Haystack Updates - May 17, 2006

Some news, hot off the presses on the BrainJams unconferences, and one for the recently-concluded Stowe Boyd has noted is "...importing RSS feeds of outside information into the profile (I'd like to link my blog, for example)"Stowe, ask and ye shall recieve. (Check Speaker's Haystack for an example.) Haystack profiles have the ability to pull in an RSS 2.0 feed, and the feed parser is even all AJAX-ified and stuff, so that a customer or prospective business contact can view your tags and the rest of your profile while the system goes out and grabs the most recent headlines from your feed. Next? Recent related items: Haystack Updates - April 26, 2006 Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Christopher Carfi, CEO and co-founder of Cerado, looks at sales, marketing, and the business experience from the customers point of view. He currently is focused on understanding how emerging social technologies such as blogs, wikis, and social networking are enabling the creation of new types of customer-driven communities. He is the author of the