Category Archives: Aggregation

Late news…Microsoft Facebook. Download the app today.

After weeks of speculation, Microsoft appears to have won a battle with Google over who would get a stake in Facebook. I had crafted quite a lengthy post yesterday as the news broke. However, an amazing bug in Wordpress wiped my article afte i submitted it for publishing.

Microformats UK (alpha release) launches - an aggregated view of the microformats blogosphere

Today I launched the Alpha version of Microformats UK, a microformats research aggregator of some sorts. I started the project out of frustration of not being able to quickly keep myself updated with latest Microformats developments. I believe Microformat adoption will increase as their usefulness becomes better understood by the wider web design community. To [...]

Automated news aggregation, is it really that useful ?

News aggregators have been around for a very long time. One of the first successful services was Moreover which during the dot com boom manually ’screen scraped’ the contents of thousands of web news sources, long before RSS was understood and used by content publishers.
What made Moreover unique was its service that allowed website owners [...]