Archive for May, 2005

Google’s Web Accelerator in the BuzzMachine

Friday, May 6th, 2005

BuzzMachine … by Jeff Jarvis
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Google is repeating one of the great sins of AOL, promising to “accelerate” the web by caching — that is, copying and storing — web pages to serve to you.
You know, I’m beginning to think that Dave Winer and Robert Scoble were a little bit [...]

More search plug-ins

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

It’s been a while since I last written about plug-ins for the Mycroft search engine, but in that intervening time I’ve posted a few more.
I put together one for the AllPodcasts.com podcast search which works OK. It doesn’t work as well in the Netscape sidebar, partly due to the postback mechanism that Geoff uses [...]

Rojo to del.icio.us bridge-gap

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

» Tablet Tales | Steve Gillmor’s Inforouter | ZDNet.com
I wish Joshua Schacter would respond to Chris Alden and work out a Rojo flag-to-del.ico.us bridge so I can autopopulate my del.icio.us feed with items.
Steve Gillmor has a great idea here.
I’m currently flagging (and sometimes sharing) items in Rojo, but when I really want to save something [...]

Technorati Tag Problems (redux)

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

I’m really glad that Jeff Sandquist was able to get his Technorati Tag problem fixed, but it highlights my frustrations with the same issue. My problem persists….
Yesterday’s post is another great example. The category-scanning aspect of Technorati picks up the post without problem in the Technorati Tag:the ‘net, but doesn’t in attention.xml.
Perhaps, [...]

dharmasphere » The Future Of Art & Media

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

dharmasphere » The Future Of Art & Media
I just came across OurMedia and their mission (via this news source)
That “news source” was me. What a fascinating trackback to receive. I’d never considered myself to be a news source at all. In fact I emailed Prem, the author of the post at dharmasphere [...]