Archive for August, 2007
What the HECK is up with this? Could you make the word “sponsored” even lighter? Maybe make it even smaller so I can hardly see it at all. (that was sarcasm). Seriously. This is one evil feature. … ironically one of the news feed items RIGHT after this was about ethics in online advertising. ha.
I just created an updated page over on the Spinn3r site listing all our Open Source contributions. Right now this includes our FeedParser, load balancing JDBC driver, and our benchmarking framework. We have a few more components we need to OSS but they’re not ready just yet.
This is interesting. Apparently Google News is just now getting around to duplicate content detection: Our goal has always been to offer users as many different perspectives on a story from as many different sources as possible, which is why we include thousands of sources from around the world in Google News. However, if many [...]
You guys are amazing! As of Wednesday at 5pm we’ve raised more than $2500 for Greg well surpassing the initial goal of $2k. Greg and I talked today and he was really touched by everyone’s generosity. There are a few options on the table such as sending him to Big Sur, Tahoe, or Yosemite for [...]
Rich writes up a “stream of consciousness” post about why distributed systems design is difficult: We take the simplicity of i=n++ or counting lines for granted. It all begins with a single CPU and we know that model. In fact, we know that model so deeply that we think in it, in the same way [...]
Here’s a mug shot of the arsonist that burned the burning man prematurely. Laughing Squid and Tailrank have more. Wow, this is a shocker. At around 3 am Tuesday morning at Burning Man 2007, during a rare lunar eclipse, the Burning Man sculpture was set on fire prematurely (it is normally burned on Saturday). The [...]
Yahoo has added a cool new feature to their Site Explorer: Today comes a new wave for search engines with the first-ever Beta launch of ‘Dynamic URL Rewriting’ in Site Explorer. The new feature provides the ability for site owners to alert Yahoo! of the dynamic parameters in URLs that they’d like Yahoo! to ignore, [...]
Scoble started a thread (follow on Tailrank) about how Google is going to be crushed in four years by applications which index the social graph. Search Engine Land has a good follow up: .. we get another spate of “let’s blame SEO” to start my morning off. Robert Scoble uses that theme as a launching [...]
UPDATE: If you tried to donate before but received an error just use the Paypal links at the bottom of this post. The problem has been corrected but I think we’re going to end up losing a bit of money on this one. We’re still making really good progress towards our goal. You guys Rock! [...]
Apparently, Youtube is using ad technology invented by Video Egg. But it is surprising that YouTube failed to give even a passing mention to the company that invented the unit. VideoEgg also claims to have a patent application on this – something YouTube will certainly have to deal with down the road. Really? You think? [...]
Want to make an extra $80k? Start wearing anti-Bush T-shirts and wait to get arrested: CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT Nicole and Jeffery Rank [...]
This is really good news for both Sun, IBM, and the computing industry. IBM is going to support Solaris on their hardware: The collaboration announced Thursday will enable Sun’s Solaris operating system to run on IBM servers. That means customers that run Sun servers will be able to switch to Big Blue’s hardware without having [...]
Apparently I can’t use Google Analytics with my WordPress blog: Can I use Google Analytics? No. We already use Google Analytics code to monitor the domain in ways that provide us with useful information to benefit the service we offer. It is not possible to use two instances of Google Analytics on one page. No [...]
Skim is a super cool PDF tool for editing and adding annotation in PDFs. You can add notes, highlight text, circle items – basically anything you’d want to do with a dead tree paper you can now do with a PDF. I used to read one PDF at a time but now (thanks to my [...]
Darn! I want Xohm by like – tomorrow. Now I have to wait six months until 2008. Not cool. I guess I’ll buy that EVDO Rev A card instead: Sprint Nextel has given its upcoming WiMAX service a name and a web site (which will teach you how to pronounce “Xohm”). Sprint will launch the [...]
It’s official. Sifry has left Technorati (with no CEO btw). I think Technorati might just be doomed. They just don’t have a solid business model (it might work if they had lower operating cost or had taken a lot less VC money). There’s also direct pressure from Google and they control the eyeballs so it’s [...]
It looks like EFF is going to be take up the case of promotional CD sales on Ebay: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has taken up the case of a California man who has been sued by Universal Music Group for selling promotional CDs. Like other record labels, UMG distributes free CDs to radio stations and [...]
I just received email about mortgages and real estate and noticed the following link alongside gmail: Clicking on this page leads to a spammy page about real estate and mortgages. The links at the top are all ads. Seriously. Twelve ads? You think this might be a bit confusing? The content at the bottom of [...]
This is cool. Apparently, Ask is the safest company to search with: CNet has done a survey study with the major search engines to see who had the best privacy policy. Ask.com, Google, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo were questioned to compare which search engine does the best at protecting users personal information. Turns out, Ask.com [...]
Google Blogoscoped has a great post about their reverse engineering a company placing well for ‘ink cartridges’ : So next I figured I’d check out MyWebStats to see what they were all about. Sure enough, on their FAQ page they state (my emphasis): If this service is so good, how can it be free? We [...]
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Spinn3r News- Spinn3r Hiring Five new Engineers (and growing rapidly)
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- Spinn3r Hiring Crawl Engineer
- Spinn3r 3.1 - Now with Twitter Support and Social Media Ranking
- Blogfa.com (Iranian Blog Network) Down Due to Iranian Protests and Civil Unrest?
- Papers using Spinn3r Data from ICWSM 2009
- Spinn3r talk from ICWSM 2009
- Spinn3r 3.0: New Features, New Architecture, New APIs - More Goodness
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