The ATOM feed for this blog
In the process of gearing up for the Syndicate Conference, we’ve put together a page of aggregated content for blog content coming from attendees, speakers, and companies. It will not only reflect discussion about the show itself, but what is happening in the industry.
Take a look at the page - http://www.pubsub.com/features/syndicate-conference. If you are attending and your blog is not listed, send me a note at scohen [at] pubsub [dot] com.
-Steven Cohen
The Syndicate Conference is coming to the big apple from May 16th -> 17th, taking place at the Roosevelt Hotel. A bunch of PubSubers will be there to welcome you to our hometown. Our CEO, Constantine Gus Spathis, will be particpating in a panel discussion on Structured Blogging, which will also include Chad Dickerson, Eli Chapman, and Jen Consalvo. Scott Abel will be moderating.
You can follow all of the discussion before, during, and after the conference by grabbing this PubSub subscription, which will also be sucking in all content posted to the Syndicator Blog.
Begins: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 at 10:30 AM
Ends: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 at 11:30 AM
Location:
Attensa is all about attention, making the most relevant content to the top.
Marc Canter - Broadband Mechanics
Anl Dash - Six Apart
Salim Ismail - PubSub Concepts
Tantek Celik - Technorati.
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Marc Canter -
+ There are other things besides attention and tagging
+ How do I pull all things that relate to me to one place? The dashboards are the next big thing. Compound feed evolved. You would subscribe to “Marc Canter” and get only those feeds from Marc.
+ The person decides what goes into his compound feed? He thinks that this can be built upon social networks. Users can put a filter on this.
Anil Dash -
+ TypePad, Movable Type, and Livejournal.
+ How to I tell my boss what blogging is and why we need a feed in the first place.
+ What can I do with this that is practical?
Salim Ismail
+ Sructured Blogging
+ drive the next several years of Internet development
+ adding structure to information
+ tagging something is tough for machines to process
+ Feedmesh - We should share the pings
+ Designing the spec for the next step of this
+ Compete on the services that you build on top of content
+ We want to break down the walled gardens of content ownership
+ SB works well in the Feedmesh - maximum distribution.
+ Let the consumers decide what to do.
+ People get to own their own data
Marc - An abstract schema
Tantek Celik - Technorati
+ Without standards, it’s hard to share the data
+ Presentation is under the creative commons
+ Contact information - vCard - translated into hCard
+ Events - hCalendar - translated into hCalendar
+ empower users and companies to publish on their own sites.\
+ Microformats.org
+ Intellical - add ical subscriptions to outlook today.
+ Launching events feed service and contacts feed service
+ Who’s using this stuff? EVDB/Eventful, Upcoming.org, 100,000 events and venues
+ 40,000 reps have hcard
+ University of Bath - thousands of contacts
+ Syndicate your contact info publish your hcard
+ Offer your vCard to your readers, syndicate your event list with hCalendar.
+ The more we do this, the better.
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Marc
+ Syndication, XHTML, File Formats - 3 types
Anil
+ Lots of people using lots of different tools.
+ He doesn’t care about how the content is implemented as long as the publishing company does it right.
+ The interesting parts are the apps.
Marc - He can’t find a different restaurant review site. He wants to be able to get a definitive place of all reviews. Reviews are where the stuff comes down the pyramid.
Salim - Most blog posts are reviews of some sort. Ebay and Craigslist loses some of the value by owning the data.
Tantek - People aren’t going to publish intimate details on a blog post, they are looking for a level of discreteness. There will always be services that people want to be private. “Adultery is the killer app”
Anil - “Adultery is the killer app”
If you want to know what the highlight of the conference is, take a look at Memeorandum. In case you read this after the fact, see the screenshot below. Thanks for all the mentions.
Begins: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 at 12:45 PM
Ends: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 at 1:45 PM
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Moderated by Jerry Michalski, CEO, Sociate
Panelists:
Chris Redlitz, Feedster
Debby Richman, Looksmart
Liz Lawley, Microsoft Research
Naill Kennedy, Technorati
+ The voice of the people are serving up credible resources as well.
Liz: The services don’t speak to the general user. Librarians are keen on the information needs of users. Tagging is not a natural behavior.
Naill: Technorati just introduced a topic-type generator
Chris: It depends on the user. For some users, (ie those interested in news, timeliness is most important.
Liz: It’s very hard to do archical type searching, how to find stuff that she has already seen. She wants to search what she has seen in the past and uses a desktop aggregator to archive what she’s seen and read.
Talking about categorizing blogs, the vast majority of blogs are not categorizable.
Begins: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 at 12:00 PM
Ends: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 at 12:15 PM
Location:
speaker: Doc Searls
Link: Doc Searls Welcoming Remarks
Doc Searls is the conference chair and will be providing opening remarks, which he’s already blogged.
+ His role has been more of conference “disorganizer”. He’s here because he is a blogger, which he finds interesting.
+ Cluetrain Manifesto was the first book to have been started on the Web.
+ He gives credit to Dave Winer for getting him started him on blogging.
+ His son Alan came up with the phrase, the “live web”, which is a living thing on the web. Only living beings can do.
+ The services that search the live Web are doing something different than Google and Yahoo
+ You can’t subscribe to something static.
+ He grew up in New Jersey where Syndicate had a different meaning.
+ The live web is a complete reversal of power.
PubSub will be very active at the Syndicate Conference in San Francisco next week. We hope to see you there. Please stop by our booth and make sure you attend the two panels that we’re on:
1) Salim Ismail will be part of a panel titled “Compound Feeds, Micro-content and the Future of Syndication.”
2) Bob Wyman will take part in “Keeping Your Ear to the Ground: New Ways to Track Reputation and Campaign ROI Online.”
We hope to see old faces (well, not “old”, but people that we have met before, but you knew what I meant) and, more importantly, new ones. If you’re going to be at the show, come up and say hello. If you can’t make it, the team will be blogging it ferociously.