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Nice English blog covering the Russian scene. Hope nobody drops isotope in their food.
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Dell and Ford are struggling. Both used to be an icon of their industry, now they want a second lease on life. Dell can start by getting the CEO to buy a computer from their site.
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Big changes coming to Digg in an attempt to prevent gaming. First move is to stop showing top Digg users.
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For one blog 57% of spam comes from Russia.
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Someone tries to buy their way up to the Digg front page, again!
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I swear, everyday I see a squabble or two between heavy-weights these couple of days. TechCrunch took some cheap shots at DEMO (a startup showcase to the media) to draw attention to their own conference (mainly Calcanis I think).
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Then what’s a PS3?
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Of this Google AdSense is $536.58. Even after being banned from Digg, revenues continue to increase as traffic drops thanks to diversifying sources of revenue.
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Interesting mashup to keep a pulse on what’s hot on the internet. Also illustrates how easy it is to pull data from the big social news sites to create your own. Still, it’s a wonderful resource.
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Feedburner blocking Megite raises interesting questions. Isn’t their business to provide feeds? I depend on them for mine and would rather they don’t make such calls on my behalf. Hope they work it out.
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Interesting post analysis on the famous Digg vs Reddit showdown.
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Gravatar was great when it worked. Then it crashed down in a flaming death and disappeared for months (still down). Will an upgrade revive it? Lots of sites ripped them out since it caused page loading problems. Will they come back or do their own?
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Page loading is probably the single biggest turnoff for first time visitors. Here are some tips for web developers.
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When will these organizations and their lawyers get it? Serving a cease and desist to bloggers is the worst PR move you could make in this day and age (unless it’s called for). Rumor sites maybe but breast-feeding? That’s going too far.
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If you’re wondering where all your Feedburner subscribers went.
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It’s probably because the program’s saturated the market good. They need to squeeze it for all it’s worth.
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An unusual match. Actually looks pretty nice. I think there’s still a lot of us hoping Sony gets its act together. They can still create nice products when they try hard enough.
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That’s one long tail. We’ll see how removing the top ranking users actually plays out.
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You got to admire the president’s candor. “Thank you for letting us pirate your products! It really helped our IT sector a lot.” Gates replied with silence.
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Jason Calacanis speaks out on Digg’s move to shut down top ranking users list.
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Choices, choices, and more choices.
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But today Digg put a nail in its coffin by removing its leaderboard of the top diggers. Why? It may demotivate users.
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The Top 100 list makes a comeback. Even loads faster than the original. This is for all time.
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I think I’m still kind of up in the air about how I feel about this, but I’m leaning towards thinking it’s the right move. If there are no special perks that come with being a top user, why note who we are?
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Whenever you take away a level of status, or prestige, from your loyalist supporters, you risk them finding a new place to reside.
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Too bad they didn’t keep their day jobs.
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An unusual match. Actually looks pretty nice (but that power brick looks pretty big). I think there’s still a lot of us hoping Sony gets its act together. They can still create nice products when they try hard enough.
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This is a unique service that aggregates your identity on the web for free. Great for creators with scattered profile. That way search engines easily find you. It’s free and I’m sure Ziki gets traffic and search engine love in exchange.
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Super Bowl Sunday is a big business day for strippers. The boys are obviously doing a different kind of shuffle. Ladies watch out for your loved ones!
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“I spent the day in Chernobyl. One of my Kiev game dev friends hooked me up with a private tour, so I decided to go for the day to check it out. Every woman in my life told me this was a bad idea. Every man said it sounded awesome.” Fascinating photos
Eric Olson wrote:
Just wanted to update you on the fact that we fixed the issue with Megite. The long and short of the matter was that requests from Megite were exhibiting the following behavior:
1) The reverse DNS looked like it was coming from a home DSL user (netblock-66-245-250-218.dslextreme.com)
2) Not using If-Modified-Since requests or compression
3) The identifying User-Agent (from our sampling) was a generic ‘libwww-perl/5.805′ rather than something that identified itself as Megite
These three things caused us to suspect the useragent and deny the requests. We have since worked with Matt at Megite to straighten everything out and all is well in feed land.
In fact, within an hour of getting the note Matt sent me we had unblocked him. If you have any more questions regarding this matter or anything else just let me know. Thanks!
Cheers,
Eric Olson
FeedBurner – Publisher Services
312.756.0022×2034
erico@feedburner.com
Posted on 02-Feb-07 at 9:04 pm | Permalink
Andy wrote:
Thanks for the link to Siberian Light – I’m glad you enjoyed reading.
I’m based in London, so it can be a little worrying at times, but I console myself with the thought that I can’t afford to eat in the type of fancy restaurant favoured by rich Russians in London, so I should be pretty safe from radiation poisoning….
Posted on 03-Feb-07 at 3:34 am | Permalink
baron wrote:
Eric,
Thanks for the update! I’ll put this comment in my upcoming link blog to clarify the situation. Hope that’s good for you.
Andy,
Thanks for the comment. It’s a well written blog with clean design on a good but not so well-covered topic. It’s only natural that I spread the word. Keep up the great work!
Posted on 04-Feb-07 at 11:28 am | Permalink
links for 2007-02-05 at Baron VC wrote:
[...] Feedburner and Megite Make Up Looks like the blocking issue was a technical glitch that was quickly fixed. Great work FeedBurner! (tags: feedburner megite) [...]
Posted on 04-Feb-07 at 4:39 pm | Permalink