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בלוג

בין מערכות הבלוגים בעברית, המאפשרות לכל גולש לפתוח יומן אישי בכמה צעדים פשוטים, כדי לבדוק מי מהן מציעה את הממשק הכי נוח והתכונות הכי מתקדמות

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פורסם: 15.10.05, 05:30

הבלוגים, יומני הרשת האישיים או הקבוצתיים, הפכו בשנתיים האחרונות למילה נרדפת לאתר אישי: קצת נתקעת בגרון, אך כזו שעוד עשויה להיעלם תוך שנים אחדות, דווקא בגלל היקף הפופולריות של התופעה. "בלוג" היא היום מילה גנרית לתיאור פורמט פשוט של פרסום תכנים ברשת, כאשר התוצאה הכללית נראית לרוב כמו אוסף של רשימות קצרות ומתוארכות, אשר בראשן כותרת ובתחתיתן אפשרות תגובה, קישור קבוע לקטע ועוד. מצד ימין או שמאל ניצבת רשימת קישורים קבועים, פחות או יותר (הבלוגרול), ובחלק ממערכות הבלוגים מוצעות תכונות מתקדמות כמו תמיכה בווידאו, מוזיקה, עדכון מטלפון סלולרי וסקרים.



הגדולה האמיתית של הבלוגים היא בכך שאיפשרו לכל גולש להפוך למעצמת תקשורת קטנה ופישטו דרמטית את תהליך פרסום התכנים ברשת, ובכך חוללו את מהפכת התוכן האישית.



בסקירה זו לא התייחסנו לאתרי קהילות מתקדמים כמו dex.co.il, המציעים, בנוסף לבלוגים, גם דף אישי, פורומים, אלבומי תמונות, וידאו וקישור לחברים ברשת חברתית מתקדמת. זאת, על אף שנראה כי זה הכיוון לקראתו נעים כל אתרי הקהילות. השווינו בין מערכות הבלוגים בעברית, המאפשרות לכל גולש לפתוח יומן אישי בכמה צעדים פשוטים, כדי לבדוק מי מהן מציעה את הממשק הכי נוח והתכונות הכי מתקדמות. יש לציין, כי מאחר ואין מתנות חינם, החברות המציעות שירותים אלה מתנות זאת בהצבת פרסומות (באנרים) בבלוג שתפתחו. לא רוצים באנרים? תתבקשו לשלם. לא התייחסנו גם למערכות בלוגים "סגורות" כמו "רשימות", שאינן מאפשרות לכל גולש לפתוח אתר באמצעותן.



כמעט שלא נגענו בענייני תוכן - בעולם נפוצים סוגים רבים של בלוגים - פובליציסטיים, חדשותיים או כאלה המוקדשים לתחום הבידור, המחשבים והאינטרנט, רפואה, דחקות וכיף, חלקם אף פועלים ברמת "המיקרו" כמו בלוגים בנושא אדם או חברה מסוימת; יש בלוגים קבוצתיים, המנוהלים על ידי מספר גולשים ומרכיבים יחד קהילה מקוונת. למרות זאת, בארץ נפוצים במיוחד הבלוגים האישיים - בהם הכותב מדווח על דברים שקרו לו בחיי היום יום ומשתף את הקוראים בחוויותיו, התלבטויותיו ומהגג על החיים. ברוב המקרים זה טרחני ומעייף, אך לעתים קרובות חינני ומשעשע - תלוי בכותב ובכוס התה הפרטית שלכם. נוסף על כך, יש גם בלוגים אחרים, הכתובים ברמה גבוהה ומוקדשים לענייני חברה, פוליטיקה או ספרות, ועליהם נרחיב בהזדמנות אחרת.

FriendFeed's Not Dead. While Not Clear, Its Future Could Be Very Big.

Monday's news that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed for an undisclosed sum took many people by surprise, not the least of whom were the site's most-active users, many of whom have made the social sharing and aggregation platform their central nervous system for online activity and community. Initial reactions to the announcement had many people asking questions, extremely concerned that the site - as we know it - was doomed to close, and a lack of immediate denials from the company's leadership was seen by many as an implicit acceptance that yes, the end was near. But in the days following, from what I've seen and heard, it is clear to me that FriendFeed is not going away, that the company's being part of Facebook isn't the end of the world, and that after nearly two years of going it alone, the time had come to make a change.

Since the site launched in beta in October of 2007, and opened up in February of 2008 to the world, FriendFeed has become known for many things. The company's sharp engineers have promoted the site to be at the forefront of innovation on the real-time Web, showcasing advanced search functionality, information discovery and an active, loyal, community. But with the site's wide array of features came a not to be unexpected downside - complexity, which had many wondering how it could attract a user base on the scale of less sophisticated but more popular competitors, like Twitter and Facebook. While even as recently as January, we saw the company's leadership advising us that growth "takes time", this week's move was a clear recognition that in order for FriendFeed to achieve its vision, it needed to team up with a bigger partner - one that had been courting them for years - and it was Facebook who filled the dance card.

FriendFeed Was Always Pursued

Not too long after FriendFeed launched, Facebook called, as did many other companies over time. And while Facebook is known by many as a closed walled garden, where you find yourself reconnecting to people long since forgotten, in sharp contrast with FriendFeed's open nature where you connect to people you've just met, the two companies, through conversations over the last two years, found that they shared a common vision and direction. While the company's dozen or so employees could have kept saying no, stubbornly going it alone, they came to realize that teaming with Facebook made the most sense - giving them an opportunity to take the vision they had and push it within a company that had users in the hundreds of millions, not the hundreds of thousands, which would have been practically impossible given their slow growth rates and other companies' encroaching on their feature set.

More Than Just a Talent Grab

Following news of the acquisition, some have labeled the buy as a "talent grab", with Facebook looking to gain a dozen or so respected engineers. But it was not a talent grab just for the sake of getting good people, but instead, getting good people who were focused on the exact things Facebook needed - including real-time search, aggregation, community, and social messaging. And while it's not exactly clear what the two companies have in mind over the next six, twelve or twenty-four months, as a combined team, the first steps don't involve blowing up the existing community, which should come as a relief to many who thought that was imminent. FriendFeed's leadership has expressed the desire to not only keep the site open and active, but to preserve all the data that has been posted. In fact, just in the last few days, FriendFeed saw the addition of new features, including customizable backgrounds, and small UI enhancements around comments.

Some of the reticence for FriendFeed to loudly proclaim the site and its users' data is safe has come down to the fact that in a sale like this, the acquired company won't always have full say over the future roadmap. Just take a look at any number of recent acquisitions by Yahoo! and Google to see how that has evolved. But the company will soon start to talk about the future of the site, and these announcements will hopefully assuage some of the concerns and fears voiced by many FriendFeed users, who either despise the idea of Facebook, or just expect to be deleted.

So What Happens Next?

The truth is that not even the FriendFeed team has a perfect roadmap in front of them, saying what is next, as part of Facebook. And that has got them nervous too, of course. It took a long time for them talking with Facebook to become comfortable with the idea of an acquisition, and the same gut-level reaction many FriendFeed users had to the news, myself included, was shared at the company's Mountain View headquarters, and their families, or at least it was until they moved out by the end of the week. Their long-discussed plans of developing a unique engineering team and environment at FriendFeed, and about "not being for sale", as we often heard when they were asked, were up-ended, as reality set in, with them turning off their computers, packing up boxes and moving into Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto.

Incredibly, even as many declared the site dead, or swore they were leaving FriendFeed forever, on the news, this past week has seen a renewed spike in terms of new signups and user activity. As the Facebook and FriendFeed news flowed through the Web and got mentioned on the radio or TV broadcasts, user mailboxes have been pummeled with a wave of new connections. And it practically goes without saying that the people who have left FriendFeed due to the announcement are not any more than the number that would have left had FriendFeed needed to dramatically change its focus to finally get that hockey-stick user growth seen by networks like Twitter and Facebook, just like there was a wave of people who left the network when they revamped their user interface this spring to make real-time the default view.

In February 2008, in an e-mail exchange I had with Bret Taylor and Paul Buchheit, two of FriendFeed's cofounders and the public faces of the network, I was eager to let them know a high-profile user had signed up. Paul responded, simply: "One down, 6,652,865,239 to go :)" keeping with his belief that FriendFeed was for everyone, not just the relatively small number of users who made the site their home on the Web. As many of the employees at FriendFeed hail from Google, it's not unlikely they see Facebook's current position as they did Google at an earlier age - having both significant momentum and share, but also much more room for growth, letting them bring FriendFeed a lot closer to that elusive 6,652,865,239 user number.

As the Dust Settles...

In the last two years, I have optimized my online activity for FriendFeed. I have used FriendFeed as my information filter and distribution channel, as it both takes in my activity around the Web, but spits out a subset to Twitter and Facebook. While I don't know if all this information will be on friendfeed.com per se for the rest of eternity, I am confident in saying that all my existing links, data, photos, and files are secure. I believe that the vast majority of things that have attracted FriendFeed's users to participating on the community will start to show up in Facebook as well - if not taking over the site, but being shown in different areas of the network. And while over the years, Facebook has gained a not-so-spotless reputation on the Web for being closed (among other things) partnering with FriendFeed could have a major impact on the company's ability to adjust on the fly and keep growing.

For those people who are very concerned about their data and preserving what they have invested into the site, activity on FriendFeed, like Twitter, is centralized, and therefore, there is not yet a perfect solution to extracting the data and moving it elsewhere. But a new project called CloneFeed is looking to help, and FriendFeed's founders have always trended toward standards and openness. Meanwhile, if you expected them to stop using the site, they haven't. After a few busy days following a practically sleepless weekend prior to the deal's completion, the founders have started posting again. They're not going away, and neither are we. Hopefully, they will talk a lot more about what the acquisition means - as much as they are able - soon. But for now, I'm going to keep using FriendFeed, while also expanding my use of Facebook (just in case), and would welcome that you do also - for now, the little company that could just got some tremendous financial backing and a huge endorsement from one of the leaders on the Web who is growing faster than anyone else.

As always, you can find me at http://www.friendfeed.com/louisgray, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/louisgray.

iPod Touch 3rd Generation?

A blog posting on Covino and Rich has caused a lot of buzz around the blogosphere. Originally it started with some pictures which the blogger claims are pictures of the iPod Touch 3rd generation.

The person who posted the pictures claimed that it was a picture of the iPod Touch 3rd generation with a camera in it. To back up what he said he also posted a picture of the motherboard and showed that it said Apple 2009 on it. The iPod Touch 2nd generation has 2008 on it and Apple hasn’t revised it.

Engadget ruled this as a fake, claiming it was a photoshop, but later retracted what they said when Covino and Rich decided posted an actual video.

Do you think this is the real iPod Touch third generation, or just a well-planned fake? We’ll be finding out soon enough in September.

[Images and video via Covino and Rich]

Two corporate errors - and two very different responses

I'm angry with Best Buy, and very happy with Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), about mistakes each made this week. It's their responses to the mistakes that are important.

Best Buy's Web site advertised - in error - Samsung 52" HDTV's for $9.99, over $1,600 less than the actual price. An unknown number of customers - certainly dozens, probably scores, possibly hundreds - jumped on the offer and bought them in the brief interval before the mistake was corrected. However, Best Buy subsequently announced it would not honor the erroneous price, pointing to a clause in its Web site terms of use that allows it to back out of such deals. Needless to say, the customers concerned are very disappointed.

IHG have taken the opposite approach. Its Crowne Plaza Hotel at Padova, near Venice, Italy, erroneously advertised its rooms for an unbelievable one-hundredth of a Euro (about 1½ US cents) per night, instead of its usual rate of up to 150 euros (about US $212.50). The mistake was allegedly made at IHG's offices in Atlanta, GA, not by the hotel itself. About 230 people jumped on the offer, booking an average of about six nights per person, before the error was detected and corrected. However, IHG have - quite rightly, in my opinion - accepted responsibility for the error, and stated that they will honor the bookings at the advertised price. I'm sure that makes those 230 customers very, very happy!

Look at the difference in approach. Both companies made similar mistakes. One chose to slam the door in the face of those who took advantage of it, leaving them (I'm sure) very annoyed and disappointed. The other stood up and acknowledged responsibility, and will honor the deals made in error. Which do you think now has the better reputation among its customers? Who will gain the most from the publicity surrounding both mistakes?

Bad move, Best Buy - and kudos to Intercontinental Hotels Group. Customer service like that should stand you in very good stead in the future.

Peter

Boeing Faces Dreamliner Setback

Despite the hype surrounding Boeing’s development of its 787 Dreamliner, a lighter and more fuel-efficient plane than other airliners, the company has had plenty of trouble getting the jet into the hands of the airlines. Boeing confirmed Friday that it was forced to halt production of certain fuselage sections for the jet in June after discovering wrinkles on the carbon composite skin.

The parts have been manufactured by an Italian company called Alenia Aeronautica, one that has had significant amounts of experience in producing composite materials. For this reason, industry experts have raised questions whether or not the problem was caused by sheer accident or by general sloppiness on the part of Alenia Aeronautics.

The announcement of this most recent problem, though, came the same day that Boeing announced an indefinite delay of the 787’s first flight due to another structural flaw. According to a Boeing spokesperson, the wrinkling on the carbon composite had already been fixed by applying a patch. It went unannounced because Boeing did not expect the problem to have any impact on the 787’s overall cost or production schedule.

Islam at War: NATO Headquarters Bombed in Afghanistan, 7 Dead, 91 wounded

The enemy loves weakness. The enemy loves western ambiguities. They suffer no crisis in resolve. Obama has said that 'victory' is not the goal in Afghanistan. What then? What are our finest American men and women doing there? Talk about a target rich environment for jihad.....

If victory is not the goal, then what? Why risk American lives? Why put our boys and girls in harm's way of the brutal jihad with no clear stated goal? Why is Obama adding thousands of our military personnel to the Afghan theater of operations, poorly equipping them and strangling the rules of engagement? They will be captured or killed to what end? Without a clear goal, Obama will prove we can't win. Demoralizing the military, yet again.

Just this month brought U.S. deaths to at least 18. That's the number of American military personnel who have died in Afghanistan in August, and this pushed fatalities among foreign troops for the month to 27. July was the worst month to date in the nearly 8-year-old conflict in terms of military deaths; 76 coalition soldiers were killed, including 45 Americans. Where are the daily death roll call the media gleefully reported during the Iraq war? Where are the leftists' anti-war rallies? Afghanistan is the good war, according to the asshats running the country into the ground (vs. Iraq, the bad war). Who decides these things, and why do the American people go along with such stupidity?
7 die, 91 wounded in blast near NATO HQ in Kabul Yahoo

KABUL – A suicide car bomb exploded Saturday outside the main gate of NATO's headquarters five days before Afghanistan's presidential election, killing seven and wounding 91 in the biggest attack in the Afghan capital in six months.

The bomber evaded several rings of Afghan police and detonated his explosives on the doorstep of the international military headquarters, an assault possibly aimed at sending the message that the Taliban can attack anywhere as Afghans gear up for their second-ever direct presidential election. Militants have warned Afghans not to vote and have threatened to attack voting sites.

The NATO headquarters — where top commander U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal is based — sits beside the U.S. Embassy and shares the same street as the presidential palace. The explosion was the first major attack in Kabul since February, when eight Taliban militants struck three government buildings simultaneously in the heart of the city, an assault that killed 20 people and the eight assailants.

Afghanistan has braced for attacks ahead of the election. International workers in the country were planning on working from home over the next week or had been encouraged to leave the country. U.S., NATO and Afghan troops were working to protect voting sites, particularly in regions where militants hold sway.