Posts from May 2004

Gordon has a great post up about blogging’s essential appeal.

It lets me peer at his refrigerator door every day.

And I am glad it does.

Longtime readers of this blog know that one of the technologies I want most is wireless power.

Ash pointed me to a UK startup called Splashpower. This company makes a surface that you can lay your devices on and they power up. No wires needed.

That’s not exactly what I had in mind, but its cool nonetheless.

I want all airports, Starbucks, etc to pump power at the device so it charges wirelessly.

Splashpower is a step in the right direction.

Brad Feld has a great post on sweat. As Brad points out, it’s not the equity, it’s the sweat that makes the difference in the startup.

Six months in advance, pollster John Zogby is calling the November election.

For Kerry

Mother’s Day is a great tradition. I think being a mother is probably one of the most underecognized jobs. It’s taken way too much for granted.

So it a good thing that there’s one day each year when all the mom’s out there get some thanks.

I’d like to thank my mom (with my daughter Jessica in this picture).

And my wife Joanne, aka The Gotham Gal (getting a well deserved kiss from Joss).

If you’ve never read one of Seth Godin’s books, you are missing out.

IdeaVirus, Purple Cow, Permission Marketing are all must reads.

And now we’ve got something new to read. It’s called Free Prize.

I just bought it at Amazon. I can’t wait to get it.

Jeff Jarvis says his 7-year old couldn’t wait to open it. That’s Seth 🙂

The NY Times says Rumsfeld should go. They are right. But it’s his boss that should really go. Shit flows down in an organization. Let’s hope americans get that right this November.

I am sorry Jeff, but I agree with Tom.

One of the smartest guys I know asked me a question last week. He wanted to know if I thought that RSS could be a commercial publishing/marketing platform. In short, yes. It already is at some level.

iTunes sends me RSS alerts every day about various top ten lists and new music. I can go right from the feed to purchasing the music at the iTunes music store and do that all the time.

But I just spent 10 minutes on Amazon.com and couldn’t figure out how to get anything from them via RSS.

There is a limited discussion of this in my RSS Roadmap post.

The real problem with RSS today is that there aren’t many tools to allow the publisher/marketer/sender to figure out what is going on with the feed. I use Feedburner for that and it works fine for me, but probably isn’t robust enough for a real marketer yet.

It’s early days still and I would bet that there are less than a million people using RSS readers. But the number is growing fast. I use three of them myself, Newsgator, MyYahoo, and Kinja. It is already a daily routine for me. I check my RSS feeds at least 2/3 times a day.

So to answer my friend, I think its time for someone to build a full featured RSS publishing/marketing platform. My bet is that there are people building it already.