Python 2.4 is now available. Unification of integers and long integers, better floating point number support, multiple calls per XML-RPC operation, cookie support, and a subprocess module for spawning platform-independent processes are just some of the new features....
Red Herring published an interview with David Sifry of Technorati. The questions are pretty hard hitting and you get more background on Dave than the typical Technorati mention, like what he remembers about his high school prom. Secret to success? Work your ass off. Q. As much as Technorati is popular today, the company’s position in the industry can be considered tenuous. Do you have an exit strategy? A. Watch this space. Q. Are you profitable? A. Not yet....
My weblog is currently licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. I allow comments for every post, subject to my approval. Other persons are therefore able to add their own content to an individual entry page. The work is the individual entry on my weblog. By adding a comment a person is essentially creating a derivative of the work, an annotation to an entry. Are comments considered part of the work and therefore subject to the Creative Commons license? If so, I should probably remind posters that their submission is subject to the license. Any thoughts? Sidenote: Movable Type does...
Two years ago Dave Sifry announced Technorati: a new site with a set of web services he always wanted and spent three weekends hacking. Take a look at the Technorati of two years ago. Unofficial history of Technorati November 20, 2002Official first use date. November 27, 2002Technorati officially unveiled. 12,000 weblogs indexed. December 4, 2002RSS watchlists. December 15, 2002First Technorati dinner. December 18, 2002Technorati sidebar. February 7, 2003Site contents released under Creative Commons license. February 26, 2003First major downtime: 4 hours. March 5, 2003100,000 weblogs indexed. March 9, 2003Revenues of $2,000 over three months from charging a yearly subscription...
The Playlist Club in London promotes an open DJ atmosphere where club patrons sign-up for 15-minute sets playable from an iPod. The best DJs of the night, judged by audience reaction, win prizes. It's like an open-mic night for DJs! (via PC Advisor)...
News.com officially announced support for TrackBank and Pingback links. Search engine optimizers are already excited by the prospect of "anyone linking to a CNET News.com story who sends the proper notification will get a link back in return" from the PageRank 8 site. CNET is also referencing TrackBack and PingBack URLs as link relations in the page header. I like the TrackBack button for readers CNET uses for readers to look at other related sources. I need to do some more reading on Pingback, still not sure what differentiates it from TrackBack....
Tonight I was thinking about the importance of the number of indexed weblogs when choosing a search service. PubSub claims to track 6.6 million sources, Technorati claims to track 4.7 million weblogs, and Feedster claims to track 1.1 million feeds. What can the target audience of these services do with this information? I decided to do some comparative research from the point of view of a marketing department tracking the buzz around their new advertising campaign. Kevin Kringle is a digital word-of-mouth marketing campaign created by Best Buy and SMG Reverb. The marketing campaign is officially under a month old...
I just finished watching The Charlie Rose Show from Wednesday, November 16. John Doerr, Bill Joy, and Jeff Taylor participated in a panel discussion at a TechNet summit at Google HQ. Below is my attempt to transcribe the first question by Charlie Rose and the second part of Bill Joy's response. Charlie Rose: What's going to transform the Internet the most in the next 10 years? Bill Joy: We go out to this sea of information and in some sense we go fishing. Google is the best fishing rod. But in fact our lives are overwhelmed with information that's coming...
The Canvas is a café and gallery located on the edge of Golden Gate Park in the Inner Sunset district of San Francisco. It is a nice, bright space with its own parking lot, good food, and interesting people. They also have free wireless Internet access and you will notice many laptops alongside food and drink. On a sunny weekend The Canvas can be crowded, and in the past The Canvas turned off their wireless Internet access to encourage turnover during their peak times. This weekend The Canvas decided to turn off all wall outlets, in what I assume is...
Russell Beattie will join Yahoo! on Monday as a consultant in corporate development and strategy. Congratulations, you held out and waited for something good to happen, and did a lot of thinking about what works best in your future. I commute from San Francisco to San Mateo every day, a bit short of Sunnyvale or I'd be up for a carpool. Yahoo! needs to compete with Google and get their own magic bus. My first thoughts? Russell needs a gadget budget so he can play with new phones, services, and operating systems....
Niall Kennedy is a web technologist in San Francisco, California in the United States. I am very interested in the world of... MORE »