Annotating physical environments with 2D "Barcodes"

Chris Heathcote proposes a standard for ''warchalking'' physical locations using 2d barcodes (a machine-readable format) containing RDF. Here's why I don't think it will work... MORE...

BlogLines - a takeaway aggregator

BlogLines works well for me and its main benefit is of course that you need no software installation on your PC to read your blogs; making this a very feasible solution for frequent travellers as well as people using multiple PCs (home, work, other...) MORE...

The quest for the ideal news aggregator (part 5) - Review: FeedReader

Wow! This is cool! FeedReader is a small, lean, light standalone application for Windows. It runs in the system tray and checks your news sources at a configurable interval (want to check BBC News every 5 minutes but some random blog only every hour? no problem!) MORE...

The quest for the ideal news aggregator (part 4) - Review: BlogHog

BlogHog is a basic news-aggregator site in a layout inspired by Google News. It does the trick, but isn't really very configurable. MORE...

The quest for the ideal news aggregator (part 3) - Review: NewsIsFree...

I'm on a roll, playing around with a couple of web-based news-aggreagators. Here's a short review of www.newsisfree.com MORE...

The quest for the ideal news aggregator (part 2) - Review: Fyuze.com

In response to fyuze.com creator Justin's comment to my posting looking for an ideal news aggregator, I decided to give it a spin. Here's the review. MORE...

Still looking for that ideal news aggregator

After I wrote the article about providing XML feeds from your website, I thought maybe I should become one of those power users too. This article is the first of a series analyzing various RSS news aggregators. MORE...