Category Archives: Search

Feedster Hacks

Steven M. Cohen just launched Feedster Hacks to track tools and tricks using Feedster. It looks like the hacks site is hosted by Feedster although the site description makes it seem like a fan site with approval. Feedster Hacks running off a copy of Movable Type 3.1b given out in August. The current version of Movable Type is 3.121. Join the Six Apart Professional Network for a free five author license. Obviously not playing favorites with weblog platforms, Feedster uses the following software throughout its weblogs. TypePad for About FeedsterMovable Type for Feedster HacksSerendipity for Scott on Feedster and Story…

Technorati Party October 28

Technorati is throwing a party next Thursday, October 28, at their new office space near SBC Park in San Francisco. The new office is within walking distance of the N Judah and CalTrain train stops. Free beer, WiFi, food, and interesting people….

NY Times technology video

I just finished reading David Pogue’s review of Google Desktop when I noticed a video box on the sidebar. Video supplement and The New York Times? Interesting. David Pogue compares Windows XP’s built-in search to Google desktop complete with a picture of a girl plugging her nose and David dancing to Who Let the Dogs Out by Baha Men….

Feedster dinner

Tonight was the Feedster hosted blogger dinner at Vino e Cucina in San Francisco. Scott Johnson and Scott Rafer mentioned they are launching a Feedster Hacks site with the help of a librarian to classify and unify Feedster add-ons.. Feedster will also hold a “12 days of Feedmas” competition to highlight the best Feedster hacks and reward the authors with a new iPod. I highlighted the differences between Feedster and Technorati. Scott Rafer and I discussed the new focus of Feedster on channel searches such as jobs or politics. Talked with Jeremy Zawodny, Ray Goldberger, and Matt Mullenweg about FeedMesh….

Google Desktop Search

Google Labs released Google Desktop Search beta this morning. Google Desktop Search allows users Windows 2000 and Windows XP to search their e-mail, AOL instant message sessions, Internet Explorer browser history, as well as text and Microsoft Office documents. Google Desktop Search uses your Web browser as its management interface. Connect to 127.0.0.1:4664 and you are greeted by a familiar Google search layout with a Desktop addition. I am able to access the Web interface using Intenet Explorer and Firefox but I am greeted with an incompatible browser message when using Opera. You have the option of including secure…

EContent Magazine profiles Kinja

Kinley Levack profiled Nick Denton’s Kinja.com in the October issue of EContent Magazine. Product Manager Matt Hamer provides some behind-the-scenes insights into Kinja. Because many of Kinja’s users are getting their feet wet in the blogging world, they neither need, nor are expected to have, any knowledge of the behind-the-scenes how-tos. Users add new sites using the regular URL, at which point, “it is queued for parsing.” Hamer says. “We don’t require our users to find, understand, or enter the URL of the Weblog’s feed, if it is available at all. Our crawler respects the robots exclusion protocol, so if…

Technorati Sherlock Mozilla search plugin

I just finished writing a Sherlock/Mozilla plugin for Technorati (zip, gzip). Although my sidebar item code works in simulation it breaks in Mozilla 1.7.3 and Mozilla 1.8 alpha 4. The same sidebar sends my next results code to Ask Jeeves for some odd reason as well. Unzip the archive to your “searchplugins” directory under the Mozilla or Firefox parent directory. You should have two files: the source and a PNG image. To make Technorati your default search engine in Mozilla you need to select it from the drop-down list under Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator -> Internet Search. Once you…