14 January 2007 | 0 Comments
Well, this sucks. Findory was a cool idea and I thought was implemented in a really seemless way...the casual user wouldn't have any clue what smartness lay under the hood.
I don't think this is the last we'll hear about Findory. Ask.com should buy the technology and add a feature to Bloglines which shows me other headlines I might be interested based on all the items I've clicked through on in Bloglines. And no the existing Bloglines recommendation feature is not the same thing, it is very rudimentary compared to the incredible personalization offered by Findory.
10 January 2007 | 0 Comments
Going to see Tenacious D tonight with my sister. They actually got a pretty piss poor review in the Christchurch press after their gig there, but me thinks the reviewer had a small stick up his ass...I'm really looking forward to it.
And while I typically listen to less agressive stuff (anything from Fugazi to Disposable Heroes), I am totally thinking about going to see Slayer who've just announced a concert in Auckland. I can't claim to be a huge Slayer fan, but I don't mind bringing the noise occaisionally...and I bet if I got a pic of me at the Slayer concert with my Diggnation t-shirt on I'd get on the podcast!
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9 January 2007 | 3 Comments
Dude, I am so getting me an iPhone when they finally make it to Asia (apparently sometime in 2008). Surely it will be possible to buy an unlocked version.
9 January 2007 | 0 Comments
8 January 2007 | 0 Comments
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this guy is amazing...he might be a bit mad, but I like it.
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6 January 2007 | 1 Comment
I might have already told this story, but I like it when authoritative sources make me sound smart, so I'm telling it again...
Way back around 2003 (when I was living in Houston) a valley VC firm contacted me and we had a telecon all about the "RSS space". At the time my site, feedroll.com (since sold), was definitely one of the bigger free RSS syndication services around. They contacted me on the pretence of wanting to know where I was going with feedroll, but really they were just fishing for info and trying to learn about "the space" (shiver). RSS already had lots of momentum, but the money was still trying to figure out what it all meant. For my part I was probably (unnecessarily) star struck or something and spent most of the conversation fumbling to articulate myself...
Anywho, one thing I did tell them was that Feedburner was going to be huge, and that would be a good place to start if they wanted to invest in RSS...fast forward to Cringley's 2007 predictions, and Feedburner get this boost:
12) Some smart or lucky company will buy FeedBurner, which ought to be the YouTube or Skype equivalent for 2007. Yahoo really needs it and ought to buy, but being without a brain or a required sense of urgency Yahoo may miss the opportunity. Google ought to buy it but may not because Google has a similar service in beta that probably won't succeed. But SOME company will buy FeedBurner and start printing money as a result.
Wow, that's a pretty big call. Putting aside my 'told you so' moment (even though it's yet to be truly proven), this is cool. Eric, Dick, and the guys over there have built something truly amazing and deserve all their success. Credit to them for having the vision.
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