February 25, 2006

Sharing your favourites

- NevilleHobson.com

I like the new Technorati Favorites, the new service where you can add blogs and other sites to a list of favourites that others can also access. It’s the sharing aspect of it that I like most. Others can... ›››

Category: Weblog Tools | Weblogs

February 18, 2006

New FeedDemon beta released

- NevOn

Beta 2 of FeedDemon 2, the RSS aggregator for Windows, was released this week. If you've been testing FD's development versions since release 1.5, this latest beta is worth getting. I've just installed it and the first thing I... ›››

Category: RSS | Software | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools

February 10, 2006

QumanaXP public beta launched

- NevOn

For the past few weeks, I've been trying out the closed beta versions of QumanaXP, an offline blog editing tool that is available in versions for Windows and Mac platforms. While I've not been using it for every post... ›››

Category: Software | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

February 08, 2006

Comments are integral parts of the conversation

- NevOn

While I'm still having a bit of difficulty figuring out whether the 30Boxes calendaring service is worth spending any time with or not, I'm having no such difficulty in seeing the value of a service like coComment. The concept... ›››

January 31, 2006

Forrester Research evaluating corporate blogging solutions

- NevOn

Charlene Li: My definition of a blogging solution is a software or service that enables the online publication and management of a blog. At a minimum, the solution should allow the user to set up a Web page, write... ›››

Category: Business | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

January 17, 2006

FIR Interview - Pete Blackshaw, Intelliseek - January 17, 2006

- NevOn

Following today's joint announcement by Intelliseek and Buzzmetrics on the merger of those two firms into a new company backed by media group VNU, Shel and Neville spoke to Pete Blackshaw, Intelliseek's Chief Marketing and Customer Satisfaction Officer. Conversation... ›››

Filling the market gap for offline blog editors

- NevOn

Some readers of this blog have left some great comments to my post last week about offline blog editors. In that post, I talked about ecto for Windows, BlogJet and Qumana as examples of popular editors for Windows (and... ›››

Category: Software | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

Intelliseek acquired, forms part of new VNU-backed company as VNU looks to be acquired

- NevOn

Two of the leading companies in tracking and analysing what consumers are talking about online have joined forces to create, in the words of the formal press release, the new global standard for measuring and understanding word-of-mouth behavior and... ›››

December 30, 2005

Taking Swicki for a spin

- NevOn

One of the topics Shel and I discussed in show #98 yesterday of The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast was Swicki. Shel's been experimenting with this new search engine on his blog and thinks it's pretty good. So I... ›››

Category: Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

Organizing for the New Year

- NevOn

Housekeeping's on my mind today. After enjoying Christmas in the UK with family, and being almost wholly switched off from the blogosphere for the best part of a week, I'm finding it quite refreshing to sit in front of... ›››

Category: Computing | Software | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

December 21, 2005

Video publishing and other cool things

- NevOn

Interesting developments with video, blogs and mobile phones. Videos of the panel sessions at Les Blogs 2.0 in Paris earlier this month are now available from Vpod.tv, a new video publishing venture from entrepreneur Rodrigo Sepúlveda. You can stream... ›››

December 20, 2005

Write and post to your blog from Performancing for Firefox

- NevOn

This is very nice indeed - Performancing, an extension for Firefox 1.5 that enables you to use write a post and publish it to your blog just by using Firefox.It may be just an extension but it's a pretty... ›››

Category: Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

December 19, 2005

TypePad's indelible record

- NevOn

Noodling around the web and the blogosphere in preparation for tonight's podcast discussion about Six Apart's TypePad outage last Friday, I noticed that in the majority of blog posts I scanned, the bloggers concerned were apologizing for their blogs... ›››

Category: Communication | Reputation | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

Six Apart: Perceptions and the role of communication

- NevOn

This is clearly not a good time for some companies offering blogosphere services. Last week it was Six Apart's nightmare with the TypePad service outage for almost a full day. Now it's the turn of del.icio.us which is still... ›››

Category: Communication | Reputation | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

December 17, 2005

Getting back up to speed with TypePad

- NevOn

A welcome sight for every TypePad customer - you can access the TypePad service again and you can update your blog to reflect accurate content. (Quick jump: I've included some tips below on how to republish your blog and... ›››

Category: Reputation | Software | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

December 15, 2005

A standard symbol for RSS?

- NevOn

One of the topics Shel and I discussed with Rick Klau of FeedBurner during our FIR podcast interview with him on Tuesday was about the challenges of helping 'normal' people understand what RSS is. The acronym itself and the... ›››

December 11, 2005

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Cool Nokia N70 is the business

- NevOn (feed)

Yesterday was a rare day, a day during which I enjoyed playing around with a gadget purely for the sake of it. Getting to know it a bit, trying things out on it to see how it works. Generally,... ›››

Category: Communication | Software | Web/Tech | Weblog Tools | Weblogs

December 05, 2005

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Les Blogs 2.0 kicks off today

- NevOn (feed)

The Les Blogs 2.0 conference in Paris formally starts today and runs until Tuesday evening. The event is completely sold out. Lots already been going on over the weekend, judging from the rapidly-growing Technorati tag list. What's the event... ›››

November 23, 2005

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New Feedster 500

- NevOn (feed)

Feedster has published an updated list of its Top 500, "a list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs." This is the first update since the list debuted in August. This blog was on that list, at... ›››

Category: Marketing | PR | Weblog Tools | Weblogs