From the Perry Bible Fellowship
The internet can be nice.
Category: internet
Cingular is one of these phone companies. They have a website. Allegdly you can do certain thing on this site.
Well, I just tried it, and it is broken. Never mind the cluttered design or the appauling animations. And
that html code that rushes over the page. It claims it can not find my phone number. It accepts a login, but
then can not find the records. Trying Safari instead of Firefox is says now that my account has been locked.
That’s all fine. But why did they waste their money on a website in the first place if they can’t make it work.
Can’t wait for skype to clean up with those telcos: I will not shed a single tear after any of them. Mindless stupid companies. They need to go away. Oh, and they will. They had it coming.
Vilodex jumped into the alphabet soup: It has an XML button now that actually features an RSS feed. Since there is not much to read this is only interesting if you give this feed to something that can handle the so called ‘media enclosures’. iTunes 6 can. Ant can as well. There are probably others too.
Media enclosures will make sure that your capable RSS reader will download the latest vilodex videos for you.
You could get fancy and compress them so that they fit your PSP or iPod Video. Probably an automator job.
The xbox crashing meme has reached slashdot.
Sony is huge. Their Music division probably messed up on a scale that will be stellar for times to come. But their Playstation 3 dept. does rather well: For the XBox 360 this week is really really important. People listen to what people have to say. If the bad news continues to stick with the XBox 360 then this could be tricky for those brave people in Redmond that took on the gaming market. All the pre order sales have been done by hard core gamers. I don’t numbers on this, but my guess is that you really start making money with games (and therefor the consoles) once you reach the broader range of the not so hard core gamers. And for those people it matters if they spend 400 now or 400 later. These people might just wait for the PS3. If they do then Micosoft just lost a big part of the head start bonus. Looking at those ‘internets’ right now it appears as if Sony does an excellent job in putting bad word of mouth around the 360.
Just don’t think that the Music division could benefit from Sony’s PS3 underground marketing skills. They will simply never find the person who might in charge for this. That has nothing to do with the cladestine nature of this. It’s just that Sony is as broken as most big companies are.
When the good people at fxguide started to podcast this summer I thought to myself: Another podcast nobody is gonna listening too.
Turns out: I was wrong. What changed? I spend more time in the car now since my clients are spread out over town. So I bought a Monster iPod car connector (they are able to charge 80$ for that!) and suddenly I find myself always having a freshly filled iPod with me. Living in LA was great because of KRCW. The first nine years. Now the tuner only is set to the frequency of the iPod and I am loving it. Mike, Jeff & John: keep it up. It is simply great. Of course fxguide is not the only podcast in my mix, but it certainly stands out in the quality. And it exemplifies the potential of podcasts:
There is room for a million radio stations if turning that dial with a million stops is easy. I would miss those voices from fxguide if they should fall out of the long-tail.
surprisingly simple yet nice.
I like the look.
Blogdex is still down. So I thought I might run some google adwords pointing people to BlogsNow.
Turned out somebody was faster: Right now I see an add for blogturbo dot com. Interesting what google advertises for:
It costs only 149 US$ and you can generate thousands of weblogs pointing to your site. This looks like a keyword spam tool to me.
Interesting that google runs ads for it.
Then I wonderred what is going on at daypop.com
Turns out they are down as well …
update November 1st
Blogdex: “up” again, yet results are old/pointless right now.
Daypop: back up again, results make sense. the usual 24 hour delay
blogturbo: still showing ads on google adwords for blogdex.
Blogdex did inspire me to write BlogsNow. Blogdex was great. Just a bit to slow, and took just a couple of thousand Weblogs into account. And it was not first aggregator like this either. Just the first one that got wide spread attention.
Now it’s broken. Today is Friday and it says:
Blogdex was improperly shutdown over the weekend, and should be up and running soon.
This might be related that it’s creator is no longer at MIT but took a job at Yahoo.
Blogdex Alex Rank is still very high. Interstingly the development on Blogdex stopped over a year ago. And most visitors it gained AFTER that.
I thought I do the people looking for Blogdex a favor and point them to BlogsNow.
Technorati and Icerocket both showed a couple of pages
where people noticed that blogdex is down.
Google however shows this:
Makes google blog search useless. I thought that Google would know what is spam on their own Blogger service and what is not.
Apparently not.
BlogsNow gets seven pings a second. I just had a cursory look over those. Yes, they are all spam.
If you should still ping BlogsNow in good intention please stop doing so. If you ping BlogsNow in the future then your weblog will go on the black list. Sorry.