There’s nothing more annoying than skimming through your RSS feeds, finding an article you want to read, then realising the publisher has set their RSS feed to only show a summary. The biggest offenders are the mainstream news publishers.
The obvious reason behind this would be to entice you into clicking through to their website to read the full article. But why?
If I’m on a mobile device and you take me to an desktop website, I’ll leave.
If the article isn’t as interesting as I first thought, I won’t bother reading the rest anyway.
If you’re trying to drive traffic to your site to make money from advertising, just advertise in your feed.
If you want to get me to your site so I may stay a while and read something else, insert links to similar posts into your feed.
At the end of the day, if the article is worth reading, why make it difficult for people to read it. Who knows, they may even decide to visit your site.
It’s a rarity that we see these two men involved in something destined to fail, but is that what Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch are doing with The Daily? Continue Reading →
You had to be in a dark cave somewhere to not have heard about Apple’s launch of the iPad. You’ve also probably read a countless number of posts of people’s opinions on it, so I’ll keep this short and sweet.
At first glance, you might think the iPad is going to be a flop. It has a number of limitations and may appear to some to be nothing more than a big iPod touch, but that’s where Apple is very clever.
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One of the major advantages Firefox has had over it’s competitors over the years has been the number of add-ons, or extensions, available for use. Something that has not been embraced to the same extent by the its major competitors. This may all be about to change.
For some time now Firefox has held majority share in the browser market, with most recent figures showing 47% of people use Firefox. The closest rival is Internet Explorer (versions 6, 7 & 8) with 37.7%, you can see a breakdown of the remainder of market share in the table below.
The release of iTunes 9 has included some social media additions, an iTunes store revamp, Genius features and some great extras for the iPhone. However, some rumored additions were left out, such as Last.fm integration and blu-ray playback.
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After releasing the long awaited and much improved iPhone application, Facebook have launched a few other neat features over the last week including @mentions, notifications for Mac and Facebook Lite. News about the ‘Facebook Movie’ also emerged.
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…charge customers for the 30 second clips they listen to on iTunes!
The music industry seems to have found another way to screw online retailers as well as anger pretty much anyone who listens to music, by wanting to charge royalty fees every time a user listens to a 30 second music clip. They worked out that scraping every last penny they can from online retailers like iTunes will benefit them in the longrun. This is obviously out of jealousy, as iTunes found a way to make money out of selling music online and all the music industry can do is complain about all the money they’re apparently losing!
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25th June 2009 (26th in Australia), a day that won’t soon be forgotten. The death of Michael Jackson, the undisputed King of Pop, sent hundreds of thousands of people around the world to the internet to try and find out the truth… was the superstar really dead.
I was on my way to work when I read the news on my iPhone that he had been rushed to hospital after suffering cardiac arrest. As usual my first move was to post the news on Twitter and see what others were saying. People were claiming Michael Jackson had died, but I tried not to believe it until I had seen it confirmed on one of the major news outlets. It wasn’t long before confirmation was made and I had friends and family calling to share the news and their empathy. I had purchased tickets to see Michael Jackson’s concert in London.
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