<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Web Watch</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/technology/columns/webwatch?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><description>Web Watch</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Google Accommodates Search History Buffs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11111-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11111-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Don't take this personally, but Google wants your Web search history.]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Services With Mini-Screens in Mind]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58267-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58267-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two popular Internet services -- Google and Answers.com -- recently rolled out free, bite-size versions of their sites that can be used on cell phones and handheld gadgets.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Homes in on Where You Live]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39148-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39148-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Google's peeping satellite service, launched last week, offers rooftop photographic views of the United States.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early Version of Yahoo 360 Confusing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20468-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20468-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's a blog. It's a dog. No, it's Yahoo 360! What <em>is </em>this service Yahoo unleashed on Tuesday, anyway?<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Online Scrapboooks Record Travels]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2609-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2609-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Soon you may be able to search your life history online to recall where you ate that fabulous dinner in New Orleans six years ago or the names of those two dopey dudes you met in Acapulco when you were 21. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awards Salute Best in Blogging]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48976-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48976-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Blog mogul Nick Denton's gossipy online empire walked off with four awards at the 2005 Bloggies, while a woman fired for her Web log also snagged four prizes for her edgy postings about motherhood and the mundane annoyances of life.]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[News Junkies Can Custom-Design Online Channels]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28936-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28936-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One of the Internet's busiest paperboys got a bit more personal last week: Google News, which culls headlines from 4,500 news sources across the Web, added a custom feature letting people design their own news channels.]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retooled Netscape Back In Browser Game]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9151-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9151-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Netscape, the Web browser out-muscled a decade ago by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, has undergone an extreme makeover in an attempt to regain its former relevance. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Location Is the Byword For AOL's New Search]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55210-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55210-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[America Online Inc. took a few more bricks down from its subscription wall Thursday by introducing a local search service open to anyone, not just AOL members. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Leap to Thumbnail Photo Sharing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37125-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37125-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Digital shutterbugs have a new way to share photos online, a program called Photoleap that shrinks image files from 5 to 15 times to get around slow Internet connections and the size limits many e-mail services impose on attachments. <br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[MSN's Rebuilt Search Site Has Some Misses Among Hits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18499-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18499-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last week, Microsoft unveiled its new MSN Search site, which it says was rebuilt from the bits up to compete with Google and Yahoo, the two leaders so far in the Web-search business.]]></description><author> Anthony Zurcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Courts Frequent Shoppers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A422-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A422-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There must be a lot of shop-a-holics out there who just can't wait to get their fix from Amazon.com.Why else would Amazon.com offer an unusual, all-you-can-ship subscription service for $79 a year?<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bloggies Recognizes New Trends in Format]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46429-2005Jan29.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46429-2005Jan29.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Quick, what was the catchiest idea about blogs to sweep the Web last year: podcasting, food blogging parties, group photo captions or themed photo contests? <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free From Google, Updated Photo-Editing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28205-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28205-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Google is giving away a new version of its Picasa photo software, which sold for $30 before Google bought its creator last summer and made it free.]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[EBay Sellers Protest Planned Fee Increases]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11364-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11364-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[EBay sparked a mini-revolt among its small merchants last week by announcing sharply higher selling fees. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Internet Video Adds Cable Programming]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58314-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58314-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Internet video is sneaking up on us. That became clear last week in Las Vegas, where all sorts of firms announced new Internet video services at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Online in 2004: The Wonderful and Wacky]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40340-2005Jan1.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40340-2005Jan1.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Internet experiments made a comeback during 2004. Here are some of the year's notable Web innovations. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yahoo Traffic Reports Join A Crowd]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23969-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23969-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Search engine's traffic-update feature is woven into its map service -- any time you look up an address or driving directions, you can get a reality check by just clicking.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Anthony Zurcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video Files a Challenge]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9660-2004Dec18.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9660-2004Dec18.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Indexing Web pages looks like child's play next to indexing video files -- the next big frontier for Internet search engines. But they're giving it a try.  <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Search Products Prowl for Market Share]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56867-2004Dec11.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56867-2004Dec11.html?nav=rss_technology/columns/webwatch</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The initial performance of two Web-query services launched last week, Accoona and Blingo, suggests market leaders Google and Yahoo don't have reason to worry yet.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item></channel></rss>
