Monthly Archives: October 2005

OPML Validator – Sweet! 2

I though the RSS validator was a dumb idea at first but quickly realized how it really helped take RSS mainstream.If you’re an aggregator developer you really need to make sure your OPML works here. I’ve seen varying degrees of compatibility with aggregator OPML export.

Categories: feeds,RSS,search

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October 31, 2005 – 1:14 am
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Microformats for Parsing ONLY Content 3

If a story is 9 months old there’s a good chance it’s not in the feed anymore. This makes it really difficult to fetch the raw content from the post.What I mean by “content” in this situation is the few user readable paragraphs which would have originally gone in the RSS feed.For applications like TailRank this content comes in handy to show to the user.

Categories: microformats,search,tailrank,web2.0

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October 30, 2005 – 1:05 am
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Digg Receives $2.8M in VC 0

Looks like Digg just received a VC round:Digg, the San Francisco start-up that ranks news items by letting people choose which stories they like anywhere on the Web, has just received $2.8 million in venture capital from some big-name investors, including Omidyar Network, the outfit led by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, and Greylock partners, among others…. Digg is a neat little app. Does the job well and a lot of people seem to like it.

Categories: feeds,RSS,search,technology

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October 28, 2005 – 6:34 pm
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TailRank and Internet Explorer 6.0? 0

The rest of the team either uses Linux or a Mac so that certainly doesn’t help.It’s not a ton of work. Just a few CSS adjustments and trying to figure out why our AJAX subscripotion mechanism is brokken.

Categories: search,startups,tailrank

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October 27, 2005 – 7:53 pm
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TailRank Community Funding Hits $500! 0

We just crossed the $500 mark in our funding campaign…. One thing I have working in my favor is that a number of donations have come from users of NewsMonster and Rojo and have liked what I’ve done in the past.

Categories: tailrank,venture capital

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October 27, 2005 – 1:34 pm
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No Bubble 2.0 without the IPO? 1

The blogs we all read and the audience that reads those blogs and our own is a small sub set of people who are are on the cutting edge and keep up with the start-up/tech market. Many people I know, including those in top tier mutual funds and investment firms, don’t even know about any of the companies that are already household names to us.The public market being the key issue here.

Categories: startups,tailrank,web2.0

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October 27, 2005 – 3:16 am
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Bubble 2.0 Leading to Bust 2.0? 0

It certainly isn’t surprising that independent, stand-alone companies would in most cases be worth more than companies that can only survive through being consumed by larger entities. Therefore, from a venture capital perspective, startups that have the capacity to be stand-alone entities are by their very nature more appealing than companies that will ultimately require acquisition.TailRank is not a build to flip company.

Categories: startups,tailrank

Published:
October 26, 2005 – 7:26 pm
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What’s Next After MySQL 5.0 6

MySQL 5.0 is out. Great job guys!

Categories: Uncategorized

Published:
October 26, 2005 – 12:18 am
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Both Blogdex and Daypop Offline? 3

Both Blogdex and Daypop are both offline.What’s going on here? Coincidence?

Categories: Uncategorized

Published:
October 25, 2005 – 5:05 pm
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AJAX – Your Foundation is a House of Cards? 9

Add a bit of XMLHttpRequest here and you can build a CSS compliant popup that subscribes to an item without reloading the page…. The way gmail uses a hidden iframe to get around the history and back button issue.

Categories: ajax,blog

Published:
October 25, 2005 – 3:19 am
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