Launching the smallbusiness.com search preview: I’m at Gnomedex and was feeling left out because of all the announcing taking place, so I decided, hey, what the heck. So today, we flipped the switch on a preview of the new search feature on smallbusiness.com — actually, the core feature of the site. (Flashback: an earlier announcement regarding news.smallbusiness.com and The Small Business Wiki.)

Smallbusiness.com is a “narrow” search (I prefer the term “thin”) engine that indexes specific areas of websites, blogs and other resources containing information tailored for an audience of those who run small businesses.

During a preview period, there are about 50 sites indexed with slightly less than 100,000 articles now showing up. Some of the big brand names in the small business world turn up often as sources, but more-and-more sites will show up as we add more capacity.

We have about 100 small business bloggers we’ll be adding soon to the preview, but are still working on some technical issues before doing so.

If you need information about running a small business, try starting your search at smallbusiness.com.

And, if you work in a small business and haven’t seen news.smallbusiness.com, check it out — it’s a steady, manageable flow of small business-oriented news and helpful information all day, everyday.

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Sorry, no T-shirt schwag.

Federal government RSS feeds: Paul Vogelzang, from the U.S. Treasury, pointed to this list of RSS feeds offered by federal government agencies, in his presentation at Gnomedex.

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Gillmor Gangdex:
Dave & Adam, trying to ignore one-another. (Just kidding, they’re getting along fine.) Steve
Gillmor is recording a podcast of the Gillmor Gang during lunch at
Gnomedex. It’s going to be a great one to listen to when it’s posted on
Steve’s site. Great quotes from all.

My favorite: Dan Gillmor: “This room is the ultimate in early adopters.”

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Microsoftier?
Steve Rubel models a Jedi Knight jacket schwag being distributed at
Gnomedex by the kinder-gentler (softier?) folks at Microsoft who heart
RSS. And no, I’m not selling mine on eBay.

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Microsoft heart RSS: All their announcements will be covered by others. Bottomline: Microsoft has figured out the way to romance bloggers. Add RSS everywhere and give out cool schwag. And get Larry Lessig to send a video (via iSight) welcoming MS into the Creative Commons family. Praise and defer to Dave Winer, a lot. (Even say, “I defer to Dave.” when someone says: “How do you make money on this?”)

Even some (but, not all, believe me) of the professional MS critics in the audience are praising what MS is doing in this arena.

While IE 7 will have many RSS enhancements, most of the really cool things don’t show up until the launch of Longhorn.

Steve Rubel once more shows he doesn’t want to do PR for Microsoft: “This is embrace, lite….What are you doing to show you’re still not living on the Death Star but are Jedi Knights?”

Dave Winer: “This is what movement looks like. If you don’t want to do it their way, then don’t.” (Dave’s perspective on the announcement.)

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Everyone is blogging this: A
ridiculous number of people are live-blogging this. Really. Everyone
has their laptop open. Everyone has power. The facility updated their
wi-fi system. I’m not going to try to point to others, as I can’t. But
the flickr and technorati tags are working. Livestreaming available.
Info here. However, the wi-fi is being taxed despite the upgrade.

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What Julie & Seth said: “Dave
Winer is much taller than expected, Adam Curry is not.”

Forget product announcements: this is the stuff.

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Gnomedex announcements begin (Audible): In a press release containing some extraordinary word-smithing to avoid using the word “podcasts” in its lead, the folks at Audible are announcing that, “its wide selection of periodic audio content can now be delivered to its customers via secure Really Simple Syndication (RSS), while maintaining all the state-of-the-art technology, ecommerce and customer-friendly attributes of Audible’s award-winning service.”

The periodic content distributed by Audible today includes world-class programming such as: BBC News Hour, Car Talk, Charlie Rose, C-SPAN, Fast Company, Forbes Magazine, Fresh Air, JazzTimes, Harvard Business Review, Latino USA, Marketplace, MSNBC, News from Lake Wobegon, Scientific American, Science News, Technology Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The World, This American Life, and To the Best of Our Knowledge.

No word on whether the pricing on this content will be changed to reflect “subscription” vs. “one-off” purchases.

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