Almost feels as if you need to do the work for them, but in reality Google’s new Sitemaps XML system gives the webmaster more control over how often and where Google’s bots will go. (via Dave Winer)
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Virtual Earth
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=71140
Microsoft’s answer to Google Maps due this summer. I’m downloading the 127Mb video right now, and hoping it’ll be decent enough quality to get a good feel for what’s to come. Since a good deal of interest in Google Maps seems to have been through its hackability (although I don’t imagine they planned that), I hope that/wonder whether Microsoft will include some kind of API for custom datasets. If so, look forward to an enslaught of third party overlays and datasets.
Firefox warning
http://secunia.com/advisories/15292/
If you’re a Firefox user it’s well worth reading this link and taking the appropriate action – Secunia think it’s rather serious.
Database schemas
http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2005/04/tags-database-schemas.html
Possible database schemas for del.icio.us – won’t go into it too much but I use the "Toxy" solution for the keywords in Blogwise and it works rather well.
Technology preview (I think)
http://www.blogwise.com/index2
The Last updated list should do two things:
1/ Change the ‘Last updated’ time in real time. If the time since a blog was updated switches from 1 minute ago to 2 minutes ago (for example), then the page should update in real time to reflect this. Blogs less than a minute ago should say ‘Just now’
2/ Any new blogs that are updated should appear at the top of the page, with older updated slowly moving downwards then eventually disappearing. Bear in mind this will only work when the update system is, which at the moment can be a bit flaky
I need to know as much info as possible about which browsers this works on so:
– Can you tell me which of these (both, either, neither) happens for you.
– Which browser you’re using
– Whether you like it or not
Originally posted on the reviewers’ forums but posted here too for blog readers’ feedback 🙂
Trap-building ants torture prey
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4472521.stm
"A fierce species of Amazonian ant has been seen building elaborate traps on which hapless prey are stretched like medieval torture victims, before being slowly hacked to pieces."
google.org
Happened to hit the wrong keys on Mozilla today, ended up at www.google.org with this interesting note:
"This will be the future site of Google.org – the philanthropic arm of Google. We are currently working on staffing as well as defining the goals, priorities, and principles of Google.org. We hope to have a lot more to share with you on this front in the coming year. Check back here for updates."
Sounds interesting! Wonder how long that’s been there…
GMail Atom Feed
GMail appear to be offering an Atom feed for user inboxes:
https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
You’ll need to login with your username and password (assuming you have one).
Blogs in Action
Should be going to this mini-conference in London next Thursday 24th. Looks good & quite a few interesting UK people going.
300 Free fonts in one ZIP
Cameron at Desk003 has zipped all the fonts from Goodfonts.org together into a single ZIP. 300 fonts ready and waiting – how handy. (via Mathibus)
He also has a list of free stock photo sites. Again, very handy. This blog’s going on my reading list!