Netflix San Francisco subscriber numbers
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings claims "one of every nine residents of San Francisco is a Netflix subscriber" in tomorrow's New York Times. Seems a bit high to me.
February 2005 archives
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Six Apart article in AP
Ben is shy and gets uncomfortable when people talk about him," said Andrew Anker, Six Apart's executive vice president of corporate development. "Mena gets upset when everyone is not talking about her every day.
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Web Spam Squashing Summit
I have been busy this week organizing a Web Spam Squashing Summit to bring together key players involved in publishing and indexing content on the world wide web.
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Jerry Brown starts a weblog
The mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown, has started a weblog on TypePad to discuss the issues of interest to Oakland and to provide a direct voice. His first post currently has 54 comments.
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Technorati mention on Charlie Rose
Glenn Reynolds: "If I had a big organization, like say if I ran The New York Times or some piece of it, I would pay somebody -- and you wouldn't have to pay them a lot, it's not very hard -- to just plug the URL for every New York Times story into Technorati which will then give you a list of every blog that links to that story and see what people say. And if you find a bunch of people saying there's a mistake in it, I'd run a correction *snap* just like that and I'd credit somewhere on the website the blogs that pointed it out.
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Internet Explorer 7.0 to launch before Longhorn
A new version of Internet Explorer will launch before Longhorn. A beta version of Internet Explorer 7.0 will be available by this summer. Gates made the announcement during a keynote presentation at the RSA Conference in San Francisco....
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Six Apart site redesign
I just noticed the new website design over at Six Apart. Lots of colors and rounded corners. They used real employees and not models or stock images to decorate their pages. Every page on the site is powered by Movable Type. Mule Design handled the redesign. Their news and events feeds are passed through FeedBurner. The Movable Type home page is now a subdirectory of Six Apart. Six Apart added a contact form for security vulnerabilities....
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WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn arrives
WordPress 1.5 is now available for download. If you are upgrading you should follow directions and "reward yourself with a cold soda and some candy." If you are in the San Francisco area Matt Mullenweg is hosting an upgrade party tomorrow night....
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MythTV 0.17 now available
MythTV 0.17 is now available. MythTV is an open-source home media center platform using Linux, MySQL, and other goodies. The new release boasts FireWire capture and increased support for Mac OS X and HDTV among other features....
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Yahoo! Slurp crawl delay
You can control the minimum delay between accesses for Yahoo!'s Slurp crawler by adding a "Crawl-delay" line to your robots.txt. User-agent: Slurp Crawl-delay: 20 Thank you Yahoo! Search Blog!...
