Looks like Google did a deal to index the NY Times. If you do this news search, and mouse over the link, you’ll see there’s a partner attribute on the URL, like the ones in our links. What are the implications of this? Here’s one. Martin Nisenholtz may now have a chance of winning his bet with me. “;->” [Scripting…
Yahoo Finance RSS feeds [1]….
Yahoo Finance RSS feeds. A couple of months ago, I encouraged Jeremy Zawodny to check out the blog scene. I knew he’d flourish in the environment, and guessed it might have some interesting effects on Yahoo!Finance where Jeremy works. Sure enough, check out this wonderful hack: … [Jon’s Radio]
BBC [1]: “Some critics have…
BBC: “Some critics have been less than impressed with Google’s news service.” [Scripting News]
Ray Ozzie [1] has a…
Ray Ozzie has a couple comments about the digital dashboard I pointed to yesterday. Ray does have some good points in his critique. Activities with specific modalities should be grouped. Like Ray I don’t believe a dashboard is the place you should do all your work. However, it can be a place where you can get an overview of your applications…
Phil Wolff [1] on K-Logs…
Phil Wolff on K-Logs combining a world of content. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]
I’ve created an RSS newsfeed…
I’ve created an RSS newsfeed for the Google Sci/Tech news. You can find it here. It could be better. My attempt took three minutes to put together. The only hard part is picking out the repeatable HTML at the start and end of each story section. I did this with eVector’s RSSdistiller tool (all you need to do is download…
Channelroll bugfix, RSS continuity [1]….
Channelroll bugfix, RSS continuity. Yesterday my channelroll broke, and began displaying the message: The server returned a SOAP-ENV:Client fault: Can’t create item “.” because “” is an illegal name. I think I’ve seen this happen on other sites, but I never got the chance to figure out what it meant until it happened to me. Here’s the explanation, and the…
Aggregation For The Masses! [1].
Aggregation For The Masses!. RSS for All Major Newspapers and Websites “I am working on an tool (as part of my Reptile project) that can take any website (CNN, NYTimes, Pravda, People’s Daily (Chinese Newspaper), etc) and produce a high quality (verbose descriptions) RSS 1.0 feed with the mod_content module. For the most part it is functional…. What this enables…
Keeping your intranet sticky [1]….
Keeping your intranet sticky. Langdon Morris and Tim Dorey write about how to ensure an intranet is frequently used. They list the following key… [Column Two]
The dollar value of an…
The dollar value of an intranet?. Toby Ward has written two articles on measuring the dollar value of an intranet. In Part 1 he introduces the… [Column Two]