Sittercity update
Last month, I “wrote”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/11/05/sittercity.php about how impressed I was with “Sittercity”:http://www.sittercity.com/. It’s a clean site, focused on an important task (helping parents and babysitters find each other), and they’ve successfully built out a terrific community and what I presume is a very healthy business.
It’s interesting to me that this is the prototypical social networking site, [...]
Google Maps on Treo 650
Wowowowowow. I’d seen “Google Maps”:http://maps.google.com/ on Java-enabled phones before, but it was never compatible with the Treo I’ve been carrying for the last couple years. The other day I loaded Google in my Treo’s browser, and saw a link to Google Maps for Treo. Smart move on Google’s part: they sniffed my browser’s user agent, [...]
Trying Google Reader
I’ve been trying “Google Reader”:http://www.google.com/reader for the last couple weeks, and I really like it. The interface is very clean, and it’s taken very little time to get used to as my primary feed reading app. There’s also a “mobile version”:http://www.google.com/reader/m, which renders very quickly on my Treo.
One nice feature is the ’share’ button at [...]
IE7 Shipping - a comment on the stylesheet
Fred “notes”:http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/10/is_anyone_else_.html that IE7’s default behavior is to ignore a publisher’s XSLT stylesheet (if the publisher has pointed to one, which the vast majority of FeedBurner publishers have done), and he’s not exactly thrilled about this.
While poking around my computer config the other day, I noticed a new setting in “Internet Options” that addresses Fred’s [...]
Coral CDN - A new toy!
Unless I’m missing something, “Coral CDN”:http://www.coralcdn.org/ is a really big deal. How’ve I missed this? At dinner last week with “David Lawrence”:http://www.thedavidlawrenceshow.com/, David mentioned in passing that he uses Coral CDN for all of his podcast file downloads. That means he incurs almost no bandwidth costs, and the CDN kicks in automatically.
Few steps back. Akamai [...]
Bill Tancer was right
Bill Tancer’s “blog”:http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/ first hit my radar when “Lee Rainie”:http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/a/102/about_staffer.asp at Pew Internet & American Life told me about it… since then, I’ve found it to be a treasure-trove of insight into search traffic. Last month, I “wrote about Bill’s observations about home sales”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/08/25/search_as_a_leading_economic_indicator.php, and the fact that he believed, based on search activity in [...]
Use FeedBurner for your mobile-friendly site
Ed Vielmetti “asked”:http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2006/08/feedburner_mobi.html how FeedBurner can help you create a mobile-friendly site. Little did he know, this is one of the easiest things we can do for you. In fact, I’ve had it “on my site”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/mobile.html for a while now, and forgot to document it. Thanks for the reminder, Ed!
Our “BuzzBoost”:http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/publishers/buzzboost feature lets you create [...]
Search as a leading economic indicator
Bill Tancer’s “latest post”:http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2006/08/unexpected_decline_in_existing.html about Hitwise having advance indications of yesterday’s announcement of a drop in July home sales is fascinating. In short, Bill points out that the National Association of Realtors require 3-4 weeks to put their analysis together, so, even though September’s almost upon us, we’re just now hearing that home sales in [...]
FeedCrier - New RSS-based IM system
I’m pretty intrigued by Adam Kalsey’s new service, “FeedCrier”:http://www.feedcrier.com/. FeedCrier will notify you by instant message (currently AIM only, others in development) whenever a feed updates. Adam announced this last night “on his blog”:http://kalsey.com/2006/08/introducing_feed_crier/, and I looked at the “instructions for publishers”:http://feedcrier.com/publishers and figured out that it’d take about 2 minutes to integrate FeedCrier into [...]
New WordPress plugin - Landing Sites
I’m in love. I just found a WordPress plugin that replicates some nice functionality I had in my old Movable Type install. The Movable Type version was called “MT Refsearch”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2003/12/03/implemented_mt-refsearch.php, and the idea behind it is pretty cool: if you come to a page on my site because you searched for a post, Refsearch would [...]
