Or DLAs, as Marc Canter calls them. I got an email from Marc on Tuesday giving me some details on Tribe.net's new 'container beta'. In Marc's words: "...So the time has come when Tribe.net has finally gotten its next generation act together. Tomorrow they're putting out a beta release of their new profile page, which now acts like a DLA because you can plug in any sort of external module. They're starting off with:   -          Amazon Wish Lists -          De.licio.us accounts -          External Blog feeds -          In fact ANY RSS feed -          But they'll be more later -          And they still have their Tribecast blog module – which is being worked on – ...

Given that anything related to tagging has my immediate attention, so I gada talk (aww I had to, forgive me) about Chris Pirillo's new project, gada.be — but not without noting how deceptively easy it is to conflate "search" with "social" these days, on top of the tendency to conflate Web 2.0 and social. Anywho — the idea behind gada.be is two-fold: to consolidate a host of separate tag searches (and keyword searches, which sort of glosses over the distinction between user tagging and keywords, bear in mind) into one search to rule them all (tracking about 140 resources at the moment), and to make that search dead easy to do on a mobile device by using a small bit of syntax you can use to actually specify your search in a single URL. Thus, you can enter a search query from a cellphone or PDA (as well as from any old browser) by entering the search term/tag/keyword as the subdomain, like so: http://corpse.bride.gada.be/ or http://corpse-bride.gada.be/ (using the dot signifies a quoted ...

Jamal Hansen has developed a Ruby on Rails application that aggregates your tags from a good subset of the tagging sites to which you belong — currently supporting Flickr, del.icio.us, My Web 2.0, 43 Things, 43 Places, Jots, Dinnerbuzz, Tagzania, and Unalog. It presents the results in a tag cloud, alongside a selection list of "output" sites such that selecting a site and clicking a tag will take you to the tag page on that site. The idea is to cluster your tags by idea as opposed to by site, with an aim towards perceiving the "big picture" as opposed to isolated clusters on individual sites. Although I'm not actually convinced that my Flickr tags capture my ideas in the same way as the tags I use on del.icio.us or My Web 2.0, I'm fascinated by the interface and the ease of navigating quickly to tag areas on multiple sites. [Via del.icio.us/tag/tagging] ...

Rick Klau, VP of Business Development at the feed managing service Feedburner has posted a long analysis of their numbers around podcasting, and if you ask me it's more interesting than the most recent Technorati State of the Blogosphere.  It's very good to stack up against the Forrester study emphasizing that only 1% of US households on the internet regularly listen to podcasts.  Highlights include: 168,000 bloggers, commercial publishers and podcasters use FeedBurner These users publish more than a quarter million feeds, recieving over 60 million feed requests per day The aggregate subscriber base is more than 11 million Podcast feeds (those that contain a media enclosure) represent just under 20% of all FeedBurner feeds and this percentage is consistent with the more than 1,000 new feeds created every day at feedburner.com. FeedBurner recently surpassed a major milestone of 44,000 podcast feeds under management which, according to the CIA World Factbook, exceeds the total number of ...

Go check out the new beta releases of the FireANT video aggregator for both Mac and Windows. If you want to get into or keep up with videoblogging, look no further than this dead easy to use cross-platform app. ...

So Technorati has gussied itself up with a bit of a makeover that has spruced up the interface and added a number of new features. One of the new functions I'm most excited about is the addition of RSS feeds for tags. At the bottom of a tag results page you'll see an RSS icon and link to the feed, which can then cuddle up all nice and cozy with all 837 of the other feeds you already subscribe to in your RSS reader. Most excellent, but soon I'm going to need someone to develop a tool that will aggregate the best of the massive volume that's now coming in to my aggregator! ...

I've been meaning to talk about Broadcast Machine for a little while now, and Steve Garfield has given me the perfect excuse. In a recent vlog he sits down with Holmes Wilson from the Participatory Culture Foundation to talk about Broadcast Machine, which is a way for internet publishers to release video content on their own websites via BitTorrent — which means that instead of needing to eat the bandwidth cost of hosting video to thousands of potential viewers, a small website owner can serve video affordably and, moreover, relatively easily via the Broadcast Machine software interface. It can also be used to publish an aggregate channel of found video just as easily, so fans and editors can re-publish content created by others. The published videos and channels created via Broadcast Machine will eventually be integrated with DTV, a video aggregator and player PCF plans to release later this month. It will enter the RSS video aggregator space alongside already existing offerings such as ...

To say that AOL's new AIM program is an instant messenger is to diminish it unacceptably. AIM Triton, as the program is now called, is an online communicator that bundles IM, email, voice chat, video chat, browsing, bookmarking, and RSS aggregation into a two-window interface. This whopping upgrade to previous AIM configurations adds welcome features, but also—disappointingly for a program now out of beta—still houses a couple of bugs… ...

BloggersBlog aggregates news about video sharing service YouTube, including the fact that they just got $8 million more from Sequoia Capital.  Plus a number of very reputable partnerships.  It seems they are really making some moves to dominate that space.  See also DVGuru's recent comparison of 10 video sharing services. ...

It seems only natural that social software would see a progression from text (blogs) to audio (podcasting) to video (vlogging) as developers and users all got hip to this many-to-many concept of sharing ideas, self-expressions, experiences, etc., and as the cost of the tools of production continues to fall. It seems that the proliferation of video content is in the midst of an explosion, as videoblogging or vlogging takes hold and gives people a very unique alternative to ye olde broadcast media's highly-produced cable TV offerings. The recent launch of Ourmedia as an entirely free web host repository and community for citizen video (as well as audio), as well as the advent of tools such as the ANT RSS video aggregator (Mac desktop client) and the web-based videoblogger aggregator Mefeedia (which also adds a folksonomy component) seem to herald video's arrival on the social software scene in a big way. How many of you are getting involved in social video, either on the production or ...

We talked about the ANT RSS video aggregator not so long ago as being one of a proliferation of new tools to handle the advent of social multimedia. With major portal players Google and Yahoo now offering search tools to cater to rich media, and with Google and Ourmedia offering free video hosting services, the stage is set to produce, distribute, find and share rich media content. With the release today of FireANT (nee ANT) for the Windows platform, the video RSS aggregator also adds support for automatic syncing with the Sony PlayStation Portable, creating what is essentially the equivalent of podcasting for video. The FireANT/PSP combination wins in the same way the iPod/iTunes combination did to make social audio convenient enough to pay attention to in our busy, mobile lives — one click and you're walking out the door with a fresh batch of video content prepared by videobloggers. Next, we need to automate the process of extracting good metadata from rich media in order to make it as ...

Six Apart has an entirely new blogging platform in the works, slated to be unveiled in 2006 — Project Comet aims to simplify the process of blog creation and bring blogging into the mainstream. Project Comet integrates rich media as well as text, allowing you to bring in streams of various media (photos, music, voice, video) reportedly by drag and drop — something I'm dying to see. Combining the power of TypePad with the community aspect of LiveJournal, Project Comet also includes fine-grained permissions controls over public objects — the press release doesn't detail the specifics of this, but it seems to include privacy controls for at least family and friends. My curiosity is piqued by the community aggregation feature, which brings together the latest posts from your near and distant family to create a "shared experience that can transcend location and time." The gist of the tool sounds like it's incredibly easy to syndicate and aggregate content from multiple sources — ...

Over on SiliconValleyWatcher, Tom Foremski ponders: "...how large of a population is needed before a community starts exhibiting spontaneous, unpredictable, aggregate behaviors…" He mentions one of my favorite YASNS—Ted Rheingold's Dogster (which has been nominated for a Webby award btw, congrats Ted!)—as an example of a group that gained mass abberrant behaviors somewhere between 500 to 15,000 members. When i take my daily walks along the river i often find myself talking to the animals first before even thinking about addressing their two-legged counterparts. I actually have to remind myself to say 'hey' to my four-legged friends friends… ...

So I've lamented before about the egregiously overflowing mess that is my browser toolbar, as a result of all of the irresistable web services and their bookmarklets. Blummy addresses that problem quite admirably by collapsing a number of bookmarklets into one bookmarklet (or blummlets, as it were) to rule them all. You can configure your blummlet with a number of preset options, or create your own. It allows you to do very sweet time-saving little tricks like post a page to del.icio.us and then send it via Gmail from one contained interface that expands when you click the Blummy bookmarklet. It's a bookmarklet aggregator. It's the Flickr of bookmarklets, yo. [Via Emily Chang] ...

Marshall Kirkpatrick reports on a nice collection of feeds by women tech bloggers that Anne Zelenka took the time to put together. Sweet. Marshall asks if there's a way "you could create unique channels within this glob of feeds like "give me a feed of items containing the word 'RSS' or 'environmentalism' across all of these feeds'" -- there is if you have the good fortune to be using NetNewsWire on a Mac (now owned by Newsgator). You can create a Smart List that will aggregate any items out of your feed collection that contain term X. I believe Shrook has this functionality as well. Anybody have equivalent solution for the Windows folks? ...