I honestly laughed when I saw the new “Open Social Web” Bill of Rights launched yesterday, not because it isn’t to some extent a useful idea, but because of one specific term… Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others. 10 months ago I fired off a heated debate about RSS sharing, and how Google with it’s easy to share feeds could be killing the … [Read more...]
Sphinn Support – Antisocial (SEO Friendly Sociable) WordPress Plugin
I have just added support for Sphinn to my hacked version of the popular Sociable plugin. For those unfamiliar with Antisocial, these are the differences All links have nofollow added – this might sound strange coming from someone who strongly supports the removal of nofollow from comments, but there is no logical purpose having a followable link to a social bookmark … [Read more...]
7+7 Reasons Why Google Buying FeedBurner is a Match Made in Heaven & Hell
Rumours have been surfacing for the last few days that Google might be buying FeedBurner for around $100M. Listed below you will find 7 reasons Google and Feedburner are a perfect match, and 7 equally compelling reasons we should be concerned. Match Made In Heaven? There are some very positive reasons that this is an ideal match and I am going to concentrate on those … [Read more...]