Niall Kennedy's weblog

Niall Kennedy's Weblog

Page 31 of 72, covering posts published from February 2005 to March 2005.

Six Apart dinner tomorrow cancelled

I just called the restaurant to cancel tomorrow night's dinner in celebration of two years of Six Apart.

InterActiveCorp acquires Ask Jeeves?

The New York Times reports that InterActiveCorp is close to an agreement to purchase Ask Jeeves for about $1.9 million: $1.2 billion in cash and $600 million in stock.

Yahoo! acquires Ludicorp and Flickr

has purchased Ludicorp and Flickr. "Pro account holders will get super mega bonuses, to be announced soon."

OpenSearch standard using Movable Type

OpenSearch is a search plugin technology building on RSS to allow search providers to provide searches to a multitude of sites from a common search protocol.

Atom syndication format draft feed

I just finished my implementation of the latest draft of the Atom syndication format specification. I am currently publishing an Atom feed written to the new specification.

Ranchero Software interview on DrunkenBlog

DrunkenBlog posted a lengthy interview with Brent and Sheila Simmons of Ranchero Software. The conversation focuses on what it is like to run a small software business and what about Mac software makes Brent love to write clever applications.

RSS source element: threading your feed

The source element in RSS 2.0 is the most under-utilized item element yet it solves many of the issues of tracking threads and citing an item's source. I would like to lift the veil on this optional sub-element of item and introduce new ways to track related content inside a feed aggregator.

Flickr photo printing with EZ Prints

Flickr users will soon be able to print their photographs from within Flickr. Flickr announced it will partner with EZ Prints for high-quality digital photofinishing fulfillment.

Chameleon Bloglines extension

Joshua Taylor created a Bloglines extension to track attention metadata within the Bloglines newsreader.

More questions answered

I have been following the conversation around the blogosphere over the last Questions and Answers Was the work created on your own time, on your own hardware, and uploaded to your own personal server?… I created and uploaded the image Friday night at home with my personal computer.

Whose voice is it anyway?

Last Friday I posted a modified poster originally created by Albert Dome in 1942 for the Office of Facts and Figures: an agency of the United States government.

Cheese sandwich

I had a cheese sandwich for lunch today. It was yummy.

Bloggers seen as loose lips

The commentary expressed on this weblog is my point of view and may not necessarily represent the point of view of Technorati.

Blo.gs for sale

Jim Winstead officially placed blo.gs up for sale today.

Search engine statistics

James Lamberti, Vice President of Search Solutions at comscore Networks, presented today at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York. comScore * 18% of searches come from toolbars * 58% of searchers have not installed toolbars * 12% of searchers have uninstalled the toolbar * 20% of the search users constitute 68% of the search volume.

Craigslist postings transmitted to space

On May 15, 2005 the Deep Space Communications Network will transmit craigslist postings, a video message from Craig Newmark, and a clip from "24 Hours on craigslist" from Cape Canaveral into space.

Flickr deal still being negotiated?

and Flickr are still in negotiations over purchase price and no final agreement has been reached. A high level source within Yahoo told SiliconValleyWatcher that the two companies are in negotiations over the purchase price and that as of late Friday night Pacific Time, no final agreement had yet been reached.

David Sifry 106 Miles talk

I just finished editing the audio of David Sifry's talk at the February meeting of 106 Miles, a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers in Silicon Valley.

Rumor: Yahoo! has purchased Flickr

supposedly purchased Flickr last week and will make an official announcement on March 1. I have heard similar chatter and frequent Flickr sightings on the Yahoo!

Microsoft issues security patch resets home pages to MSN

BusinessWeek: "It looks like Microsoft tried to get a little benefit for itself when it repaired a serious security flaw." Microsoft issued a security patch for MSN Messenger earlier this month that reset a user's browser home page to MSN by default.