Thursday, December 18, 2003

Weblog Eulogy?
11:36:21 PM    

The Best of British Blogging

 


11:31:00 PM    

from Roland's new job at Streamline:

  What is the StreamLine blog about?

by roland on December 16, 2003 03:04PM (PST)
On this blog, I'll be covering what's going on in the blogging and RSS world in a friendly and non-technical manner.

I will attempt to pull a "Scoble" :-) and point to competitors and to blogging and RSS software developers.

For technical stuff, go to rolandtanglao.com.

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Sunday, December 14
View Article  Who is StreamLine?
by roland on December 14, 2003 11:42PM (PST)

For now, StreamLine, is basically me! Of course, we have plans to take over the world and recruit other bloggers in the future :-) !

I have many years of experience in both the software development business and corporate and personal blogging.

I have been blogging since 1999! Check out some of my blogs:

How to Contact Us

Email Roland AT RolandTanglao.com or call me at +1 604 729-7924

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View Article  What is StreamLine?
by roland on December 14, 2003 10:58PM (PST)

StreamLine is our new one stop blogging shop!

Blogs (also called weblogs) are easily updateable websites that anybody (not just techies) can update with a web browser or through email. They are turning mainstream as a way to share the voice of your self or your organization in an informal, conversational style with the world. Most importantly, they are a great way to build a community and conversation with your customers and make money in the process!

StreamLine handles all aspects of blogging:

  • We will set up a blog for you. Our preferred blogging solution is a hosted blog from Blogware and we are an authorized Blogware reseller. We are familiar with Radio UserLand, Manila, MovableType, TypePad, etc., so if for some strange :-) reason you don't want a Blogware blog we can set you up with whatever you require.
  • If you need email, a domain name, DNS services or anything else to go with your blog, we will provide that also.
  • We will teach you how to blog and how you can make best use of blogs and RSS, a new way to syndicate your blog and business process information.
  • If you need help writing your blog, we can do that too.

StreamLine is not a software development company! We love writing code but would rather minimize writing code and use it only as a means to 'connect the dots' and integrate software and services from other companies to make blogging easier for our customers.

Don't worry if none of the above makes any sense to you. If you are interested in blogging or RSS, call me at 604 729-7924 or email roland at roland AT rolandtanglao.com.

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2:44:16 PM    

One of Roland's articles on his new blogging for dollars blogjob:

Is Time Right For Micropayments?

More micropayment hype.  Except that I don't think it's going to be hype forever.  Someday it's going to happen.

QUOTE:
NEW YORK (AP) -- An idea that seemingly evaporated along with dot-com mania is back: that the Internet would realize its full grass-roots potential if Web surfers could pay small amounts for tidbits of online content.

Several companies are again betting they can mine gold from ferrying around such "micropayments." Even credit-card giant Visa USA is exploring the prospect.

Boosters believe people could sell countless new creations on the Internet--from essays to advice--if only mechanisms existed to facilitate small payments. For authors of popular content, all those pennies would add up.

The problem, as things currently stand: transaction costs make most credit-card sales under $1 all but pointless.

By giving independent content providers an efficient way to collect money, micropayments could widen the Web's pool of things to see, hear and do, keeping the Internet from being dominated by media giants and other brand-name companies.

"We like to characterize ourselves as E-commerce for the rest of us," says Kurt Huang, co-founder of BitPass Inc., which carries small payments to 100 Web sites and plans to emerge from beta test mode in December. "What we're trying to do is enable diversity."


Posted by Roland Tanglao on 12/11/03; 4:19:47 PM from the General dept.

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2:40:53 PM    

Congrats Roland!!

From Roland's blog:

Blogging for Dollars - I have a job

One day on Skype, I jokingly remarked to Stuart Henshall, that I'd love to blog for money. Be careful what you wish for :-), because on Monday I started a full time position blogging for dollars.

More details later such as the name of the company (which is in flux).
Meanwhile check out the current blogs that I am being paid for (more to come!):

www.rolandtanglao.com and VanEats will continue to be labours of love and are not being paid for by anybody!

2:33:57 PM    

Google begins to spider books. Google is beta-testing Google Print, a new service to deliver search results from books (and presumably other printed material). From the FAQ:

It turns out that not all the world's information is already on the Internet, so Google has been experimenting with a number of publishers to test their content online. During this trial, publishers' content is hosted by Google and is ranked in our search results according to the same technology we use to evaluate websites.

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