploring corporate RSS with enterprise syndication solutions for KM</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.orb.com/">Orb Networks</a> is a developer of media delivery software</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.machinephasesystems.com/">Wink</a> is using nanotechnology to provide a social search service with tagging</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.allpeers.com/">AllPeers</a> is a company focused on P2P applications</li><br /><li><a href="http://www.pubsub.com/">PubSub</a> is a persistent query matching engine</li><br /></ul><br /><br />I have no definitive winner yet, well let's wait if Scoble does it, I put some money on Feedburner and Orb NetworksBetohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1127919916065383352005-09-27T20:17:00.000-07:002005-09-30T19:58:43.656-07:00Predicting new products from GoogleToday is <a href="http://www.google.com/logos/7th_birthday.gif">Google's official 7th birthday</a>, although I agree with <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050927-094633">Danny Sullivan</a> and thought it was the 7th, anyway it's a good reason to try the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/putting-crowd-wisdom-to-work.html">predicting game</a> summarizing some of the rumours about Google products not launched yet.<br /><br />I believe these are the products Googlers are betting on, for getting these conclusions I am deeply influenced by the following Eric Schmidt's quotes:<br /><br /> <ul><li>"Why can't we just take an iPod and put everyhing that is known on it and have you carry it around?" (via <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/041203-152128">SearchEngineWatch</a>) from a <a href="http://wesley.stanford.edu/multimedia/Lectures/LastLecture/schmidt.ram">lecture at Stanford's Business School</a></li><br /><li>"As part of our corporate mission, we are interested in promoting universal access to the Internet for users" (via <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050707-093824">SearchEngineWatch</a>) from a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112069176731378945,00.html">statement to the WSJ</a></li><br /></ul><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Google Global Net</span><br />A <a href="http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=65454">dark fiber expert</a>, investments in a <a href="http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=76942">powerline carrier</a> , some <a href="http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=80968">carrier hotel space</a> rumours, a RFP to build an <a href="http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/000475google_plans_national_optical_fiber_network.php">optical DWDM network</a> and the <a href="http://www.bryantpark.org/amenities/wireless.php">sponsorship</a> of some WiFi hotspots show their efforts to bring universal access and the broadband required for VoIP & video.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Google SmartPhone</span><br />Already in the VoIP market, with <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc20050817_0949_tc024.htm">Android's acquisition</a> they got people who build <a href="http://www.danger.com">mobile internet products</a> and were presumably working on a mobile OS with IPTV capabilities, with <a href="http://www.dodgeball.com/aboutus_dball_google.php">Dodgeball</a> they have location-aware services to get a better IM experience and since they did not buy <a href="http://meetro.com/">Meetroduction</a> they may already have geo-proximity technology, add some PIM tools like a <a href="http://calendar.google.com">Calendar</a> and some thin applications similar to the ones they are working in the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4292854.stm">sub-$100 laptops</a> and you know what's next.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Google Mobile Computer</span><br /><br />Google has an <a href="http://www.google.com/support/gsa/bin/answer.py?answer=15898">operating system</a>, since <a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com/2005/08/29.html#a10994">thick clients will still be relevant</a> for a decade they could be working in boxes which will support some of the projects they are already helping like the <a href="http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javadesktop/SummerOfCode2005">Project Looking Glass</a> and the <a href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOC_Accepted_Proposals">Inkscape SVG Editor</a>, this upcoming computer will use their proven search technologies to find the right information in <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2005/05-19newworldofwork.asp">the new world of work</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Google Internet Navigator</span><br /><br />Google Sidebar suggests what information you may be interested and Google Toolbar improves your overall browsing experience in IE, they have a Firefox Team with a <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinkerton/archives/008843.html">Mac expert</a> and Om Malik suggests that they <a href="http://gigaom.com/2005/09/21/google-made-opera-browser-free/">made Opera free</a>, it looks like they are already making the calls so they just need to launch a navigator for branding purposes.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Google AdSense for TV & Print</span><br /><br />Google is already trying <a href="http://beta.news.com.com/Google+takes+ad+sales+to+print/2100-1024_3-5844889.html?">print advertising sales</a> and they were recently looking for a <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050922-085436">product manager for Google TV</a>, if a <a href="http://schlerplotti.typepad.com/squirrelnet/2005/09/google_.html">Google Sidebar is introduced in a Tivo</a> near to you, AdSense will make it to the offline world in magazine articles and closed captions shows.<br /><br />More predictions coming soonBetohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1127795672765572882005-09-26T20:30:00.000-07:002005-09-26T21:42:13.366-07:00Online ad revenues increase 26% and MSN wants a piece of thatThis week started really interesting, in New York <a href="http://www.mixx-expo.com/">MIXX Conference</a> is on and a couple of press releases are getting noticed everywhere in the blogosphere. The IAB released <a href="http://www.iab.net/news/pr_2005_9_26.asp">2005 FH Internet Ad Revenues</a> which show a 26% increase over 2004 FH, via <a href="http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=7976">SearchEngineWatch</a> it looks like those number are on the low side, unless numbers outside US are getting bigger. Search related ads are 40% of approximately $5.8 billion, followed by display ads (20%), classifieds (18%), rich media (8%) and lead generation (6%). CPM is still the preferred choice with 48%, the full report will be available in October, I will be waiting for it.<br /><br />And also in October MSN is going to start testing its paid search service in the US according to the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/sep05/09-26PdSearchSvcPR.mspx">press release</a>, nearly a month since they started using it in Singapore, today they announced the official launch in France. So it is time to start checking <a href="http://advertising.msn.com/">MSN Advertising site</a> and try to find if they are blogging to get some news when it will be available for Latin America, there is enough space for a newcomer and I hope it can help the growth of online advertising here.<br /><br />A request to the <a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com">Scobleizer</a> for a <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com">Channel9</a> video about adCenter, I guess there is none since a <a href="http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=adcenter+channel9&FORM=QBNO">MSN search</a> did not return related results.Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16233480.post-1126142774203644282005-09-07T18:10:00.000-07:002005-09-07T18:26:14.206-07:00Starting overI just started posting my first spanish blog, I could not find a correct translation for <a href="http://clipsweb.blogspot.com">web clips</a> so I just changed the order of the words to use the correct grammar. I am going to post in there primarily IT related articles and as the title says, some web clips from the web for a Latin American spanish-speaking audience. Sometimes I will be commenting some posts from the web and since I don't want to confuse the people coming from non-spanish written resources I am going to use this blog to post those comments in the official Internet language ;)<br /><br />It's time to share my thoughts in the Participation Age.Betohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817732763898665903noreply@blogger.com0