Archive | June, 2006

Business 2.0: “Feedburner Brands the Feed” — The Return of “Push Technology”

Link for this Post: "Redefining the RSS Feed" John Heilemann, Business 2.0 Magazine.

Those of you who subscribe to my RSS Feed know that I have used Feedburner as my feeding station for almost a year now. Recently, Typepad’s developers Six Apart worked out a deal with Feedburner so that using Feedburner became a lot easier.

Feedburner is making a business out of RSS. Here is an excerpt from the Business 2.0 article:

Mention to Dick Costolo that, for most of this generation’s Web startups, getting funded has been a snap, and he emits a rueful laugh. "Not for us," Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

As Online Ads Grow, Eyeballs Are Valuable Again on the Web — New York Times

Link for this post: "As Online Ads Grow, Eyeballs Are Valuable Again on the Web" by Bob Tedeschi, New York Times.

I’ve had two websites since 1995 and I’ve noticed that traffic is defiantly increasing on both sites.. My site Mind Media was once of the first commercial websites that sold products and Island Web is the longest continuing counterculture site still around.

Here are a couple of excerpts from the Times piece:

THE great eyeball chase is back in full swing. And it does not matter that the eyeballs may not be buying anything. With online advertising revenues growing Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

Google Offering Premium Streaming Videos For Free as Test

Link for this Post: Free Today Videos on Google Video

Google is testing its new ad supported video business model by offering some of its premium priced videos for free. Included are movies, sports, classic movies,documentaries and cartoons plus more.

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By Bruce Eisner

Seed: The Future of Fusion

Link for this Post:: Seed: The Future of Fusion by Britt Peterson

Seed Magazine features a hopeful article about the possibility and potential of fusion generated energy.The subhead of the articles title reads:

"After years as a purely experimental science, a decade-long international effort will make nuclear fusion a reality."

You can read the full article at the link at the top.

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By Bruce Eisner