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| Feb 15, 2007 | Patent Monkey: Yahoo Ready to Smash Up the Mash Ups | and is the focus of our IP-Review…
Yahoo received a patent that has the potential to impact business development, and the futures, of many similarly featured companies including Google, Bloglines, Netvibes, Rojo, Dapper, Pageflakes, NewsGat... |
| Sep 6, 2006 | What happened to Rojo’s mojo? | Blogging software company Six Apart announced today it has bought the RSS feed reader company, Rojo.
Rojo was just one of start-ups gunning for position in the crowded field of giving users with a way to collect and read RSS feeds, or subsc... |
| Sep 6, 2006 | Six Apart Acquires Rojo | Blogging platform company Six Apart will announce this morning that it has acquired Rojo, a feed reader and search engine that competes with Bloglines and other companies.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but our assumption was that th... |
| Aug 8, 2006 | Web 2.0: The 24 Minute Documentary | A couple of weeks ago Michael Arrington got together with a number of startup CEOs and executives to video a discussion about Web 2.0. Participating in the discussion were Aaron Cohen (Bolt), Scott Milener and Steven Lurie (Browster), Keith... |
| Aug 1, 2006 | Wizag offers semantic analysis, attention to RSS | RSS is world changing technology, but it risks getting bogged down in information overload. The simple solution is a system like MyYahoo where a limited number of feed items are displayed and the interface is most conducive to subscribing t... |
| Jun 8, 2006 | Rich RSS Readers: best of breed picks | This post was largely written by Ryan
Stewart, a guest blogger on Read/WriteWeb. I’ve added my own Best of Breed picks for
each category.
Feed readers can be divided up
into two general camps: The web based feed readers – such as NewsAlloy,... |
| Jun 4, 2006 | Rojo Launches Nooz for Myspace | On Monday, Rojo will launch an interactive news service aimed at Myspace users (and additional social networks in the future). The new product, Nooz, will leverage technologies developed by Rojo but will not be under the Rojo brand.
When I ... |
| Jun 2, 2006 | Rojo Has Blog Search, Too | After writing about new blog search engines from Bloglines and Gnoos this week, Chris Alden (Rojo CEO) pointed out to me that Rojo also quietly launched a blog search service earlier in the month. Rojo has focused on building out its feed r... |
| Apr 3, 2006 | TalkCrunch: Battle of the Online Feed Readers | Episode 4 of TalkCrunch is a follow up to Frank Gruber’s popular post last week comparing features and performance of nine of the best online RSS readers.
I invited on executives from four of my favorite readers: NewsGator, Attensa, Rojo an... |
| Mar 30, 2006 | The State of Online Feed Readers | Syndication is undoubtedly the heartbeat of the web 2.0 movement. A feed reader, the most common solution to consuming synidcated content, saves the user time by monitoring countless sites and sources and providing near real-time updates to... |
| Mar 27, 2006 | Microcontent Design – Responses | My introductory post last week about Microcontent Design
got such a good response that I need to pause and consider all the feedback, before I
move onto Part 2. Basically what I call ‘microcontent design’ involves:
…microchunking your conte... |
| Mar 16, 2006 | Rojo Gets Relevant | Rojo added a great new relevance feature tonight, and the result is a sort of personalized digg.
You can now view your feeds by date or relevance, with relevance being determined according to other users votes (think diggs), total reads and... |
| Mar 16, 2006 | Rojo Adds Relevance – aims to be a ‘personalized digg’ | Rojo,
the web-based RSS Aggregator I’ve used ever since I gave up hope of Bloglines ever
stepping up its functionality, has just come out with some more enhancements.
About a month ago, they re-designed their site and now they’ve done anoth... |
| Feb 16, 2006 | New: Blog Ad Exchange at Rojo | On Friday Rojo will be officially releasing Feedshare, a new way for blogs to promote themselves on other blogs. The service is available now to test.
The idea is that a blog include a Google Adsense-type ad unit on the site (I’ve included ... |
| Feb 16, 2006 | Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party Tomorrow | I’m pretty excited about the Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party tomorrow night starting at 7 pm.
We’ve been working hard for weeks to get the event together and, thanks to our sponsors, this should be the best one so far. A huge tent is u... |
| Jan 18, 2006 | Naked Conversations Party at TechCrunch | UPDATE: This event is now full. I apologize to everyone who did not get on the wiki list.
The fifth TechCrunch Meetup is on Friday, February 17, 2006 at the TechCrunch house in Atherton, California. We will celebrate the launch of Naked Con... |
| Dec 12, 2005 | FeedBurner makes RSS interactive, with FeedFlare | Feedburner has integrated Web services with
feeds, in a new product released just now called FeedFlare. I got a sneak preview of FeedFlare and it’s
currently activated in my RSS feed. You may have noticed some new active and contextual
link... |
| Oct 26, 2005 | Food Fight! | Lots to eat today in Dot Oh Cafe. Here are some of the tasty tidbits that caught my eye as I perused the tech.memeorandum and Rojo menus: Google’s smorgasbord classifieds service
Google Base is eating the lunch of many a hungry 2.0 start-up... |
| Sep 1, 2005 | Subscriber Stats and Web-based Feed Readers | Last night while looking at the new Feedburner design (well done guys!), I noticed that my subscriber stats figure has suddenly jumped. My current count of RSS subscribers in Feedburner is 3744. The main reason is that Rojo has just been ad... |
| Aug 19, 2005 | Update – Rojo (new stuff) | Company: Rojo
Previous Profile: June 17, 2005
Location: San Francisco
Rojo launched two new features this week: expanded tag functionality and top 100 feeds. Top 100 Feeds:
Rojo now lists the top 100 feeds subscribed to by users. The top te... |
| Jul 8, 2005 | Profile – NewsGator Online v. Bloglines | Editor’s Note: This is a profile of NewsGator’s online product only, not its outlook, feeddemon and other products. There is a natural tendency to view NewsGator Online in comparison to Bloglines, as the products are both very popular and s... |
| Jun 17, 2005 | Profile: Rojo | Company: Rojo
Location: San Francisco, CA
Launched: Closed Beta – October 2004, Open Beta – April 20, 2005
Funding: “Rojo received seed financing from TPG Ventures and individuals such as Marc Andreessen and Ron Conway. Rojo’s most recent r... |
| Jun 11, 2005 | FeedLounge Profile | Company: FeedLounge
What is it?
The FeedLounge web-based RSS reader alpha was announced on June 9, 2005. Feedlounge is the newest entrant into the increasingly crowded RSS Reader space. Feedlounge is web-based, like Bloglines, Pluck, Kinja ... |
| May 12, 2005 | Competition for Bloglines? | We’re nearly halfway through 2005 and there’s still no heavyweight competition for Bloglines in the Web-based RSS Aggregator stakes. And
I’m not talking about an Aggregation service like MyYahoo and Firefox Live Bookmarks,
which aggregate f... |
| Oct 6, 2004 | Rojo | Red Herring co-founder Chris Alden is joining the RSS/news aggregator game with a web-based aggregator called Rojo. From the demo we saw, it looks much like Bloglines. More to come after we’ve played with it.
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