Don Box’s Spoutlet: “I have seen the future and it combines SOAP and spell-checking.” (via DW)

Greg Reinacker has released NewsGator — .Net-based RSS news aggregator for Outlook.

Congratulations Greg! I’ve been using NewsGator since the early betas and my favorite feature has always been its tight integration with Outlook.

However IMHO, it would make the experience complete if you could also post to a blog via the MetaWeblog API or some-such.

Technorati has an interesting new ranking of blogs by number of new links from blogs in the last 24 hours

Article about the use of blogs when reporting on breaking news. (via BlogRoots)

From The Guardian: “The idea is that blogs can help a business present information and develop new ideas. They can bring out and spread the expertise within a company. ”

“using weblogs … to promote company ideas and show off their knowledge.”

So cool! My wife [Catbird.org] has ported her blog over to B2. She’s such a hot geek :-)

Moblogger: “This application runs as a background process that monitors a POP3 email account for new email, then downloads it, detaches any files such as pictures, sound or video, uses the Blogger API to post the text in the email to your blog and uses FTP to post the files to your server. Send the email from a phone and you immediately start “moblogging”. (via Ben)

However, it seems to me that Abe Fettig HEP Message server is moving in a similar direction, but not really focused on Moblogging.

I’ve been scratching my head for the last few days trying to make sense of all the latest TrackBack derivatives, but thanks to Ben Hammersley I can finally put them all into perspective.

Wonderful job!

Ben Hammersley is testing trackback threading. Should be interesting.

Ben Hammersley talks about FOAF in an article published in the Guardian: “Our online cocktail parties will be instantly mapped by who knows who, and our business relationships might just get a little more transparent (imagine knowing who your colleagues all know – what an interesting change that might be).”

I’ve had my FOAF file for a few weeks now, yet I haven’t made any new connections with it so far. So, feel free to link to my FOAF (http://www.hatch.org/static/foaf.xrdf) I’d love to see it in action.