Well, weâ??re finally getting some hot summer days here in Blacksburg and it looks like it will continue through the early part the upcoming week. No matter how hot it gets here in Southwest Virginia, its still infinitely better than being in DC. Beginning in early spring and not ending until late fall, DC smothers […]
Microsoft plans iPod competitor for Christmas
I just heard on CNBC this evening that Microsoft has announced it will be creating a rival product to the iPod. The new iPod competitor will be out by Christmas.
Must have WordPress plugins
Paul Stamatiou links to a great post by Derek Punsalan on some of the must have plugins for WordPress blogs. Some of the ones listed I’ve already been using on this blog, but there are a few more that look quite useful. If you publish your blog using WordPress, read this post. By the way, […]
Branding the RSS feed
John Heilemann of Business 2.0 / CNNMoney.com has an interview with FeedBurner CEO Dick Costolo today. In addition to the interview, the article has a nice overview of RSS, its recent history, and thoughts on what’s to come in the industry. I particularly agree with Dick’s opinion on the state of RSS: Like the Web […]
Criagslist expansion
Craigslist launched a large group of local sites in June. Among them are Roanoke and Blacksburg. This is exciting news as Craigslist was a resource I missed from when I was living in a much larger city. The full list of new sites for June 2006 includes:
Alternative ways to use RSS
Steve Rubel posted a list of 35 different uses for RSS feeds. I like this kind of post on RSS as it really illustrates how pervasive RSS is across the Internet. For those first using RSS feeds, the common perception is that they’re just web feeds or news feeds. This is very limited thinking. When […]
Flock beta release
I tried the Flock web browser several months ago and was somewhat critical of the software. For those unfamiliar with Flock, the application is a new web browser to compete with the likes of Internet Explorer and FireFox. Flock is built upon the Mozilla code, the same as FireFox. Many of the same FireFox extensions […]
New employee and blogger
I want to officially welcome George Woods to EvolvePoint! As he started almost two weeks ago, this welcome is a little belated. George is a summer intern and will be working on a variety of development projects within the company. He also recently started blogging, so check out his blog. George is off to a […]
RSS feed publishing updates
I’ve had a slight pause in posting to my blog, but this was due to good circumstances. We’ve been incredibly busy with new releases to our products. EvolvePoint is currently finishing up a series of updates to our RSS feed creation service, FeedCraft. We’ve rolled out improvements in login management, enhanced support for enclosures (including […]
Getting rid of daily links
When I started using del.icio.us, I thought using a script to post my daily links to a draft post in WordPress was a good idea. The script would run at midnight, I’d come in the next morning, take a quick look, and then post the links. Unfortunately, I found two things happening. One, I was […]