Russell Beattie will join Yahoo! on Monday as a consultant in corporate development and strategy. Congratulations, you held out and waited for something good to happen, and did a lot of thinking about what works best in your future. I commute from San Francisco to San Mateo every day, a bit short of Sunnyvale or I’d be up for a carpool. Yahoo! needs to compete with Google and get their own magic bus. My first thoughts? Russell needs a gadget budget so he can play with new phones, services, and operating systems….
Category Archives: Search
Apologies to Technorati
This morning when I checked my e-mail I found a note from Liz Westover sent to the Technorati Developers’ e-mail list. Liz mentioned some changes to the site David Sifry would announce later in the day but the developers received early notice. One of the features mentioned was very similar to feature I knew existed behind-the-scenes on the Technorati site. Something anyone could enable but was unpublicized and not publicly known. Tantek Çelik and Richard Ault let me preview a new site feature and I was supposed to keep my mouth shut since the feature was not yet public. Well…
Technorati site search
Blogware has a site-search feature using Technorati integrated into Blogware 1.21 and Technorati Cosmos links on every post. Blogware users can enable the Cosmos links in the advanced section of posting defaults….
Feedster advanced search
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…
Betting on Tools that Power Blogs
Olga Kharif of BusinessWeek wrote about the companies building weblog tools and the venture capital that follows. 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….
Feedster Feed of the Day
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 a RSS feed or 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….
Feedster ping
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….
Technorati changes
Technorati is no longer just phrase search! Technorati launched new features and a new redesign today. A new feature still in testing is a feed with enclosures of the top 20 MP3 references in the blogosphere. Dave also claims they have better blogroll detection. They fixed the Developer’s Wiki and I can finally login again. Technorati also announced a $3250 developer’s contest ending December 31. A lot to announce all at once! I noticed there are no advertisements on the search results page. Could be unintentional but an interesting change….
Technorati trademarks
On August 26, 2004 Technorati filed a trademark application for “attention index” (serial number 78474374). This move shows Technorati is serious enough about Attention.xml to file a trademark application with the Patent Office. Technorati also has a Goodpoint trademark about to clear. I have no idea what the significance of that trademark is about but it was filed while Krisztina Mendonca (GoodPoint Web Design) was doing contract design work for Technorati….
Technorati open house
Tonight was the Technorati open house at their new offices near SBC Park. The event was catered and drew a large crowd. You can check out pictures from the event. There were many new Technorati employees I had not seen before, including Jason DeFillipo, who is currently working as a contractor for Technorati’s new search functions. That’s right, Technorati is not just phrase search any more. They have new boolean features and will show search results from not just the last week. The new features should be announced any day now. It will be interesting to see how their servers…