Google is showing Feedburner redirect URLs in their search results. They’re using the link: http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/topoftheticket/~3/408704356/palin-couric.html which is a Feedburner redirect URL which they use in RSS feeds to help in tracking. Google owns Feedburner so it’s a bit embarrassing that they’re making such an obvious mistake. This might be distorting the stats for the LA [...]
Categories: feedburner,google,rojo
Google is getting closer and closer to cloning Rojo with Google Reader. First they added search and now they’re apparently adding more functionality. The search functionality in particular was interesting because I implemented the first round of Rojo search based on Lucene. An internal presentation leaked onto the web and apparently they’re going to be [...]
Google Gears launches today and brings together a lot of open loops in my career. While at Rojo, we spent a lot of time talking about offline storage. NewsMonster was the first RSS aggregator that added full offline support (which I’m still proud of – only took Google five years!) and we generally wanted it [...]
Categories: aggregation,ajax,google,open source,rojo,startups,web2.0
Web Pro News has a good overview of the DMCA censorship issue that’s been making the rounds in the blogosphere.In his misguided desire to become notorious, **** **** has become the preeminent villain of the blogosphere, the target of a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a laughing stock, and a fascinating case study into blog-ethics, copyright law on the Internet, the tenets of Fair Use, the reach of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and how its abuse can affect free speech.It also becomes the diary of a madman.****’s most recent tangle involved Rojo founder Kevin Burton, who claimed on his blog that SixApart was complicit to censorship after the blogging company received a DMCA takedown notice from **** demanding that a thumbnail image of himself from an appearance on Fox News be taken offline. **** argued his right to do so as the inherent copyright owner of the image (his face, e.g., his copyright).Anyway.
Not only do they have a great blogging service (and Vox seems poised to take over the world) but they just acquired Rojo as well…. In fact, earlier this year when Ask released their feed search Chris had to explicitly point out that Rojo had been doing the same thing for years.I left the company last year to pursue new interests butstayed on board in an advisory capacity.Six Apart has big plans for Rojo.
Categories: aggregation,bloglines,feeds,rojo,RSS,sixapart,typepad
I’m under the gun to deliver an updated version of TailRank for Under the Radar so if I’m a bit behind on blogging I apologize. I’ve had a lot of positive feedback on TailRank this week and just wanted to spend the time to followup.
Categories: memeorandum,memetrackers,rojo,search,tailrank
They only include a few mainline aggregators (and forgot Rojo for example) and have a catch-all “other” category. Right now “other” is #3 behind Blogines and NewsGator.You know if you think about it a ‘tag’ based online poll where users could submit their own entries would be a good thing.