Finally! - Email Standards Project

Email Standards Project: "The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email."

I'm very happy to see an organized attempt to address the issue of poor and inconsistent industry-wide support for rich email (html email). The Email Standards Project looks like the bandwagon to jump on. The site has a great chart right on the homepage showing popular email clients (desktop and web-based) and their rating in terms of standards support. The project has come up with an "acid test", much like the Web Standards Project, that is used to fairly and consistently test the ability of a given email client.

Check out the site, join the email list or spread the word.

The Virtues of Print in a Web 2.0 World

oreilly.com: "Dale Dougherty, the publisher of Make: Magazine did a brief interview with Publishing Executive Magazine, which included some great thoughts on how print publishers can harness the power of Web 2.0 while also playing to their own strengths...

There's a lot that publishers can and should do with technology, because Web 2.0 is providing many new ways of finding new talent, bringing great material to the top of what used to be called 'the slush pile', and then bringing it to market. But so much does begin just as Dale says, in deep engagement with your audience, which in almost every case is also the source of the content that you will feature."

Interesting article, also includes a video about how O'reilly leverages the web to augment the total customer experience for their publication "MAKE".

rss2twitter.com - Dead simple solution for adding a feed to twitter

rss2twitter.com: "With RSS 2 Twitter any RSS feed can now be twittered. Want to subscribe to any blog and have it go to your phone? Easy - Just setup a twitter account, log in here with that username and password and then add some feeds and that account will twitter away to the tune of your feed."

Just login with your twitter account, add your RSS feeds, and there you go.

Streamy - The Digg Killer?

via digg: "Streamy is one part Pageflakes + one part Digg. Users get their home page which is divided into topical sections but then via the wisdom of the Streamy crowds you get personalized recommendations on other stories and publications." Go to the site to request an invite to the BETA, or check out the video overview below.


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