Read/WriteWeb Filter

sheriff 37Signals publish a PDF book (“DIY publishing: There’s a new sheriff in town.” — suggestion to 37Signals: create a product that enables other authors to DIY publish…)

Kottke on DIY book publishing (37Signals profit margin will probably be much higher than any royalties they would’ve got from a publishing company)

eBay’s Jason Steinhorn on convergence of browser and desktop (some interesting predictions, including that within 5 years ‘.com’ branding will fade away)

The IE7 team’s radar screen (Jon Udell is pleased to hear that Microsoft is paying attention to browser compatibility issues now)

Open AIM (AOL releases open API: “The AIM service is changing into an open and dynamic platform.” — Excellent!)

Susan Mernit on Open AIM (“Of course, there is one catch–AOL still won’t allow its’ code to be used to link to other IM platforms.”)

Marc Canter is excited by AIM API (“There are almost 70M AIM users. Think about what you could do with that?)

Ted Leonsis on Open AIM (“Our goal is to team up with developers to create a completely live and interactive experience across the Web and beyond.”)

Omnidrive beta and API (“With Omnidrive you can focus on making your product great while we take care of your storage matters.”)

arstechnica on Google GDrive (“Rumored to be in the works for some time, GDrive would offer users unlimited storage space for just about any kind of document.”)

Steve Rubel on beyond the blog (“…there is a burgeoning need for tools that help us cement all of the content that we want to track from our favorite galaxies into a unified interface.”)

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Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)

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