Incremental BloggerLoren's BlogYANS--"Yet another news site" launches- February 20, 2008 It must be Tuesday (or at least it was yesterday), because there's one more news aggregator site online now. This one is called NewsPond. TechMeme, TechCrunch, Mashasble have the breaking news. After all, this is a "2.0" friendly site and that's where the 2.0 news usually is. Kind of ironic, isn't it Newspond is TechMeme-like in that it pulls together and ranks news stories and blog posts. However, unlike TechMeme it has a decidely un-Google-like design, comments, and many more topics than...http://journals.tuxreports.com/lch/archives/004581.html Why video should be a native video type- February 18, 2008 I want to revisit an idea I blogged about awhile back. I'd like to see video sharingbroadcastingrecording become an integral part of the OS experience--not just for computers, but for cameras, cell phones, and other digital devices. A bit of background first. I was at a conference awhile back when I decided to take a picture of a session listing that was being displayed on some monitors. Simple enough right Well sometimes the little things spawn ideas--and this one did. As I was adjusting my..http://journals.tuxreports.com/lch/archives/004580.html Added permalinks and RSS feeds to thredr- February 11, 2008 This weekend I had a few minutes here and there to get permalinks working in the conversations collected by thredr. I also added a first pass at RSS feeds, although I see that I have a couple things to fix. These changes will have to wait till another day, since I have another project that's above this in the queue. I also adjusted the ranking algorithm a bit to adjust for the age of the post. I think it's working better. Up to this point people were saying that older stories were staying too..http://journals.tuxreports.com/lch/archives/004579.html Googlebot is marking this site as spam- February 11, 2008 The Googlebot appears not to like this blog any more. Tonight, I see that Google is tagging this blog with a bit of doubt. It may be that I've been linking back over to my other blog. I don't know. Maybe it's something else. It'll be interesting to see how easy it is to clear this up. Either that I may be in denail that I'm really a spammer. Hehehe.http://journals.tuxreports.com/lch/archives/004578.html Alltop lists headlines from top feeds- February 9, 2008 Guy Kawasaki and the Truemors team released a new aggregator service today, called Alltop.com, which lists the top five most recent headlines from a variety of leading sites which are divided up into categories, such as celebrities, politics, and sports. To me, the headlines are made interesting mostly because of the list of sites that are tracked in Alltop. Because the sites they include are quite active, they can give you a good snapshot of what's going on right now. There's more to it than..http://journals.tuxreports.com/lch/archives/004577.html Will Intel's MIDs be DOA- February 8, 2008 Wired magazine takes a look at the forthcoming MID (Mobile Internet Devices) that will be hitting the markets this year. Will the MIDs find an eager market That's the $64,000 question. The article points out that Intel is making great progress at creating PC-grade, mobile processors that scale down to pocketable devices. Intel is pinning great hopes on the Silverthorne family leading the way. There is something very important that the article leaves out: The software. It's not just a matter..http://journals.tuxreports.com/lch/archives/004576.html I should be working, but....- February 8, 2008 I'm checking out Yahoo's new live video service: http:live.yahoo.com. It's a product of Yahoo's Advanced Products team which according to their blog is a "small incubation team at Yahoo! -- our mission is to build stuff and launch it quickly, and respond to market feedback. Y! Live is a limited capacity release, so bear with us as and we may reach our limits in periods of high traffic." Right now the video is only live. No recording. No video on demand. For now these two missing features...http://journals.tuxreports.com/lch/archives/004575.html Here we go again- February 8, 2008 Is this going to be one more thing The Apple rumors mills are ablaze again. This time there's talk of an Apple event to be held at the end of the month. What might be announced An iPhone SDK Possibly. An Apple Tablet Less likely. If there will be one, I'd imagine such a major announcement would take place at a larger company conference. This interim event would seem to be more appropriate for a smaller scale announcement. Then again, this whole thing is a rumor--and we know how spot on...http://journals.tuxreports.com/lch/archives/004574.html Top 10 reasons why twitter keeps going down- February 5, 2008 There's been much speculation over the last several weeks (or has it been months) as to why twitter keeps going down. Well, we decided to dig deeper to see what's been going on and through our extensive investigative reporting we've uncovered the real reasons for twitter's hiccups. And as you might imagine there isn't just one reason. There are in fact ten. Here they are: 1. Everyone knows that Robert Scoble has almost 5,000 followers on twitter. Well, it turns out that he finally decided to...http://journals.tuxreports.com/lch/archives/004573.html Conversation collector listens to more voices- February 3, 2008 Good news. The "conversation tracker" that Bob and I have been working on is now able to group news, blogs, and YouTube videos as well as--drumroll--"active" threads on Gottabemobile. Here's a snippet of what it looks like: As you can see in this snapshot snippet, a couple Gottabemobile forum posts made it to the conversation list--one on Inkseine and the other on Bluetooth headsets. Both are active topics on Gottabemobile. (The entry between these two forum posts is a YouTube link to a...http://journals.tuxreports.com/lch/archives/004572.html |