Guinness Believer event
Tonight I attended a Guinness Believer event at the Merchants’ Exchange in downtown San Francisco.
Writing on feeds, search, widgets, and the social web.
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Open source communities
I attended the “Meet the Community” panel at the Open Source Business Conference today in San Francisco. After reading the list of panelists I knew I just had to be there.
Correct time zone data in Movable Type
Daylight Savings Time went into effect at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning for most of the United States. Most people set all their clocks forward and did not give much thought to how their weblog tool is configured to communicate time to the rest of the world.
Yahoo! Term extraction API
Yahoo! now offers a term extraction API call.
Intelliseek blogging white paper
Intelliseek and Edelman partnered to create a white paper on weblogs.
NetNewsWire beta adds tag subscriptions
Ranchero Software just released a new beta version of NetNewsWire. The new beta includes a new special subscription type for tags.
FeedBurner completes second funding round
FeedBurner accepted a $7 million second round of financing led by Mobius Venture Capital.
Pope John Paul II has passed
Karol Józef Wojty?a, better known as Pope John Paul II, passed away this morning at the age of 84.
Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress hosting issue
Matt Mullenweg posted his side of the story regarding the Hot Nacho partnership and content placement on the WordPress.org domain.
PubSub LinkCounts
PubSub introduced LinkCounts, a new way of looking at daily statistics for their database as a whole or just your favorite part. Bob Wyman describes LinkCounts as “how many InLinks and OutLinks we discovered each day.”
WordPress community issue with hosted content
One or more WordPress administrators decided partner with a targeted content company to host almost 120,000 articles on high pay-per-click topics such as mortgage, asbestos, and diabetes. The articles section in question are linked off the WordPress home page and hidden from most web browsers using CSS.
Dark chocolate peanut M&Ms are coming
Dark chocolate M&Ms are hitting store shelves next week. The launch has a Star Wars marketing tie-in and a clever movie trailer.
Guinness event next Wednesday
You know it is going to be a good day when you receive an e-mail from Guinness inviting you to an all you can drink party to learn more about your favorite beer and give feedback.
Joshua Schachter quits his job, del.icio.us to take investments
Joshua Schachter has quit his job to pursue del.icio.us as a full-time business. “[T]he best way forward is to take on some outside investment.”
AOL launches Red blogs
AOL introduced a new weblog service with advanced privacy features aimed at teens.
High school bans blogging
Students at Proctor High School in Vermont can no longer write weblog posts at school. School officials are concerned for the safety of the children posting personal data online that could be used by an Internet predator.
Technorati nears one billion links tracked
One billllion… Technorati is currently less than nine million links away from reaching the one billion links tracked threshold.
Technorati User Salon this Thursday
We would like to bring together the community to reflect on the last few months in the world of weblogs and discuss how Technorati may be of service in the future…. Please RSVP to salon-sf@technorati.com and let us know how many people you are bringing so we can plan the event space, food, and drink.
Adam Bosworth is blogging again
Much to my surprise, Dare Obasanjo came up to me and told me, after some fairly vitriolic complaining from me to him about this earlier state of affairs, that he wished I’d continue to post. I thought about this over the weekend and decided that to some degree, you have to take your chances in this environment rather than just hide when you don’t like the behavior and that perhaps I was being over sensitive anyway.
Scuttle bookmarks manager
Last night I installed Scuttle, an open-source online social bookmarks manager written using PHP and a MySQL backend.
Harvard Entrepreneurship Conference
Harvard Business School hosted an Entrepreneurship conference on March 3. Sean Silverthorne of HBS Working Knowledge summarizes the themes of the conference and provides choice quotes from speakers.
WordPress Inc.
Later today Matt Mullenweg will announce WordPress Inc., a company created to develop WordPress solutions for paying customers. Jonas Luster is one developer involved with the new company.
RSS your way with more options
My weblog now has a RSS feed for every category and individual entry.
Movable Type Wikipedia entry
I just updated the Movable Type Wikipedia entry with an extended history of the product.
The Simpsons on search engines
According to tonight’s Simpsons episode Homer knows his search engines. Marge confronts Homer about his work habits such as Googling his name until lunch and Homer made a note on his Flintstones fun map to use Ask Jeeves to find out more information about Dino.