For Mac fans, there’s a new RSS and Atom News Reader for OS X, with an interesting new twist. Mesa Dynamics today said it had released Tickershock, “an interactive RSS and Atom news headline reader inspired by the news crawls of 24-hour cable news channels”. Tickershock, it says, is “a departure from typical RSS applications… Read More »
A new blogging website was launched yesterday which includes one or two interesting features that might catch on elsewhere. JoeUser.com, launched by Stardock Corp, is basically a free blog service. But it also: Automatically posts the newests articles on any JoeUser.com site on every other JoeUser.com page; Has a ‘SlashDot-style’ Peer review function. Readers can… Read More »
Robert Scoble, the Microsoft blogger whom I wrote about in a recent column, has scaled back his accessibility to the media (thanks Steve Rubel). From now on, journalists’ requests for interviews are forwarded to Microsoft’s main PR company, Waggner Edstrom. Robert and the other bloggers at Microsoft have been a breath of fresh air for journalists… Read More »
Just updated my typelist of software worth checking out. There’s nothing on there I don’t use so I’m trying to keep the list down to a minimum. New additions are: 1st TurboRun: Fast access to files and programs. Check out my brief review here. $20 Stick: Post-It note-like tabs to store text, folders etc that… Read More »
Interesting piece by TechWeb News on Microsoft employee Raymond Chen, who has “saved every spam message and virus-laden e-mail he’s received at work since 1997”. More intriguingly, he has “graphed the spams and viruses to create a cool visual representation of one man’s malicious traffic”. The resulting chart is fascinating. You can see the whole… Read More »