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Blog, Wikis, Social Networks - what can social software do for you? is an online course that runs May 17 through May 21. It costs $149. I'm posting this because I know and endorse a number of the people who will be teaching: Tom Mandel, Lisa Kimball, Ross Mayfield, Tom Erickson all know what they are talking about, and know how to teach in an online environment.

Everyone has their own specifications for what they'd like blogs to do. Advanced users, comfortable with the technology and able to tweak their blogs to do some amazing (and some silly) things, are quickly leaving the rest of us behind, and there are millions of others who took a quick try at blogging, threw up their hands, and gave up. This article is an attempt to create a scorecard of what blogs can and cannot presently do, and what they should be able to do. The objective is to spec out a blogging tool that is better (more useful), faster and simpler, at next to no cost.

FreeCache works by moving content "hot spots" on the web closer to users. This provides several advantages to various parties involved: Users get faster downloads, content providers pay less for Internet-bound traffic, and ISPs pay less for Internet-originating traffic.

This tool lets you enter the .ram URL of a Realplayer movie, and a start and endpoint, and returns a URL you can link to that only plays the part of the movie you want.

PubSub is like a search that never stops. When you create a PubSub subscription, we'll watch for results as new information is published on the web. Any time matching information appears, you'll see it in your news aggregator (or you can read it on the web).