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Technorati has a subdomain focused on the world of AOL Journals. Focused news talk, recent entries, and top 100 journals. Notice that the total weblogs watched and links tracked are a bit off. This subdomain is probably a mockup….
ScanZoom has a software package for mobile phones that allows you to take a picture of a bar code and receive pricing information from PriceGrabber.com and Amazon. $20 gets you a macro lens and the application. (via Engadget)…
I just finished writing a Sherlock/Mozilla plugin for Technorati (zip, gzip).
Jay Allen is moving from Hungary to California to work for Six Apart. Jay is best known for his work on MT-Blacklist. His code is included in the Movable Type search functions as well I believe. Good to see this happen! I am pretty sure Six Apart has been working on hiring Jay for months. It only took $10 million to seal the deal!…
After my last posting I started to wonder how the weblog search market is carved up at the moment. Who are the players in the weblog-specific search space? comScore Media Metrix is not giving out any freebies these days, so I headed over to Alexa to check out their traffic rankings. DomainTraffic RankBloglines2635Technorati8995Feedster11232Ice Rocket14093DayPop23349…
Search engine Ice Rocket now has a weblog specific search feature. I am receiving better keyword results than Technorati. A search on Ice Rocket for “Bush wired” (no quotes in the search) returns 164 results from the last seven days (October 1-8). The same search on Technorati returns 86 posts. Technorati is using a phrase search and Ice Rocket is looking for a post with both the words “Bush” and “wired.”…
Last night Technorati held a Hackathon at their new offices near SBC Park. There were about 30 people in attendance including the Technorati crew. Some remote users joined via IRC. Good pizza, the beer did not run out, and the salad was almost untouched. Thanks to Liz Westover for putting together the event. Dave and Tantek spoke about Technorati and its APIs. We went around the room and introduced ourselves and our interests related to Technorati and the hackathon. Ideas were thrown on the whiteboard but by the end of the introductions no one was interested in splitting up into…
Om Malik reports that August Capital is about to invest over $5 million in Six Apart. Update: Mena adds some detail. Business Wire has the press release….
Adidas secured exclusive rights to Major League Soccer clothing and equipment for the next 10 years. The deal is reportedly worth over $100 million according to The Financial Times and $150 million according to the Washington Post. Adidas will be the only sports brand advertised during television broadcasts of MLS games and English language broadcasts of the 2006 World Cup. Adidas was able to sign an entire league for less than one-fifth the cost of Nike’s £300 deal with Manchester United. Hopefully all twelve team’s jerseys will not use the same style. Adidas is currently using its Shark jersey with…
Bill Gates will launch Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 next Tuesday, October 12, at 11 a.m. at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles….
I have been playing around with Rojo, a new Web-based aggregator from Rojo Networks. Rojo adds social networking features to the feed aggregator space. Define your friends, see what feeds they are subscribed to, and what items of interest they have flagged. They have a strong team with a lot of background in open standards and rich applications. Right now Rojo is available by invitation only and new members can invite 5 other members. I already sent out my invites, but Kevin Burton will set you up if you join #rojo on irc.freenode.net. Rojo currently indexes 700,000 weblogs and makes…
Rojo unveiled its next-generation Web-based feed aggregator to an invitation only list. Chris Alden is excited. Rojo has already indexed over 700,000 feeds, some able to be sorted by topic and popularity. A recommendation engine is built-in. Friends and colleagues can connect to each other within Rojo and flag stories for each other and share what feeds they are reading. Rojo Networks also has some P2P talent in Brad Neuberg and it will be interesting to see how that technology could be utilized given Rojo’s Web interface….
Evan Williams is leaving Google. Evan is the founder of Pyra Labs and creator of Blogger, which was sold to Google in 2003. Whatever Evan ends up doing it should be interesting. Good luck! I have enjoyed your pictures lately and I intend to stay tuned in many formats….
Feedster is hosting a blogger dinner on October 19 at Vino e Cucina at 7 p.m. Scott Johnson, Scott Rafer, and François Schiettecatte will be in attendance. I will be there as well. Should be an interesting crowd….
Martha Lagace of HBS Working Knowledge summarized some of Yahoo! CEO Terry S. Semel’s experience with acquisitions. He talked about Yahoo!’s acquisitions of Overture and Inktomi, differing methods of negotiation, and knowing when to walk away when the deal gets too expensive. Semel spoke to members of the Harvard Business School Negotiation Club on September 20, 2004. [Inktomi] was scalable, and we also thought we could make it better by putting our engineering talent behind it. I knew as a negotiator—and my team knew—that we had to have this….
Amazon.com introduced Alexa Web Information Service and updated Amazon E-Commerce Service. Alexa Web Information service allows for retrieval of site information such as popularity, related sites, detailed usage/traffic stats, supported character-set/locales, site contact information, meta data, and a list of links in and out of the site. The service is currently free and allows 10,000 requests per subscription ID per day. Check out the SDK page for more information. Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0 allows access to detailed product attributes, product images, customer reviews, and attribute search. The service is free and you may make no more than one request to…
Eilene Zimmerman of The New York Times writes about the use of weblogs to attract employees and employers. It provides a more human process and gives you a better idea of the people you will be working with. Weblog entries also provides future candidates a better idea of corporate lifestyle….
Thomas Waldegger discovered a pretty serious cross-site scripting vulnerability in WordPress. Dougal Campbell notes that WordPress developers are aware of the issue and working on a 1.2.1 release to help solve the problem. Secunia has issued an advisory (level 2 of 5) for all versions of WordPress. Be aware and ready to apply the new code!…
As our lists of feeds grow it becomes more difficult to sort through the clutter that greets us as we fire up our news aggregators. The list of publishers of supported feeds continues to grow, as does the appetite for consumption. The next important step in the feed aggregation space will be how you tame the data available within the application. I propose sorting services that would allow developers to offer their own reclassification of a list of feeds or their content. Pass a list of feeds in OPML and a web service will return the same OPML with an…
Technorati is hosting a hackathon next Wednesday starting at 7 p.m. in their new offices in San Francisco. Parking should be ample. If you take the N Judah to SBC Park (3rd and King) Technorati’s office is a one block walk. Tantek extends an invitation to web designers and web developers. it’s not just a night of API developers. I created a wiki page on the developers site to track topics. I would like to work on a RSS aggregator plugin that sorts feeds by source authority. Anyone else interested in such a project and would like to collaborate?…
NewsGator Technologies announced a co-marketing relationship with Six Apart yesterday. NewsGator will resell Movable Type and Six Apart will resell NewsGator for Outlook to its corporate customers. The two companies are also planning joint development work. NewsGator will release a plugin in the next week that lets NewsGator for Outlook users post to Movable Type and TypePad. From the NewsGator press release: NewsGator and Six Apart, the leading provider of weblog publishing software, announced a co-marketing relationship focused on enterprise sales of the two companies’ leading technology platforms. NewsGator also announced that it will be releasing new plug-ins and other…
Thomas Mucha of Business 2.0 takes a look at weblogs as a marketing tool. Some good quotes from Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems and David Sifry of Technorati. Technorati reports there are about 5,000 serious corporate blogs. Some good quotes. “[T]he blog is about competitive advantage.” -Jonathan Schwartz “It’s the same risk as giving someone a telephone.” -Jonathan Schwartz on whether blogging poses a corporate risk “Bloggers were talking about Kryptonite’s lock problems a week before the story hit the mainstream media. If Kryptonite had been paying attention to the blogosphere, they could have reacted sooner and smarter.” -David Sifry…
David Talbot of Salon.com interviewed Terry Gross about her 29 years hosting Fresh Air and her views on the journalistic process. She talks about the difficulties of interviewing Bill O’Reilly, Paul McCartney, and Sean Penn. It is interesting the work that goes into preparing each show such as reading a guest’s book and knowing the right way to work yourself into a subject area they might not want to spend too much time addressing. Terry Gross is currently new book, “All I Did Was Ask.” I think of myself as being a member of the first generation of women who…
Java.net is a Sun Microsystems site serving as a common area for conversations and development projects related to Java technology. As of last Monday the site is now powered by Movable Type. Movable Type provides the features weblog authors were requesting such as XML-RPC….
Sun is throwing a launch party for J2SE 5.0 this Thursday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I plan on being there to talk Java with lots of interesting people. I have never been to the Computer History Museum but I have been meaning to check it out. If you are wondering when J2SE 5.0 will finally be released, the answer seems to be Thursday. I have been using some of the new features of J2SE 5.0 for the past few months. Generics, autoboxing, enhanced for loop (think foreach) and many more new features available….