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Does Amazon’s new Page Recommendation and Product Reccomendation in one widget make sense? I see the logic from the programmer’s point of view, both processes have the same first steps - scan the text and check for relevance with another data source. As a blogger and reader I’m not as sure there’s a connection at [...]
I was a little hesitant to install the Disqus comment system, but I took the plunge to see how I liked it and I find many of the features so helpful and superior to Wordpress’s native comment system that I’ve decided to make the switch permanent. The Disqus dashboard, the universal login for all [...]
To win you had to pick the 5 most popular startups out of a field of 100, and the popularity was judged by several different standards. I picked 4 out of the 5 companies to win, my top 5 were (in alphabetical order)
Acquia
Igloo
Mill River Labs (owns tradesvibes)
Sprout
Zoho
The winning companies are all the same except [...]
Svetlana Gladkova is the Vice President of Business Development at Profy.com. Profy is a new and exciting entry into the hosted blog market that is aiming to outdo the current heavy hitters by building from the ground up as a one stop blogging, social network, and RSS reader. The social features and the [...]
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Happy RSS Awareness Day! If you don’t know about RSS and “feeds”, then today is the day to educate yourself! Head over to RSSDay.info to learn more about the day and to find a few links to get you started. Otherwise if you are a sometimes RSS Reader or a heavy “feeder” [...]
Image by bgreenlee via Flickr
I was in San Francisco for a conference this week so I decided I’d take Wesabe up on their kind offer to drop by. If you don’t know, Wesabe is a website where users can engage in social personal finance. Upload your bank and credit card transaction data [...]
I recently wrote a little about Toluu when I released a Toluu badge widget, since that time I have really grown to enjoy the RSS sharing and suggestion service and to respect it’s creator, Caleb Elston. His ability to listen and focus on the user’s needs is driving Toluu, a side project [...]
