Sunday, March 25, 2007

Teqlo, The Next great Mashup

If your idea of feeds and other web services comes via pipes, like yahoo pipes beta, then you are in for another surprise.
Teqlo which is also in beta at he moment offers something everyone could be happy about. If you ever have tried to build a pipe on yahoo pipes, you know the drill. The difference at Teqlo is that it is focused on getting your work done without having to worry or think about about APIs, coding, or scripting. For Technical and non-technical people alike.
You can even plug in Yahoo pies as well, are we talking mash ups or what? Instead of reading my rumblings here I think it is better to head over to Teqlo and try out.
Word of warning though, about registration/ sign up page! If you are the type who wants to know terms of service or terms of use, please do that before filling up your information. It is at almost bottom of the sign up page. Why? 'cos you have to type up your information again, if you click on the terms of use link!
But the rest of the Teqlo is super for me, so far.
This is what their Executive summery has to say what Teqlo is all about;
"Web application developers have been building sophisticated services interfaces and protocols into their applications for years as a means of stimulating third party developer activity, we are taking that one step further by enabling non technical users with the capability to drag-and-drop components to a web page and enable reliable communication between services. Through enabling co-creation of process and task automation applications we unleash a wave of new applications that really do represent the way people work, because they are built by the people who use them!

Imagine you want to drop sales leads onto a map and then select contacts for daily calls, such as a sales person would do. Maybe you want to automatically notify your preferred customers when you are having a promotion event, or plan an event, or manage employee expenses. Teqlo's breakthrough sequencing methodology and data routing technology enables these and many more user generated applications without the steep learning curve imposed by competing technologies."

Links;
Teqlo the next great mashup

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Mix, Burn and Subscribe to your own feed mix

James E. Lee carries you through a feedmix elevator ride to give a pitch to feed technology!. I really enjoyed reading and trying out his article on "how and why to mix feeds"
Head over to his blog to get a bellyful.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

WeSeePeople: un-Boring Technorati... if it was boring to you!

If you are checking in your feeds at Technorati, find out how to be in the top 100.
WeSeePeople: un-Boring Technorati... if it was boring to you!

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Red Sweater gets Marsedit from Newsgator

Red Sweater Software announced today that it has acquired MarsEdit, the popular weblog publishing software, from NewsGator Technologies, Inc. The acquisition promises an exciting future for the application, which provides an intuitive, email-like interface to the web's most popular publishing systems.

MarsEdit's simplicity and power make it the tool of choice for many of the platform's leading writers.

"Nearly every word I write for Daring Fireball is published through MarsEdit," said John Gruber, author of the popular Daring Fireball weblog. "It's a terrific tool, and I'm glad to see it in good hands. I can't wait to start pummeling Daniel with feature requests."

Daniel Jalkut, the founder of Red Sweater Software, is himself an avid blogger. "MarsEdit has long been one of my favorite applications, so it's a thrill to welcome it into the Red Sweater family of products," he said. "I am both passionate and confident about steering MarsEdit into the future."

"I've already sent a bunch of feature requests to Daniel," said Brent Simmons, MarsEdit's original developer. "I use the app every day, and love it, and I'm so glad that it has a bright future. I look forward to being a MarsEdit user, to seeing what cool stuff Daniel does."
Links;
Press release at Red Sweater
Marsedit

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Geemodo: Now there is a Badger in my Yahoo Pipes

Very nice use of Yahoo pipes to add RSS feed badges to a site or weblog.

Geemodo: Now there is a Badger in my Yahoo Pipes

Friday, February 09, 2007

Yahoo pipes pipes feeds and more


Although it is some time since Yahoo let the pipes beta out, I did not have enough time to test it out. I did get a chance today and well, very clever piece of work. If worked hard enough, one would be able to pipe all his internet information through Yahoo Pipes. If you trust the Internet enough, then you will be able to create pipe that transfers data from one place to other. Like a VPN that we use to connect network to network.
I created a my own pipe, (Basically saved a copy of another pipe that a rather creative person has created and modified for my uses) and I am rather amazed and disappointed with the results. The disappointment is not due to Yahoo pipes but for what Yahoo pipes showed me. SPLOGS stealing blog data. I was searching for exact line by line copying of blog information. I found many, my own blogs, (yes I do have a few blogs! why? same reason you have your bookmarks categorized. you have? don't you.)
I invite you to visit Yahoo pipes and let some ideas flow.

Links;
Yahoo pipes Beta

Friday, January 12, 2007

Write comments and win big, no Spam!!

Did you ever thought that a comment that you leave on a weblog could earn you some money? Now you can.451 Press is hosting a comments contest. Just by commenting on the some of the blogs that this network is publishing, you can win up to $500. Requirements are that those comments have to be “quality comments,” not spam. The closing date for the comment contest is January 31, 2007. So get your comments brain up and head over to the link provided below.

LINKS;
Comment Contest

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Happy Feed holiday!

I hope Santa will come your way and Your holiday will be filled with laughter and Joy. If you pass by an unfortunate person, please try to make him/her smile. Don't forget that all the Kids are the same!

Best Regards!
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Monday, November 20, 2006

Leave a Fleck on any website

Geemodo carries a post about new bookmarking sensation, Fleck. Fleck is a way to annotate a website, any website, so you can later visit the website. You don't have to remember why you bookmarked the site, because all your notes, called flecks, are on the site. Go check out the article and leave some flecks behind!
Geemodo: Is Fleck flaking? No Dashnote needs tweaking!

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Ping survey results from October

Mark Sweeting of Britblog, Technoranki fame has done a survey ping services. Not all the ping services out there but three of them. So what is the interest of those to me? First let me tell you what those ping Services are and then I will tell you why.
Mark is currently monitoring the following three ping services: Autopinger, Blogflux, and Ping-o-matic.
Why am I looking at these? because I use two of those services, Autopinger (I like the best) and BlogFlux (thought it was good!).
Anyway I think feeds and pings go together. And when (WHEN?) feedotopia is up, I will try t work with Autopinger to provide some services to Fedotopia.
Another reason is I like what Mark is doing. Just browse his projects and see if you like them too.

Links;
Mark Sweeting
Autopinger
Blogflux
Autopinger Blog

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

State of the BlogSphere as of October 2006


I was at Joi Ito's blog and he directed me to this site with a one line post. I like Jo Ito's style and the progress in Web 2.0. Too bad I could not make it to the conference in San Francisco.
Anyway The article is about a report by CEO of Technorati!, I always refer to him as Sir-fry but his real name is David Sifry. He has plotted the state of blogsphere into some good graphs (some may not agree) that reveals that state blogs and the mainstream media.
It is hard to explain the report without one actually seeing the article so I think it is best to redirect you to Sifry's article.
I am really fired up though, about ideas I carry in my head about Feedotopia.

Links;
Joi Ito's site
Sifry's report

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Widgets "glorified RSS feeds."

Pheedo blog reports that Steve Rubel talks about his love for widgets, Web 3.0 and the Widgetized Web. He calls widgets "glorified RSS feeds."
They also conversed with Scott Rafer, former CEO of Feedster, he said RSS is a "developer's tool." Widgets are perfect example of developers using RSS feeds to solve a problem, entertain, waste time etc. In this case, Scott is spot on.
All the links to articles and conversations are on the Pheedo blog.
Pheedo is according to about us on site;
"A lot has happened since Pheedo pioneered the feed advertising industry in 2003. It’s been amazing to watch our original idea, good as it may have been, grow into an industry-wide necessity. The speed of this evolution has taught us the importance of remaining focused on our customers, providing the thousands of bloggers, micro-publishers, large media outlets, and online advertisers innovative and flexible tools to capture and measure revenues through the sale of advertising."

Links;
Pheedo
Pheedo Blog article

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Digg Algorithm get dugg deeper

Since Solarion wrote about the Digg Algorithm, I have been looking around for more info on the algorithm that Digg uses. I came across this well dugged story about the same discussion.
According to th story, these are the numbers you need to get on Digg front page;
Now about the aprox. number of diggs you need to get on the front page, for each category:

Now about the approx. number of diggs you need to get on the front page, for each category:

1. Technology (and the sub-categories) - about 50 diggs required, but it may go up to 90.
2. Science (and the sub-categories) - about 65-70 diggs required, but it may go up to 85.
3. World & Business (and the sub-categories) - about 80-90 diggs required, but it may go up to 100.
4. Sports (and the sub-categories) - about 30-40 diggs required, but it may go up to 50.
5. Videos (and the sub-categories) - about 55-60 diggs required, but it may go up to 80.
6. Entertainment (and the sub-categories) - about 50-55 diggs required, but it may go up to 70.
7. Gaming (and the sub-categories) - about 35-50 diggs required, but it may go up to 60.

After all, digg get dugged and you need to read the complete article at Seopedia together with all the comments.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Digg uses new tools and make it harder to be dugg!

The few stories I submitted to Digg.com, never reached the quota for front page display. But then I thought it is the game. But it seems there is more to the game.
Neil Patel at PronetAdvertising has a story about the new algorithm used by DIGG and how it will affect the pages reaching the front page of Digg. Just because you have a bunch of friends that digg for you might not bring the story to the front page. Looks like it needs more.
Niel goes on to describe the story more and tells you how a story without being dugged 60 times might make it to the front page.
Here an excerpt;
Complexity of the algorithm
The good news is not all categories require 60 diggs before the story hits the homepage. It seems that Digg has taken multiple factors into account such as number of submissions in a category, diggs, and time because certain categories do not need as many diggs before the stories hit the front page. The sports and entertainment categories are two of the categories that do not require too many diggs because not too many people digg these types of stories and these categories are also low on submissions.
I could not find any official info about the new algorithm. May be I need to learn to search better.
As we all want to know, hope better stories reach the front page, specially my stories! ;)
Links;
Neil Patel
Digg post on the story go digg it and make it 1000 diggs!
Digg Blog
Digg the blog


Feedzeo v1.0.1 beta released


Feedzeo is an outcome of an effort to create a unique RSS/RDF/Atom feed aggregator cum reader. Feedzeo v 1.0.1 beta has been released on sourceforge.net under LGPL license.
Feedzeo is a RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator cum reader written in Java. It is an open source and free software licensed under GNU LGPL. There are two parts to Feedzeo: a Server and a Client. The Server is the application you run on your desktop or any remote machine which has network connectivity. It runs in the background downloading the RSS/RDF/ATOM files and publishing it as html/data files. This release supports both windows and Linux. The earlier releases were only for windows.
To checkout or download you will have to visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/feedzeo.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Safety First for San Francisco Children

From USENEWSWIRE
WHAT: American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) President Bruce Cunningham, MD, will present 2,000 safety sports helmets to students at Francisco Middle School prior to Plastic Surgery 2006, the ASPS annual meeting. The Mayor's Education Advisor, Hydra Mendoza, and San Francisco Unified School District Interim Superintendent, Gwen Chan, will accept the helmets on behalf of the city and San Francisco public schools.

WHY: Bike riding is one of the most popular recreational sports among children in the United States -- and the leading cause of recreational sports injuries. Children accounted for an estimated 315,700 bicycle-related injuries; 72,500 skateboard- related injuries; and 44,500 non-powered scooter-related injuries in 2004.

Studies show helmets can prevent 85 percent of serious head injuries and 65 percent of injuries to the mid- and upper face. Recreational sports injuries account for a significant part of reconstructive plastic surgery performed on children. Through its donation, ASPS hopes to prevent injuries and encourage more children to wear helmets.

WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: Francisco Middle School, 2190 Powell St. (Between Francisco and Chestnut Street), San Francisco, CA 94133

Please call ASPS Public Relations at 847-228-9900 or San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) at 415-241-6565 for additional information.

Feed for your thoughts, Fonality aquires Trixbox

Voip IP Telephony reports that Fonality is the owner of Trixbox.
VOIP IP Telephony: Fonality acquires TrixBox (fomerly Asterisk@home)

Monday, October 02, 2006

Ideas for feedotopia, 300+ digg alike and 200+ bookmarking sites!

I was hunting for ideas for feedotopia, (in addition to what I have), I landed on this post on 3spots.
I had to say WOW! But sometimes I wonder why that nothing is better than digg to some, no most of the users. Digg is a good idea but it was not the first of it's kind. Only the part I agree is that it was done better than all other previous and current sites.
To all who thinks that digg is THE site, think about all the search engines before Google! I think I will work on 3spots work to gain some knowledge.

Another Video feed, video gadget for your Google home Page.

Weseepeople reports about a new "Official Video Gadget" aptly named vidget by ravenii. It has been reported to be seen on DIGG as well. Go dig it!