Category Archives: blog

An Open Definition of Blogs 1

Scoble puts forth his definition of blogs which I find far too narrow…. If you’re a blog you apparently have to send pings:I would go as far as saying that a site that does not ping a pingserver, like weblogs.com, is NOT a blog (private Web sites don’t ping weblogs.com and are NOT discoverable by search engines).That’s not a very healthy requirement.

Gnoos Launches 1

Looks like Gnoos has launched which ads yet another blog search product to ship within the last 48 hours. Innovation keeps on moving forward.

I want a CoComment Beta Account 1

Hopefully the CoComment developers are paying attention to Technorati…. This has been a problem I’ve been thinking about for a while now (during my Rojo days) and I have some ideas how I might want to dovetail your service into TailRank.So show me the love baby!

TailRank Public Beta Now Available. 6

After nearly two hard months of 24/7 hacking I’m proud to announce that TailRank is now in public beta.

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.

New Web 2.0 Companies Based on old Web 1.0 Ideas? 3

I’ve started to notice that more than a few companies are based on ideas that “failed” during web 1.0.

TailRank Funding Results – 48 Hours Later 4

Interesting results from my funding experiment the other day…. The rate of donation was directly proportional to my traffic.

More on TailRank’s Funding 0

In less than 24 hours I’ve received $280 worth of donations! Still far away from my goal of $5k but the initial results are very encouraging.

Dot Bomb All Over Again? 8

A lot of the recent news around Web 2.0 is starting to frighten me. There are just too much money flying around with too much hype and too little value.

The Wrong Message (Read Papers Carefully) 1

Apologies to the FeedTree gang for not reading their paper fully before blogging it and noting some mythical security problem which they didn’t have. Turns out it was all in my imagination.