Blockbuster launched their online service during my troubles with Blogger, so I didn’t get a chance to pitch my $0.02 into the din of analysis. With the Blogger issues fixed, it’s on with the show… Aside from Netflix’s new RSS…

Netflix: “http://rss.netflix.com/Top25RSS?gid=387” Much has been going on with Netflix (one of my favorite companies) as of late, and my Blogger problems have kept me from commenting. With those problems resolved, and new news from Netflix today, it’s time to remedy…

Search Engine News :: Search Engine Lowdown: Overture’s Dan Boberg Named to SEMPO Board of Advisors I worked very closely with Dan during my consulting gig at Overture (Dan was the business owner of my second project, DTC-XML aka AWS,…

Well, I’m sure I’m waaaaay behind the curve on this one, but I just found TechBargains and their RSS feed. If you’re also running behind, TechBargains basically aggregates all the “steals and deals” offered online (and off), such as 2GB…

Redmond to Consider Providing Citywide Wi-Fi I was out at AOL a couple weeks back, talking to some of their Search folks about their business and product strategy — a truly WONDERFUL set of people, BTW — when the story…

John Battelle’s Searchblog: RSS Blender: Interesting Prototype Battelle’s friend Toni Schneider points him to RSS Blender, a service that inserts new posts linking to Amazon books into your blog feed, based on contextual “analysis” of your other blog posts. When…

Relevant Banners Reduce User Ire Surprise! Well no, not really. It’s already well understood in most media circles that people buy newspapers, magazines, etc not only for the editorial, but also for the advertising (people buying the SJ Merc to…

Well, whatever wayward process (be it Google’s or SuccessfulHosting’s) that allowed Google to write files to my domain as the ‘root’ user has been corrected, thanks to some timely support by the folks at SH. Unfortunately, since Blogger doesn’t have…

Techdirt:Japanese Newspaper Says No To Google News Techdirt’s got a post, “from the short-term-stupidity dept.”, about a Japanese newspaper publishing co blocking Google from displaying their content in Google News (i.e., not allowing deep linking). Mike goes on to say:…

Ah, it’s nice (in a “it’s not really nice” kinda way) to see that scale has finally brought many of the challenges we faced at PointCast back in ’96-’97 to the RSS aggregator world. For a while there, it seemed…