Monthly Archives: December 2005

pc4media: Compiled 2006 Predictions

pc4media: Compiled 2006 Predictions – I haven’t even finished reading it – but Peter’s “predictions” beat everyone else’s a thousand times over.

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Windows Search Guide

Windows Search Guide – a (very beta) page is up for adding search engines to the search box in Internet Explorer 7. Note that at the time of this writing the OpenSearch Description files they’re using are in v1.1 draft … Continue reading

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Can I Crash ?

Can I Crash? – a service that lets you lend your sofa to travelling bloggers! – a great idea. Via Jeremy Zawodny.

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The Story of Feedster: A Word From Feedster’s Co-Founder

Scott Johnson, Feedster’s recently-departed co-founder, lets us know that François, Feedster’s other co-founder has posted on the Feedster blog: The Story of Feedster: A Word From Feedster’s Co-Founder. He hasn’t maintained his own blog in quite a long time, so … Continue reading

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Why is the Google Homepage API not HTML?

Someone please explain to me why the Google Homepage API is a small XML format that includes an HTML bit, instead of just HTML itself? Okay, so they introduce a few bits of meta data. The links, such as screenshot … Continue reading

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FeedBurner is cool, but…

FeedBurner offers a very attractive service, and their new FeedFlare is just one part of that. But please, FeedBurner… when a user changes some settings, record the time of that change and only allow that change to affect new items. … Continue reading

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Major OpenSearch upgrade

I’ve been hard at work at A9.com, working on the OpenSearch website. Here’s some of what’s new: OpenSearch 1.1 Draft 2 The first draft went up in September – hopefully the second draft will become final within a few weeks. … Continue reading

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canadian political parties converge

NDP talking about tax cuts… Conservatives talking about child care…. so all the parties are going to win over voters from the other parties by being more like them… that’s a good plan, right? since there are three main parties… … Continue reading

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