Category: Work
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Yahoo API plugin for Movable Type
It was only a matter of time. Ken McCloskey over at Pixelabra has developed a plug-in to allow you to search Yahoo! using their new API from within Movable Type.
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Dining with Yahoo
The folks at SFist write about their dinner with Yahoo where they get an insight into some of the economic shifts that are a result of the changes in the media landscape. Greg pointed out that in the past, papers could depend on classified ads accounting for up to 35% of their revenue. Now they’re…
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2MHost.com is now a Movable Type Hosting Partner
I’m pleased to announce another Movable Type Hosting Partner. 2MHost offers an Movable Type integrated into an MT-Ready hosting package. A full list of all Movable Type Hosting Partners can be found on the Six Apart website.
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Yahoo Search API
Just in time for it’s 10 year anniversary, Yahoo opened up API access to its search platform. Allowing programmatic access to search services via URLs is a trail that Google has already blazed but in what maybe another arms race as we saw with hosted email storage, Yahoo allows five times the number of queries;…
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Monday Morning Read In
Elise Bauer has published an update to her overview of blog tool market share and has determined that: – the number of blog sites has grown 120% in six months,– Six Apart, (my employer) with the acquisition of LiveJournal, has the largest market share of blog sites,– It’s impossible to measure the business market which…
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Personal Privacy and Commercial Databases
First ChoicePoint and now Westlaw. Both are in hot water because of news because of real and potential security breaches. Both companies keep large databases of private records such as Social Security numbers, bank account numbers and residential addresses. This is not the first time ChoicePoint has made the headlines. In 2003, they were slammed…
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Google Hubris?
I just uninstalled Google Desktop Search which has been running alongside Yahoo Desktop Search for the past few months. Not only did Yahoo have a better preview feature of hits, Google’s tool was, strangely enough, too integrated into the browser. I prefer to jump into "Search archives & files mode" as a separate activity from…
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www.sixapart.com
Six Apart redesigned its corporate web site and now brings together all products, Movable Type, TypePad, and LiveJournal under one URL. www.sixpart.com has the look and feel of a portal but is actually run completely on Movable Type. Lots of good stuff here. A nice history page where you can learn about the company, a…
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Internet Explorer Update this Summer
Microsoft announced that it will be updating their Internet Explorer browser which hasn’t had a major upgrade since they announced 6.x back in 2002. The news was greated warmly by most users commenting on the MSDN IE blog with many asking for advanced CSS, PNG, and XHTML support while others ask for features such as…