Internet Explorer 7 and the Windows Vista operating system will support RSS, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks RSS feeds will grow in importance to Internet users.

At Microsoft’s seventh annual MSN Strategic Account Summit, Ballmer offered remarks during his “Digital Marketing Outlook: The Future Is Now” speech to attendees. The CEO hit on a variety of topics during his talk, from gaming to communication to interactivity.

He did take a couple of minutes to talk about the Internet, and Microsoft’s technologies related to RSS feeds. While feedreading has been more embraced by those who work and use technology very frequently in their lives, Microsoft should be the engine to drive RSS to greater adoption.

By Rob Sullivan (c) 2006

By now you have probably heard that Google bought a new algorithm developed by a university student down under.
Many in the industry have speculated on what this could mean. Will this transform Google yet again? Or, will it merely be just another piece of technology they buy but don’t appear to use.

In this article, I look at the implications of Orion and what it could mean to the future of search.

In order to understand the issues at play, we must first understand just what the heck Google bought.

Reality show contestants don’t vanish into fictional poofs at the show’s conclusion. They’re not the cast of Friends; there is life after the show. Chip Arndt, half of the winning duo of Amazing Race 4, left reality stardom to set up Merchant Advantage, an e-commerce company small businesses need to know about.

Chip got in touch with us to talk about Merchant Advantage’s Channel Management, a hosted solution to help small and medium sized businesses (SMB) deal with managing their feeds to shopping comparison sites, measuring click performance and return on investment (ROI).