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Entries for July, 2008

Is cuil really better than Google? Um, it’s a day old- take it easy

Yesterday Cuil, a brand new search engine, launched and boy did bloggers notice. Look at any tech blog and you’ll find an opinion of cuil. Either it’s a google killer or a failure.
Regardless of the fact that cuil is a day old, the comparisons to google are widespread, and it’s hard to write an article [...]

Data Availability- Um, What’s That?

Yesterday MySpace announced the availability of, well, Data Availability, their contribution to the data portability movement. Back in May, MySpace made the announcement that they were making user data available to Yahoo, ebay and Twitter. Now they’ve opened up to developers.
What’s Available?
After using oAuth to authenticate a user and retrieve an authorized Access Token and [...]

podcamp Boston Discovery Panel

Blogstring will be representing full force at podcamp boston this coming weekend (meaning Sarah and I will both be there, but it sounds better when I refer to "blogstring"). I will be there as a kind of split personality, as I will be wearing the blogger hat (not literally, unless I can find a hat [...]

Don’t Bother With Buying A .me Domain: GoDaddy Blew It.

This morning was one of those times when I realized what a true web dork I am. I found out yesterday that the .me domain names were going on sale at 11 this morning, and I desperately wanted to get aweso.me. Godaddy had a little countdown timer for the days, hours, minutes and seconds until [...]

  
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