Joshua Taylor created a Bloglines extension to track attention metadata within the Bloglines newsreader.
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Free TypePad weblogs on Friendster
Friendster now offers free weblogs powered by TypePad.
Web Spam Squashing Summit will not be broadcast
Tomorrow’s Web Spam Squashing Summit will not be broadcast to the outside world. No IRC, no audio, and no video stream will be published of the event.
Six Apart article in AP
Ben is shy and gets uncomfortable when people talk about him,” said Andrew Anker, Six Apart’s executive vice president of corporate development. “Mena gets upset when everyone is not talking about her every day.
Web Spam Squashing Summit
I have been busy this week organizing a Web Spam Squashing Summit to bring together key players involved in publishing and indexing content on the world wide web.
Six Apart site redesign
I just noticed the new website design over at Six Apart. Lots of colors and rounded corners. They used real employees and not models or stock images to decorate their pages. Every page on the site is powered by Movable Type. Mule Design handled the redesign. Their news and events feeds are passed through FeedBurner. The Movable Type home page is now a subdirectory of Six Apart. Six Apart added a contact form for security vulnerabilities….
WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn arrives
WordPress 1.5 is now available for download. If you are upgrading you should follow directions and “reward yourself with a cold soda and some candy.” If you are in the San Francisco area Matt Mullenweg is hosting an upgrade party tomorrow night….
MythTV 0.17 now available
MythTV 0.17 is now available. MythTV is an open-source home media center platform using Linux, MySQL, and other goodies. The new release boasts FireWire capture and increased support for Mac OS X and HDTV among other features….
NewsGator platform roadmap
Greg Reinacker just announced some big new products from NewsGator. NewsGator will now make a play behind the firewall with a product loosely named NewsGator Enterprise Server. NewsGator Enterprise Software will integrate with Exchange and Active Directory and interact with Outlook Web Access, Blackberry, and Exchange ActiveSync without needing to install NewsGator Outlook Edition on desktop computers across the organization. Greg also announced a white label version of NewsGator Online and there will be many APIs on the way for NewsGator Online. The feedback loop taking place on Greg’s blog is very interesting. Greg is actively engaging his community and…
Ask Jeeves purchases Bloglines
Ask Jeeves officially purchased Bloglines. Mark Fletcher and his team will move to the Ask Jeeves remote office in Los Gatos where Mark will be GM of Bloglines. Teoma will power Bloglines search. Bloglines will gather and monetize users’ attention data for contextual advertising. Bloglines launched 18 months ago in June 2003 Official Announcements Ask Jeeves. “Ask Jeeves plans to leverage these technologies across its search and portal brands, and as of today, Bloglines’ Web search capability will be powered by Ask Jeeves’ search technology.” Ask Jeeves Weblog. “There will be no short-term changes to Bloglines that weren’t already…