Ben Goodger, lead engineer for Mozilla Firefox, just announced he started a new job at Google. He will still be "devoted full-time to the advancement of Firefox, the Mozilla platform and web browsing in general" and work out of the Mozilla Foundation offices regularly. Interesting move and it's good to see Google giving back to the open-source community....
Starting Tuesday, February 1, I will start a new job as Community Manager at Technorati. I will be responsible for helping the world understand Technorati's service offerings and providing developers with the tools they need to build and extend Technorati. I will help make your voices heard and build new features to strengthen the links we create while consuming and producing content. I am excited to be working with a team of smart and passionate people. Technorati is not the only company competing to be your live search destination and keep you informed of the latest happenings in the areas...
Amazon is hosting DevCon this week for its software development team. If you could like to join the developer chat you may have a chance to ask questions of Guido van Rossum and other speakers on today's schedule. The web services team plans to post video and possibly audio, but the summaries are an interesting enough read regardless. Some excerpts: Joel Spolsky: "[P]eople won't understand where their emotional reactions are coming from. Use this info in real life. Do same thing with software, put people in control, good emotional response, good physical feel, remind them of mom. Make it pretty,...
Technorati just added support for Furl topics to its tag service. (via Bradley Allen)...
I just started playing around with Picasa 2 and I noticed they have a "Read the Picasa Blog" option in their help menu linking to a new Blogger weblog. Picasa is the first product that I have seen link to a weblog within the application and it is especially interesting to see the link appear in the help section and not in a more generic about section....
Bill Joy is the newest partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. John Doerr of KPCB said "It's our tradition every year end to ask Bill what innovations, what important ideas are just over the horizon. Last month we agreed we should work together." Doerr added, "Whether the innovation is in internet web services, software, architectures, energy, material science, info/life sciences - or entirely new fields - Bill's insights and relationships are respected and valued." Big news!...
Doug Bowman designed a photo gallery using Movable Type, Mac software iPhoto and Photon. View Doug's New Zealand gallery and remind yourself the whole thing is powered by Movable Type entries and categories. I especially like the slide effect with the labels....
The world of feed aggregators has been compared to the HTML Internet of 1994 by Scott Rosenberg and others.. We are starting to consume and make sense of this new data, but there are currently no well-defined methods or implementations of selective consumption. If I publish content it is instantly available to feed aggregators and search companies with no restraints on its usage regardless of licensing and robot preferences. If a Major League Baseball launched a weblog for the private, non-commercial use of their audience there is nothing stopping companies from adding or supplementing the content without the consent of...
I just came across RSS Submit, a $25 piece of software that will ping RSS search engines with your feed URL. (via Danny Sullivan) Hilarious! It's like Ping-o-Matic but for $25!...
This week's announcements from Technorati have been mixed with endorsements and a message that Technorati may work better with one weblog platform than another. The Technorati tags help file contains an inline advertisement for TypePad. I could understand the use of Flickr and del.icio.us as the current most prominent uses of tags by the online community, but endorsing a weblog hosting company in your help file stinks of paid placement. Adding rel="tag" to any link should be enough to build a tag library for links off the link text. Technorati instead grabs the last part of the URL after the...
Niall Kennedy is a web technologist in San Francisco, California in the United States. I am very interested in the world of... MORE »