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Feedster Completes Round of Venture Capital Funding

Earlier this week I posted about Become.com completing a round of funding. Today, word from Feedster that they’ve also just done the same thing. How much funding? Numbers…

By Gary Price · 02 Jun 2005

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Topix.net CEO Speaks; FeedMesh Unified Blog Ping/Update Service Oveview

A couple of RSS-related items that crossed my desk today. First, EditorsWeblog.com reports on recent presentations at the 58th annual World Newspaper…

By Gary Price · 31 May 2005

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Blogdigger Goes Local

Blogdigger, a blog search engine being developed by Greg Gershman, has launched a new service called Blogdigger Local (beta) that allows you…

By Gary Price · 19 May 2005

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Bloglines Adds Weather Forecasts

I just came across a new feature from Bloglines the delivers local weather forecasts and info. I then noticed that both the…

By Gary Price · 18 May 2005

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Feedster Publishes RSS Tutorial For Safari Users

Here’s one for the Mac folks out there. If you’re using the Safari browser that’s part of the Apple Tiger release you…

By Gary Price · 09 May 2005

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Blogger Debuts Moblog Service

Word from Google this afternoon that you can now moblog (mobile blog) with Blogger. Simply send your post(s) or pic(s) from your…

By Gary Price · 06 May 2005

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New Blog Buzz from BlogPulse; Database Now Tracking More than 10 Million Blogs

Those of you who track blogosphere buzz might be interested to learn that BlogPulse (from Intelliseek) has released some new stats today.…

By Gary Price · 26 Apr 2005

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FeedPlex, An Engine for XML Content Relaunches in Beta

FeedPlex, an engine for XML content (RSS, RDF) is back online. The database is being revamped and expanded by Nathan Enns, the…

By Gary Price · 19 Apr 2005

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Gmail Gains “Web Clips” Feed Reading Feature

Blogger founder and former Google employee Evan Williams spots a new "Web Clips" feed reading feature that has appeared in Google’s Gmail…

By Danny Sullivan · 15 Apr 2005

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UK’s 192.com Directory Database Relaunches; Aerial Images for Many UK Locations Available

Both Revolution and Netimperative report that 192.com, an online directory enquiry service from the UK has just relaunched. The online directory enquiry…

By Gary Price · 07 Apr 2005

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Newspapers Branding Their Own RSS Tools

It seems like everyone wants something to do with RSS these days. A Wired News article talks about several newspapers preparing to…

By Gary Price · 07 Apr 2005

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More Bad Press for Google’s Blogger Service

In his Media Hack column this time around, Adam Penenberg discusses what we’ve blogged about before (and where I share a few…

By Gary Price · 07 Apr 2005

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Feedster Adds Search Term Highlighting

A tweak at Feeedster to mention. I just noticed that the blog/RSS feed engine is now highlighting your search terms in their…

By Gary Price · 06 Apr 2005

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ZoomInfo: A Focused People-Search Vertical

Last week, ZoomInfo launched a people search engine, with profiles of more than 25 million people. If you have even a minimal…

By rumo · 31 Mar 2005

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Keeping Current With Persistent Search Tools

The Wall Street Journal is online with an about persistent search from companies like PubSub. The article is titled: New Web-Watching Tools…

By Gary Price · 30 Mar 2005

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Track Blogosphere Buzz with New and Improved BlogPulse 2.0

Those of you who track blogosphere buzz will be happy to learn the BlogPulse from Intelliseek has just released several enhancements.to the…

By Gary Price · 29 Mar 2005

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Performance Problems on Google’s Blogger Service

Hallelujah! I’m glad to see that Google’s Blogger service is doing something about serious performance problems. As many of you know, I’m…

By Gary Price · 22 Mar 2005

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More Press For the Vertical Search Biz

Olga Kharif’s Business Week article: Search, the Next Generation, takes a look at the increase in specialized tools (aka verticals) that haven…

By Gary Price · 22 Mar 2005

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People Search: Eliyon Becomes Zoominfo.com

People search company Eliyon is now ZoomInfo.com. They have a new search interface and have launched three new advanced search options. The…

By Gary Price · 21 Mar 2005

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Feedster Improves Advanced Search Syntax

Those of you who used advanced search syntax to help create more precise queries (yes, I’m member of the group) might be…

By Gary Price · 16 Mar 2005

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Blogger’s New Blog

For those of you who want to follow the latest happenings from the Blogger team at Google, you can now read them…

By Gary Price · 14 Mar 2005

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Fired Google Blogger Gets a New Job

Mark Jen, the former Google employee who was fired for blogging, has a new job and it’s also in Mountain View. According…

By Gary Price · 08 Mar 2005

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A Blogosphere Buzz/ Web Trends Tool From Accenture

It looks like Accenture is joining IBM’s WebFountain, Intelliseek and others in monitoring buzz and reputation from the web and blogosphere. The…

By Gary Price · 01 Mar 2005

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Fired Googler Mark Jen Speaks, Again

First, Mark Jen shared some thoughts about his firing from Google with Jeremy. Second, Jen posted his story on his ninteyninezeroes blog.…

By Gary Price · 17 Feb 2005

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Findory Adds Favorites

Findory CEO Greg Linden has posted on his blog that Findory has added another new feature called ‘Favorites’. For example, on the…

By Gary Price · 14 Feb 2005

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