Archive for October 4th, 2005

First Round of TailRank invites out the door!

October 4, 2005 in reputation, search, tailrank

I kept the list small (about two dozen) because it’s just Beta 1. Next week I’ll open it up to a lot more people.Over 500 people requested a beta invite.

Yahoo Acquires Upcoming.org

October 4, 2005 in search, yahoo

This is very cool. Yahoo just acquired upcoming.org.

I’ve Seen Yahoo Blog Search

October 4, 2005 in blog, blogs, search, yahoo

I had a look at Yahoo Blog Search today. I think Yahoo accidentally lifted the kimono without realizing it.I was thinking about blogging it but since they were nice enough to give me a Yahoo Mail beta I figured it would be bad karma.

NewsGator Buys NetNewsWire

October 4, 2005 in RSS, feeds, newsgator, wireless

Brent Simmons, the creator of NetNewsWire, will be joining the NewsGator team as a product architect.The NewsGator Online platform provides a highly integrated and synchronized reading/viewing experience across multiple devices, including the web, mobile phones, televisions, and e-mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook. The recent FeedDemon acquisition extended this to the Windows desktop, and now with NetNewsWire, the premier RSS reader for Mac OS X, the platform extends to the Mac desktop as well.I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Yahoo Mail Beta Preview (with screenshots) – Beware Google!

October 4, 2005 in ajax, google, web2.0, yahoo

I just got a beta preview of Yahoo Mail and all I have to say is that they’ve done an amazing job…. The user interface is clean, slick, fast, and very AJAXian.

FeedTree – P2P RSS Syndication?

October 4, 2005 in RSS, feeds

I did a quick scan of their paper and I think they’re missing one key point which basically negates all their work. If the upstream node is lying you’d have no way to prevent them from injecting false content into your RSS aggregator.

24 Hour Laundry (Ning) Launches – Expect Scalability Problems

October 4, 2005 in 24hourlaundry, ning

Techcrunch has the scoop that 24 Hour Laundry has launched and is now called Ning. Seems like a cool app. Basically an IDE for normal people to build their own social applications.