Is it me or is the "blogosphere", deadly dull, from a technology persepctive, these days? Name a new technical feature of blog tools/culture prototyped, announced, and widely adopted in the last year? I double dog dare yah!
Blog search engines? Feedster is sort of puttering along with nothing really exciting recently and reliability biting it in the butt. Technorati seems to be turning the corner on scale, speed, and reliability, but other than a couple of new indexes, anything to get the juices going? Related Technorati links? When's the last time you followed one of those? Besides, how useful is a search engine with a 7 day memory? You Waypath guys be quiet.
Speaking of indexes, anybody use Popdex, Blogdex, blogosphere.us for much of anything anymore? The HP iRank stuff has potential, but who besides HP, Google, MS, and Yahoo could implement it?
Photoblogs? Trackbacks? Old news.
TypeKey? Almost DOA.
SYOPML? Does it have legs? (Assuming it's actually still up)
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