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Wow, the other day I just posted on an idea like podcasting but for text, and now it’s a reality, it’s called textcasting.

Basically, you download an RSS feed to your iPod (or whatever), but instead of listening you read.

This is cheaper than using an online mobile feed reader, just dump into your device daily so you can read it offline.

So who is going to be the first textcast hosting service, eg. Talkr…there’s money to be made here, loads of it.

Now we’ll start see blogs with textcast feeds where the posts are the latest chapter in a daily book (I remember seeing a blog once where the blog posts were chapters in a book)…just download to your device every morning and read the latest chapter on the train.

I’d love to read an offline electronic version of the latest feed content on the train (save printing), but then I need to synch it…is there such a thing as a downloadable RSS Reader for your mobile.

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I get so many emails from start-ups to check out their new product and possibly blog about it…it’s could almost become a day job, I just can’t keep up with the web2.0 frenzy…plus I don’t get paid by any of these new start-ups.

I’m sure there are lots of other bloggers experiencing the same thing, we are free publicity…is their a way to make money besides ads…plus you don’t really make money from ads unless you have 1000’s of subscribers.

Imagine having a web2.0 blog agent service, if the agent accepts you, your blog lives in a gallery, new start-ups can browse this gallery and request for some blogs to do some user testing and publish a blog post to promote there service…for a price (kind of like how some blog ad services work).

There is no real change to your blog, you are just registered with a service, and every now and then you do some testing and posting on commission.

TechCrunch probably have a proper fee setup in order to blog about new start-ups, and once it’s on TechCrunch it is out there (over 50,000 subscribers)…everyone reads TechCrunch, would start-ups bother approaching anyone else…once TechCrunch blogs it, blog posts from everyone else just proliferate.

Forgot about this one, ShortText was posted by Micro Persuasion a while back.

Make a post, and it will generate a URL and feed…kind of in the same field as some features of FeedXS, LinkRSS, feedbite, publi.sh (but not really)

Some note services like webnote have feeds, but I suppose ShortText also gives you a URL…TechCrunch has more on notes…or see a massive list (includes a section on public notes pages).

Here are some similar selections:
YourDraft
Duesto
barewiki.com
ChangeToLink
ZohoPlanner
Sabifoo (IM to webpage)

Some case uses.

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On a post about news boxes on Virtual desktops, I was mentioning that I’d like a RSS news box on my actual PC desktop, well this seems to have been around for a while via Yahoo! Widgets…check out the gallery for an RSS feed box (I can’t find one to customise, so many widgets).

Also checkout Klipfolio…round up some klips at the klipfarm.

Some of the main start pages that allow you to create a whole public page devoted to RSS display boxes are pageflakes, and protopage.

Bozpages has a RSS display box view, same with Etamp, and also MyToday (can’t make your own yet, but I got mine and mobile too)…and 24eyes (sorry no public pages)…fyuze gets an honourable mention…and come on Netvibes.

Solution Watch has a write up on the new tag-based forums, Vennt (private release only).

Thanks to Brian’s screenshots we get a glimpse of what’s going on…so instead of forums as a pivot for discussion it is around tags.
When you sign up your interests are tags, you can see posts with these tags…so is this a de-centralised discussion forum.

Old School
- Set up a forum
- Obey the owner and the rules
- Become a participant
- Post a topic
- Reply to topics
- Displays a thread
- no feeds

Web2.0 version
- You are your own person, you are not explicitly a member of a forum
- Write a post and tag it, now it will be the latest post within that tag (no owner, no rules, no join-up)
- Or search for a tag and then write a post within this tag (forum)
- This way you can write posts to heaps of forums (or should I say tags)…I wonder if one post can be posted to multiple tags (I think you can)
- I wonder if you can select multiple tags and see a river of news posts

How cool, just surf all day writing posts for tags (forums)
…since it is a tagging system you can view users, tag clouds, etc…there must also be a way to track replies to posts you have made, kind of like an inbox (or RSS feeds).

The great thing about tag systems is usually for each tag you can see related tags (discover similar forums), and for each post you may be able to see other tags this post also appears in…great for discovering other forums and users.

You user space can be your blog post stream and each forum is a category for your posts, but all within a social tagging environment (I’m not using the term “folksonomy” because I’m not sure if you can tag each other posts, ie. global tagging)

…wow, this is like Forum World, every tag is a topic, bounce around and discuss!

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Brian also points to Talkinghub, this lacks a user space (post anonymously by default)…but it seems to be similar to Vennt, so it’s worth a play in the meantime.
Notice their blog is simply a tag
…this wouldn’t work well as I could just start posting any type of content with that tag and ruin it for them…a user space is essential.

Another pointer is to SayOutLoud, this is a much more polished interface, here is an example of a post.
For each post you can bookmark it, memedigg it, email it, reply with a comment, grab the feed, click to the topic poster and commentors user spaces, and discover (browse the tags, posts related by tag, users who replied to this topic also replied to…)
It would be good if you could view tags at the user level, and if the user space had it’s own tag cloud.

I posted on the idea of blog-based tagging services a while back, see Tagsurf: tag-based forum.

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