Archive for October, 2005
Sunday, October 9th, 2005
yahoo+flickr
Originally uploaded by Antonescu Razvan.
Add pictures from Flickr to My Yahoo!
Steps
- 1. Go to www.flickr.com and go to an user’s Photostream
- 2. Scroll the page down and find a link that says “RSS 2.0”; copy that link’s location
- 3. Go to http://my.yahoo.com, login in and then find a link that says “Add Content”
- 4. Use the “Add RSS by URL” option and paste the URL from Flickr
- 5. Now you should have on you’re “My Yahoo!” page a new module with a Flickr slideshow
Features
- 1. Slideshow
- 2. View all – shows the latest pictures from the photostream
- 3. Unlimited number of modules – you can add as many feeds as you want
Tips
A) as far as I seen you cannot add groups feeds
B) create a new page in “My Yahoo!”, name it Flickr and add your contact’s photostreams 
P.S. While formmating this post, I was thinking that all the steps are somewhat redundant because there is an add to My Yahoo! button on every photostream. But what is weird it doesn’t seem to work…so follow the steps 
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Saturday, October 8th, 2005
Google Reader
Originally uploaded by andy z.
In the past 2 year the internet mob praised every new Google feature no matter how usefull or not has been. But yesterday things have suddenly changed with the release of Google Reader. From what I am seeing in Technorati more than 50% have negative reviews on it.
Possible explanations for this:
- The “ultimate feed” that is Slashdot. With more than 50.000 subscribers (acording to Bloglines), Slashdot has the power to change opinions and trends. Heh I even know someone that believed on April Fools that Google has it’s own satellite because he has read that on Slashdot. What I cannot understand though is the sudden change of opinions
- The share market of Bloglines. Due to the fact that Google Reader introduces quite an innovative navigation system for an rss reader is troubling for most users that are not prone to change and therefore very strong biased
And if you connect those 2 pices of informations through the fact that Bloglines has named Slashdot the ultimate feed things are more obvious.
This post is not an absolute truth or anything similar just a speculation and a try to answer myself some questions
Posted in General, Google | 2 Comments »
Saturday, October 8th, 2005
I am missing for 2h from computer and Google launches a new service. It looks pretty nice and at least for me it’s kind of bye bye Bloglines. Considering the fact that it’s Ajax one of the first reviews I saw it’s from Ajaxian Blog
Apparently this is no new news, Chris Sherman new about this one since August. You should check also:
Of course in oder to have acess you need a Google account. If you are outside US and you still don’t have a Gmail account send me a message through the contact form and I’ll mail you an invite.
Edit:
But of course..scalability seems to be an issue for Google. Now it’s down, and it hasn’t been Slashdoted yet…
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
In the last few days I am under a heavy comment spam attack. Some idiot unleashed a spam bot and doesn’t see that all comments are moderated. It has become quite annoying to delete all his comments. Anyone can suggest a good defense method for Word Press or even better…retaliation?
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
Last week, rumors of a Google Calendar started showin up. The rumors were based on the aquisition of the gcalendar.com and the activation of the subdomain calendar.google.com. The subdomain pointed to the main google.com, but as of today is pointing to Google’s personalized homepage.
Ar they really doing something?
EDIT:
After I pushed the post button, I saw the Yahoo’s reaction to the calendar rumors :). To be honest I would have expected more from Yahoo…
Posted in Google, Search Engines News, Yahoo | No Comments »
Saturday, October 1st, 2005
Google failures
Originally uploaded by Antonescu Razvan.
Today I was checkin my monthly stats when I saw a weird string in my referrals:
“google failures”
I checked it out in Google and I almost felt off my chiar laughing when I saw the spelling suggestion :))
Click the image above for a larger screen
Posted in General, Google | 2 Comments »
Saturday, October 1st, 2005
netvibes.com
Originally uploaded by Antonescu Razvan.
I always thought that doing a copy of a popular service is the most lame thing. That I thought untill I found Netvibes. At first look is looks like a copycat of Start
Looking closer you’ll have a surprise. Is true that they used Start.com as a starting point but they moved the ideea a few steps in advance.
From Techcrunch review:
The project itself looks pretty good: modules are intuitive and the page interaction’s easy to catch up on with just a few seconds. There are a few other things on the slate too, apparently, like modules for Flickr, feed searching, bookmarks, etc (a proper list is available on their blog). All in all, while it is another solution for a problem that many people are tackling, Netvibes looks like a pretty good Ajax-based homepage, so you should definitely check it out and take your conclusions.
From Netvibes’s roadmap
- create more localized versions
- se localized informations feeds for each languages and countries.
- add more applications that use RSS (like flickr,…)
- check integration, synergy with other web 2.0 applications
- opera, safari, mobile integration
- integrate collaborative features between registered users
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