Monthly Archives: October 2004

Feedster releases (MP3) Enclosure Stats – Watch Podcasting Grow

Scott Johnson, VP Eng & Co-Founder of Feedster, releases usage stats on MP3 enclosures in the RSS feeds that Feedster monitors. The numbers are small now (35 MP3s in the last 24 hours, 696 “all time”), but given the stampede

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Blogger Founder Evan Williams Retires

Evan Williams, Co-founder and CEO of Pyra Labs (makers of Blogger) announced today that he’s retiring… but only for a while. Evan will be resting, exploring life (instead of working insane hours) and contemplating his next start-up. As a user

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Meet the Feedsters – SF Blogger Dinner 10/19/2004

Jeremy Zawodny points to a blogger dinner for those in SF on 10/19 (Tuesday) who’d like to meet the Feedster founders; Jeremy is signed up. Assuming I’m in SF that day w/ Gap, I’ll be there as well.

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Yahoo Local goes gold but is only partially tied to core search

ClickZ’s Chris Sherman breaks the launch of Yahoo’s Local search service moving out of Beta and being promoted to the main Yahoo page in his article entitled Yahoo Local Officially Launches. Chris covers Yahoo’s company line and adds his own

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Anatomy of an iPodder

Dave Winer gives a narrative process map for a new piece of software (iPodder), which would allow an end user to configure content that they want to have (mostly automatically) scheduled for delivery/availablility on their iPod, thereby providing the necessary

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jobs.feedster.com Redux; Feedster CEO and VP Eng reply

Scott Rafer (Feedster‘s CEO) and Scott Johnson (Feedster’s VP of Eng) dropped by to comment on my Friday posting entitled “jobs.feedster.com – A Death Blow for CarrerBuilder, Monster.com el al?” Since their comments were public, I’m going to take the

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Who is Floor64.com?

These guys show up as one of my largest referrers… yet there is no web site, and no mention of anyone leveraging their feeds, etc. If you know who they are (or if you’re part of their team), please leave

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