Monthly Archives: March 2006

Technorati April Fools? 5

Did Technorati get hacked:What’s up with the lame April Fool joke search results:1…. Blah Blah Blah-o-sphere8.

PBWiki Just hit 50k Wikis! 0

Pretty sweet! The gang at PBWiki just hit 50k hosted wikis!

The Lost Opportunity of Proprietary Java 0

Chris Blizzard has a great post about the lost potential of Java due to the fact that it uses a proprietary license.Java’s not open source…. So instead of just giving reasons of why they should do it, let’s instead talk about the cost of them not doing it.

The Digg and Delicious Problem 5

I’ve been thinking about Digg and Delicious and why they have taken off (just like everyone else) and I realized that they have a few things in common.1…. Both of these are easy to implement on the backend (but of course difficult to scale in large numbers)2.

Yahoo Search Traffic Spike for Tailrank 2

I noticed that Yahoo search results for Tailrank boosted recently from 8% to about 40%.My hunch is that this is responsible:We completed an index update over the weekend. As a result, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index.Very interesting.

Mashable Respect. 1

I just wanted to point out that Pete Cashmore is doing an amazing job with his Mashable weblog. Respect.

Recall of Blog Search Falling? 3

I’ve started to notice that Technorati is really falling behind in the recall of their blog search. It seem to miss nearly every post by Scobleizer which mentions ‘Tailrank’.

60% of Vista to be Rewritten 5

How bad does it have to get within the company that you’re not absolutely petrified of Apple stealing your market share. They need to ship this thing before xmas or just close up shop.

New Tailrank Release – Categories and other Nice Goodies! 3

Over on the Tailrank blog (which is new btw) we just blogged about our latest release.This includes categories which has been a big feature request.

Steve Jobs is French 0

Great post by Nivi on how Steve Jobs should approve of the French iPod legislation:In 2002, Steve Jobs said, “If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own.”Its amazingly funny how when you’re the underdog you’re amazingly revolutionary…. Then all of a sudden you sell $1B in iPods and you become Microsoft.