Monthly Archives: January 2006

Go Seamonkey! 1

FireFox is cool and all but I always liked the Mozilla application suite…. I also like the design of Mozilla and I never really liked FireFox.

Categories: firefox,mozilla

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January 31, 2006 – 7:55 pm
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EFF Suing AT&T for helping NSA 0

This is slightly political but highly related to the tech industry.The EFF is suing AT&T for illegally helping the NSA spy on American citizens…. has opened its key telecommunications facilities and databases to direct access by the NSA and/or other government agencies, thereby disclosing to the government the contents of its customers’ communications as well as detailed communications records about millions of its customers, including the lawsuit’s class members.

Categories: nsa,politics

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January 31, 2006 – 3:24 pm
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Yahoo Invites Bloggers to Offsite 1

Dave says:Microsoft used to ask us to events like this, Google and Apple never have (except briefly while Amelio was in charge, but that went nowhere)…. They don’t have the usual arrogance, they’re more inquisitive like the old Microsoft was.

Categories: google,yahoo

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January 27, 2006 – 11:49 pm
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Tom Conrad and Jeremy Zawodny using TailRank. 2

More cool feedback for TailRank.Jeremy Zawodny (Yahoo) says it’s one of the top 4 sites he visits daily.Tom Conrad (CTO of Pandora) says it’s his new home page:After a few days spent playing with blogosphere favorite tech.memeorandum, I started to realize that most of what was showing up there was already in my feed reader. Then I remembered that Kevin Burton’s TailRank has been evolving a good bit lately.

Categories: search,tailrank

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January 26, 2006 – 4:27 pm
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Yahoo Will Buy Digg – Announcement Early Next Week 34

I’ve now heard from two sources close to Yahoo which tell me that Yahoo is going to be buying Digg for nearly $30M. I haven’t yet heard from anyone working for Yahoo that this is 100% but I’d be surprised if we didn’t hear an announcement by early next week.

Categories: digg,yahoo

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January 25, 2006 – 10:18 pm
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I’ll be on Power Source Radio Tonight 1

Tonight (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern), Tim and I will have Kevin Burton of TailRank and Rojo fame on the air for an hour-long conversation on WebmasterRadio.fm. If you’ve got questions you’d like us to ask or stuff to talk about, drop a comment here and I’ll see what we can do.

Categories: podcasting,tailrank,yahoo

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January 25, 2006 – 4:57 pm
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LazyWeb: The ZoneEdit of Network Monitoring? 5

Just point your Registrar (godaddy in my case) to ZoneEdit and they have a nice and easy interface for managing your DNS.I’d like something similar for network monitoring. I use Nagios for internal monitoring but if my machines have any critical problems I’d never find out about it.

Categories: startups,web2.0

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January 25, 2006 – 3:32 pm
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“Who is this Person?” 1

It’s called ‘Whois This Person’ and it’s a simple little right-click menu item which will query any name you’ve highlighted against LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Technorati, GoogleNews, Yahoo Person Search, TailRank as well as some family and address sites. It’s not gonna change the world, but it may save some seconds here and there.And it has TailRank support…

Categories: firefox,flock

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January 25, 2006 – 11:11 am
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Yahoo to buy Digg for $35M? 1

Rumor has it that Yahoo has an offer to buy Digg for $35M. This seems like a great way to get traffic to your blog though.

Categories: digg,yahoo

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January 24, 2006 – 10:21 pm
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Updated Jakarta FeedParser and Rojo’s Torque Fork (Open Source) 3

Just a quick post to announce two open source snapshots I’m releasing.The first is a fork/branch of the Jakarta FeedParser. While at Rojo we tried to work with the Apache Software Foundation but found the beaurocracy to be less than enjoyable.

Categories: java,open source,technology

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January 24, 2006 – 10:04 pm
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