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Last week Scot Gatz gave a presentation about the work the Yahoo! team has been doing around RSS, gave a demo of the new Yahoo! Mail beta, and talked a little bit about where this might all be going in the future.

Some hours after releasing version 1.5 of Firefox, the Mozilla team does the next step and published their roadmap draft for version 2.0, code name: Bon Echo.

It will includes many features that are now availible only as extensions, such as a Session Saver, Autocomplete, Spell-Checking ...

First alpha is coming in February 2006. Hope the guys gonna get it :)

German:

Ein ungewöhnliches Online-Projekt hat die Redaktion von "Washingtonpost.com" ins Leben gerufen. Leser können die Überschriften von Nachrichten und Storys von der Webseite nehmen und "remixen" - also in eigene Angebote integrieren und anders verwenden.

Adam du Vander gestaltete mit ein bisschen Hilfe von Google eine Weltkarte, auf der die Anzahl der eine Region betreffenden Geschichten farblich dargestellt ist. Grüne Balken zeigen niedrige Nachrichten-Aktivität, rote Balken hohe.
[via SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten]

About eight years ago Jackob Nielsen's analysed TV vs. computers and came to the point that broadcast TV is a medium for relaxation, where the "user" sits back and becomes immersed in whatever the program directors decided to air.

Now in the days of video blogging and broadband web news he did the experiement again and got the same results: Eyetracking data show that users are easily distracted when watching video on websites, especially when the video shows a talking head and is optimized for broadcast rather than online viewing.

Jackob Nielsen: Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online

Microsoft have just announced the SSE (Simple Sharing Extensions), which is an implementation of two way item-sharing like a bidirectional RSS.

Simple Sharing extends the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0 and Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) 1.0 specifications.

SSE (which was released under Creative Commons!) is particularly useful for scenarios in which there are multiple updates. For example, SSE could be used to share your work calendar with your spouse — either of you could enter new appointments, even if not currently connected.

More infos at the Simple Sharing Extensions FAQs.

... and more of the day dreamers.

Google recently flirted with Riya that focusses on face recognition in your fotos. It seems that Google is going to extend their image search, so we will find our friends on every snapshot out there.

Read/WriteWeb gives a good conclusion on the FeedBurners Market Report . The three main themes he grabbed are:

1. RSS feeds encompass much more than blogs now
2. Feed becomes input to content on the site
3. Focus on the feed item - attach threads to the item and track it across the Web while it gets remixed and re-published

... Read/Write

The first round of this battle ended and the judges argued but to no avail—no winner, so today we’re here to watch the second round of the match sponsored by dotone. Stick to your seats no ads are going to interrupt this round. Ting-Ting! Round 2! Fight:

Dotone: AJAX vs Flash, round 2, arena: Web2.0, fight!

See this video of the 100$ laptop, wich is tend to be the one-laptop-per-child-revolution for third world countries. This guy, Andy Carvin, had been in Tunis, where the laptop was presented by Nicholas Negroponte.



[Via engadget]