Archive for September, 2005
I hate to pick on the Web 2.0 show but their comment form is broken…. It looks like they’re not doing any error checking.I went to post a comment and the form accepted it and then showed it in the UI.
For the most part P2P hasn’t really taken off the way the industry expected. If you flash back to 2001 when P2P was all everyone talked about you’d think it was the next technology revolution and we’d all be running on a P2P kernel.Bittorrent is big of course.
For the last few months I’ve been thinking about two things with regard to the future of computing:1. All future startups/technologies will be built on scalable clustering technology (or they will fail).2.
Tags are great but I think I’m the only person who’s ever tagged himself. Sunday I got a tattoo on my right forearm with “tailrank.com.”Pretty cool huh?!Don’t worry.
Go Scoble!You think I didn’t piss people off when I said “you should be fired if you don’t use RSS?”… He works at Skype now so he’ll tell you the truth.Statements like that piss people off.Not me!
The Web 2.0 show was nice enough to mention my metacast idea (where I use FeedBurner and directly link to an .mp3 file to create an aggregate podcast). The problem was that they noted that I’m an Odeo co-developer which isn’t true (though I’d love to have been that smart!)
I need to find a managed hosting provider with the following requirements:1…. Ability to start small with just a few machines but grow to a large cluster at the end of the year.
I tried to download a new version of the SUN Java Virtual Machine tonight. I don’t think they could make it harder to figure out the right build to fetch.
One of the things that bothers me about Technorati Tags is how they encourage 3rd parties to link to them (thus boosting PageRank). Sure they say it’s optional and you can use any URL you like but the majority of people want to provide a useful link.Since it’s a visible link you just can’t it go to a 404 page somewhere on the net as your users will just be mad.
If three people or services (Technorati, Ice-Rocket, etc) rate a site as a splog it will be added to an RSS feed. This feed would then be syndicated for the world to index and remove ignore pings by added sites.The only potential downside I think is if people would report legit sites as a splog for personal reasons (revenge, etc).
I’ve been thinking about how Mozilla is making $45M a year (mostly off Google searches I’m sure). Does this mean that Netscape is back?
August exenses included three full-time salaries, roughly 80 hours of contractual services, 7 rented servers, our Potrero Hill office, a party and a bunch of they-sure-do-add-up-don’t-they expenses…. The fact that Nintendo and ASPCA just committed to sponsor-level support and others are in final negotaition really helps me feel that it’s no longer crazy to think it’s so crazy it just might work.
But out of perplexion, I asked them how their pinging works, i.e, how does it prevent ping redundancy (what i mentioned above). But still, I haven’t received any answer.So unless FeedBurner is doing something to stop ping redundancy, pinging services like Pingoat from within their system, along with the individual pings they send is a major flaw.
It seems that Google has ended its boycott of CNET:Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has had a phone interview with CNET, the article says. That comes after Schmidt himself had supposedly imposed a year-long ban on the organization for publishing personal information about him that was easily retrievable with Google’s search engine.
A little birdie tells me that Flock will be Open Source.
Just a bunch of random thoughts from conversations I had at Tag Tuesday.Mozilla makes $45M a year… I wish I had stuck with NewsMonster.We need a Ping-O-Matic style site for social bookmarking sites.
Check out GahooYoogle (a name which I’ll never remember how to spell).The interesting thing is how much slower Yahoo seems than Google even though Yahoo is saying that their search execution time is faster. It seems that they’re just loading too many dependent resources and FireFox is having a problem rendering the page.In contrast I don’t even see Google load.
As comprehensive coverage is a key battleground for blog search engines and portals, how can the currently free and (almost) open services offered by weblogs.com, blo.gs, etc. resist greater and greater claims on their value? Secondly, as this graph of weblogs.com suggests, as the number of pings grows, how can underfunded services like weblogs.com be considered reliable?This is dead on. It’s a huge problem actually.
This weekend I found out what 24 Hour Laundry is doing!… I won’t tell anyone!
Last night at the Techcrunch event it dawned on me that if you were to consider Google 20% time as angel/VC funding then they’re the most expensive VC in the valley…. If you have an idea that can’t be commercialized then go ahead and build it at Google.
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