Category: Products

Wasted literally over a hour this morning re-reading irritating threads that led in many ways to the nEcho project. When my blood pressure returns to normal, I may point to some of them just to remind people of how we got where we are now. Meanwhile, I was delighted to learn that I’ve been included…

As a way of hammering away at TypePad’s feature set, I’ll try to build a nice list of FOAF links for the sidebar. BTW, so far I have only the slightest quibbles about user-feedback in a few contexts. The design seems really well thought through and reflects obviously many best practices inherited from or learned…

Dori Smith has posted some Movable Type bookmarklets that work with Safari to Backup Brain, the excellent weblog she publishes with Tom Negrino. Thanks, Dori!

Jeff Jarvis reports on a sneak preview of AOL’s upcoming weblogging entrant, saying “They’ve done a good job.” Jeff was invited along with Meg Hourihan, Nick Denton, Anil Dash, and Clay Shirky to preview the service, called AOL Journals. Discussing the meeting from the AOL perspective, an AOL employee named Kevin writes in his blog,…

Dave Winer claims that Evan Williams left UserLand off a list of Blogger’s competitors, calling this chilling. In the post Dave refers to, Blogger API Update, the closest thing I can find to any “list of competitors” is in list item 5: Interoperability. This is a biggie. At least two other major blogging tool and…