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I was talking about search engines the other day. I guess Findory includes a search engine, but in my mind it’s a lot more. Here’s how they describe it: > “Our patent-pending technology personalizes the homepage for each reader, recommending content based on what th...
Read more →Color laser printers are wonderful. The one I use is a Konica Minolta QMS 2200. We’ve had it for years and it works like a champ. Only thing is, the toner is really pricey. So pricey that I started suspectin...
Read more →This is just a quickie: did you know that you can just drag and drop the URL of a Podcast RSS feed (a.k.a. an RSS Feed with enclosures) onto the Podcasts list in iTunes? In other words, you don’t need to surf the Apple iTunes catalog looking for your favorite show if you have the URL. This is especially handy if the Podcast you want to listen to has not made it to their catalog. Technorati Tags: podcast
Hey, I just came across this: > “The Invention of the Pivot Table: The concept that led to today’s pivot table came from the halls of the Lotus Development Corporation with a revolutionary spreadsheet program called Lotus Improv. Improv was envisioned in 1986 by Pito Salas of the Advanced...
Read more →My friend Paul English has written an interesting bit about spam and ways that we need to combat it: > “The keys to ending spam are (1) to eliminate the ability for spammers to falsely identify themselves and (2) to then determine whi...
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BlogOn is a conference being organized by the inimitable Chris Shipley. The full name is “BlogOn 2005 Social Media Su...
Dave Sifry of Technorati has an interesting analysis of the current dynamics in the Blogosphere: > “Summary: > Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links in July 2005 The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 month...
Read more →Being a veteran of the groupware movement (worked at Lotus for years, and co-founded eRoom Technology) this item caught my eye: > “Liquid Systems, a venture-funded software company that is focused on enterprise messaging and collaboration, according to sources familia...
Read more →There was a recent interesting article in the New York Times describing some new, unusual search engines: > “Search engines are so powerful. And they are so pathetically weak. … When it comes to digging up a specific name, date, ...
Read more →I recently wondered out loud (on a couple of mailing lists) how much action there is with RSS and Blogging within the Academic/Research/Scientific community. The reason for that question was that I was considering that with those folks refereed, scholarly articles are what counts which seems ...
Read more →Can someone explain why my referrer log for this site is full of spamish-looking like urls, none of which actually have a link to it? For example: texasholdemcenteral.com, www.freewebs.com, skate.cyberfreehost.com, google.co.uk/search, www.myspace.com/nyjeter2ox, images.google.ca/imgres, images.go...
Read more →Read more →“IBM has announced that it will be joining the Harmony open source Java project. Although right now, IBM’s role is limited to providing thoughts and suggestions, it is likely that IBM will be contributing code to the project in the future according to Rod Smith, Vice President of Advanced Technolo...
Check this out: Microsoft Announces Plans to Acquire FrontBridge… Is BlogBridge next? (ok, you know I am only joking, right ;->) Technorati Tags: funny, microsoft
For a while now I’ve been fascinated with my Flickr SmartFeed of the Maldives. The pictures are one more beautiful than the next. Maybe this betrays my Caribbean heritage, but this one just blows me away. 
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Scoble has been really picking on Technorati recently, and I can’t figure out why. Given the megaphone that Robert has it has got to be really hurting Technorati. There has been a lot of detailed commentary about this, some of it qu...
Read more →Scripting News: 7/15/2005: Dave points to the New York Times article by Rich Meslin, Blogs 101. It’s a very nice collection of Blogs of general interest as a good introduction to the wor...
Read more →I encounter more and more organizations or people who are collecting lists of feeds or blogs for one purpose or another. With BlogBridge we have the BlogBridge Topic Experts. Global Voices have their collection of international blogs (very cool!) And of course, anyone using a feed reader or aggregat...
Read more →I just updated this site a little to have some more up to date information about my consulting business. Yes, you know about this blog, and you know about BlogBridge, but perhaps if you ever clicked on the links on the right of this you will have noticed that they were old and decrepit. Well, they are new and much nicer now. Still nothing profound, but at least informative if you are looking for me to do work for you! Technorati Tags: Consulting
In the continuing efforts to rid my house of junk, we are donating a whole bunch of nice Tchotchke briefcases. For the heck of it, and to expand recent innovat...
This is not about patents, it’s about technology. In Google’s recent patent application they reveal some interesting and possibly surprising tidbits of how they rank your web site. (via [Sadagopan’s weblog on Emergin...
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