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Today I downloaded an album from iTunes and the complete download of the album an alert box popped up reminding me to backup my music. To an iPod perhaps? Apple needs to make it easier for people to use their iPod as a backup device or at least turn a blind eye to the tools that help people backup and retrieve their music using Apple’s hardware.
I purchased Jack Johnson’s iTunes Originals. Good narratives between tracks, but only a few of the tracks are originals.
TechNet organized an innovation summit at Google’s Mountain View Campus yesterday. The tech elite such as Bill Joy, John Chambers, Eric Schmidt, Paul Otellini, John Doerr, Terry Semel, Carly Fiorna, and more. Michael Beazley of the San Jose Mercury News covered the event.
Charlie Rose moderated the panels and The Charlie Rose Show will air four episodes this from the event, starting with John Doerr, Bill Joy, and Jeff Taylor tonight.
Eric Schmidt said “the next killer device is clearly a personal one” and he favors a data iPod holding the world’s information.
Feedster has many advanced search features most people are not aware exist. Since every search is deliverable as an RSS feed, you can tweak the results of the Feedster database to your content.
You can visit the Feedster advanced search page and search a particular weblog or your entire feed list if your OPML is available online. OPML search is useful for finding that entry you know you saw somewhere but you forget the details. Feedster displays its entire history for a site search while Technorati displays only the past 30 days.
Search your OPML is a lot more interesting to me than site search; you can build your own cloud. If a company wanted to track what its employees were saying about a certain topic they could create an OPML file of all the employee weblogs and subscribe to a search via e-mail.
Feedster indexes feeds (RSS, Atom, RDF) while Technorati indexes HTML. I searched within a few weblogs and found identical results for most weblogs in the past 30 days. In cases such as Scoble’s link blog Technorati has the advantage since the RSS feed displays only 15 entries while the HTML page has a lot more.
Matt Marshall of the San Jose Mercury News recently visited venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to interview partners John Doerr, Brook Byers and Ray Lane.
Companies stay in stealth mode longer to discourage clone ventures. Most companies come out of stealth with about 100 employees. People like joining stealth projects, and companies already know who they want for their first 100 employees.
Brook Byers: Network was a thing of the 1990s. I don’t know what it is now.
John Doerr : It’s the blog.
Ask David Sifry when his little San Francisco startup called Technorati will turn a profit, and he laughs contagiously. No, Technorati, which tracks Web logs, or blogs, and will soon offer blog searches, is a long way from turning a profit. But it has big-league venture-capital backers like Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital, and they’re willing to wait as blog entrepreneurs cast around for a good business model.
I want to be able to define in my feed aggregators when a feed or feed group should not be checked for updates.
When I attend a conference or I am at work I am focused on groups of feeds. Please only update those groups automatically until after 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. I know audio from Fresh Air will not be available until 4:30 p.m., so there is no use in teasing me at 10 a.m. while I wait for the audio.
Similar to ttl each aggregator could use skipHours or skipDays as the default and not let me override the feed data, but I should be able to add my own viewing habits or knowledge of the source for a better experience as well.
I ran the idea by Nick Bradbury last weekend and he said it made sense but he had never thought of it before. Hopefully I can control my feeds better and take a load off the publishers by knowing their feeds better than they have described them.
I am Feedster’s Feed of the Day! Very cool! I took a look at the list of past feeds of the day, and there are some pretty big names like Instapundit, Talking Points Memo, and Wonkette just featured in the last few weeks.
If this is your first time here, welcome! Please stay a while! Grab an Atom feed to stay informed of all the latest postings.
I blame Halo 2 for keeping my post count low this week. Normally I am much more interesting.
Koders is a search engine for source code. Very useful when you want to see how other projects have implemented the code you are considering.
You can even check out an estimation for how much money you will save by integrating the existing code or project versus building it yourself.
Some examples:
Six Apart and Kanoodle announced a deal to allow TypePad subscribers to easily add Kanoodle’s content-targeted advertisements to their sites. Expected rollout is Q1 2005.
You can now ping Feedster. No more relying on weblogs.com and blo.gs for updates and additions. Good move!
Hopefully this means more of my entries will make it into Feedster’s database. In August I wrote my own Movable Type template to subscribe a search by keywords after I was unhappy with the Feedster results.
