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Millions of Blogs Now in Real Time
If you haven’t heard already Wordpress announced that all of their blogs now provide RSS Cloud support. There is a plugin used for self hosted blogs. Basically what this means is that there is no longer that slight delay in receiving messages.
In an age where speed is sometimes more crucial than other factors, some people have marginalized RSS as too slow, or not as fast as other Real Time communications. Well this is the first major change to RSS and the way it delivers content that is more in line with the expectations that timing is everything and now is better than 15 minutes from now.
More in-depth articles on the technology can be found here, and if you have ideas on how this can help the average blogger, or perhaps how it can be used for specific app’s or situations, please share.
Technorati Tags: wordpress, rss, rsscloud, rss cloud, real time communications, wp plugins
Google Domestic Trends Predicts Unemployment
According to a post by Google’s Chief Economist , Google Domestic Trends has been used to mimic variables such as initial claims of unemployment, among other things to predict short economic trends. Given that one of the biggest leading indicators of economic activity is number of people who file for unemployment this could be modeled and predicted using Google Domestic Trends. Read more
Walt Disney Buys Marvel for $4 Bil.
The deal announced this morning will bring characters like Iron Man and Spider Man in to the Disney family.
5,000 total Marvel characters will be acquired by Disney in the deal for $4 billion in cash and stock. The deal still has to go through Marvel stockholders as well as antitrust review. Marvel would receive $30 per share in cash plus 0.745 Disney shares per Marvel share owned.
Technorati Tags: Disney, Media Acquisitions, Marvel Comics, Iron Man, Spider Man
ComScore Reports Increase in Mobile Audience for Local Content
ComScore Reports Local Access up by Mobile Users
ComScore recently reported a 51% increase in the number of mobile users looking for local content. ComScore is a leading measurement and digital intelligence company who stated in a June 9th release that online directories saw the most growth. From March 2008 to March 2009 online directories saw a 73% increase in use by on-the-go mobile users. Read more
