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Google Reader Duplicate Item Improvement
One of the features that I love about RSS, is that it allows users to keep their finger on the pulse of certain topics very easily. As some people may know, I quite like the Python web framework Django and … Continue reading
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Tagged atom, feed, feed reader, feeds, google, google reader, rss, xml
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You Know You’re Popular When
Today my personal site was pinged by Live Business Radio. As I do as a matter of course, I checked out the Live Business Radio web site and was disappointed to find that it’s nothing more than your average run … Continue reading
Google Alerts Getting Smarter
Google Alerts lets the user define keyword lists and phrases, which when found by Google while crawling and indexing web sites – will send a user a notification about that particular occurrence. Historically, it always appeared as though the technology … Continue reading
Google Analytics & URL Rewriting Caveats
As the internet has matured and web sites have aged and expanded over the years, it has now become common place for web site owners to restructure their web sites to increase the sites accessibility and search engine effectiveness. During … Continue reading
WordPress Drop Technorati For Incoming Links
WordPress has a feature in it which shows activity surrounding your particular blog, named “Incoming Links”. For a long time, WordPress has been using the services of blog search engine and aggregator Technorati to deliver this feature. Using Technorati was … Continue reading
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Tagged automattic, google, google blog search, pingomatic, technorati, wordpress
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Free Facebook Application Hosting Provided by Joyent
As many people would be aware, Facebook has become some what of a phenomenon of late. Over the last 12 months, the site has seen growth that most internet companies could only dream of. If that wasn’t enough, in May … Continue reading
Twitter Lost My Tweets
Over the weekend, I signed up for a Twitter account and that process had a few hiccups which were entirely my fault. After sorting that out, I started posting items into Twitter using the web site and everything seemed to … Continue reading
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Tagged high availability, scalability, social networking, twitter
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Thank You Twitter
Over the weekend, I signed up for a shiny new account with Twitter. Without realising it at the time, I had actually typed my username incorrectly and missed a t out of Lattimore. Being a bit of a pedant at … Continue reading
Twittering
Curiosity has gotten the better of me, I’ve signed up for an account with Twitter. When Twitter first started to get some press, I couldn’t see the benefit of it and it seemed like nothing more than another attention grabbing … Continue reading