The FuzzyBlog!Marketing 101. Consulting 101. PHP Consulting. Random geeky stuff. I Blog Therefore I Am.Feedsterlicious !- July 31, 2003 Feedsterlicious ! Heh. If you track our Feedster Stats page at all (and yeah its slow to display and I know I need to make a cached version) then you'll see something interesting: 160,000 + feeds now. That's right. Last night we added every Live Journal user to Feedster which doubled our database size. My hat's definitely tipped to Francois whose crawler architecture happily crawled > 1,500,000 posts in 12 hours. Nice job man! Jon Thompson nicely pointed out to..http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/07/31.html#a1933 Any Hardware Guys Out in BlogLand- July 30, 2003 Any Hardware Guys Out in BlogLand or "How do I get Feedster on my Sidekick PocketPC Palm" Hm... We've had an increasing number of people ask us for Palm PocketPC Sidekick whacky device here support in Feedster and we actually do want to address this. The real caveat here is that my current Palm is a Palm IIIx (no Internet access there), Francois doesn't even use a mobile device and since we're a teeny, tiny unfunded startup, there just isn't a hardware budget. All our...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/07/30.html#a1932 Feedsterize Yourself or "Your New Feedster Buttons Have Arrived"- July 30, 2003 Feedsterize Yourself or "Your New Feedster Buttons Have Arrived" Heh. Hopefully you'll like these buttons as much as I do. And I know I need to add them to my own blog (note to self). Still feel free to add them to yours. Thanks to www.kalsey.com for the button maker UI and Paint Shop Pro for the rest. (gif) (png)http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/07/30.html#a1931 A Mea Culpa to My Mea Culpa or "Maybe I'm Not So Stupid"- July 30, 2003 A Mea Culpa to My Mea Culpa or "Maybe I'm Not So Stupid" With today's round of three blog entries, clearly I don't need any help from the peanut gallery to tell me I'm dumb -- I'll do it myself -- and then retract it myself. The issue at hand is encoding binary files in syndicated content. I've recently learned that Atom allows for this -- and from a pure technical perspective, I'll admit its elegant. But from a practical standpoint, I think its rife with issues as I...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/07/30.html#a1930 A Mea Culpa or "Its Wednesday and I'm Stooopid"- July 30, 2003 A Mea Culpa or "Its Wednesday and I'm Stooopid" Sigh. I thought I was making a valid point about Atom (and I do still kinda think that) but Dave correctly pointed out that RSS supports enclosures too -- something that I didn't realize. And, thus, everything I said applies to RSS as well. Yeah I should have definitely known that -- considering what I do -- and I do know it -- but .... So this is an egregious example of overwhelming stupidity. I'm not...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/07/30.html#a1929 Atom: The Fatal Flaw No One Has Yet Noticed- July 30, 2003 Atom: The Fatal Flaw No One Has Yet Noticed Now given that atom doesn't really exist yet, it may be early to make a draconian statement like "Fatal Flaw" but this is fairly awful from my perspective. I was being interviewed for Under the Iron and the interview brought this to my attention. The (most excellent) question was: Q: When AtomPienEcho is officially a spec and people start to use the real extensive metadata possible with it, will you need to adapt Feedster to searching...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/07/30.html#a1928 More on Colors- July 30, 2003 More on Colors Jason has more on colors (I mentioned the matched color picker recently). Nice stuff.http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/07/30.html#a1927 What if Your Product Didn't Work --- And Nobody Told You- July 30, 2003 What if Your Product Didn't Work --- And Nobody Told You I've been a user of Windows related multimedia files (originally .AVI) since like 1992ish -- back in the CD-ROM days and I just don't get it. Whenever I'm on the net and I encounter .MPEG or .MOV .QTW QuickTime video files they just plain work. Period. Rarely if ever does an MPEG file not play. Same for QuickTime. Why is it then that I rarely, if ever, can make a .AVI file just play I'll see a .AVI...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/07/30.html#a1926 Miscellaneous Oddments- July 29, 2003 Miscellaneous Oddments Sorry for being so quiet. I've been re-architecting re-implementing our meta tag indexer and suffering through the hell that is metatags. We try and be flexible but man, oh freaking man. When I look at the cruft that is metatags I just want to wince, moan, scream, pound my big right toe with a mallet and then scream some more. Anyway <RANT>. And don't even get me started on this annoying new thing where rssurls will sometimes have a ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/07/29.html#a1925 New Feedster Feature: Interesting Blog- July 28, 2003 New Feedster Feature: Blog of the Day There are a lot of interesting blogs out there --- all with rss feeds. And Feedster, with what is now I suspect the single largest database of RSS feeds available, sees so, so many of them. Francois and I have been wrestling with this and, at least for now, we've added to the Feedster home page a "Blog of the Day" link that we'll try and rotate daily (doh!). If you want to make suggestions then use interestingblog feedster.com Thanks to..http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/07/28.html#a1924 |