Over the weekend I installed SpamLookup after rave reviews.
Category Archives: Software
Del.icio.us takes funding
Joshua Schachter announced del.icio.us just closed a funding round led by Union Square Ventures. Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh Koppelman, Howard Morgan, Tim O’Reilly, and Bob Young round out the investment group.
Correct time zone data in Movable Type
Daylight Savings Time went into effect at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning for most of the United States. Most people set all their clocks forward and did not give much thought to how their weblog tool is configured to communicate time to the rest of the world.
NetNewsWire beta adds tag subscriptions
Ranchero Software just released a new beta version of NetNewsWire. The new beta includes a new special subscription type for tags.
FeedBurner completes second funding round
FeedBurner accepted a $7 million second round of financing led by Mobius Venture Capital.
Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress hosting issue
Matt Mullenweg posted his side of the story regarding the Hot Nacho partnership and content placement on the WordPress.org domain.
WordPress community issue with hosted content
One or more WordPress administrators decided partner with a targeted content company to host almost 120,000 articles on high pay-per-click topics such as mortgage, asbestos, and diabetes. The articles section in question are linked off the WordPress home page and hidden from most web browsers using CSS.
Joshua Schachter quits his job, del.icio.us to take investments
Joshua Schachter has quit his job to pursue del.icio.us as a full-time business. “[T]he best way forward is to take on some outside investment.”
AOL launches Red blogs
AOL introduced a new weblog service with advanced privacy features aimed at teens.
Scuttle bookmarks manager
Last night I installed Scuttle, an open-source online social bookmarks manager written using PHP and a MySQL backend.