Frank Gruber posted a review of the online feed readers last night at TechCrunch and, as expected, there’s plenty of controversy in the comments. Thanks, Frank, for taking the time to do this research and review. Come back anytime. 
By the way, Frank’s analysis left Newsgator’s online product looking fairly bad. We had a discussion with CTO Greg Reinacker this morning and Frank updated the chart based on that conversation. I will say that personally I am now a user of NetNewsWire for my Mac and it’s flawless. Perfect. And I’m happy to pay the $20 for it.
Ouriel broke the news on Typepad’s new widgets feature to easily add functionality to websites. He also compares Typepad’s widgests to Wordpress.com’s recent similar offering.
I’m all for anything that makes blogging easier for the masses, and Typepad and Wordpress are leading the charge here. Widgets, which are bundles of functionality and require zero developer skills to integrate, are important features to give these masses the tools they need to publish professional looking sites.
Just give this a try when you have a few moments to laugh:
blogfinder (beta) is an experimental web 2.0 hub that connects influential early-opinion-leaders via a transparent, ajax-founded, tagging/detagging framework that is entirely based on documented hyper-neural, multi-threaded, semantic progression algorithms, collective global intelligence, and existing, conversation-led, social-media folksonomies.
Nice one, Valleywag.
My friend Richard MacManus has been at this whole blogging thing for 4 years - since March 22, 2002. How he can stay so prolific, and keep the quality so high, after such a long time is beyond me. He must love what he does, I guess. Keep it up, Richard!
Steve says some nice things about me and then proceeds to use me as a club that he hits Microsoft over the head with. Thanks, Steve?
Bored wasn’t the right word at all to describe my lunch with Bill Gates last week. Rather, I think we failed to engage his interest on a very deep level. He didn’t know much about us, we were too much in shock to ask real questions. Given time, I think the conversation would have improved.
A company that I’ve written about on TechCrunch sent me an email requesting help with a new project they are working on. Details are below. The company is willing to pay a fee for time.
We are about to release a large scale system that is pushing a major mySQL 5 cluster (500k hits a sec) - and basically we are looking for a guru that has some experience in mySQL 5 clustering that can validate our method – I thought one of your web2.0 companies might have some experience with this that we could run some questions by! Email schoettle@gmail.com if you might have any interest in checking it out!
Steve and I recorded a three part Gillmor Daily the other day after my Mix 06 experience. He wastes no time saying I’ve been “Boned by the Borg” (meaning I love Microsoft too much), and tries unsucessfully to defend his attacks against my brilliant discourse. Part 1 is here. Parts 2 and 3 to come.
