Category Archives: barcamp

Massive Techcrunch/Technorati Spam. 1

It seems that Techcrunch is really getting hit by a content theft/spam ring. Technorati has already indexed them (I guess due to their ping support) which makes it hard to follow news. God I hate spammers. Pure scum. It really sucks to have your content stolen like this. Here’s a shot from Google Reader:

MySQL Camp is Coming 0

Jay scooped me on the news but he’s right – we’re organizing a MySQL camp in the spirit of Barcamp.One great piece of news is that MySQL AB is really excited about the opportunity to do this and will be sending a number of core MySQL hackers to discuss MySQL internals.

Help Us Podcast Barcamp (Need Hardware) 0

We’re trying to create podcasts for Barcamp SF this weekend yet we don’t have the hardware. Can anyone help us out?Here’s the problem.

Barcamp SF 0

Looks like we have a proposed date of June 20 for Barcamp San Francisco…. I feel bad for not jumping on this sooner as I promised Messina that I would try to get something together for April 20 but just became way to busy.

The Personal Bee 0

Created by Nicholas Chim as a side project from his day job, Personal Bee has this to say about itself:The Personal Bee is a “discovery engine” that helps you discover information from a collection of RSS feeds…. Compared to RSS search engines, the Bee captures the latest “buzz words” in a topic area without requiring you to pre-specify search terms.I was never able to see the full presentation at Barcamp but a lot of people seemed excited.

Junkstream uses Feeds as API 0

They’re using RSS and Atom feeds to add products to their database:There’s no charge to list your products on Junkstream. Simply submit the URL of your RSS or Atom formatted product feed and our search engine will automatically add your listings.Pretty sweet and pretty easy to add.

Bloglines not updating the barcamp feed 0

However, subscribing thru Bloglines, the feed doesn’t seem to be updating. Seems it’s a Bloglines issue because when I subscribe directely to the feed it works fine.

See you at Barcamp! 0

Well it looks like I’m going to make it to Barcamp!I’m pretty excited!… If you see me please walk up and introduce yourself.