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Add RSS Feeds to Personalized Google Home Page

As promised at the Factory Tour, Google’s Personalized Home Page (aka MyGoogle) now supports RSS (and Atom) Feeds. Here’s a screen shot: You’ll notice, on the left hand side, the option to “Create a New Section”; here, you specify the

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Catching up on HotJobs meta search

Some quick context… last October, I wrote on the future of classified listings. One of the six points: “Cheaper… or P4P: The days of $3000 job listings, $500 car listings, etc is over, regardless of how many media types and

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How not to use AJAX

Scoble’s got a link to PressDisplay, an AJAX interface that allows you to pan around a scan of a newspaper. Now that I’m back working at a tiny start-up where building great product requires overcoming huge hurdles, I want to

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Measuring AJAX’s impact on advertising

Paid Content had an interesting riff this weekend on the effect that AJAX might have on online advertising, vis-a-vis the ability to measure AJAX app usage, and, it’s “paradigm shift’ (had to, sorry) away from the standard stateless web-page metaphor.

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MySpace for $580MM, Alex

Jeff’s got a great write-up on the MySpace acquisition by News Corp (Murdoch), with pointers to all of the usual (smart) suspects. There’s an interesting comment by someone named “hunter” in the SiliconBeat comments asserting that MySpace was partially popular

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Congrats Pamela!

Since you’re already indulging me… a quick note of congratulations to Pamela on the birth of her first, a beautiful baby boy! Now, I hate to spoil that sentiment… but I just gotta note that I find it interesting that

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Help me hire a great team!

Oh come on, you knew I’d eventually find a way to spam you with advertising via RSS, right? Well, hopefully getting yourself and/or a friend get a great job with a cool start-up will make it a bit less painful.

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Daddy’s got a brand new bag

Well alright, I’m feeling a bit healthier tonight, so time to dish on my new gig. I had a running joke with new acquaintances that asked me about my plans for my consultancy, that really, it was just a poor

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Quick catch-up…

Just a quick heads-up lest you think I’ve fallen out of love for this whole blogging thing… 😉 I’m still here, still reading, and still planning to publish. Unfortuantely, a confluence of events, including my annual summer Flu (ugh), likely

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buzhit!’s tail clipped; here’s to tarrantit.com

Lucky me, Google was apparantly in the middle of a ‘dance’ when I changed blog hosting plans. As a result, I went from ~800 indexed pages to less than 200 (with another couple hundred indexed under my IP address —

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