Typepad, Promising New Blog Platform To Debut. Good news: The people who developed Movable Type are releasing TypePad, a hosted blogging service with sophisticated features on Monday, August 4. There will be three service levels, priced at $5, $9 and $15 a month. One of the developers, Anil Dash provided some insight into the difference… Continue reading Typepad, Promising New Blog Platform To Debut

Macromedia is showing how to build an RSS aggregator in Flash.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Close One Door, Open Another. Today is my last day at AOL Time Warner.  In the end, my interests weren't compatible with the positions available in the post-Netscape environment, so I decided to leave. I won't have any free time, though: I'm proud to announce that I'm firing up my own consulting business!…. [meyerweb.com]

Outside the box. Groove CRM? While snooping around for my first post, I came across this news. Groove Networks has launched a Virtual Sales Office system, which combines its Workspace collaboration toolset with sales training content from SalesConference.Net. While not likely to topple the CRM gods, Groove's offering may be a just the right mixture… Continue reading Outside the box

Tim O'Reilly on Moneyball: “I'm not a big baseball fan, but this book is a revelation. Anyone in business should read it. It describes the superior results that come when you throw away what you think you know, the accepted wisdom of an industry, and rebuild your efforts around a deeper understanding of what matters… Continue reading Tim O'Reilly on Moneyball

Michael Gartenberg says dump the TiVO, get a Media Center XP. “I can copy my recorded shows to my laptop for viewing when I'm on the road (great way to catch up on the West Wing and 24) and also archive the shows to standard DVDs.” Too late for me, I'm finally getting a new… Continue reading Untitled

Draft: MetaWeblog API Spec. This is the unified spec, ready for developer review. Includes a provision for appkey transmission to meet one of the objections Google has with using the API with Blogger. Now is the time to review the spec for errors, things that aren't clear, omissions, deal-stoppers, but not for religious purity. I'd… Continue reading Untitled

Boxes & Arrows: Report Review: Nielsen/Norman Group's Usability Return on Investment Peter Merholz and Scott Hirsch. simply, the authors do not make a strong business case for usability–a requirement for passing the muster with the accountants and senior managers who have ultimate accountability for profit and loss in a business. [Tomalak's Realm]

The Economist: Light on the horizon. The first commercial holographic memory should be on the market next year, and more are expected to follow. When that happens, there may be a ballooning of computer storage capacity that will make existing disks look like leaflets compared with the Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Tomalak's Realm]

News.Com: End of the road for SMTP? In other words, SMTP trusts too much–and that has spam foes, security mavens and even an original architect of today's e-mail system agitating for an overhaul, if not an outright replacement, of the omnipresent protocol. [Tomalak's Realm]