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.
Categories: blog,blogger,blogs,memetrackers,search,syndicate,syndication,web2.0,weblog,Weblogs,wordpress
Dave posts another state of the blogosphere and I want to point out that there are not 50 million blogs.There might have been 50 million blogs that have ever been created but there aren’t 50 million blogs in active use.Lets use Technorati’s own numbers to clear up the confusion.They claim there are “about 1.6 Million postings per day” which if we do the math is 0.032 posts per blog per day.I don’t know about you but I post about 3 posts per day on average.
Categories: google,search,sphere,startups,syndication,technorati,web2.0,Weblogs,yahoo
Someone released a PHP template to include Tailrank, Digg, Delicious on the bottom of every post. This is great and all but it means that every post with this plugin would show up in my link cosmos.Otis was nice enough to post a hack on how to get Technorati to work without images but that didn’t seem to work either.
Categories: search,syndication,technorati,web2.0
Wired just released a piece by Ryan Singel entitled Man vs Machine in Newsreader War which is pretty hot (and pushing some serious pages on Tailrank right now)…. Tailrank, a San Francisco-based startup founded by Kevin Burton, also relies heavily on smart code to find cool stories — not just from news outlets, but also from tens of thousands of blogs.Burton, who wrote a news-reading application called NewsMonster and co-founded Rojo, an online news-reading tool, started Tailrank as a way to handle the information overload created by easy access to blogs and media outlets via RSS.
Categories: memetrackers,search,syndication,tailrank
TroutGirl was nice enough to remind me why stealth mode is a dumb idea.24 Hour Laundry should be held up as a good example.If you think your idea is valuable you’re wrong. If you think you’re the only one smart enough to come up with this idea you’re deluding yourself.Ideas are a dime a dozen.
Categories: startups,syndication,venture capital,web2.0
They would add another man-in-the-middle One of the capabilities we are very excited to roll out in Q1 will be something we are calling Feed Insurance…. Kevin’s suggestion was to have a separate facility that just redirects feed requests to the publisher’s source feed if anything catastrophic happens to FeedBurner’s hosting network.
Categories: aggregation,feedburner,feeds,RSS,syndication,web2.0
I need to compile a list of user agents for TailRank.Anyway. What’s BlogsLive and TopicBlogs?Anyone?I just saw them come across in my referrer logs.
Categories: feeds,syndication,tailrank
The Guardian posts a review of TailRank (if not a little negative but hey, constructive criticism is a good thing right?). After Digg and Reddit, there’s TailRank (tailrank.com), a “social news recommendation system and collaborative filter”.
Categories: feeds,syndication,tailrank