Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Greenspun: "While Microsoft is trying to replace Google with MSN Search, Google will be trying to replace Microsoft Office with Google Web-based Office." 

Giles Turnbull reviews aggregators for Mac OS X. 

According to Ray Daly, Lyris is adding RSS support to their "great email list manager software." 

Steve Hooker offers free Manila hosting to any weblogs.com author. Steve is a pleasure to work with, a real pro. There are other such offers in the works. Note, we won't have to wait until July 1 to do these transfers, and I will install redirects, so links won't break.  

No question, Orlowski is writing comedy. I laughed five times reading this. Especially the parts about BloggerCon. "The only way I would attend such a conference is with a bottle in front of me or a frontal lobotomy." 

Dan Mitchell takes issue with Orlowski's piece. BTW, the free hosting was for four years, not two. 

Press release: "The Mozilla Foundation today announced the immediate availability of a new preview release of its next generation web browser, Mozilla Firefox 0.9." 

Adam Curry reviews Blogmatrix Jager. 

Thanks to Doc Searls for explaining what's going on with free hosting at weblogs.com. So far there are 44 sites that will looking for new homes shortly after July 1. If you're running a Manila hosting service and would like to adopt one or more of these sites, that would be great. If you can work with people to convert their sites to other formats, that would be great too. If you have an offer to help people with free weblogs.com sites, please send me a link and I'll pass it on. 

Engadget: "With our crack-like addiction to RSS feeds we’re pleased to see that SmartPhone users have an interesting option to view RSS feeds on their phones." 

Steve Rubel: Contrary to Reports, RSS Feeds Can Be Searched.