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...together now? Microsoft and AOL fought bitterly during the browser wars of the '90s and vied for dial-up customers before broadband took off. Today they're losing billions in ad revenues to Google and Yahoo. By consolidating their websites into a mammoth network, they could sell ads across the board. Hooking up would be a defensive play too. Google raised $4.1 billion in a stock offering last week and has been encroaching on Microsoft's most precious turf, the computer desktop. Microsoft is worried about falling further behind Google in the Web-search races and would love...
Beginner's Kit Blogger is the easiest software to use, promising a free blog within 5 min. After quick registration, use any Web browser to write or add links and even photos. Other easy and free options: LiveJournal, Yahoo! 360 and Friendster...
...Depending on the source, RSS will deliver the entire text of the story to your newsreader, or just the first paragraph or just the headline. In any case, clicking on a headline will take you straight to the full story via your Web browser. Almost every major newspaper and news website has an RSS feed these days. (The Los Angeles Times is probably one of the most significant exceptions, and that's because it's working on advertising-driven newsreader software...
...looks like an e-mail program. Depending on the source, RSS will deliver the entire text of the story to your newsreader, or just the first paragraph or just the headline. In any case, clicking on a headline will take you straight to the full story via your Web browser. Almost every major newspaper and news website has an RSS feed these days. (The Los Angeles Times is probably one of the most significant exceptions, and that's because it's working on advertising-driven newsreader software.) RSS allows you to play news editor and zero in on the information...
Since the internet was born, there has been a tug-of-war between aggregating information and finding ways to navigate through it. Two of the great navigation milestones were the Web browser and the search engine. Now, with the galloping growth of blogs (some 80,000 new blogs are created every day, according to blog search engine Technorati) and the proliferation of social-network sites, a growing group of companies is trying to figure out how to turn the cacophony of personalized information into usable form - and viable businesses. They call it the Shared, Trust or Referral Economy...